Dre™

I didn't mean all of those things at once, I meant how many Euros are playing that have at least one of those qualities.

I think the upbringing of European players, with the boarding schools and such, don't foster as aggressive an attitude as American ball does. Most NBA players come from climates where basketball competition, and the people playing, is a lot more fierce.

European players do play for club teams, but their style of play isn't overtly physical and they spend most of their basketball time learning individual skills. There aren't (m)any blacktop, pickup games for them, the competitve spirit isn't in their nature as much as it is for a US player.

That's why when you look at the draft profiles of the vast majority of European prospects, you'll see "skilled, but soft". Of course that's a paraphrase, but still.

I don't see how it could be argued otherwise. I can't think of 10 European NBA players looked at as more than soft pushovers.

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