Dario Saric: You learn to play five-on-five basketball in Europe, here you learn to play one-on-one basketball
An international player has never been considered the face of the NBA. As such, people in the US turn to Jayson Tatum or Anthony Edwards to fill that void more often than not. Golden State Warriors forward Dario Saric thinks the ever-increasing expansion might be stopped at some point. “Obviously, the gap is closing because you learn to play five-on-five basketball in Europe. [Here in the US,] they actually learn a lot to play one-on-one basketball, it’s the kind of difference between the NBA and Europe, they are probably more skilled in one-on-one.”
Source: BasketNews
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“They (the Europeans) have enormous talent, they know how to play team basketball, they know how to play great basketball. I think that in the future, the NBA can be [even] more European than it is [now], but I don’t know if the NBA will allow it. They need it to continue being an American sport,” the player explained. -via BasketNews / March 14, 2024
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