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Posted 17 August 2011 - 12:08 PM

I need a little favour. I want you to name best players in history from each country in Europe. But only players who can go into a discussion about Top 10 or 20 european players in history. My suggestion is you only write players from your own country or country whose basketball history you know well. For example, I don't want you to write players from, I don't know, Iceland if Iceland doesn't have player who could go in top 10 or 20 or even 100.
If somebody names best player from a country, and avoids somebody, you just quote him and add your players. Topic is open for any kind of discussion, for example, you don't consider other one's player so good and you write that.

OK, I will start...

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 12:15 PM

I will start. I am not form Germany but I know their list :)

Germany:

Dirk Nowitzki

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 12:47 PM

For Israel it's probably Miki Berkovich.
He was probably the most important player in Maccabi that won European championships in 1977 and 1981, in 1979 he lead the Israeli NT to silver medal in the Eurobasket and was the tournament MVP. Also with Maccabi he won 19 Israeli chapmionships and 17 domestic cups.
In 2008 when the Euroleague picked the 50 greatest Euroleague contributors he was picked as one of the 35 greatest all-time players.

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 02:51 PM

Greece: Nikos Galis
Respect and thanks for everything: Alvertis, Bodiroga, Jasikevicius, Radja, Wilkins, Vrankovic, Fotsis, Rebraca, Kattash, Gentile, Koch, Middleton, Kutluay, Rogers, Papadopoulos, Becirovic, Tomasevic, Siskauskas, Pekovic, Lakovic, Vujanic, Chatzivrettas, Maljkovic, Spanoulis and many more to follow in the near future.
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 02:54 PM

View PostBlack Urum, on 17 August 2011 - 02:51 PM, said:

Greece: Nikos Galis

Just Nikos? You don' have any other great player who could be even close top 50 euro player of all time?

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 03:21 PM

View PostGreen Hornet, on 17 August 2011 - 02:54 PM, said:

Just Nikos? You don' have any other great player who could be even close top 50 euro player of all time?

I thought you said Top10 or Top20. If it's Top50 then definitely Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Giannakis and Fotsis too.
Respect and thanks for everything: Alvertis, Bodiroga, Jasikevicius, Radja, Wilkins, Vrankovic, Fotsis, Rebraca, Kattash, Gentile, Koch, Middleton, Kutluay, Rogers, Papadopoulos, Becirovic, Tomasevic, Siskauskas, Pekovic, Lakovic, Vujanic, Chatzivrettas, Maljkovic, Spanoulis and many more to follow in the near future.
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 03:33 PM

View PostBlack Urum, on 17 August 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

I thought you said Top10 or Top20. If it's Top50 then definitely Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Giannakis and Fotsis too.

ok :)

It is not specified what kind of ranking is it.

Just players which you can put in this kind of discussion. For example you won't name Schortsanitis or something like that. In other words, legendary players...

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 03:35 PM

View PostBlack Urum, on 17 August 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

I thought you said Top10 or Top20. If it's Top50 then definitely Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Giannakis and Fotsis too.

Fotsis in the top 50 of all time? :blink:

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 03:56 PM

View PostMaccabiTA, on 17 August 2011 - 03:35 PM, said:

Fotsis in the top 50 of all time? :blink:

I noticed that too. :blink:

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 04:04 PM

View PostGreen Hornet, on 17 August 2011 - 03:56 PM, said:

I noticed that too. :blink:

Btw, a bit off topic but welcome to the forum ;) and feel free to inroduce yourself here

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 04:19 PM

From Serbia:
Vlade Divac,Aleksandar Djordjevic and of course Dejan Bodiroga :thup:
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 04:42 PM

View Poststefans, on 17 August 2011 - 04:19 PM, said:

From Serbia:
Vlade Divac,Aleksandar Djordjevic and of course Dejan Bodiroga :thup:

What about Dalipagic, Kicanovic, Paspalj, Stojakovic ...

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 05:40 PM

Slovenia:

Ivo Daneu

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6 times Champion of the Yugoslavian League: 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966 and 1970
209 appearances with the Yugoslavian National Team from 1956 to 1970: participated in 3 Olympic Games (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968) and 3 World Championships (Rio de Janeiro 1963, Montevideo 1967 and Ljubljana 1970)
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2 times Silver medalist in World Championships: Rio de Janeiro 1963 and Montevideo 1967
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 06:31 PM

View PostBlack Urum, on 17 August 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

I thought you said Top10 or Top20. If it's Top50 then definitely Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Giannakis and Fotsis too.

You forgot Fanis Christodoulou! :thup: :thup: :thup:
In my opinion is better than Fotsis!
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 06:32 PM

View Postalen, on 17 August 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

Slovenia:

Ivo Daneu

Zdovc?!?!?!?!?! :huh:
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 06:34 PM

View PostTeoTheGreek13, on 17 August 2011 - 06:32 PM, said:

Zdovc?!?!?!?!?! :huh:


Second best. :D

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 06:45 PM

Unfortunately I was late so I will name others country's greats!! :( ;)

CROATIA
Son of Devil aka Drazen Petrovic!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Toni Kukoc!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:

LITHUANIA
Monster of Nature aka Arvydas Sabonis!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Sarunas Marciulionis!!! :thup:
Sarunas Jasikevicius!!! :thup:


**My opinion for GREEKS:
Nikos Galis!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Dimitris Diamantidis!!!! :thup: :thup:
Theo Papaloukas!!! :thup: :thup:
Fanis Christodoulou!!! :thup:
Panagiotis Yiannakis!!! :thup:

Some more(some of them may be in top-50):
Antonis Fotsis!!
Vasilis Spanoulis!!
Panagiotis Fasoulas!!
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 07:44 PM

View PostTeoTheGreek13, on 17 August 2011 - 06:45 PM, said:

Unfortunately I was late so I will name others country's greats!! :( ;)

CROATIA
Son of Devil aka Drazen Petrovic!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Toni Kukoc!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Dino Radja
Kresimir Cosic

LITHUANIA
Monster of Nature aka Arvydas Sabonis!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Sarunas Marciulionis!!! :thup:
Sarunas Jasikevicius!!! :thup:
R. Siskauskas
Z. Ilgauskas (no matter he is a puss*


**My opinion for GREEKS:
Nikos Galis!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup:
Dimitris Diamantidis!!!! :thup: :thup:
Theo Papaloukas!!! :thup: :thup:
Fanis Christodoulou!!! :thup:
Panagiotis Yiannakis!!! :thup:

Some more(some of them may be in top-50):
Antonis Fotsis!!
Vasilis Spanoulis!!
Panagiotis Fasoulas!!

I will add this bolded ones. (My opinion)

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 08:21 PM

View PostGreen Hornet, on 17 August 2011 - 07:44 PM, said:

I will add this bolded ones. (My opinion)

Noooo dude. Putting Ilgauskas in the list is a huge mistake. :blink: :thudown: :blink:
He is just a piece of meat. :thudown: :thudown:

Don't do it! ;)

Also I don't think you should put Cosic too. Just my opinion... ;)

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 08:44 PM

View PostTeoTheGreek13, on 17 August 2011 - 08:21 PM, said:

Noooo dude. Putting Ilgauskas in the list is a huge mistake. :blink: :thudown: :blink:
He is just a piece of meat. :thudown: :thudown:

Don't do it! ;)

Also I don't think you should put Cosic too. Just my opinion... ;)

About Big Z we can discuss, but Cosic?!?!?!? He's a legend in croatia. Have you seen his CV? He is a legend in Zadar, BYU (Utah) and Croatia / Yugoslavia. He was drafted by LA Lakers, you know, 1000 years ago when people in USA didn't know what Europe is...

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