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For me, it's the coaches in the EU that make a whole lot of difference. There, you get yelled at at the slightest mistakes, get praised after wins or losses. Basically, your coach is like a father figure. Here in the US, coaches seem to be detached from their players. It's just business and nothing else. They look for the most talented ones instead of developing the weaker players. Can't blame them though, just a season of failure can send them packing.

greg popavic has been on about how europe trains for years. I remember like 12 years ago or more he was talking about how he would always make the spurs watch barcelona film and offensive and defensive set ups, and emphasize to them "if you play like this with the talent that is in the nba you will be unbeatable"

As a basketball fan, but someone who also pays attention to cultural trends, I LOVE that this guy connected the dots the way he does. To me, the differences in philosophy toward player development is a reflection of a general tendency in America toward extreme individualism in all aspects of life. A huge factor fueling this now is the explosion of social media, the expectation that in order to be successful, one must always be in the process of "building their brand," to the point where marketing one's talents becomes more the focus than actually developing those talents. We all know that humility fuels the work necessary to achieve sustained excellence, but in today's America, humility is simply the opposite of the traits we tend to notice, celebrate, and reward in our youth.

Before Luka was the main star in Europe, he suffered losts against other big teams. He learnt to be better and with this lessons he is growing better and better.

You should not underestimate how big basketball is in Europe and how it has been developing over the years.

Minimal 3-year-collage-experience before drafted will restore American basketball supremacy.

The Europeans fell in love with the 90's and early 2000s NBA. They are still playing that style of fundamental ball and the new soft American version can't compete.

Two NBA Finals MVP's all time with only one in more than a decade. This is hyperbole at best.

Gregg Popovich said that USA basketball will decline since most of them are only focused on winning, without considering fundamentals. You can see it on the way NBA players chasing rings and switching teams if it doesn’t work. Unlike before that Players stick to their own teams even though it’s hard.

Who is here after Germany became the world champions?

-Joined the Navy in 1999.

AAU was a tragic experience for me. I was on a top 20 team in NorCal and we barely ever lost. We had no plays. No practices. Our coach just told go do your thing and would just yell when you make a mistake. It could’ve been so much more. And the fact that we were “so good” with so little team work is just a sad reality of basketball now. People don’t play as hard as they can.

I even noticed this in my kid's soccer teams. All of the emphasis is on individual skill development (dribbling/ball control)with essentially no development of team oriented skills (e.g., passing, movement, positional awareness)

The club system probably helps. European clubs (in football anyway so I assume basketball too), have their own youth programmes with the intention to develop their own talent to some day play for the first team. Their interests are in making the best player possible for themselves and not necessarily ‘winning’ at youth level - so long as the kids are developing into a player who could flourish in the first team and also learn the main tactics of the first team manager. They have no interest in highlights or exposure at this point, they’re not going to send them off to university once they hit 18. There are exceptional cases that get media attention at a very young age; Mbappe, Messi, Rooney - but at that point those guys were so advanced as kids they were thrown into the men’s game and were fully prepared to take the step to elite status.

I'm not versed in basketball. I am not sure why KZfaq recommended this video to me. But, I watched it.

Eye blink analysis :

The fact is that kids spend all their time practicing shooting 3’s rather than working on screens, layups, passing and practicing footwork inside the paint. Kobe’s 7 year plan for Gigi’s team was to teach all the above, they were in year three when they died.

AAU ball has really hurt basketball here in the USA. Less times with quality coaches at high school level working on skill development. Plus the growth of basketball worldwide is impressive.

As a former high level ball player myself, I can confidently say the American youth basketball system is broken. I was lucky because my father always encouraged practicing more than playing in tons of mediocre AAU basketball games. Most of these kids need waaaaaaaay more practice and development. Too many games