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from comments section of a bleacherreport article on Giannis...

...It's bleacher report, I know, but this guy in the comments section sounds like he's witnessed a fair amount of Giannis in Greece. I thought what he said was interesting.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1627273-giannis-adetokunbo-breaking-down-greek-phenoms-2013-nba-draft-stock

Default-user-icon-comment R T posted 28 minutes ago Contributor I

He plays point guard with the junior team. He plays small forward with the senior team. But he does play as a point guard with the junior team, in the Under-18 competition.

You can see him playing as a point guard in the Under-18 league (not the second division, which is a pro league) at the following places:

https://www.fcmbasketball.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&id=825:adetokoubo-giannis&Itemid=9

https://www.youtube.com/user/EskaBasket/videos

The second link (ESKA - the youth league in Greece) is in Greek, but you are looking for Filathlitikos games. Which in Greek, the name Filathlitikos looks like this --> Φιλαθλητικός

Now, to help you out on the first link, if you open a game video and he is wearing #4, then he is playing in the senior league, in the pro level Greek second division.

But if he is wearing #11, then he is playing in the Under-18 league, and that is where he plays point guard.

Here is a YouTube direct link to a recent game of Adetokoubo in the Under-18 league -->

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C473tR4BjPE

As you can see, he plays as a point guard, when he is playing against his own age group in the Under-18 league.

Now keep in mind that these are the best high school players and teams in Greece. The level of the Greek Under-18 league is said to be comparable to NCAA Division III.

The reason why he plays small forward in the senior team is because that's a fully pro league of grown men. It's not as high as the Greek first division, but it's still decent basketball, where you had Greek second division teams going 3-0 against the D-League all star team a couple years ago. Just to give an idea that the level in Greek A2 league is much higher than people in the US are claiming.

The "low level" they talk about is when he plays in the Under-18 league, which is where most of these clips on him come from anyway. But in his own youth level (he's the age of a high school senior), he does play point guard and he does stand out as one of the best players in the country.

Of course, they are not going to hand the team over to an 18 year old high school kid to play point guard and run the team on the senior men's club. No pro club in the world is going to do that, even in a second tier national league. Especially when that club has a very good point guard like Nikos Gikas, who is one of the best young point guards in Europe, already on the team.

So Adetokoubo can play as a point guard, it's just a matter of him being too young to be given that responsibility at a pro level. But at his own youth age level, he plays as a point guard.
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Vermin said:
Steven Adams will need another year or two. But will be a good player in the league. I'm ok with a project big in this draft. We can find a rental for a few years as he develops. You take a shoot on talent like his at 21.
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I don't mind the idea of a project big either.
 
My goodness, you guys really like Schroeder. This draft sucks. I am really coming around to the realization that we are not really getting another piece this year. Maybe a role player. Maybe.
 
BENTLEY said:
...It's bleacher report, I know, but this guy in the comments section sounds like he's witnessed a fair amount of Giannis in Greece. I thought what he said was interesting.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1627273-giannis-adetokunbo-breaking-down-greek-phenoms-2013-nba-draft-stock
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Stupid comments. He can't play PG at pro level. He plays PG at the small level because he is overwhelmingly the best player on the court. That is what you do when you have a player who so much better than everyone else, you have the ball in their hands.
 
b_line said:
My goodness, you guys really like Schroeder. This draft sucks. I am really coming around to the realization that we are not really getting another piece this year. Maybe a role player. Maybe.
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You do realize at 14 in any draft, even the 2nd of Coming of Jesus Christ Draft (aka 2014), the odds are still heavily against you to get a role player at 14 and especially against you at 21?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
You do realize at 14 in any draft, even the 2nd of Coming of Jesus Christ Draft (aka 2014), the odds are still heavily against you to get a role player at 14 and especially against you at 21?
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Role players are commonly had in the first round. All stars are not common at picks 14 and 21. People are acting like Schroeder is going to be better than any point guard in the league.
 
b_line said:
Role players are commonly had in the first round. All stars are not common at picks 14 and 21. People are acting like Schroeder is going to be better than any point guard in the league.
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The odds are still in favor of drafting a player who is out of the league in 4 years.
 
NUMBERICA said:
No they're not.
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Yeah, they are. Darren Collison, Patrick Patterson, Anthony Randolph, Ryan Anderson, Al Thornton, Daquan Cook, Ronnie Brewer, Rajon Rondo, Nate Robinson. Those guys were all taken either 14 or 21. It is a common thing to get role players in that range. Very common.
 
b_line said:
Yeah, they are. Darren Collison, Patrick Patterson, Anthony Randolph, Ryan Anderson, Al Thornton, Daquan Cook, Ronnie Brewer, Rajon Rondo, Nate Robinson. Those guys were all taken either 14 or 21. It is a common thing to get role players in that range. Very common.
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Bolded guys are hardly considered role players anymore.
 
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