The 2018 draft is incredible. The entire Knicks front office hated Frank Ntilikina and they passed on SGA to take Kevin Knox, who played on the same team as SGA, and had maybe three good games at Kentucky. How did they miss SGA on the same film they were watching Knox on?
Tyler Hansbrough says playing in China is tougher than playing in the NBA
“The NBA game has gotten softer, no doubt about it. When I went to China, I felt like I was stepping into the NBA in the ’80s. It was physical.They foul you hard, and they go inside a lot more. They’re not just heaving up threes and relying on analytics the way the NBA does. Analytics hasn’t really hit China yet. There’s no load management or recovery time either. If you suggested that to them, they’d laugh in your face. It was a grind—two-a-days, film sessions at night after practice. It was exhausting, but it taught me a lot about toughness. In the NBA, there’s so much focus on resting players, but in China, you’re expected to show up and work. It was a whole different culture, and it made me appreciate the game differently.”
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