10-28-2025, 07:51 AM
(10-28-2025, 02:01 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: FIBA basketball can be such a good indicator of NBA success. Just being a starter on your senior national team before you even enter college, should be a HUGE green flag. I saw Jamal Murray play starting PG for Canada in WC qualifiers and I have seen Edgecombe be the best and most vocal player in an Olympic qualifier last year against Spain or Lithuania. He was playing hard and yelling at Ayton, when down 20 in a hopeless situation. That reminded me off Jurgen Klopp, the famous soccer coach, how he judged the character of players and he said: Playing hard, when you up 3-0 means nothing to me. Everybody can do that. I look at them when their team is 0-3 down in the 90th minute and they chill chase the ball like a dog. That´s when I know they will run through brick walls for me. That was Edgecombe. I´m so mad I did not bet the ROTY on him.
Yes. Philly got a good one. I remember watching him in a pre-season game, and he was the best player on the floor.