U25 teams - US vs Europe

[90sgoat]

Who wins? Serious replies only, let's try to keep this rational and courteous. (Looking at you Kblaze).

Europe

PG: Luka Doncic / Dennis Schroeder
SG: Alex Abrines / Furkhan Korkmaz
SF: Giannis Antetekoumpo / Juan Hernangomez
PF: Kristaps Porzingis / Domantas Sabonis
C: Nikola Jokic / Jusuf Nurkic

US

PG: D'Angelo Russel / De' Aron Fox
SG: Bradley Beal / Donovan Mitchell
SF: Jayson Tatum / Kyle Kuzma
PF: Montrezl Harrel / John Collins
C: Karl-Anthony Towns / Andre Drummond

[90sgoat]

Why is this not interesting?

This would get a lot of interest on that other forum.

[LAmbruh]

Team USA sent out their B team and mopped up 2016 Olympics




An entire European continent has to collude together just to compete vs 1 nation. Yikes

[fiddy]

Team USA sent out their B team and mopped up 2016 Olympics




An entire European continent has to collude together just to compete vs 1 nation. Yikes

*The
One what?

[NBAGOAT]

why are you including drummond and not ad? Obviously for now, eu is better but with ad i consider the us team

Edit: and i would put simmons at pg over russell even from just a fit standpoint

[Ghost1]

why are you including drummond and not ad? Obviously for now, eu is better but with ad i consider the us team

Edit: and i would put simmons at pg over russell even from just a fit standpoint

Simmons is from Austria, champ.

[TheCorporation]

Team USA sent out their B team and mopped up 2016 Olympics




An entire European continent has to collude together just to compete vs 1 nation. Yikes

Shut. it. down.

[NBAGOAT]

Simmons is from Austria, champ.

ah damn it. i forgot point was to talk about aau and it's australia lol

[90sgoat]

why are you including drummond and not ad? Obviously for now, eu is better but with ad i consider the us team

Edit: and i would put simmons at pg over russell even from just a fit standpoint

AD is 26 years old now.

[JD_TO]

Replace US with North America. A lot of the Canadian Kids grow up playing in the US high school aau and college system.

[christian1923]

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[Uncle Drew]

[atljonesbro]

Swap Trae Young to point guard and start John Collins and easy win for USA

[90sgoat]

Replace US with North America. A lot of the Canadian Kids grow up playing in the US high school aau and college system.

Who you want and which position?

[90sgoat]

I'm most surprised by how weak the US is at the SF position. Not surprising though as this is the position where skill really matters.

Europe is better at every position except SG, where they are horrid.

For some reason Europeans just can't manage to train good NBA shooting guards. Of course, the shooting guard position doesn't really exist in Europe. You could call shooting guard "atletic guard" like Mario Hezonja, but that kind of position is not so beneficial in FIBA where spacing is really lacking.