Ricky Rubio Is A Hyped Up Media Creation

[Lakas Fan Yo]

The media can't create the fact that he looked solid against Team USA. With an injury. In the Olympic Gold Medal game. This wasn't some scrimmage where Chris Paul was going to take it easy on him, it was for the whole pot and Rubio held his own.

He didn't dominate, he didn't even have a standout game at all if you check the stats. But if you watch the game he looked like he fit in with the competition, and every now and then you saw flashes of his potential.

If he was as overhyped as you think he is, Chris Paul and Deron Williams should've been ball-hawking him and pressuring him every time up the court. They should've exposed him. But they didn't.

Your post totally lacks logic. What you fail to grasp is that the NBA is only a little bit better than the Euroleague. The Olympics are no better than the EuroBasket and in fact actually worse. So there is no reason why Team USA guards should dominate him if he was hyped up. Plenty of Euroleague/EuroBasket point guards would have played much better than he did under the same scenario.

It's just more media hype that would suggest that Rubio is unique among Euroleague/EuroBasket point guards that could play decently against Team USA. It's actually laughable.

[Roundball_Rock]

Roundball_Rock:

"It's the media maaann. They want you to believe Jordan is the GOAT, but he ain't maaaannn. They're getting inside your brain, its all marketing maann."

This coming from someone who thinks Schumacher had tough competition.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

He also dominated Tony Parker in a Eurobasket game this summer...at 18 years old.

Lies and myths from the Rubio homers. When Spain played Greece and France at the elimination games, Parker and Spanoulis were double teamed the entire game and even some times triple teamed. Yet you want to claim Rubio "dominated". Once again, more hype and nonsense being spread about Rubio.

I believe that many of Rubio's agents post on message boards.

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Let's be honest here. You are Greek. You are a greek homer. You dislike the Spanish. It must kill you that FC Barcelona is DESTROYING the Euroleague this year.

Yup. Most Americans don't really understand how much dislike and plain hatred there is between many European countries (particularly Mediterranean and Balkan ones). This s*it runs deep and it shows in team sports too.

I respect many of Lakas Fan's viewpoints but to claim that Rubio is a "media creation" is absurd. Also, it's not about the age in which a player entered a professional game - as Lakas Fan said, there's been an endless amount of young kids who've gotten a few minutes here and there in tough pro leagues. However, Rubio has been special from the start.

It doesn't matter how much hate Rubio gets on the internet. The fact remains that NBA GM's know how good he is at running a team and they don't read ISH.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

I see what your saying, but that's how it goes here- we did president like that- of course entertainment- but really, motiejunas a whole lot better of an nba prospect right? Who is the best non american prospect under 21?

I agree with you about Motiejunas being the same but it's just so overboard with Rubio.

[Jinxed]

And this is the exact definition of a Rubio homer and a fan boy spreading more myths and lies. The fact is that Rubio is an average point guard in the Euroleague and is only at best the third best player on his team. Yet here you go making it sound like he's the best point guard in Europe, the MVP of his team and every other load of BS you can make up.

Quit trolling.

If he is an average PG like you said, how come he is ranked SECOND (barely out of first ) in ranking per minute amongst point guards?

Really, who is a better point guard in Europe over him? Just like week he easily outplayed Terrel Mcintyre who was the best pg in europe last year (euroleague first team)

[ZOMG]

The funny thing is - you don't even see any Rubio hype anymore since it's all been drowned out by Rubio haters. Yet people still make threads like this and claim an "undeserving" Rubio is being force-fed down their throats. Please.

Rubio will come to the NBA at some point, he will end up running a team and being very good at it. End of story, no further hype needed.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

[QUOTE=chains5000]If he's an average point guard, why did Bar

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well for example Kostas Papanikolau at age 18 cost Olympiacos 2.3 million euros.

It's well known that the biggest Greek teams routinely overpay their players - particularly Greek ones. It's almost a case of "money doesn't matter" when they want someone for one reason or another.

[chains5000]

I know more than anybody in the basketball bussiness.

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This coming from someone who thinks Schumacher had tough competition.

Still mad Jordan is the clear cut GOAT.

Awesome, you think you're different by supporting Kareem as the GOAT. That just makes you one of the insecure Laker fans on the board.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

Yup. Most Americans don't really understand how much dislike and plain hatred there is between many European countries (particularly Mediterranean and Balkan ones). This s*it runs deep and it shows in team sports too.

I respect many of Lakas Fan's viewpoints but to claim that Rubio is a "media creation" is absurd. Also, it's not about the age in which a player entered a professional game - as Lakas Fan said, there's been an endless amount of young kids who've gotten a few minutes here and there in tough pro leagues. However, Rubio has been special from the start.

It doesn't matter how much hate Rubio gets on the internet. The fact remains that NBA GM's know how good he is at running a team and they don't read ISH.

Rubio has NOT been "special from the start". More lies. He had been a good player in the Spanish League and certainly not great by any means. That's a third tier league.

He had been a good and not great player in the Eurocup and that's not even as good as the Spanish League. He had been before this year a complete scrub in the Euroleague which is the best league in Europe. This year he is an average player in the Euroleague level. That's it.

He was an average player at the EuroBasket. Nothing more than that. Yes he won the gold medal but that was almost all on Pau Gasol who played out of his mind. Rubio was just another one of the Spanish national team's role players and not even one of the key ones.

At the very most he is the third best player on Barcelona and honestly that's probably being generous. Really, he's the 4th-6th best on his team probably. But since when the hell is a guy "special" for being maybe the third best player on his team? I'm not biased in the least bit, it's you and every other fan boy or homer of Rubio that is biased. Because you make up pure lies and myths like "he was special from the start" when he has never been special. Or are you talking about that under-16 youth tournament? Seriously, get real.

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He also dominated Tony Parker in a Eurobasket game this summer...at 18 years old.

Isn't that the game where Parker was coming off an ankle injury?

[joe]

Your post totally lacks logic. What you fail to grasp is that the NBA is only a little bit better than the Euroleague. The Olympics are no better than the EuroBasket. So there is no reason why Team USA guards should dominate him if he was hyped up. Plenty of Euroleague point guards would have played much better than he did under the same scenario.

It's just more media hype that would suggest that Rubio is unique among Euroleague point guards that could play decently against Team USA. It's actually laughable.

You say the Euroleague is only slightly worse than the NBA, but then take great issue with the hype one of its best point guards is receiving. Which one of us is illogical?

Your argument is like, "I think McDonald's is the best fast-food place ever, but Burger King is right behind them and almost equally delicious. WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE THE WHOPPER."

I just don't see how that build-up led to that conclusion. Seriously, I'm confused.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

Quit trolling.

If he is an average PG like you said, how come he is ranked SECOND (barely out of first ) in ranking per minute amongst point guards?

Really, who is a better point guard in Europe over him? Just like week he easily outplayed Terrel Mcintyre who was the best pg in europe last year (euroleague first team)

First of all ranking does not really mean much of anything. That stat does not really mean jack squat. And anyone with even the slightest basketball knowledge knows that. Secondly, you keep citing per minute stats.

You want some stats........

Ricky Rubio Euroleague stats for this year:

38.1 FG%
33.3 3 PT FG%

6.4 Points Per Game
3.4 Rebounds Per game
5.4 Assists Per Game

1.4 Steals Per Game
1.8 Turnovers Per Game

Yeah he's "special". I agree that he runs a team well (although nowhere near as well as you claim) and he is a very good defender (although in the NBA the rules won't let him play that way).

He is that type of player with his production, with a good job directing a team and good defense. That has never ever been considered "special" in the Euroleague. He's absolutely an AVERAGE level Euroleague point guard and there are plenty of point guards in the Euroleague that are more productive than he is. It's absolutely absurd for you to even suggest he's the best point guard in the Euroleague. But that's my point, you and all these Rubio agents keep making up lies and myths about this guy, creating this false hype about him.

I bet after he plays one NBA game the Rubio homers will be proclaiming him better than Stockton.