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Yes but again the champion/tournament winner playing on BBB too. Why not have the chance to be competitive?

About the reality. Hellas is relative small country (around 10-11M) but Greek NT's (youngsters too) are very successful internationally. (Last summer where 2nd on U18 world, 1st in Europe U19). Dont forget that Greek NT has won USA in Japan without having a single NBA player on the squat.

Actually the best team in Europe last 15-20 years (Euroleague winers, Final 4 etc) its a Greek team (Panathinaikos).

So the reality its not what you are saying.

Think about it more like: the level of fan interest is about the same in every country. There is only enough interest in every country to support 16 division I teams, 64 division II teams, etc.

I disagree with this. I think the number of teams that are registered does reflect an abstract metric of fan interest relative to BB.

My country have only 800.000 population, 70+ teams USA has 300M. So by percentage the interest in my country about the game is bigger than yours.

So, I can not understand how the TV/merchandising/arena incomes are the same in Spain and in a country with only 23 teams.

I also do not know why there are no teams from Spain in the top 10 of the world. Sure, competition is tougher, but the USA got 2 teams, also being one of the best and largest countries. Germany got one, Hellas got one. Portugal got one. Those are all big countries. Maybe it's not the system, maybe it's the manager's culture. We saw Italian teams being dominant a few seasons ago, but then their competition got tougher. This lead to managers strengthen their line-ups, instead of expanding arenas. Germany was doing the opposite, and increased their revenue by a lot, they caught up with Italy in no time.

Managers culture????

I lost by one, 104-105, to the Number 1º of the world in his court with my entire team in respectable game shape. (19970605)
I had that game shape because I didnt want to lose ACBB league, and if I want to be competitive in the B3, Im forced to pass cup games, wich means that Im forced to overplay my guys resulting in demential game shapes.
There is one way to play the B3 in good game shape and be able to win it, playing the relegation PO of my league. But if this happens I wont have the incomes that people from easy leagues has, and I will be less cometitive for the future.

They can TIE all their league/cup matches, they can train what they want and they have huge incomes because they have always positive records (most of the time full wins). Also they are not forced to pay huge salaries while they dont play B3 and they can spend the rest of the year saving money.

You are playing with maxed out prices in a sold out 11k arena in Spain, I guess that's where you lack of income comes from. You might start to expand your arena.

If he invest in stadium he goes straight to the 2nd division, he has to sell actives to do it. Our current money is close to 0 (huge competition forces us to spend all we have to remain competitive). I know that playing in Cyprus with a roster that costs weekly less than 150k while you save money allows you to build your stadium in 2 seasons but this doesnt happen in Spain, where most of the top players started in a Vth division.

If a great player starts in a small paradise and optimizes his strategy with the training and his wages the time he doesnt play the B3 he will be able to dominate easily the game. Luckily we dont have lots of elite managers in little countries, is easier to see them in huge comunities, we are more, statistically we have more type of players, but if a guy optimizates his strategy in a little country we could say good bye to the B3 for 10-15 seasons in a row (until he gets bored).

Also the HCA in 1/4 finals or 1/8 finals is something that I really cant understand. Today, most of the top teams can easily beat anyone of the world in his court. I really thought that this year I had a team to fight for the B3, but in this conditions is imposible for me, unless I have court advantage in key matches and good game shapes (not compiting in my country league).

I had that game shape because I didnt want to lose ACBB league, and if I want to be competitive in the B3, Im forced to pass cup games, wich means that Im forced to overplay my guys resulting in demential game shapes.

I don't follow here - B3 games are in arcade mode, so why would that impact anything?

I’m not sure your examples are exactly apples to oranges, but I do think they actually support what I am saying. The European countries you are referring to are doing an excellent job of developing a significant portion of the next generation of great basketball players. Young players are (and should be) more likely to play in their home countries than in other countries. But once these players are good enough to play in elite leagues, they can find more money in the NBA and likely to make the jump if they are good enough to star there. Not all players go these days since leagues in Europe are now paying decent salaries, which helps keep players from jumping oversees. But let’s face it, winning the Euroleague championship is not like winning an NBA championship, which is won with many many international players nowadays.

U21 leagues are not comparable to BB since in the U.S. U21 is essentially college, and the best U.S. college players generally don’t play on U21 teams. (The college players in the U.S. from other countries do, though, like Dogus Balbay from Turkey paying at the University of Texas.)

And read my point about player development in local countries again. I was making the argument that making it harder for countries with fewer teams to be able to buy the best talent from the world would actually make it more likely for these countries to develop their own players, hence bolstering their NTs.

Why not give teams from countries with few teams a shot in the BBB? Could you see the Euroleague champions beating the Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-seven series? The Lakers aren’t just the US NT, they have some top talent from around the world, too (Gasul, Vujacic, Mbenga).

Game shape and enthusiasm counts in B3 matches. We need them at the top to be competitive.

Game shape and enthusiasm counts in B3 matches. We need them at the top to be competitive.

OK, so you throw Cup games for enthusiasm/GS purposes? I'm not getting at something, I'm just asking because I don't understand.

Think about it more like: the level of fan interest is about the same in every country. There is only enough interest in every country to support 16 division I teams, 64 division II teams, etc.

I disagree with this. I think the number of teams that are registered does reflect an abstract metric of fan interest relative to BB.

My country have only 800.000 population, 70+ teams USA has 300M. So by percentage the interest in my country about the game is bigger than yours.

I'm not looking at country population as a factor, and see above where I mention I'm not trying to say anything about any country's particular fans. I'm sure a higher percentage of people in Japan follow baseball than in the U.S. and in Taiwan that percentage is probably even higher. U.S. teams still make more money. Japanese stars sometime come to play in the U.S. U.S. players only play in Japan when they can't get a job in the U.S. It's just the way it is.

It doesnt change the fact that a small country can be power house on sports. If they give you way more income than us then that it will be disappear, and BBB will be 5-6 countries game.

Anyway if you want some advantage on that they can use champions league format. They can play the 4 best teams there from countries like England Italy Spain Germany have 4 teams to compete there, where the Hellas for example (being weaker domestic league) have 2. Playing on the Champions league teams have some serious income.



Last edited by JohnnyB at 1/27/2010 2:25:02 PM

It doesnt change the fact that a small country can be power house on sports.

I'm not disagreeing with this. A country where teams train their own players effectively can have great NTs

If they give you way more income than us then that it will be disappear, and BBB will be 5-6 countries game.

Probably true, but think about how glorious it will be when a team rises from an underdog country to make a run in the BBB. And better NTs will be a nice compensation. Maybe when these countries with fewer teams can't buy $140k+ salary players, they will be less likely to sell their stars, and the big boys won't have as big a pool of players to pull from on the TL.

I think if we ease into a country income modifier, the market will adjust and the end result will something closer to reality, and maybe a better game (this is debatable, which is obviously having this debate, and a civilized one at that, which is nice).

If I want to win my league I need the HCA. The only way to get it is wining league games and leading the regular season. Under normal circunstances I would be able to try to win them without giving too much minutes to my key players (and having good shapes). Just throw the cup if a dificult round comes soon and play the 2 league matches/week full competitive.

If I try to play a 3rd match I'll be forced to give too many minutes to my players. Some years I threw the cup in 4th round because is really dificult to play 3 matches/week having good shapes.
The problem cames with the B3, to be competitive in the B3 you need thursday cup matches to have a key TIE that allows you to be competitive during the weeks that the international tournament is going on. And that means that you have to win rounds no matter what the rival is. Sometimes you have to put your players lots of minutes and you destroy the team game shape in order to advance in the domestic competiton. If you dont do it you will fall from the cup losing the enthusiasm boost for future B3 rounds.
And if you do it (put them in the cup match) you lose the game shape, of course.

The other way to fight the B3 is giving one league match per week to your rivals while you compite in the B3, but I personally dont like this choice. Mostly because today is more important for me the fair ACBB title than the unbalanced B3 tittle. And I dont want to sacrifize the first division tittle (which has more prestige for me than the B3) for a tournament that depends of the luck (HCA in final rounds, some monster teams from little paradises that in my opinion really unbalance the game).