I think there is no option than to abandom national tournaments for the euroleague teams in the future. And this is good for the sport itself, for the quality and popularity of the game. What we have now is imagine in USA every state having 10-20 teams total ~700 teams lets say and only top teams of each state would play in NBA alongside state championship. It is bullshit right? This is what we have nowadays in europe, we have bullshit. Talent is so diluted, quality diluted. Shedules filled with unimportant games . I think in this situation everyone loses, the fans, the basketball as a whole itself, and the players because less popularity means less money from tv rights and sponsors.
I would like to see european league, where teams only compete in the highest league. It could be like 2 tiers europe wide like it is euroleague and eurocup; and smaller regional leagues like balcals as we have now and for example baltics we used to have. Maybe there could be some cups, it would generate some nice interest. Similar as we have in most of the esports. There are global leagues + tournaments/cups. Esports doing it right, we doing it wrong. Would not be suprised if second most popular sport after soccer would be some esport someday.
Another issue is most of the clubs are sponsored heavily, especially russian and turkish ones. They not making proffit, and part of that cause is basketball being unatractive to average customer. All the teams should be somewhat proffitable and buying titles should be banned. Like Fifa did with transparency of economics for the clubs. Euroleague had added few years ago some rules, but they still far away from what they should be.
And thoughts about national teams: Again, everyone loose because of biggest start not participating in tournaments. We have qualifications for worlcup which were gently speaking 3-rd tier. Now we have 2-nd tier championship called worldcup. This is ridiculous. Why would customer want to watch it? It is like drinking diluted beer, would you like that?. It is FIBA job mostly to encourage players to participate in NT games, they could pay clubs/players for participation like FIFA does, in addition they could provide insurance in case of an injury.
BTW i support Autralia, i think they will beat France in the finals.
Last edited by Vilkai [LTU NT] at 09/12/2019 10:52:58