Gandhi the Pimp
Prospect
gotta go w/ my boy Drazen on this
r.i.p
r.i.p
better shooter:Peja or Drazen Petrovic?
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SaCKiNgS24
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no question the original! drazen! R.I.P! too bad no one knows who he is 
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SaCKiNgS24
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Gregorius said:
he was a croatian born basketball player, played for the nets died in 93 at the age of 28 in a car accident
firaun
Prospect
Hey BYU, maybe this will refresh your memory, Drazen was from the same country as Kresimir Cosic (you should know who he was since he attended your university)
Drazen was also one of the best shooters (ranks second in 3 point field goal % all-time) however still gotta love Peja and that release
Drazen was also one of the best shooters (ranks second in 3 point field goal % all-time) however still gotta love Peja and that release
Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
Peja Stojakovic or Ricky Berry??
Gandhi the Pimp
Prospect
Steve Alford,Larry Bird--obvious bias--right up there too
TheSerbianQueen
Bench
SaCKiNgS24 said:no question the original! drazen! R.I.P! too bad no one knows who he is
Some of us actually know who he is
Was huge fan of his before he even came to NBA.
Disliked him later on in his career for many political comments he made, but never lost respect for him as a player.....
iheartBrad
All-Star
in 1993 i was 9 years old and had absolutely no interest in basketball or the NBA...
so i have never heard of or seen this DP guy....so i can't answer that
so i have never heard of or seen this DP guy....so i can't answer that
Gregorius
G-League
Huh.... I don't know who Kresimir Cosic is either...
Yeah I didn't really get into basketball until the 2002 Western Conference Finals. Before then I had never really been interested in watching sports on TV, but it was soooo awesome and magical that I watched every game, and I think I almost cried when we lost game 7.... and that horry 3...
But so this Drazen guy was really good? That stinks that he died
Yeah I didn't really get into basketball until the 2002 Western Conference Finals. Before then I had never really been interested in watching sports on TV, but it was soooo awesome and magical that I watched every game, and I think I almost cried when we lost game 7.... and that horry 3...
But so this Drazen guy was really good? That stinks that he died
sloter
Starter
Heuge said:
What separated Drazen from not only Pedja, but most basketball players was his incredible passion for the game and his competitiveness and will to win. I don't think that can be measured in stats, which by the way are stronly skewed by his very limited minutes when he was with Portland.
I'm not sure how one can compare a PG/SG to a SF anyway. In international competition (I am saying this because Drazen's NBA career for so strange and short), Drazen took games over almost every night, something that Pedja does very seldom. He was better than Pedja in the only thing where Pedja really excels, and that's scoring.
In fact in 84/85 Drazen averaged 43.5 points per game in then pretty strong Yugoslav league and 37.0 in Euroleague. Keep in mind that these are the statistics with 40 minute games and 30 second shot clock. Imagine what would have happened had he shot more...
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piksi
Hall of Famer
uolj said:Yeah, lucky for Peja his first NBA coach was better.
Piksi, you should really have added a smiley to that one. You just might get creamed for it.
Lucky for Pedja that GP is a "father figure"
honestly, could not care less because I started following BB when Drazen started playing and considering what kind of player he was - a person/coach has to be really incompetent not to realize the skills and the potential
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Heuge
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Thanks for the incites. I wish I could have seen more of Drazen, as we all could of. He sounds like an aggressive and passionate basketball player, I wish that could rub off onto Pedja.sloter said:
Piksi, Drazen was the third best point guard on that Portland team (maybe that evil coach was right). Terry Porter and Danny Ainge were proven NBA guards who should not have lost their jobs to a new comer. It would be like Drazen getting point gaurd minutes on our current healthy team (Bibby and BJax). Getting him to a team with less depth, in New Jersy, was good.
Stojakovic
Bench
Peja as a shooter, but that's about it.
uolj
Starter
So which player(s) were in front of him in the rotation?piksi said:
If I recall correctly, that would be Clyde Drexler, one of "The 50 Greatest Players In NBA History". I'm not saying you're wrong, but when you have a superstar on your team, it's harder to find time for a rookie.
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