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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5756575, member: 722"] This was the first thing I looked at. It is so easy to get excited about lower level statistics. The league he is coming from has a lot of NBA players in it. For instance, the leagues leading scorer is Ohio State grad Duane Washington Jr. who has played 79 games in the NBA. He's playing against grown men, not other countries teenagers. This is from Google AI, which I have trained to not be an idiot (most of the time.) Abdramane Siby is coming from the [B]Adriatic (ABA) League[/B], which is widely considered one of the top 10 to 15 professional basketball leagues in the world. It is a high-level regional league featuring teams from the former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, etc.) that serves as a premier pipeline for NBA talent. ESPN +4 League Quality and Competition The ABA League is far more physically demanding and strategically advanced than standard NCAA competition. [B]League Ranking:[/B] According to basketball analytics sites like [URL='https://www.noceilingsnba.com/p/ranking-the-top-basketball-leagues']No Ceilings[/URL] and [URL='https://www.bulletsforever.com/2021/7/4/22562365/quantifying-quality-international-basketball-league-quality-spain-australia-turkey']Bullets Forever[/URL], the ABA League typically ranks just below the top-tier domestic leagues like Spain's ACB but often ahead of or equal to the Australian NBL and the NBA G-League in terms of prospect development. [B]NBA Ties:[/B] It is common for players on 10-day contract trajectories or those who were just waived by NBA teams (similar to cases like [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_Hayes']Killian Hayes[/URL] in other European circuits) to use this league as a springboard back to the US. [B]The "Mega" Model:[/B] Siby played for [B]BC Mega Superbet[/B], a club specifically known as a "draft factory". While the league as a whole is veteran-heavy, Mega is unique because it prioritizes playing teenagers and young prospects alongside a few veteran anchors to prepare them for the NBA. Because Siby has been playing against grown men who are fighting for professional livelihoods, his [B]defensive stats[/B] (like leading the league in block percentage) are considered highly translatable to the ACC. Scouts believe that while he may struggle with the raw strength of ACC centers initially, his experience against professional-grade pick-and-roll schemes gives him a significant mental edge over typical high school recruits. [/QUOTE]

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