First steps from NCAA to Euro Pro Basketball
Culture shock and ... basketball culture shock
After having played for George Washington Colonials for four years, I was ready to embrace European basketball to the fullest in the Summer of 1999. I'm from Eastern Europe myself and I was sure I knew what I was doing. However, very soon I discovered that the picture of Euro pro ball that I had in my mind was a bit different from the reality I was suddenly submerged into...
I write this post hoping that some of the future players will learn from my mistakes and have a little more satisfying initial experience in Europe. Here are the few things that went wrong in the first few weeks of my transition from NCAA to Europe:
