Post by Babylon Enigma on Feb 6, 2011 0:01:49 GMT -5
Feb 5, 2011 4:53:08 GMT -5 @odel said:
It's called evolution, and it applies to humans as well. Some populations are more athletic than others. Do you honestly believe if Albania converts to a ghetto culture, the country would start producing NBA players?
If basketball actually became popular among Albanians I think that we would have fared much better in that sport, same with any other sport, as has been commented before Albanians don't care for any sports except for football/soccer and some individual fighting sports. Something that is interesting to look at is that a lot of our players and even moreso our best players all live outside Albania or Kosova. This applies also for our boxers and most of our athletes.
An example is Lorik Cana the captain of our national football team, he has lived most of his life in Switzerland and there's a lot of other Albanians in Switzerland just like Lorik. We have talents like Vasil Shkurti, lived in Greece all of his life and he's supposed to be a great talent, thankfully he chooses to play for Albania. Arijan Adem an Albanian is choosing to play for Croatia playing for Croatia's u21 at 19 years old, he's also supposed to be good. There's also a young Albanian in Arsenal FC's football academy. These are some few examples only and there's plenty more but it does prove a point. The best Albanian players play and/or were raised outside of their native homes. Does this mean that only the athletic few migrated out? No, it's just easier to earn sucess outside.
I would like to add that Serbs are not more built for basketball than the taller Netherlanders and Scandinavians, this doesn't stop the Serbs than being more sucessful than these countries (maybe even more sucessful than all these countries altogether) in basketball. Living in a Scandinavian country myself I know that basketball is not a very popular sport there, it's all about football, hockey and handball there.
That was not the point, the point was biological traits matter. Eskimos being raised with a ghetto culture will not produce NBA players.