{"id":16330,"date":"2012-02-08T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=16330"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:35:04","slug":"spurs-coach-popovich-praises-rubio-questions-the-depth-of-american-culture-16330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spurs-coach-popovich-praises-rubio-questions-the-depth-of-american-culture-16330\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs coach Popovich praises Rubio, questions the depth of American culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16334\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16334\" title=\"popovich-nationalturk-0474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/popovich-nationalturk-0474.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Popovich on international players in Nba and American Culture\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/popovich-nationalturk-0474.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/popovich-nationalturk-0474-265x220.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Popovich on international players in Nba and American Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich praised Minnesota Timberwolves&#8217; rookie guard Rick Rubio&#8217;s rapid adjustment to NBA and American culture while criticising American arrogance and illiberalness.<\/h1>\n<p>Nba News \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Ricky Rubio&#8217;s fourth-quarter poise gets noticed, his strong fourth quarters already are becoming a hot topic as the Spaniard rookie raises his level particularly late in recent games.<\/p>\n<p>Still people keep talking about whether Ricky Rubio should be starting games for the Timberwolves. But there isn&#8217;t much disagreement as to how he is finishing them.<\/p>\n<h2>Gregg Popovich on international players in Nba and American Culture<\/h2>\n<p>San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich talked at some length about his impressions of Ricky Rubio and touched upon a topic far from the Spaniard&#8217;s achievements on the court. Popovich is well-known for his trust in European players or any players who learned the fundamentals of the game while playing in Europe at a different level than NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Ricky Rubio, and particularly how difficult it would be for him to adjust to American culture, Gregg Popovich&#8217;s response was classic:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys, they travel around the world,&#8221; Popovich said of international players such as Rick Rubio and manu Ginobili. &#8220;They&#8217;re more cultured than we are. Everyone acts like Americans are the ones &#8230; we have sort of an arrogance about us. Like we&#8217;re the cultured ones? Are you serious?<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Have you watched TV lately? Have you seen what Americans do? How many languages do you speak? And you wonder how they&#8217;re going to adjust to our culture? I hope they avoid it and keep their own!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Popovich is spot on. Collectively Americans are regarded [by many nations] as the most arrogant and ignorant bunch on the planet but ironically these nations are exposed to 100% of the American pop culture.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich praised Minnesota Timberwolves&#8217; rookie guard Rick Rubio&#8217;s rapid adjustment to NBA and American culture while criticising American arrogance and illiberalness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1230,80,74,63,17,118,103,127,14],"tags":[20939,20936,20937,20934,20942,77177,20940,20935,20938,20941],"class_list":["post-16330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-basketball","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-sport","category-world","tag-american-arrogance","tag-american-culture","tag-american-illiberalness","tag-greg-popovich","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nba-international-players","tag-rick-rubio","tag-rick-rubio-4th-quarter","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}