Christian Russell, an American Center which grew up in Salem, Oregon, left to go on a tryout with a team just outside of Valencia. Christian has been at EuroProBasket for about 5 weeks preparing himself and adjusting to the European style of basketball. “I’ve learned from being at EuroProBasket that
The first week of the EuroProBasket Women’s program a sports director and coach of a well respected team in Alicante paid a visit to scout players in the program. He instantly noticed and took special interest in one player. The player that drew his attention was Bianca Valderrama from Corpus
Canadian point guard Austin Ly and American shooting guard George Jackson IV left on a tryout in Peñíscola, Spain. They will play in a pre season game with possibly their future team against an opposing team. Austin Ly grew up in the AAU circuits and Prep School programs in his
Igor Jesovnik grew up in British Columbia Canada. He played basketball throughout his youth. He joined a collegiate team near his hometown in Vancouver BC but his time there was cut short due to injury. At that point in his life he focused on his professional career outside of basketball.
In Valencia Spain, Malick Gueye boarded a train which runs North along the Mediteranean coast with a final destination in Tarragona. There he will be picked up by the sports director of his potential team for the 2021-22 season. Without going too much further, let’s take a step backwards and
When did you start playing basketball? I started playing organized basketball when I was about 8 years old. But we had one of those little toy plastic hoops in my house growing up so I was probably shooting on that ever since I could walk and pick up a ball.
The small forward is probably the most versatile player on the roster. On offense, the 3 has to be able to play on the perimeter as well as inside. On defense, he has to contest bigs on some rotations and put pressure on defending guards. Coaches Manuel Póvea, Pascal Meurs
