Watching Terps in Europe
by mrmadrew on Jan 25, 2011 3:19 PM EST
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PrintLately I have been burning some mid afternoon hours keeping up with former terrapins who are playing professionally in Europe. Some of them are doing quite well there, and that is a fun thing to see. Euroleague, the top league in Europe, just entered into its 2nd round. Which is like the 2nd half of the season but they cut out the bottom half teams. Some notable Terrapins still playing for a championship include Terrence Morris, Drew Nicholas, James Gist, and Sarunas Jasikevicius.
Jasikevicius plays for Fenerbache Ulke in Turkey. In the teams first game of the 2nd round he scored 5 pts but committed 5 turnovers in 8 minutes. The teams next game is Thursday against Power Eletric.
DJ Strawberry is listed on teh roster for Lietuvos in Lithuania but has not appeared in any games since 2008.
Drew Nicholas is a shooter specialist for Panathinaikos in Athens. In the regular season he averaged 8.3 ppg and shot 16/37 from 3pt land. In the teams game 1 win, Nicholas started and scored 10 pts, shooting 2/4 from downtown. He also grabbed 3 boards and 2 assists in 25 minutes. His next game is Thursday at 2:45 PM EST.
Terrence Morris is highly valued for his defense. He plays for Regal FC Barcelona, where he is helping defend a championship from a year ago. On the season he averaged 8.6 ppg, 4.6 rebounds, and 1 block. In the team's first game, he played most of his 17 minutes during crunch time, scoring 11 points and adding 1 block and 3 steals. He hit a couple of big three pointers when the opponent, Maccabi, were mounting a comeback. Barcelona next plays Thursday at 2:45.
The top European Terp this season has been James Gist. He has started every game for Partizan mt:s in Belgrade as their main low post option. In the regular season, Gist averaged 30 min, 12.9 ppg and 7.3 rebounds. He struggled in the team's first game loss last week. While he pulled in 9 boards and had a big block, Gist shot only 3/12 from the field for 7 pts and had 3 costly turnovers. Partizan will sink or swim with Gist as he is the essential part of the team's offense.
One other Terp is also playing for a title in Europe, but not in the Euroleague. Nik Caner-Medley plays for Estudiantes in Madrid. The team missed qualifying for Euroleague but did make it into Eurocup and is in the 2nd round of that league. In the regular season, NCM started all 6 of the teams games, scoring 12.4 ppg and grabbing 5.9 rebounds. In the first game of Round 2, Nik scored 14 points shooting 2/3 from three point territory and hauled in 4 rebounds and a block. THe second game just wrapped up a couple of minutes ago. Caner-Medley only scored 5 points but did get 5 rebounds, 2 assists, a steal and a block to help him team get off to a 2-0 start. Estudiantes plays next February 1st.
Most of the European games stream live somewhere on the internet around 3 pm. A good place to start is atdhe.net but searching for the team names can work too if you would like to watch some former terrapins representing overseas.
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Nice update. Always good to know what’s going on with Terps around the country. Gist is doing really well, hopefully he can get a job in the lig next year.
Strawberry
Strawberry was just signed by Lietuvos Rytas about a week ago, and was not with the team yet for their first Top 16 game. Strawberry was actually signed to fill the hole at PG from when Sarunas Jasikevicius was cut from the team a few weeks ago (as you noted, he was immediately signed by Fenerbahce Ulker).
In the Euroleague regular season that concluded a few weeks ago, Gist was the #2 rebounder in the whole league. He is becoming a real force in the paint over there this year.
I have a blog that is exclusively dedicated to following former Terps overseas here:
I haven’t written anything about Nik Caner-Medley in a long time… I didn’t realize they were in contention for the Eurocup title. I’ll have to write a post about that. Thanks for the tip!
andre collins
dont forget about andre collins. led the nation in scoring over jj reddick for a day after transferring to loyola, finished third overall in ppg his senior year there. was a freshman on the championship team and scored the last point in cole field house. i think he plays in the italian league but i dont know anything more than that
by Luke Goldsborough on Jan 26, 2011 4:38 PM EST reply actions
Collins in Italy
Andre Collins has had a successful career overseas, playing with a number of different teams in the top Italian professional league (“Serie A”) since he graduated from Loyola. He’s currently a starter for Scavolini Pesaro in Italy, averaging 11.9 points, 4.3 assists, and 2.5 steals per game this year.
by Michelangelo on Jan 27, 2011 1:32 PM EST up reply actions
the mayor
I heard Dave Neal was putting up some ridiculous numbers in Ireland
ESPN3
ESPN3 has live games. Gist is tearing it up. Do the Spurs still hold his NBA rights?Sarunas is teammates with Sean May.
Salaries
In case you were wondering: http://www.talkbasket.net/salaries.html. Click on the team names. The big clubs, if you add in the taxes they cover and benefits (houses, cars), have low-NBA level payrolls.
Nicholas
Drew is making some good money over in Europe… $1.2 million Euros per year.
What's the status of L. Baxter?
Is he still on lock-down? Such a waste.
Baxter
Baxter is playing for Enisey Krasnoyarsk of the Russian Superleague, where he is averaging 14 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. He played in Turkey last year and Greece the year before that.
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