Economic limitations and adaptation problems with a dying calendar are two important factors when designing templates and perhaps because of this. most of the Euroleague teams have been reinforced with players who already know the competition well.
The best example is FC Barcelona, which awaiting the definitive answer from Pau Gasol has joined three players who already played in the last Euroleague in other teams. A) Yes, Turkish center Sertac Sanli won the title with Anadolu Efes after defeating Barça in the final.
Lithuanian guard-guard Rokas Jokubaitis arrives from Zalgiris, where he played in the 2019-20 academic year under the command of a Jasikevicius who already had him in the previous one when he played in the subsidiary. Finally, the Argentine base Nicolás Laprovittola comes from Real Madrid and lands after his excellent role in Tokyo.
The white box have also signed three Euroleague players and two are ‘ex’ of Barça: the Hungarian wild card Adam Hanga (not a single ‘but’ can be put) and the Frenchman Thomas Heurtel with scandal included after the subsequent ‘bridge’ of an ASVEL from which Yabusele also arrives.
Baskonia have made three Bundesliga additions. From Bayern comes the crack Wade Baldwin IV (he destroyed Barça months ago in Munich) and from ALBA Berlin, the point guard Jayson Granger a summer after leaving Vitoria and the forward Simone Fontecchio.
The ” palm ” in this section is currently being taken by the Russian UNICS Kazan with Tonye Jekiri from Baskonia, Lorenzo Brown (Fenerbahçe), Will Thomas (Zenit), former Blue Mario Hezonja (Panathinaikos) and Russia’s Zaitsev (Khimki). In addition, the runner-up of the Eurocup has also been the protagonist of the only change of ‘stickers’ on the bench with the march of Hellenic Priftis to Panathinaikos.
In the Red Star they are news Nikola Kalinic (ex of Valencia for whom Barça yearned) and Americans Austin Hollins (Zenit) and Nate Walters (UNICS). Bayern are joined by Darrun Hilliard (CSKA), Corey Walden (Red Star) and Othello Hunter (Maccabi).
Two Euroleague signings have been made by Zalgiris (Giffey from ALBA and Ulanovas from Zalgiris), Olympiacos (Moustapha Fall from ASVEL and Walkup from Zalgiris with Tyler Dorsey from Maccabi ready), ASVEL (Youssoupha Fall from Baskonia and Chris Jones from Maccabi) , Fenerbahçe (Pierriá Henry and Achille Polonara del Baskonia) and CSKA (Grigonis del Zalgiris and the cyclothymic and compulsive scorer Shved del Khimki).
Finally, Zoosman (Maccabi) will play for ALBA, Okaro White (UNICS) arrives at Panathinaikos, Leo Westermann after his disastrous and ephemeral pass through Barça has signed for Monaco, the Greek Mitoglou (PAO) will reinforce Olimpia Milan and the Anadolu Efes signed Tarik Black, formerly of Zenit, yesterday.
Saras’ ‘suffering’
Barça continues to focus on the physical section in training and on Thursday the weather gave them a break with the significant drop in temperatures with cloudy skies and some rain that dominated the day in Barcelona.
The excellent environment and the desire to work are two of the common denominators in each session waiting for the American Cory Higgins to join this weekend after solving a personal issue and for the Olympians Abrines and Laprovittola to do so next week.
A curious detail is that Sarunas Jasikevicius is doing part of the sessions as if it were just another player And he has been seen to suffer in the continuous race at 45 years old in his seventh summer as a former player since he hung up his shoes in 2014 at Zalgiris.
Although it just came from the ‘oven’ in Las Vegas, there the NBA Summer League was played indoors and Rokas Jokubaitis has chosen to shelter from the heat and sun with a cap the other way around with the one you are exercising.