The good news leaked late on Friday afternoon: the efforts of Bundesliga basketball team s.Oliver Würzburg to make his squad competitive and suitable for the Bundesliga again after the serious injuries to Zach Smith, Justin Sears and Brekkott Chapman, which will be absent for weeks or months , bear a first fruit. On Friday evening, the Baskets then confirmed the information from this editorial team that they were with Perry Jones III. have bagged their first of the longed-for three signings. The 2.11-meter-tall, trained winger, who will certainly be used under the basket in the Baskets, played a total of 155 games in the NBA from 2012 to 2015, twelve of them in the play-offs, for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He is supposed to arrive in Würzburg at the weekend.
Due to the mandatory two negative corona tests, it seems very likely that the US-American, who was most recently under contract with the Turkish first division club and EuroCup participant Bursaspor, will play in the home game against next Saturday, February 6th (8:30 p.m.) at the earliest Göttingen will give its premiere in a Baskets bib (and not next Wednesday against Bayern Munich). ?? Perry is a player similar in quality to Brekkott Chapman, having played in Bursa last season. This year it didn’t really work out for him ??, says Kresimir Loncar, Manager Sport and Scouting at the Baskets, according to a message from the club: “After his signing, we can now concentrate on the search for another Big Man . ??
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Jones was drawn 28th by Oklahoma in the first round of the NBA Draft in 2012 after two years at Baylor University. After a few forays into the NBA G-League and a very short appearance at Euroleague participant Khimki Moscow 2016, where he only played one game, he moved to Bursapor in Turkey in 2019, where he worked with the former Würzburg Gabriel until the corona-related end of the season Olaseni played and as a starter came to 13.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in an average of just under 32 minutes. In the current season, Jones played a less dominant role (22 minutes / 6.1 points / 3.5 rebounds). In the EuroCup he averaged 23 minutes, 7.2 points and 2.1 rebounds.
The news of the new signing broke while the Baskets were on their way to Oldenburg. Baskets trainer Denis Wucherer had always emphasized that “the new ones have to fit in with us. Sporty and human.” And of course also in the budget. As recently as Friday afternoon, usurers had said that the club had “cast the line”. Apparently, the Würzburgers – with only two licenses to be issued – are very concerned about landing a catch that may be too sparse in the large pond, which is of course more like a shark tank due to the international competition that is also fishing. Especially since the bait of the baskets doesn’t seem too big at the moment. With Jones – at least according to his vita – they have now apparently landed a decent fish.
With the two currently impending, seemingly unsolvable tasks in Oldenburg and against Munich, Jones will of course not be able to help them yet. Which is why it is time to recall a statement by Denis Wucherer that he made before the start of this season, and which he then liked to repeat in one way or another: “We’ll be up again and again this season To meet teams we have no chance against. ” He didn’t say that before starting his business trip to the third largest city in Lower Saxony – but from a human perspective, this sentence describes the requirements before the Saturday duel (8.30 p.m.) of the third, who has just lost two of his 14 season games (at the second Crailsheim and to At home against the German champions Berlin) and won the last eight, probably quite well against the eleventh, who has won five of his 13 games.
It is the start of six games within 16 days for the Baskets, all of which brought home their victories abroad and most recently did surprisingly well in Berlin. “But this time the conditions are different,” said Wucherer, before he and his crew boarded the bus on Friday afternoon. In Berlin, his protégés had to deal with a (travel) stressed Euroleague participant who was working as a piece of work and who had just returned from Spain 24 hours earlier. In Oldenburg, the Lower Franconians meet “a rested troop with many Bundesliga veterans and a large squad that is big”, as usurers put it. “It will be much more difficult to pull yourself out of the affair properly.” It seems like the coach doesn’t think much of a good thing.
With an average of 92 points per game, the Oldenburg team are the most basket-hungry team in the class – the Würzburg team throw an average of 78.8 points in each game, only Frankfurt scores less often. For usurers, the excursion is also a kind of journey into the past: The Baskets coach sees Oldenburg’s assistant trainer Milos Petkovic, his co from Gießen times, where the two also trained Karsten Tadda and Braydon Hobbs, who are now distributing baskets to the self-proclaimed Thunderbirds.
Respect can be heard in Usurer’s voice when it comes to the opponents’ greats, the Austrian international Rasid Mahalbasic and the American Nathan Boothe. “And then Paulding falls around too,” as usurer jokingly said. With just under 16 points per game, the Bundesliga legend is Oldenburg’s most reliable player. According to the league, he is just two baskets short of the field to complete his 2500 points in Germany’s premium class. In addition, nobody has scored more threes than Paulding, and only one has more games under his belt than the now 38-year-old (526): the loan from Munich in Würzburg’s service, Alex King, who will contest his 595th encounter in Oldenburg. The two are currently the only two players who have appeared in the Bundesliga more than 500 times.
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