Updates: Sergei Karaulov

[Marcus Bryant]

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Sergei Karaulov
Position: Center
Height: 7-1 (2.16m)
Weight: 232 (105kg)
Int. Team: Sakha-Jakutia (Russia)
Nationality: Russian
Birthplace: Gulistan, Soviet Union
Birthdate: 4/15/1982

How acquired: Selected by the Spurs with the 58th pick in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft.

[Darkwaters]

Drafted on a rumor. Bust.

[Slinkyman]

son of Spock?

[Marcus Bryant]

Let's try to keep this to updates/background on Karaulov, at least at the start. Thanks.

-MB

[spurscenter]

this is the one guy, i want to learn more about.

[ALVAREZ6]

Marcus Bryant loves the offseason

[medstudent]

wax that unibreezy

[Mr. Body]

Sam Presti's great triumph.

[timvp]

I wonder if they'll bring him to summer league again or if the Spurs have officially given up on him.

[Bruno]

Karaulov is playing with BC Khimky in rusian league.
He hasn't played a lot with teh first team (3 games with 5 mpg)and has mainly played with the second team (13 games, 8.9 points, 5 rebds, 1.3 blocks in 17:43 mpg).

[BeerIsGood!]

7'1 and 232? Too skinny without the talent. Chalk it up to a late 2nd round longshot that didn't pay off, but how many do?

[Kori Ellis]

7'1 and 232? Too skinny without the talent. Chalk it up to a late 2nd round longshot that didn't pay off, but how many do?
I wonder if he's still that skinny or that was his draft weight.

[GSH]

I wonder if he's still that skinny or that was his draft weight.

Russian league lists him at 253 lbs. now (115 kg).
http://www.basket.ru/player.aspx?player_id=7439

Some other links about Karaulov:
http://www.basket.ru/old_site/Team.asp?ID=2290&v=stats&season=107&l=e (player #16)
http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=RUS&PlayerID=42424
http://www.asia-basket.com/uzb/uzb.asp

[Kori Ellis]

Russian league lists him at 253 lbs. now (115 kg).
http://www.basket.ru/player.aspx?player_id=7439 ...

Thanks, I was wondering about his weight. I don't know if he'll ever develop into anything but at least his size is more reasonable now.

[Russ]

Drafting 7 footers (who are not already superstars) is a complete waste. So there.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Drafting 7 footers (who are not already superstars) is a complete waste. So there.

Nowitzki, amongst others, disagrees.

[T Park]

I think Rik Smits would disagree as well

[objective]

Now that Presti's gone, I wonder if the Spurs will still bother to have Karaulov on the summer league teams.

[Russ]

Nowitzki, amongst others, disagrees.

Okay, I'll amend the comment -- drafting 7 foot centers who aren't already superstars is a waste.

Check out this article -- red flags for draftees. One is being 7 feet tall. It's just one guy's opinion, but it makes sense. Oden will make it but I doubt Aaron Gray will.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2007/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=ProRater&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba %2fdraft2007%2finsider%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumni st%3dhollinger_john%26page%3dProRater

[Marcus Bryant]

Spurs fans are spoiled.

[Marcus Bryant]

What's Sergei up to these days?

[ace3g]

can someone do an update thread on Viktor Sanikidze, all I know is that he played for DINAMO TBILISI this season after he recovered from injury and put up some good stats

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=RUS&PlayerID=42424

Here's his eurobasket.com profile. Hopefully someone has an account there and can tell us how he did.

[SPURSGOAT]

http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=RUS&PlayerID=42424

Here's his eurobasket.com profile. Hopefully someone has an account there and can tell us how he did.

I would if it was free..... too expensive. :nope

[2centsworth]

what's up with this dude? any stats, history on this guy. Last i heard is that he sucks.

[E20]

Kalishnikov.

[svtluvr]

Here are his stats from this season, and they're not very good.

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://basket.ru/index.php%3Fdn%3Dbase%26to%3Dplayerstat%26id%3D743 9%26idt%3D2259&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlokomotiv-rostov.ru/%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dhvl

[timvp]

Here are his stats from this season, and they're not very good.

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://basket.ru/index.php%3Fdn%3Dbase%26to%3Dplayerstat%26id%3D743 9%26idt%3D2259&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlokomotiv-rostov.ru/%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DhvlThanks and nice find :tu

Looks like he averaged 3.5 points and 2.7 rebounds on 45.6% shooting from the field in about 12 minutes per game. Wow, this guy has to go down as one of the worst draft picks in NBA history. The only thing notable about him now is he's on a new Russian team (Lokomotiv-Rostov).

It's officially time to forget this guy ever existed.

[Russ]

It's officially time to forget this guy ever existed.

Yes. Please no more distracting discussion regarding this flyer of a pick.

[svtluvr]

Yes. Please no more distracting discussion regarding this flyer of a pick.

Agreed!!!