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So you are saying Europe teams avoid him because of injuries. Like I said in that same post.
You are talking about someone who hasn't played a full season for 3 years.
I don't think there are some weed stories behind that.
So you are saying Europe teams avoid him because of injuries. Like I said in that same post.
You was saying that no one was interested in him which is false.
In 2007, he signed with a very good team in Spain.
In 2008, he had some buyout troubles with his team in Spain and nearly sign with a good team in Germany.
And "Fraggle rock" isn't a that bad team.
Euro teams were interested in him. They could have been more interested in him if he wasn't that injury prone.
If it's not based on some inside infos, saying that Sanikidze smokes pot because he has a beard and long hears is odd.
Okay, no team the average fan has ever heard of is interested in him. Better? I apologize I didn't clarify Estonian teams might be interested
And he played like five minutes a game. And that team was still a no name team from what I remember.
So he nearly signed with a German team? They play basketball in Germany? Props to him.
Compared to what? Luxembourg?
Exactly what I said. I guess I should have clarified it further for you to say major Euro teams weren't interested in him.
Not as odd as pimping Estonia has a basketball hotbed. And I still wonder why he didn't get more offers. If Pachulia was free to sign in Europe, he'd probably be making $15-20M. Sanikidze is outplaying him and I'm guess his contract is worth no more than $1M.
In your own logic, Biella is also a scrub team.
I guess that you were surprised that Gist didn't received better offers.
Maybe he is also smoking weed...
, I'd be very surprised at that; I don't speak/read estonian or whatever the that is, but from the article,
http://www.delfi.ee/news/sport/korvp...96424&l=wsport
Does that look to you like he's playing in the B-division in Estonia? I can't see him making $1M in the Estonian B-league...Sanikidze on B-divisjoni EM-valikturniiril kolm võitu saanud Gruusia koondise üks põhitegijaid.
, I'd be surprised if he couldn't be bought out with a vet min contract... Literally, offer him $427000 and I'd bet he could buy himself out...
According to Bruno, this Division B Estonian team is a half step away from the NBA
No. It's Georgia that played in the euro B-division.
Rock Taru is the best team in Estonia.
And the Vipers are the best team in Laredo.
Oh and please refer to them as Fraggle rock and not Rock Tau.
Thanks.
I just saw this guy play tonight...Pretty good player...
BTW, Tartu is interested in Sanikdize but hasn't signed him for the moment :
http://forums.interbasket.net/showpo...&postcount=402
That's a good sign. I still bet he'd be amenable to a buyout and a vet min contract...
Work some sort of complicated buyout agreement with a bunch of backdoors.
EG.
Spurs pay Rock Taru $100K for Sanikidze's to attend Spurs TC. (this does NOT buyout Sanikidze's Rock Taru contract)
If he makes the Spurs team from training camp, SA pays a further $400K to complete Sanikidze's buyout; if not, Sanikidze returns to Rock Taru.
Assuming Sanikidze makes the Spurs, he gets a Vet Min Contract for 3 years, with the 1st year fully guaranteed, and the 2nd and 3ed years partially guaranteed.
Works all around
Rock Taru either gets 100K + Sani or 500K for handing Sani some paper to sign
SA gets a someone who might actually improve the roster in training camp. We need a real 3... Bowen is an SG by size, Udoka is even smaller, and let's hope Finley is kidnapped by aliens...
Sanikidze either gets the contract he already signed, or he gets what I suspect is a considerable upgrade. I'm dead sure that the Estonian league doesn't pay that much, particularly to people who aren't already established stars.
So what was that newspaper article that you posted above - team interest or an actual he's signed...
I don't read Estonian.
Great, so neither of us know... There's got to be someone on this forum who speaks Estonian?I don't read Estonian.
The second link that I gave is in English.
The sure thing is that Fraggle Rock is interested. We will see in the next few days if they sign him.
Sanikidze has just finished his games with the Georgian NT today.
Do the Spurs have any interest? Is it more likely he signs with Fraggle Rock, or plays for the Spurs in training camp?
Fraggle Rock by far. They are the only ones interested (officially, so far,...). The rest is just hope by Spurs fans who want to see the kid get a chance...
Rock confirmed today that they will sign Sanikidze.
The team competes in following leagues:
1) KML - Estonian national league. The overall level of the league is very weak. The only threat to Rock is BC Kalev (their most notable players are former Syracuse Josh Pace, John Linehan who is still holding the NCAA all-time steals record and Martin Müürsepp, who has played in Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat).
2) Baltic League - Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) basketball league. The strongest teams in Baltic League are from Lithuania - ˇalgiris and Rytas.
Most notable players in Baltic League are Marcus Brown, Chuck Eidson, Loren Woods, Ratko Varda, Bruno Sundov, Demetrius Alexander, Roy Bright, Tanoka Beard and many more. Probably those names won't tell you anything. Oh, and Kareem Rush played there some time ago.
3) EuroCup - Second strongest club compe ion in Europe after Euroleague. Most probably Rock won't get to the group stages because imo they will struggle with Crvena Zvezda.
Some names playing in EuroCup: Darius Lavrinovic, Bostjan Nachbar, Jannero Pargo, Scoonie Penn, Jorge Garbajosa, Carlos Delfino, Nenad Krstic and many more.
Thanks for the news spursest and welcome on the board.
Do you know if Sanikidze will play SF or PF with Tartu ?
Estonia when you're trying to be so good
Estonia just like they said they would
Estonia when you're trying to go home
Estonia when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get Estoned
here are translation about that link what you asked:
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Viktor Sanikidze got intrest about Tartu Rock from
another georgian Giorgi Tsintsadze, who will start his
3rd season in Tartu.
Sanikidze tried to find new club and last season FIBA EuroCup semi-finalist team Tartu Rock seemed to be good team to land (cause of BalticLeague and EuroCup)
Sanikidze had made his offer to club and Rock manager Meelis Pastak said
that after he gets permission from board to hire him, he will continue negotation.
The main question is "does Rock has enough money to hire him".
Rock this year budget is 1.7M $.
Coming season most paid player in Tartu Rock will be Tanoka Beard (usa)
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PS! Sanikidze get 70.000 $ in Rock.
Thanks for the translation. I already like these Estonian fans. Hopefully you guys can stick around and keep us updated
That's a pretty good value for the Estonian team. I'm still wondering why Sankidze doesn't get more love in Europe. $100,000 in US dollars is chump change in today's market.
Panathinaikos managers were interest in sign him for third string small forward and to be develop into backup small forward or starter at small forward in next couple years. But they decide against this because of injury concerns. if he was to make team as third string player in PAO he would get much bigger contract.Thanks for the translation. I already like these Estonian fans. Hopefully you guys can stick around and keep us updated
That's a pretty good value for the Estonian team. I'm still wondering why Sankidze doesn't get more love in Europe. $100,000 in US dollars is chump change in today's market.
Verginis is third string point guard or fourth string shooting guard this year in PAO and he is young player of future like Sanikidze. He is get €425,000 euros (like $617,000 dollars) per year contract from PAO and is guarantee for next 4 years and he is even younger then Viktor.
So if Viktor has very strong season in Baltic league and Eurocup league then next year some team will offer him much more then $70,000 dollar. But for now this is his market value because he have prove nothing in Europe at all where player like Verginis has prove he could lead team in strong league like Greece.
Hi guys from Greece,
News here say that Sani will continue his career here in the Greek Basketball League for AEK Athens. As an AEK and Spurs fan I was intrested in getting some more infos about this Georgian prospect and as I read here Sani is a good athlete with a lot of talent, but still undeveloped and quite injury proness. Also he didn't play much in his previous pro teams here in Europe and surely that's something that hasn't helped him develop much. If he finally signs here in Greece I think it will be a great chance, to first help my team efforts to regain its lead and past glory in the league (AEK is in top 3 of the Greek League) and of course to develop his game to return one day in my second love, the Spurs. His performance in the Europe Championship's qual's with the Georgian team was impressive and was voted as one of the best players in the compe ion. Though you must consider that as from this year Europe qual's are divided in two leagues and Georgian team was in the weak one, most of the teams there are veeeeeeeeery weak too.
Everybody here say that he will sign for us, although news from Finland suggest that he will be a Tartu player for the season. I'm sure that the Greek League is far more a better choice than the Finnish one and probably the best in Europe (along with the Spanish). Unfortunately if he finally signs with AEK he wont have the chance to play in any Europe compe ion, as AEK although had a position in the Europe Cup, decided to focus on the local league this year. After all, the teams in Europe Cup are very weak (as well as compe ion). If he comes here he will compete with another guy we have (Papanikolaou) for the SF position, and taking into account that Pap was injured for a long time and just came back, he is for sure in the pole position...
So, tomorrow will be the day that we will know for sure Vik's new team. Hope it will be AEK and if that is what is going to happen, then I promise to keep you updated every week for his performance, streangths, weaknesses and overall game!
PS: Anyone who has any kind of questions about any European player (especially from the major leagues) can ask for infos.
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