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Fail on the thread le. You made it sound like this was actually something serious.
http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2009/01/...r-3-weeks.html
Hours before the team opened the Top 16 at home on Wednesday night, Tau Ceramica announced that all-Euroleague center Tiago Splitter(2.11-C) will miss at least two games with a muscle tear in his left leg. After being unable to practice on Tuesday, Splitter underwent tests that revealed a micro-tear in his left hamstring. Team doctors estimate his recovery period at "around three weeks".
Splitter ranked third among all Euroleague players in performance index rating during the regular season as Tau won its group with an 8-2 record. The 23-year-old center from Brazil posted averages of 15.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.8 blocks in less than 25 minutes per game.
Those numbers made him the second-best shot-blocker and fifth-ranked scorer in the compe ion. Splitter was named to the all-Euroleague first team in 2007-08, his fifth season with Tau, during which time they have reached four consecutive Final Fours together. Tau hosts Asseco Prokom Sopot in the first Group E game for both teams on Wednesday
Fail on the thread le. You made it sound like this was actually something serious.
Hopefully he'll be totally healed by 2011!
Hopefully he is healed ASAP. Good luck to him.
hopefully he'll be traded before 2011 i see a bust seriously
Old news.
Splitter has still recovered of this injury and was back on the court yesterday against Madrid.
His rebounding averages are pretty pedestrian
Dam that fool! He bailed on us at the last minute. He knew he didnt want to come over to the NBA from the jump. That is going to turn into a Scola deal.
I think that inflates to around 7 or 8 in the NBA, which is fantastic for 25 mins a game.
KBP would know.
He was in lineup vs Madrid on Saturday. He missed two important FT by the end of game. And Tau lost, despite having over 20 pts in the 1st half. That team is very strange. They can win with anybody in Europe, and lost to some weird teams.
Until you apply the "euro to NBA formula of rebounds", at which point he averages somewhere between 7 and 22 rebounds per 27 minutes of play, and anyone else is lierz.
The game is extremely slow paced so statistics can be a bit mis leading. Normally a full game consists of about 30 rebounds for each team, or about 75% of a normal NBA game.
Scola is a good example, he was a career 6 RPG guy in the Euroleague, yet hes one of the best rebounders in the NBA.
True, Scola, who was hated on for his rebounding skills, has more double-digit rebounding games in this half-season alone than Oberto has in his entire NBA career.
8 rebounds a game in less than 29 minutes is very solid.
that post was originally made over two weeks ago
Relieved to hear it was just a minor injury.. still it shows why, in general, pro athletes are wise to take as much money as early as possible in their careers.. one never knows when it can all come to an end.
I wonder if the general economic downturn will make it tougher for these Euro outfits to pay NBA type money to its players.
I also wonder if Splitter's family issues (trying to support his ill sister who recently passed away) was a big reason to take the big Tau deal back in 2007.
It's too bad SA has no flexibility right now in trying to sign this guy next year due to the rookie pay scale. I think there is a two year option for Splitter to look at the NBA (2009-10). SA will definitely have a lot of cap room to spend on players in 2010.
I still think playing in the NBA means something to all basketball players even if the financial playing field has changed a lot.
That's what he gets for not coming to the Spurs.
It's that grueling 10-game schedule that did it. They should have been resting him for the playoffs.
We need Tiago, those rebounds in the paint will be welcome; hope his rights don't finish in HOuston.
Spittler would be a welcome sight in SA. If he rebounds with any consistency this will help the Spurs alot, especially TD as it would take some of the burden off of his shoulders in the paint. Hopefully he can come over when his buyout is reasonable but as HC pointed out the economic landscape has changed much. If the $$ are more important then, regardless of the reasons - taking care of family ...etc, then he will probably never come over to the NBA.
That would be unfortunate for the Spurs since he has some of the skills that they need to help them win another le.
Tiago = Fran Vasquez part 2
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Tau Vitoria fans have clearly been the loudest and most impressive bunch amongst the eight fan bases that united to celebrate the Copa del Rey, and it's only fitting that their team put together a masterful performance to thoroughly dismantle Barcelona and advance to the finals.
Igor Rakocevic, arguably the best player in Europe these days (surely based on production) carried the Baskonians to a 90-77 victory with a 27 point outing. Tiago Splitter more than held his own with 17 points in 21 minutes before fouling out (the fans, ironically chant “MVP!” in English to him, not Rakocevic) while Pablo Prigioni ran the show in typical fashion, delivering an extremely balanced all-around performance.
Tau did a great job emphasizing the main contrasts we find between NBA and European basketball—the physicality that the referees tolerate on the floor. They put a tremendous amount of pressure on the ball, suffocating Barcelona's guards all night long, while especially keying in on Juan Carlos Navarro, not giving him an inch (or rather, a centimeter) to breathe. Prigioni and Sergi Vidal bumped him off every screen, often switching or trapping aggressively on screens, which is made entirely possible by the presence of Tiago Splitter, looking as nimble as ever guarding the perimeter.
Our esteemed Director of International Scouting, Luis Fernandez, warned me the night before not to go too far heaping praises on Barcelona, a message that was foolishly ignored. In Fernandez's words: “Barcelona played a good game [against Real Madrid] but this team usually doesn't play up to its potential. They rely too much on Navarro to create from the perimeter, and he's not always so brilliant, while they don't have a reliable point guard. Sada has played some great games, but he's limited when it comes to scoring the ball and his presence tends to create offensive jams if the opponent team plays intelligent defense. Not to mention Grimau, who fortunately wasn't important in this game, but likes to take too many decisions (and he's the dumbest player on their perimeter).”
Quite prophetically, this is exactly the way this game evolved. Tau's game-plan was clearly to shut down Navarro (specifically his perimeter shooting—where he made just 1/6), and that worked to perfection. Far too many of Barcelona's possessions revolved around Navarro over-dribbling while his teammates stood around looking for spot-up jumpers, and no one else was really able to get into any type of offensive flow. Navarro was able to be Barcelona's Mr. Everything in the quarterfinals—creating offense for himself and his teammates on every possession seemingly—but it's unrealistic to expect him to carry that kind of workload every single game.
In addition, Barcelona's other main guard, Victor Sada, looked absolutely exhausted at the end of the game yesterday, being asked to carry double-duties defensively next to the offensive minded Navarro. Andre Barrett's DNP-CD yesterday really spoke volumes about the lack of faith rookie Coach Xavi Pascual has in him at this stage. The return of Jaka Lakovic from injury would help relieve the pressure on Barcelona's backcourt moving forward, but he still seems to be a ways away from being healthy. Anything less than an ACB championship and Euroleague Final Four appearance would be considered a huge disappointment considering their massive budget, which would surely put Coach Pascual firmly on the hotseat, right next to his embattled counterpart in Real Madrid, Joan Plaza. Former Spanish national team head coach Pepu Hernandez is already waiting in the wings.
Tau Vitoria's rivals in the finals, Unicaja Malaga, look to have their hands full, as not only will they be playing their third game in three days, they really have not looked all that impressive at any point here in Madrid. They seem to miss the creativity of their top guard, Carlos Cabezas (injured) and look all too content uglying the game up while pounding the ball inside. As good as Tau's backcourt is, this game will likely be decided along the frontlines, especially in their matchup with Marcus Haislip, who has looked absolutely brilliant at times. We'll have to see what kind of magic Coach Aito (coach of the Spanish national team in the Olympics and last year's Copa del Rey winners, DKV Joventut) can pull out of his hat this time.
For vet NBA/Euro watchers, has the NBA ever allowed the same physicality, cuz Euro ball sounds like a major incentive to get cable(or whatever I'd need to buy to see those games on tv), I like when the refs decide to allow physical play from both teams.
Fran Vázquez doesn't have a brain. Tiago does. He stayed in Vitoria due to his sister's cancer -he didn't want changes in his life.
I'm sure he'll be in SA in 2010.
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