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If he joins the team, he and Manu will have much to discuss.
Is he still planning to come over for the summer league?
If he joins the team, he and Manu will have much to discuss.
trade his rights and someone else for a second round pick
Yeah...this is the perfect draft for that.
According to the box score, he plays "4"? All this time, I was hoping he'd crack the rotation as a SF.
enough with the Sanikidze talk, he will never be NBA level, move on!
Agree. Right now hes not ready. He have to make good season in Europe in some good league. Russia/Greece/Spain etc. Then we can talk, but now he is not ready for the NBA.
Russian league isn't good. You've got one great team, two good teams and all the rest is crap.
Its all the same in other leagues in Europe. Top teams and crappy clubs. Greece isnt good too, two great teams and all the others are bunch of crap. I think you got it what I mean. If you play against great clubs, then you can show yourself. Russian League is one of the strongest in Europe by the way.
He looks awful skinny.
Crossposted with the ThinkTank thread.
Sanikidze's team lost in the Estonian league finals to BC Kalev/Cramo over a week ago at least losing 3-2. He's not a lock to return to Rock Tartu as the last news item from Estonia I read merely said in translation that he and the other Georgian's contracts (Tsintsadze) were being considered for continuation.
A new Sanikidze highlight clip.
After having watched several games worth of both SEB and BBL ball, and realizing how poorly that reflects on how I spend my time, I can still say that I want the Spurs to sign him this summer no matter what.
Could he get better with time next year with a euro-league level team? Sure. But why wait? After all, as a second round pick he counts about half towards the luxury tax. And the worst that could happen is he could play so poorly the Spurs get routed in the first round by the Mavs.
First, constant use of airhorns in Tartu and elsewhere is beyond nauseating.
Back to Sanikidze. This guy can play in the NBA. He's a legit long 3, long arms and all. I'm not saying he's the savior, I'm not saying he'll be a star, but I firmly believe he could be a bench player in the league. He might be missing some things in his game, especially an inbetween game. But he moves great without the ball cutting to the basket which would fit in well with the Spurs, finishes well for the most part, and does play with some intelligence (at least in the games I saw I didn't notice any seriously dumb plays).
He's solid with the ball driving and passing off to big men for easy baskets, something not really evident in the video due to poor camera angles and other issues. His handle was respectable in the games I saw.
He definately has shotblocking skills, and though once compared to Kirilenko potentially with his length and ap ude he's probably closer to Tayshaun Prince with regards to blocks.
Usually I saw him matched up against much heavier players when he was on the court playing 4, which was most of the time. He competed hard for rebounds but his lack of strength I think would hurt him in the NBA. He wouldn't be a bad rebounder, but his stats might lead people to think he'd be a great rebounding SF but I'm skeptical. Defensively, I'm at a loss to explain what to expect from him on the perimeter against a 1-on-1 player. He rarely had to cover someone on the perimeter with the ball to my memory so I don't know. His lenght and shotblocking help, and I'm confident he'd be no worse in the Spurs system on defense than a Finley or a Mason.
His 3-point shot is still kind of funky to look at, he's no deadeye. Servicable maybe, but he'd be a candidate for shot re-build with Chip.
He can definately finish in the open court and get up for alley-oops. There was one play where the ball was passed impossibly high so maybe only a Dwight Howard or Lebron could have gotten it and finished, but Sanikidze was able to grab it, but unable to finish. It was something I found impressive even in it's failure. No current Spur would have even been able to catch the ball at all except maybe a healthy Ian.
One thing that exists regardless of level of basketball, is that he's a player full of passion. That's something the Spurs need. I don't just mean hustle or energy. , Kurt Thomas hustles. Ime Udoka hustles. I mean passion, even a little overboard sometimes as you can see in the video. Plenty more instances of immense enthusiasm following plays happened that weren't included. He was damn into those games, even if it was just some run of the mill SEB game in an airhorn filled gym. The Spurs need players to inject new enthusiasm and vitality into their game. Maybe even reigned in just a little, because I saw two instances of him running up the score on teams when the amount of time remaining was less than the shot clock and the game was settled.
Other notes. Gert Kullamae looks old enough to be Indrek Visanpuu's father. And Sanikidze looks like he might be old enough to be Kullamae's father.
In at least 1 game Sanikidze had what appeared to be a heavily wrapped hand, I don't know if it was a serious issue or not. There were games where good things were happening when Sanikidze was playing which is in line with my summer league memories, but then the coach would stick him on the bench for long stretches of time.
So to sum up, I believe Sanikidze can play in the NBA and I want the Spurs to sign him. Just my opinion. I may be just another dumb fan, but I was also dumb enough to think Scola could play in the NBA among other things. If only other people had been so dumb.
I saw Viktor play last year in Austria. He sometimes shows flashes of what he could have been. His main problem is his body. He is just too skinny and weak to match up with bigger and stronger players. He's a diamond in the rough, but if he does not break out this or next season I feel he's going to be a wasted draft pick.
Even though Georgian NT played in Division B his stats still look remarkable: http://www.eurobasket2009.org/en/cid...ason_2009.html
Viktor will play in Italian Serie A this year.
Everyone said that Prince from Detroit was to skinny and wouldn't make it in the NBA......??????????
1) http://youtu.be/XvXJzV6JSYk
2) http://youtu.be/mxDZMiASwkw
3) http://youtu.be/2Q6Wd93bsZc
4) http://youtu.be/rqinEx-aSqo
5) http://youtu.be/lVF7hKBZAmE
EuroBasket 2011 Profile: http://bit.ly/oaPwHM
There are talks that European grand Real Madrid is trying to get him, besides Turkish Besiktas too.
Do you still think he's not ready?
Yes, I do. Sanikidze just isn't good enough to play in the NBA.
Do you still think he's not ready?
BTW, welcome on ST.
He needs "to spend more time in the weights room" (the soft way to say "pills and injections") to get a lot more muscular mass, and hopefully the strength that goes with it.
I'm not convinced. Too slow to play small forward too weak to play power forward. He would get chewed up on defense.
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