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Does PAO have a swingman? Get him started with Ian early.
Nice to see his outside shot coming around.
Does PAO have a swingman? Get him started with Ian early.
AC ULATED STATISTICS AVERAGES
G Min 2P.......%.....3P....%...FT....%.....OR DR TR...A....PF TO ST BLK PTS AVG
4 31.8 24/36 66.7 13/33 39.4 9/10 90.0 1.8 7.5 9.3 0.8 2.5 2.5 1.5 0.8 96 24.0
GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS
Match.....Min..2P..%... 3P....%...FT....%...or dr t a pf to s b pts
vs Finland 24 2/3 66.7 3/9 33.3 2/2 100.0 0 1 1 2 4 3 1 0 15
vs Iceland 34 7/ 9 77.8 2/ 9 22.2 2/ 3 66.7 3 8 11 1 3 2 0 2 22
vs Netherlands 29 8/ 15 53.3 2/ 5 40.0 2/ 2 100.0 2 15 17 0 1 0 3 0 24
vs Czech Republic 40 7/ 9 77.8 6/ 10 60.0 3/ 3 100.0 2 6 8 0 2 5 2 1 35
Thing that worries me is his lack of FTA's and tons of 3PA's make me believe he has no slashing game. If he could drive from the three-point line to the rim, he'd get to the line more than 10 times in four games.
He must be a spot shooter with some decent inside moves.
Bring this kid over.
wasting time in Europe.
Especially since he has a nice stroke from the charity stripe.
If he's still extremely skinny, he might not like the contact when he drives. As if it's any comparison, at his age I was the budding small forward-type. Usually I'd launch 3s, sometimes post up, but it wasn't until I beefed up a little and could take the contact that I enjoyed developing a slashing and mid-range game.
Or, maybe he's not quick enough to get around defenders. That'd be unfortuante, but a great shooter can always get drives.
I just noticed that Georgia is in the B division. Is it truly a B division or is it more of a Pool sort of division? If it is a B division how much of a difference is there between divisions?
It's a true division B, the 16 best european teams are in division A.
Thanks Bruno. I know he was injured all last season but was he under contract with a team? If not doesn't that mean the Spurs lose his rights?
Sanikidze latest game (5)
G Min 2P.......%.3P.%.FT.%..OR DR TR.A.PF TO ST BLK PTS
5 37 12/17 70.6 0/5 00.0 3/4 75.0 2 6 8 2 4 4 4 1 27
Sanikidze latest game (6) loss to Poland
G Min 2P.......%.3P.%.FT.%..OR DR TR. A. PF TO ST BLK PTS
6 37 5/13 38.5 0/3 00.0 4/45 80.0 2 12 14 3 3 4 2 1 14
Better compe ion this time. Still, 14 and 14 is decent. It's also good to see him playing so many minutes.
Not only minutes but in back to back to back games.
It was in fact a back to back to back and Sanikidze 6th game in 7 days.
So Georgia has won his semifinal against finland tonight (74-63). Tomorrow, Final against Macedonia.
Sanikidze stats for tonight :
27 points ( 8/12 2P, 2/6 3P, 5/9 FT )
14 rebounds (3 off, 11 def)
1 ast
3 PF
2 TO
1 Steal
38 min
FULL MLE!
5/9 on free throws? He's perfect, sign him up!
He was 5/7 before missing 2 FT in garbage time, looks like he wasn't really focused anymore.
Even if the sample isn't enough he is a 75% FT shooter on this tournament (81% if you remove the two missed FT in garbage time today).
Finland was previously unbeaten and had beaten Georgia in the first game with Sankidze having his worst game in that first game. good to see he bounced back against Finland and found his rythym.
Sanikidze has palyed 7 games in 10 days averaging over 34 minutes a game.
Last edited by picnroll; 07-22-2006 at 07:39 PM.
Sanikidze Leads Georgia To Final
LinkViktor Sanikidze carried Georgia into the final of the Ostchem U20 European Championship Division B with a dominant performance in his side's 74-63 semi-final defeat of Finland.
Sanikidze tallied 27 points and 14 points for Georgia, who earn promotion to Divison A in 2007.
A cat and mouse game saw Finland lead 14-15 at the end of the first quarter with 10 points from Petteri Koponen.
However Georgia lead at the half thanks to 13 and 7 rebounds from Sanikidze and 14 points from Iraki Sakvarelidze. 11 first half turnovers from Finland also added to their woes and Georgia led 41-34 at the start of the third quarter.
With 6 mins to go in the third a long three from Jari Vanttaja narrowed the Georgian lead to 48-41 but the red team replied immediately with a three of their own, however, the Finns narrowed the gap closer to 55-50 at the end of the third.
By now Koponen had moved on to 15 points and Sanikidze led all players with 20 points and 10 rebounds
The last quarter was much like the first, with both teams turning the ball over and making a number of long range jumpers. The Finns who had been one of the surprises of the tournament struggled with foul trouble losing their point guard Vuori with 5 minutes remaining.
With 90 seconds left the Georgians clung to a 69-59 lead. A pair of free throws put them up by two more with less than a minute to go . The Finns challenge was over and Georgia ran out 74-63 winners.
Georgia will take on FYROM in Sunday's final.
http://www.fibaeurope-u20men.com/enDivB/
FIBA U20 LEADERS B Division
Points Per Game
name avg.
1 Mladjan , D. 32.7
2 Olafsson , J. 23.6
3 Sanikidze , V. 23.4
4 Westbrooks , A. 23.1
5 Tsintsadze , G. 20.9
Total Rebounds
name avg.
1 Samardziski , P. 14.7
2 Sanikidze , V. 10.4
3 Ermolinskij , P. 9.7
4 Jelinek , J. 8.7
5 Kügerl , H. 8.7
hopefully he will be our "long 3" in 1 or 2 years when I think Spurs will bring both him and Ian in for the new Spus future; and even though Georgia is in Division B there is no doubt that Sanikidze can rebound the ball and score and at 6'8 6'9 he is actually what the spurs need, he just needs to add a little weight and muscle I wish I could find pictures of him from the tournament in action, the only pics I can find of him are the 2 that are on his profile; one of which is posted above
I guess it's safe to say that Sanikidze is back on the basketball map. He'd been MIA for a while.
If he can play next year somewhere in Europe and put up good numbers, there's probably a chance he comes to San Antonio next season.
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Sanikidze needs to stay in Europe.
He's still very young, and he can still afford to polish his game up more.
In a sense, he could have possibly been a lottery pick this year....I know scouts raved about him, and claimed if he had never played ball at Globe Tech he could have been lottery potential, but since he did, that made him become an early entry.
We lucked out getting him in the 2nd round of the 2004 draft.....because if it was not for the early entry and declared this year, we would never be seeing him in a Spurs uniform...we landed 1st round/lottery talent with Viktor.....ala...Butler this year.
Anyways, he was here in the States a while, so I'm sure the Spurs have already set him up with a weight program.
He should go back to the French League...maybe he can land on Tony's team....Paris Basket-Racing, or even somewhere like Pau-Orthez, but that may be asking too much.
Like I said before, the Spurs are going to have all that cap in 2008...Ian and Sanikidze won't even make huge dents into that cap....they will more than likely come together....perfect timing....because Elson will be gone (Ian can replace him), and as of right now Bowen can still give us 2 great years (and Viktor can take the torch from him).
Maybe the Spurs are not in such a rush to acquire that long 3 after all. They've seen plenty of Viktor, and know what they have in him. They also feel Bowen still has 2 years in him.....so in a sense we already have that long 3 secured.....it's a matter of time....
But right now, stay in Europe and polish your game, Viktor.
Hopefully, Ian, Viktor, Butler, and Parker all can carry the load after 2010 and make Duncan's late 30's seem like his early 30's someday.
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