Free Claver!

[jlprk]

Good video. Koponen #8, Claver #10, Monia #12. The bearded Claver makes a great block, later shows a stance he didn't show here with legs wide apart to get leverage. Monia shows up later in the video. Koponen's there the whole video through.

I like European and D-League games almost better than NBA. The plays are slow enough for me to analyze.

 

[riverman]

Video was great but I really never could stand those cheesy fart sounding synth tracks.

 

[jlprk]

Yeah, I turned off the sound early.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Claver gets a nice dunk here, but didn't even play in two games against his old Spanish team. Khimki Moscow is pretty loaded: Tyrese Rice was the Euroleague Final Four MVP last year and they signed him for more than Real Madrid was offering. Petteri, of course, is good, but they've also got Tyler Honeycutt and veteran American-in-Europe Paul Davis. Oh, and Sergey Monya, of course.

 

[BigGameDamian]

I guess some people just have a hard time of letting go of the past.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Free Claver? That seems to be the going price.

BNM

 

[jlprk]

This is like Sergio.
---------
Europe: young up-and-coming star

NBA
Year 1: exhuberant, talented.
Years 2-3: humiliated, beaten down dog, unlearns talents to become a role player

returns to Europe
Year 1: thinks like a role player, defers to others, bow-wows when called
Year 2: slowly unlearns NBA inhibitions
Years after: returns to pre-NBA talent level, howls like a wolf

 

[BBert]

Free Claver? That seems to be the going price.

BNM

Zing! Kapow!

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Good one! Yes, I'm sure Claver went to Moscow to play for free.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Victor at work against Babbit's old team. Petteri helped:

Also this ex-Blazer:

 

[PDXFonz]

So Claver went to play for the isle of misfit Blazers? Or is that Minnesota?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Victor's play is clearly the best, but they have to give Monia #1 because he's Russian, I guess:



Now they're off to play Viktor with a K in the finals for the Russian League (VTB)

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

That "Arena" in those pics look like a High School gym.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Ugly result, but some good stuff here from Claver (and Petteri, and Monia)

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Several people said that Claver would work on the Spurs - well, now he's working out for the Spurs.