it is a very sweeping statement to make.

In the case of Samara, Andrew Sullivan is the Great Britain NT captain and wants to play in the Superleague very much to have a good season before Eurobasket

The money of course is good but the league too is looking stronger with every year

Every team who is not winning trophies still needs stars on its team like Perry at Samara and the same goes for other sports like football too

But like I said – respect for the info and the artiicle

Regards
Bada

Perry actually likes Samara and loves basketball. A player who loves the game will go wherever there is an opportunity to play, even if the weather isn’t great or even if the team isn’t favored to make the playoffs.

P.S. Marque Perry just scored 42 points on opening day of the Russian league.

Every player can improve, in every team. But all depends from the league you are playing in. And from your teammates. Then, if I was Chalmers (now in Surgut) I would have thought many and many times before going to a team that will probably win no more than 5 games. Even more, Russian league is going to be one of the best leagues in Europe, but the average quality isn’t so high, yet. We can’t compare Lokomotiv Novosibirsk or Samara with CB Murcia and CB Granada or with Capo d’Orlando and Caserta. And I’ve made names of team which are going to fight to remain in the first leagues. So, Podkolzine (for example) could improve, but not in the way he could do it in a better league and in a better team. It’s easy to put on good numbers, if you are the only talent of the team, touching almost all balls and playing against not so competitive squads. Then, when you face CSKA, you lose by 30 points, and all your developments go to hell. Basket is not tennis, the only training is not enough to become a top player.

@ robbe

You are right, Javtokas and D. Lavrinovic aren’t PF, that’s for sure. But the Lituanian can play at that spot for 10-15 minutes, he has more footwork and athleticism than his brother’s. Signing another star is a possibility, but then someone (Korolev?) should go out from rotations. However, Dynamo has been built in a strange way, too much distance from backcourt to frontline: I can’t imagine Pargo and Price playing slowly and giving a look to the post-down to assist Javtokas. With those USA, you must run the floor. Hard to do lining up two 6′11”.

I’m still not sure about what Dynamo’s plans are for the power forward posittion. Darius Lavrinovic can play there for a few minutes but he is more of a center. A lot of the talking has been about Maceo Baston, who would probably fit ideally as SF/PF into the small-ball style started by the Price-Pargo backcourt. I expect another strong PF to be signed in order to create what would mainly be a three-man-rotation on 4/5, with Javtokas playing the 5 exclusively and Lavrinovic getting about 15 on C and up to 10 on PF.

I love the Triumph roster, but it will be difficult.