BU European update

[Da Coach]

Marcellus Sommerville is playing for Roanne of the French Pro A League. They are still playing preseason games, and played in a 4-team tournament Friday and Saturday night.
Friday, they lost 86-64 to Nancy, Cellus had 12 points.--

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chorale-roanne.com%2F%3Fid%3D1%26num%3D1581&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en

Saturday night, they lost 88-74 to LeMans. But Cellus was the leading scorer with 23 points.


Will Franklin and Jeremy Crouch played their first game for the Braunscheiwg New Yorker Phantoms last night. They lost 79-69 to the Eisbaren Bremerhaven. There is no box score or details yet about Jeremy and Will.--

http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.newyorkerphantoms.de/nachberichte/saison-2008-2009/bremerhaven-schlaegt-die-phantoms-zum-auftakt&usg=ALkJrhikhyGxI46OiNR_TPamz7zBI9cXgQ

Daniel Ruffin starts play for the Kaiserslautern Tekpro Braves. Their first game is September 28.--

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaiserslautern-braves.de%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en

James Gillingham is playing his 5th season for Trier of the German Bundesliga. They start their season today--

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tbb-trier.de%2Fmagazin%2Fartikel.php%3Fartikel%3D1411%26type%3D2%26menuid%3D4%26topmenu%3D7&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en

In their last exhibition, Gilly scored 13 points--

http://www.tbb-trier.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=1407&type=2&menuid=4&topmenu=7

Eddie Cage plays for La Navarra of the Spanish LEB. They started their season already, and lost their first game 78-60--

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketnavarraclub.com&sl=es&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Eddie had 8 points--

http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/Spain/2008/0919_11477_256.asp

Eddie is doing a little promotional work for the team--

http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.basketnavarraclub.com/091608JUGADORESSOCIOS.php&usg=ALkJrhjrNIZwLTuByPFBfaLQMXDQz_2zfg

And Zach Andrews is also playing in the Spanish LEB, for Rayet Guadalajara. They play their first game October 4.--

http://www.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=ESP&Team=1330

[J Money]

I know he wasn't here long but he has been a hot topic on this board in the past. So as an fyi....Lance Stemler moved to Germany last weekend and has begun his career with the Munich B League team this week.

[bugerman3]

I heard something about JC getting stitches, but I am not positive.. anyone know the details?

[Da Coach]

Daniel Ruffin is playing for the Kaiserslautern Tekpro Braves.
Here is the translated version of their webpage with a nice picture of Daniel Ruffin--
http://translate.google.com/translat...-1&sl=de&tl=en

[Da Coach]

The team that Will Franklin and Jeremy Crouch play for won Saturday 56-49.
Here is a translated page.--

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorkerphantoms.de%2F&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&sl=de&tl=en

Will started and had a good game- he was the games leading scorer with 16 points and their leading assist man, and was 3 of 5 from three. Jeremy missed the 3 shots he took and was scoreless off the bench, but he had 4 rebounds in limited time.
Box score--

http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/Germany/2008/1004_40_214.asp

Daniel Ruffin started and played well. He had 17 points (5 of 7 from three), 5 rebounds, and a game leading 5 assists in the Kaiserslautern Tekpro Braves win--

http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/Germany/2008/1003_4318_449.asp

Marcellus Sommerville had a good game, too, with 15 (3 of 6 from three) points in a win for Roanne in the French Pro A League.--

http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/France/2008/1004_417_337.asp

And Zach Andrews also had a good game (13 points, 6 rebounds), as his team in the Spanish pro league easily beat Real Madrid, to start their league 1-0.--

http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/Spain/2008/1003_1330_2338.asp

http://www.eurobasket.com/Spain/basketball-League-LEB-Bronze.asp

[Da Coach]

Here is a great update on the ex-Braves from BUBraves.com--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=25965&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1598859

[Gwright]

Here is a great update on the ex-Braves from BUBraves.com--
http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle....ATCLID=1598859

I know that I might be drinking the cool-aid a bit, but I think that these successes have got to be a great recruiting tool (I am sure Les knows this as well)

For what Bradley is in honest terms of size and budget I think that we are VERY well represented at the professional level.

[BUBraves06]

I know that I might be drinking the cool-aid a bit, but I think that these successes have got to be a great recruiting tool (I am sure Les knows this as well)

For what Bradley is in honest terms of size and budget I think that we are VERY well represented at the professional level.

Without a doubt it's a recruiting tool; to show recruits that not only do we have new facilities in the works, but that our guys go on to play professionally all over the world, including the NBA, is a huge deal and shows that just because a guy is playing outside a BCS conference, doesn't mean his career has to be over after college.

Is there anywhere to watch these Euroleague games online?

[Da Coach]

Is there anywhere to watch these Euroleague games online?

The Euroleague has a site that, for a fee, has online streaming of Euroleague games. I watched some of Anthony Parker's games when he was with Maccabi in Israel. But the Euroleague is a separate League made up of only the top teams from each country.

However, none of the teams the BU players are on are competing in the Euroleague, but rather just in the country's own pro leagues.
I have never found any reference to sites that carry video streaming of their games.

[Big Mike]

nice start for DR.....good for him!

[tornado]

here's some Euro update stuff.........

JJ Tauai - averaging 10.3 ppg/3 rpg for Techasas in Lithuania
Will Franklin - 10.4 ppg/3.7 apg for the Phantoms in Germany
Jeremy Crouch - 4 ppg/2 rpg/2 apg for the same team
James Gillingham - 7 ppg/2 rpg for Trier in Germany
Daniel Ruffin - 14.1 ppg/5 apg for Techpro in Germany
Zach Andrews - averaging an amazing 12 ppg/9.3 rpg for Reyet in Spanish Pro B league
Ed Cage - 13 ppg/6 rpg for Navarra in Spain Pro B
Lance Stemler - 18 ppg/7.2 rpg for German Pro B Telemotive


Other Valley players.........

MSU's Deven Mitchell, playing for Arkadia in the top pro league in Austria, is leading the entire country and nation in scoring at 22.0 ppg.
He also hits 86% on FT

http://www.eurobasket.com/team.asp?Cntry=Austria&Team=630&Page=3

Also in the Austrian League is Jeremy Fears of the Kapfenberg Bulls, who is the hottest player on his team and maybe in the league.
He's had some 30+ games recently and has his average up to 18.4 ppg - good for 9th in the league.

Also in Austria is SIU's Mike Dale who just signed with the league leading Gmunden..after finishing his season in Hungary averaging 12.5 ppg/5.5 rpg.

[tornado]

Nice summary of BU players overseas

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=3746107

[tornado]

Some recent pics I found of Will Franklin on his German team...their season starts in October.