Alba Berlin has bolsterd their inside presence with top French player Ali Traore (207-PF-85, agency: Beo Basket, college: S.Idaho JC). Ali Traore is a 27 year old 207cm power forward that was born in the Ivory Coast. He is a very athletic player, who can play in each of the front court positions. Has great inside game skills, he's tough and has good timing for the offensive rebounds. Also, he can hit a shot from outside. This season, he played briefly for Lokomotiv Kuban (Russia-PBL), released in Dec.'12: VTB United League: 1 game: 10pts, 5rbs; Russian PBL: 1 game: 4pts, 2rbs. He started his basketball career in 2000 for the ASVEL Villeurbanne cadet team and stayed in the organization until 2004. He then played for French teams like Quimper UJAP (ProB), Chorale de Roanne Basket (ProA) and STB Le HavreIn 2008, he returned back to Adecco ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne (ProA) where he played until 2010. In 2010-2011, he played for Lottomatica Virtus Roma (Italy-SerieA, starting five): Euroleague: 15 games: 9.5ppg, 3.8rpg, FGP: 56.6%, FT: 73.2%; Italian League: 30 games: 10.0ppg, 4.6rpg, 1.1spg, FGP: 58.4%, FT: 67.7%. Last season, he played for Lokomotiv Kuban (Russia-PBL): VTB League: 21 games: 11.8ppg, 4.4rpg, FGP: 57.5%, FT: 70.1%; EuroCup: 13 games: Score-3 (15.3ppg), Reb-3 (7.1rpg), FGP: 60.4%, FT: 68.5%; Russian League: 20 games: 11.8ppg, 5.2rpg, FGP: 59.1%, FT: 60.9%.
Awards/Achievements in his basketball career have been French U16 National Team -01, European Championships for Cadet in Latvia -01, French Cup Finalist -02 French U18 National Team -02, French ProA Champion -02, 09, French All-Star Game Junior Selection -03, French ProA Finalist -03, French U20 National Team -05, French ProA All-Star Game -07, 09, 10, French La Semaine des As Cup Semifinals -09, French ProA Regular Season Champion -09, French National Team -09-12, European Championships in Poland -09: 9 games: 6.8ppg, 1.9rpg, 2FGP: 0.0%, 3FGP: 50.0%, FT: 12.0%, Eurobasket.com All-French ProA Domestic Player of the Year -10, Eurobasket.com All-French ProA 2nd Team -10, Eurobasket.com French ProA All-Domestic Players Team -10, French Pro A Season Domestic MVP -10, French La Semaine des As Cup Winner -10, World Championships in Turkey -10: 6 games: 5.3ppg, 1.5rpg, FGP: 45.2%, FT: 36.4%, European Championships in Lithuania -11 (Silver): 10 games: 7.1ppg, 2.2rpg, FGP: 54.4%, FT: 64.3%, Eurobasket.com All-EuroCup 3rd Team -12, Eurocup Quarterfinals -12, VTB United League Semifinals -12, Russian PBL Semifinals -12, and Olympic Games in London (United Kingdon) -12: 6 games: 4.5ppg, 2.7rpg.
With the 2013 European championship less than three months away, the German national team get ready to prepare for the upcoming tournament. German national team coach Frank menz has named his roster for the upcoming training sessions and friendly games. The team will meet in Kienbaum for a training session from July 8-18. Many friendly games against other countries will follow [read more]
With the 2013 European championship less than three months away, the German national team get ready to prepare for the upcoming tournament. German national team coach Frank menz has named his roster for the upcoming training sessions and friendly games. The team will meet in Kienbaum for a training session from July 8-18. Many friendly games against other countries will follow. The German basketball federation announced that some players will not partcipate like Jan Jagla who is taking a break this sumer to give his body a rest, Tim Ohlbrecht who is concentrating on the NBA and Danil Theis who is inured. The following players are on the roster. Robin Benzing (209-SF-89, agency: LUMANI 10.7) (FC Bayern Munich), Bastian Doreth (TBB Trier), Niels Giffey (University of Connecticut/USA), Per Guenther (ratiopharm ulm), Patrick Heckmannn (Boston College/USA), Alex King (s.Oliver Baskets Wrzburg), Johannes Lischka (WALTER Tigers Tbingen), Philipp Neumann (Brose Baskets Bamberg), Tibor Pleiss (Laboral Kuxta Vitoria/ESP), Heiko Schaffartzik (ALBA Berlin), Philipp Schwethelm (ratiopharm ulm), Andreas Seiferth (TBB Trier), Nicolai Simon (medi Bayreuth), Lucca Staiger, Karsten Tadda (Brose Baskets Bamberg), Maik Zirbes (Brose Baskets Bamberg), and Philip Zwiener (Eisbren Bremerhaven).
Eurobasket.com All-German Bundesliga 1st Team 2013
White
Gavel
Paulding
Thompson
Bryant
Player of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87) of Ratiopharm
Guard of the Year: Davin White (186-G-81) of Phoenix Hagen
Forward of the Year: Deon Thompson (203-F-88) of ALBA
Center of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87) of Ratiopharm
Newcomer of the Year: Kyle Weems (198-F-89) of Telekom Baskets
Bosman Player of the Year: Bostjan Nachbar (207-PF-80) of Brose Bask [read more]
Eurobasket.com All-German Bundesliga 1st Team 2013
White
Gavel
Paulding
Thompson
Bryant
Player of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87) of Ratiopharm Guard of the Year: Davin White (186-G-81) of Phoenix Hagen Forward of the Year: Deon Thompson (203-F-88) of ALBA Center of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87) of Ratiopharm Newcomer of the Year: Kyle Weems (198-F-89) of Telekom Baskets Bosman Player of the Year: Bostjan Nachbar (207-PF-80) of Brose Bask. Import Player of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87) of Ratiopharm Most Improved Player: Dennis Schroeder (181-PG-93) of NY Phantoms Domestic Player of the Year: Anton Gavel (188-PG-84) of Brose Bask. Defensive Player of the Year: Quantez Robertson (189-G-84) of Fraport SKY Coach of the Year: Sebastian Machowski of EWE Baskets
Regionaliga team Take Off Wurzburg and farm team off the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg have recieved much experience by bringing in Christoph Henneberger (188-G-84) Lars Buss and Felix Hoffmann. All three players have played combined 10 seasons in Wurzburg. Henneberger is a 29 year old 188cm guard that last season played for the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playing six Eurocup games averaging 2,2ppg. In his two seasons with the s.Oliver baskets Wurzburg he played 26 Beko BBL games [read more]
Regionaliga team Take Off Wurzburg and farm team off the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg have recieved much experience by bringing in Christoph Henneberger (188-G-84) Lars Buss and Felix Hoffmann. All three players have played combined 10 seasons in Wurzburg. Henneberger is a 29 year old 188cm guard that last season played for the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playing six Eurocup games averaging 2,2ppg. In his two seasons with the s.Oliver baskets Wurzburg he played 26 Beko BBL games. Buss is a 34 year old 202cm forward that has much experience in Germany in the second BUndesliga having played for teams like Hannover, Bayreuth, Chemnitz and Wurzburg. He even had Beko BBL experiecne in 2007-2008 playing for Bjoern Harmsen playing 14 games: 4.1ppg, 3.1rpg. The German played for SC Heuchelhof Wuerzburg (2.Regionalliga) the last two years. In 2010-2011, he helped the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg move up to the Beko BBL playing 12 games. SCH Wuerzburg Baskets (Regionalliga) in 2007. He then played three seasons with TSV Troester Breitenguessbach (ProB).
Art.Dragons: took 4th (last) place (1-5) in Group C of the Regular Season
Ratiopharm: took 2nd place (3-3) in Group G of the Regular Season, took 2nd
place (3-3) in Group L of the Top16, lost to Gescrap BB in the Quarterfinals 1-1
(-19) !!!
s.Oliver Baskets: took 3rd place (3-3) in Group D of the Regular Season
EWE Baskets: took 1st place (6-0) in Group F of the Regular Season, took 1st
place (5-1) in Group E of the Top16, lost to Karsiyaka (TUR) 62-66 in the
Semifinals, beat Gravelines (FRA) 84-76 in the 3rd place game !!!
Telekom Baskets: took 1st place (4-2) in Group H of the Regular Season, took
2nd place (4-2) in Group L of the Top16, lost to Krasnye Krylia (RUS) 0-2 in the
Quarterfinals !!!
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