This is why I love our Euro friends. They understand Euro basketball far better than anyone on here and give us great insight into something we just dont genearly get.
Thanks for telling us about Mirza, he does sound like he is worth a shot. Adriano, can you tell us what his game is like? Some stats? is he a shooter? ball handler? athletic? You mentioned he is long, but I am just curious.
Well today I heard about contract situation, that is the most important thing, well NBA team can offer 500 000 dollars, but his team Caja Laboral want 2 millions (Euros) and there is possibility that Mirza buy his contract and come to NBA as free agent, coz he said that he want to play in NBA, and Brooklyn Nets are very interesting in him.
Now about his game, he is great 3 point shooter, one of the best in Europe, if not best, than sure he is in top 3, but I don't know better 3 point shooter than him. He is very strong player, very physical player and he is athletic, but he doesn't use his athleticism very much, coz he is great shooter, and like there is very very strong defence, he just save his energy and he is not attacking basket very often (he is agressive, but not as much as I want him to be). He is average defender, it seems like he is a little bit lazy in defence, maybe coz he is best player of his team, so he feel that he is a star there and that everyone else will defend for him (that is Europe
). He is good guy to have his presence at locker room, very calm, humble and it seems like he doesnt talk very much.
Here are stats (this season):
Sorry, my English sucks, I hope you understand what I wanted to say bro.
Edit: I forgot to say that he is clutch, he scores many game winners, he is average 18 ppg (Spain and Euroleague) and in Europe is very difficult to score 18 points per game, because defence is a lot different than in NBA, not so possible to score transition points, fastbreak points etc. Most of the time, there is zone defence, a lot of movement in defence, but he is able to score 3's so he is able to break down that type of defence. I think that he can be even better at NBA level, coz he can run the floor, hit the open 3's, attack the basket etc. and he is still young, is 26 years old.