bkkrh wrote:Yep, that's why a lot of college players wind up in 2nd European divisions. Just as an example let's go with the ART Giants Düsseldorf, a team that placed 15th of 18 in the German 2nd Division, with Germany being a mid tier league in general. They had 4 US players on their roster:
Isaiah Hart, who played 4 years of Division 1 Basketball as a starter for Loyola
Ajare Sanni who played 3 years of Division 1 Basketball as a starter for Santa Barbara
Brandon Spearman, who played during high school with Jabari Parker, then for Dayton and Hawaii in College, then for the Pacers in the Summerleague after he left College and then he went straight to the 2nd German division for the first time
Justin Tucker who also played Division 1 Basketball for Wofford
Also on the roster:
Grant Teichmann - German who played Division 2
Jaydon Kayne Henry-McCalla - UK player that played Division 1 at Jacksonville State University
Jarelle Alexander Reischel - German who played Division 1 at Rice, Rhode Island and Eastern Kentucky and played G League for the Westchester Knicks
Finn Fleute - German who played Division 1 at Montana State and Division 2 at UT Tyler
7 of their 12 players played Division 1 ball, another one Division 2. The other 4 are 3 Germans and 1 Swede, 3 of them are rotation players, the other one is 19. So pretty save to say that those 3 also have at least Division 1 level, since they get more playing time than some of the Division 1 players.
And again, this was one of the worst Division 2 teams last season. So I have my doubts that any college team would smoke them, when one of the worst teams in a mid tier league consists pretty much of former Division 1 players that now also have a few years of professional Basketball under their belt.
Exactly. I forgot about Germany's ProA. It is one of the main second divisions in Europe, and probably like you said, around the mid-tier range of the main nine second divisions in Europe (Turkey, France, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Israel, Adriatic, Russia).