Overseas 22-23 Thread

[ochoopsfan]

Instead of playing this winter, in Europe, I just found out KLS has been hired by the NY Rangers to work with scoring reactions by the players

 

[Geew1992]

Moriah only played a handful of games before being injured - I believe an ankle. She was on crutches for a while and was with the team for several weeks/months before leaving for the States. The injury would appear to be long term. I hope she is ready to go in May.

From what I saw on IG, she’s in storrs

 

[ochoopsfan]

Looks like someone has arrived in Turkey

 

[ochoopsfan]

Stewies first game in Turkey starting now, 11am EST

 

[awhom111]

Stewies first game in Turkey starting now, 11am EST

Link for her stats:

EuroLeague Women | FIBA Basketball Events

Re-live the competition - EuroLeague Women. Explore all games & results, stats, highlights, participating players & teams.

www.fiba.basketball

This game summarizes the mysteries of the overseas game to the American basketball world. Fenerbahce fields Stewie, Kayla McBride, Satou Sabally, Emma Meesseman, European star Alina Iagupova, former WNBA draft pick and Wake Forest player Ivana Raca, Serbian national team player Mina Djordjevic, and several Turkish national team players. The winner of the game was going to sit in first place in the EuroLeague group for now and it is in a massive city in a country where as many as 20 million people claim to be Fenerbahce fans. The game draws under 500 spectators...

 

[ochoopsfan]

Link for her stats:

EuroLeague Women | FIBA Basketball Events

Re-live the competition - EuroLeague Women. Explore all games & results, stats, highlights, participating players & teams.

www.fiba.basketball

This game summarizes the mysteries of the overseas game to the American basketball world. Fenerbahce fields Stewie, Kayla McBride, Satou Sabally, Emma Meesseman, European star Alina Iagupova, former WNBA draft pick and Wake Forest player Ivana Raca, Serbian national team player Mina Djordjevic, and several Turkish national team players. The winner of the game was going to sit in first place in the EuroLeague group for now and it is in a massive city in a country where as many as 20 million people claim to be Fenerbahce fans. The game draws under 500 spectators...

I dont know if this is the reason, but possibly it could be. Disposable income?

"The annual inflation rate in Turkey fell to a 9-month low of 64.3 percent in December 2022 from 84.4 percent in the previous month".​

Turkey Inflation Rate - December 2022 Data - 1965-2021 Historical - January Forecast

The annual inflation rate in Turkey fell to a 9-month low of 64.3 percent in December 2022 from 84.4 percent in the previous month, and compared to market forecasts of 66.5%. Cost advanced at a softer pace in all components: housing & utilities (79.8 percent vs 82.9 percent in November)...

tradingeconomics.com

 

[awhom111]

I dont know if this is the reason, but possibly it could be. Disposable income?

"The annual inflation rate in Turkey fell to a 9-month low of 64.3 percent in December 2022 from 84.4 percent in the previous month".​

Turkey Inflation Rate - December 2022 Data - 1965-2021 Historical - January Forecast

The annual inflation rate in Turkey fell to a 9-month low of 64.3 percent in December 2022 from 84.4 percent in the previous month, and compared to market forecasts of 66.5%. Cost advanced at a softer pace in all components: housing & utilities (79.8 percent vs 82.9 percent in November)...

tradingeconomics.com

Even in past years, they never really seem to draw until a trophy is on the line. It is just hard to compare professional sports around the world to the United States when people are telling the WNBA to compete with overseas teams. It's great that the Aces have sold out their expensive season tickets, including their $20,000 ones. Meanwhile, Bourges, which may have the best track record of large numbers of fan support while actually charging something charges 400 euros for the best season tickets. The cheapest season tickets for the Liberty are $500 and the cheapest season tickets for Seattle are $630.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Livs Melbourne team playing now

 

[awhom111]

Domestic league stats for Stewie:

Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonu

tbf.org.tr

They have some work to figure out how they want to approach the playoffs as they lost to Tip Hayes's team Cukurova for the second time in recent weeks. Cukurova seems to have clearly chosen Chelsea Gray, Tip, and DeWanna Bonner as their foreigners. Assuming that Kayla McBride leaves for the WNBA before the finals, that would lead to some interesting choices for Fenerbahce. You figure that Stewart is a lock, but they would need a guard so that would probably mean Iagupova. Without McBride, starting Stewart at the 3 and having the Turkish players soak up all the extra minutes at the 1, 2, and 3 makes sense. Kiah Stokes should be able to play most of the minutes at the 5 so would you go with Satou Sabally or Emma Meesseman in terms of positional flexibility?

Also, I looked and Fenerbahce charges about $3.50 for tickets anywhere in the gym that is not the floor seats with season tickets running around $80 before the season.

 

[Ozimoto]

Anna Makurat seems to be having a good year with her team as well.

 

[Argonaut]

Anna Makurat seems to be having a good year with her team as well.

You can find her game by game stats here: Anna Makurat Player Profile, Dinamo Sassari, News, Stats - Eurobasket

Her scoring is up and down, but her rebound and assist numbers are steady and good. However, she's (surprisingly...) recording a lot of turnovers.

I'm glad she's finding her footing and seems to have recovered from her string of injuries. Remember when she came back for her sophomore year (before her injury...) and she looked like she was in phenomenal shape? She looks like she's gotten back to that. Strong, lean, and her movements seem less cumbersome than they were when she arrived as a freshman.

I've loved following her this season and I'm happy she seems happy and back to playing well.

 

[From France]

Kaleena ML had 24 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists & 1 steal in La Roche - Vendée's win on round 10 of LFB- Roche actually stands 5th -
She shot 8/9 with 6/6 from 3 and 2/2 FT

 

[ochoopsfan]

For those that are still up at 11pm EST, Saturday night.

Liv's team in Australia is about to start, free on You Tube!!

Melbourne v Bendigo

 

[ochoopsfan]

Eurobasket 2023 Qualifiers
France v Lithuania

Gabby up next

 

[From France]

Gabby goes 17 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal & a block (shooting 7/10, 1/1, 2/2) in the win over Lithuania (83-75)
Prioritization is still the word concerning Gab's future

 

[From France]

Any news about Briah Hartley ?

 

[From France]

Last thing I read about her, she was rehabbing from a knee injury

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Almost a whole day without anyone posting about Breanna joining Kiah at Fener:

Breanna Stewart Fenerbahçe Safiportâta - Fenerbahçe SK

Fenerbahçe Safiport Kadın Basketbol Takımımız, kariyerinde WNBA ve EuroLeague ÅampiyonluÄu bulunan Kadın Basketbolunun yıldız isimlerinden BirleÅik Am

www.fenerbahce.org

Some will as they always have, but the money in Australia is not that great so players are generally giving up something in that department to play there.

Is it more than the WNBA pays?

 

[Geew1992]

Last thing I read about her, she was rehabbing from a knee injury

She’s still rehabbing.

 

[From France]

Is it more than the WNBA pays?

Breanna has joined the super team of Fenerbahce more than a month ago and Kiah hasn't played since

 

[From France]

In the game against France, Juste Jocyte had 15 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, shooting 6/7, 2/2., 1/2

 

[From France]

Stats from Bre since she's playing for Fenerbehce

 

[From France]

Euro League first, then Turkish league

 

[From France]

Kiah's stats :

 

[From France]

Megan Turkish League's stats