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From what I heard, former UConn/BC player Lauren Engelns German DBBL team Bad Aibling Fireball's. filed for bankruptcy and may have folded, They have only played 8 games while all other teams in the league have completed 11 or 12 games. Engeln has played in Germany since graduating college. Not sure if she will hook up with another team. Also on that team was her Cal Swish teammate Lindsay Sherbert Cal/Gonzaga.
 
ochoopsfan said:
From what I heard, former UConn/BC player Lauren Engelns German DBBL team Bad Aibling Fireball's. filed for bankruptcy and may have folded, They have only played 8 games while all other teams in the league have completed 11 or 12 games. Engeln has played in Germany since graduating college. Not sure if she will hook up with another team. Also on that team was her Cal Swish teammate Lindsay Sherbert Cal/Gonzaga.
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The German League announced that they were withdrawing from the competition a few weeks ago. The games that they did play will not count towards the standings for other teams. Lauren will have lost some of the money that she was owed, but she was having a solid season and she has Italian citizenship so she should land on her feet quickly.

Meanwhile in Iceland, Kelly Faris appears to have already lost more games in a few months than in her entire college career. Other than maybe fouling a bit too often, you cannot blame her as she has been stuffing the stat sheet.
 
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awhom111 said:
EuroLeague resumes after a short break and you can see all of this week's games from this one link:
Watch the First EuroLeague Games of 2019 Here! - Women's Basketball 24.7

Tina Charles had signed a contract through the end of the year with Dynamo Kursk and opted to leave after it expired. She just made her next move, replacing Morgan Tuck in Beijing before the playoffs start in China:
中国篮轻官方网站 --WCBA顷细页面
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Any more details on Morgan Tuck? Why is she being replaced?
 
eebmg said:
Any more details on Morgan Tuck? Why is she being replaced?
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They think that they will need a true post player when it comes down to crunch time in the playoffs. I am not sure that it will be the right strategy as Morgan has been using her advantages to score a lot of points so far.

Some teams that know that they will make the playoffs pre-plan replacing their one foreign player partway through the season. Guangdong, which has the best record so far largely due to great play from their Chinese players, signed Nneka Ogwumike with the knowledge that she would not show up until now, hoping that she will be fresh for the playoffs while having Aerial Powers for most of the regular season to help get them to this point.
 
The UC Capitals (AUS) are currently in 1st place in the Australian League with Kelsey Griffin (19+ ppg) and Kia Nurse (18+ ppg) leading the team in scoring (they are also 2nd and 5th place in scoring in the league, respectively ) and have earned home field advantage in the playoffs. Griffin was waived by the Sun last year due to injury. I wouldn't mind seeing her join Kia on the Liberty if she chooses to play in the WNBA this year. They seem to work well together. With new ownership on the horizon and perhaps a new venue to play in as well, this could make for an exciting new year.
 
Welcome back Karlie Samuelson as she has been out the past month with a broken finger. She scored 7 points in a losing effort for Castors Braine
 
Gabby Williams is without a team after Napoli withdrew from league last week and stopped operation for the year. It's a little unclear what went wrong at this point, but the team had a lot of ambition, signing three WNBA players and a host of solid Italian players in a league where there aren't always three WNBA players in total. Unfortunately, the later this happens in the season, the harder it will be for her to find a new gig and the club is almost certainly well behind on salary payments. These are the perils of playing overseas, although having the WNBA salary as backup is much better than this being your only paying gig as it is for most players who find themselves in this position.
 
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awhom111 said:
Gabby Williams is without a team after Napoli withdrew from league last week and stopped operation for the year. It's a little unclear what went wrong at this point, but the team had a lot of ambition, signing three WNBA players and a host of solid Italian players in a league where there aren't always three WNBA players in total. Unfortunately, the later this happens in the season, the harder it will be for her to find a new gig and the club is almost certainly well behind on salary payments. These are the perils of playing overseas, although having the WNBA salary as backup is much better than this being your only paying gig as it is for most players who find themselves in this position.
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Good - get some rest and enjoy life!
 
This is a little bit old, but Saniya was the MVP (i. e., player of the week) for week 11 in the Adriatic league.

MVP 11.kola: Saniya Chong

I'm still hoping she'll get a WNBA contract this summer. With Diggins out for the season, the Wings might be in the market for a point guard, although if Cambage goes to Las Vegas, the Aces can easily give one up.
 
j66kicker said:
Good - get some rest and enjoy life!
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No rest for Gabby. She signed with Uni Girona in Spain and made her debut in the Queen's Cup:
Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB

Does anyone know anything about her French roots and how she qualifies for citizenship or when she acquired it? It would be cool if she and Bria Hartley could play for the national team at the same time, but if they both acquired it late, that would not be possible under current rules. If nothing else, it will help them both pick up bigger paychecks in Europe. Also, it makes me wonder if she could have been a French Olympic-level jumper.

This is the week for cup competition in many countries in Europe. I suppose that I will add any applicable links at the weekend after they are now, but today was the Kiah and Bria show in Turkey after they were out of the lineup in favor of Kia Vaughn and Kelsey Plum in the quarterfinals. They nearly matched the scoring of the other team between them in a semifinal win.
 
Gabby had a good game, but they lost the final to the league's strongest team:
Spanish Cup February 28th-March 3rd - Women's Basketball 24.7

Fenerbahce kept Bria for the final, but switched Kiah back for Kia Vaughn as they won the cup.
Turkish Cup February 27th-March 2nd - Women's Basketball 24.7

Assuming that Kiah does not get naturalized, it will be interesting to see which four foreigners they play in the playoffs. Their power forward from Belarus, Anastasiya Verameyenka is probably a lock since she has been a key player for them for so many seasons. Kelsey Plum and Kia Vaughn have the incumbent advantage and Giorgia Sottana also played for them last season even though she has had a smaller role for them recently. Bria has been pretty strong for them all season. Cecilia Zandalasini offers them the most versatility. In the finals, they would likely face a foreigner group of Chelsea Gray, Alina Iagupova, Astou Ndour, and Kelsey Bone.

KML was involved in a cup competition this weekend as they advanced to the final in May:
French Cup Semifinals March 2nd - Women's Basketball 24.7
 
You can find Gabby's EuroCup stats here as her team looks to be in good position to advance to the next round:
Gabrielle Lisa WILLIAMS at the EuroCup Women 2018-19 - FIBA.basketball

KML's stats are here, but they may be done after the next game:
Kaleena LEWIS at the EuroCup Women 2018-19 - FIBA.basketball

All the EuroLeague series ended in sweeps:
EuroLeague Quarterfinals Game 2 March 8th - Women's Basketball 24.7

Fenerbahce losing was not completely surprising, but they way in which they were completely uncompetitive was not expected. Usually they keep all of the foreigners through domestic league play, but with the number of extra players that they are carrying will make team chemistry interesting for the rest of the season, especially with the championship probably being necessary for everyone to keep their jobs.

Tina's season is over as she did everything she could, but carrying the whole team on her back just was not possible:
Chinese League Semifinals Game 3 March 4th - Women's Basketball 24.7

Beijing had been unstoppable with Sylvia Fowles, but their key Chinese players Shao Ting and Gao Song are aging and not as effective as they used to be. Other teams are bringing through young talent now and it is paying off for them.
 
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