Seeing as Andrei Kirilenko could be the one piece that makes or breaks our status as contender, here’s his statistics from his first game in the FIBA EuroBasket 2007, playing for his home country Russia.
24 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, three blocks and “drew seven fouls”
Now, I’m not sure whether he got fouled seven times, or committed seven fouls, but my guess is the latter. Either way, those are most typical Andrei numbers. Keeping in mind that Andrei is our fourth option, he probably won’t get near these stats, but it’s nice to see he’s still interested in filling up the box score (with something other than points).
Unless I missed somebody, no other Jazz players are participating in the tournament.
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