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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September 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Memo is playing for Turkey, who lost to Lithuania in the opener. He scored 11 points and had a team-high 10 rebounds.
http://www.eurobasket2007.org/en/cid_BqypGFJPHy-Nw4lwIAq,v3.teamID_376.compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2007.playerID_22723.html
September 4th, 2007 at 5:18 am
AK only committed 2 fouls, so must have been fouled 7 times. I am pretty sure in international rules that you only get 5 fouls anyway….
good to see him playing well