 |
BLOGS of pro basketball players overseas
Behind the backboard: the truth about life overseas |
|
|
There are currently 6791 ex-college players, who play 2012-13 season overseas
*the number is for both men and women players, who play outside of the U.S. (updated on 6/13/2013) Check Detailed list by College or by country
|
|
|
|
delete
|
|
|
|
|
DUSTY RYCHART'S BLOG
View profile
201cm / 6'7'' - Forward - 1979   USA-Australian
|
Dusty Rychart Basketball Career |
Born: Nov.8, 1979 in Grand Rapids, USA
URL: www.d-rych.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Outlook:
A hard working player who will do all the little things necessary to win. Has good inside moves and is an excellent rebounder with a great nose for the ball. Possesses a nice shooting touch and is a solid defensive player
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Career:
Grand Rapids, Minn. / Grand Rapids HoopsS.
1997-1998: Minnesota (NCAA): Redshirted
1998-1999: Minnesota (NCAA): 21 games: 3.8ppg, 2.8rpg, 0.5apg
1999-2000: Minnesota (NCAA, starting five): 28 games: 11.8ppg, 7.9rpg, 1.5apg
2000-2001: Minnesota (NCAA, starting five): 31 games: 14.6ppg, 8.0rpg, 1.5apg
2001-2002: Minnesota (NCAA, starting five): 31 games: 13.1ppg, 6.6rpg, 2.0apg
2002 July: Shaw's Pro Summer League (Minnesota Timberwolves)
2002-2003: Victoria Giants (Australia-NBL, starting five), left in Dec '02: 14 games: 16.5ppg, 7.9rpg, 0.9apg, then moved to Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL, starting five): 10 games: 17.9ppg, 7.9rpg, 1.1apg
2003-2004: Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL, starting five): 30 games: 21.9ppg, 9.9rpg, 1.9apg
2004-2005: Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL, starting five): 32 games: 21.4ppg, 10.8rpg, 2.9apg
2005: Hawkes Bay Hawks (New Zealand-NBL, starting five): 18 games: 16.8ppg, 8.3rpg, 1.7apg, 1.4spg, FGP: 48.6%, 3FGP: 15.4%, FT: 64.0%
2005-2006: Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL, starting five): 31 games: 18.8ppg, 9.2rpg, 2.1apg
2006 June: Howard Pulley League in Minneapolis, MN
2006-2007: Brisbane Bullets (Australia-NBL, starting five): 39 games: 15.1ppg, 8.1rpg, 1.5apg
2007: North Adelaide Rockets (Australia-ABA, starting five)
2007-2008: Brisbane Bullets (Australia-NBL, starting five): 32 games: 16.2ppg, 9.3rpg, 1.8apg, FGP: 53.5%, 3PT: 14.3%, FT: 60.0%
2008: Brisbane Capitals (Australia-ABA, starting five): 10 games: 18.1ppg, 12.6rpg, 4.0apg, FGP: 39.9%, 3PT: 33.3%, FT: 76.7%
2008-2009: Wollongong Hawks (Australia-NBL, starting five): 30 games: 15.1ppg, 8.5rpg, 1.6apg, FGP: 50.7%, 3PT: 36.7%, FT: 65.7%
2009-2010: Cairns Taipans (Australia-NBL, starting five): 28 games: 11.9ppg, Reb-3(6.8rpg), 1.6apg, FGP: 52.8%, 3PT: 43.5%, FT: 60.6%
2010-2011: Skytrans Cairns Taipans (Australia-NBL, starting five): 34 games: 8.3ppg, 6.0rpg, 1.2apg, FGP: 45.3%, 3PT: 15.4%, FT: 67.4%
2011-2012: Skytrans Cairns Taipans (Australia-NBL): 14 games: 6.3ppg, 5.0rpg, 0.7apg, FGP: 43.0%, FT: 72.7%
2012: Cairns Marlins (Australia-QBL): 6 games: 13.5ppg, 7.7rpg, 1.5apg, 2FGP: 56.3%, FT: 81.8%
2012-2013: Skytrans Cairns Taipans (Australia-NBL): 15 games: 3.9ppg, 2.0rpg
2013: Brisbane Capitals (Australia-QBL, starting five)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Awards/Achievements:
Third Team All-Big Ten -02
Australian NBL All-Stars Game -05
Australiabasket.com All-NBL 2nd Team -05
New Zealand NBL Regular Season Runner-Up -05
New Zealand NBL Finalist -05
Australiabasket.com All-New Zealand NBL 2nd Team -05
Australiabasket.com New Zealand NBL All-Imports Team -05
Australian NBL All-Star Game -06: 14pts
Australiabasket.com Australian NBL All-Import Players 2nd Team -06
Australian NBL Champion -07
Australian NBL Regular Season Champion -07
Australian NBL Semifinals -08
Australiabasket.com Australian NBL All-Imports 2nd Team -08
Australiabasket.com All-Australian NBL Honorable Mention -08, 10
Australiabasket.com Australian NBL All-Imports Team -10
Australian NBL Finalist -11
|
|
BLOG POSTINGS
Trying 2 Stay Alive - Nov 21, 2012
| POSTED BY:
EUROBASKET CENTER
|
follow us on   |
Cao to all my good people out here in Montenegro and hello Eurobasket. Sorry I havent blogged in a couple of weeks, I have been really busy or too tired to even think about blogging. Well let me tell you how team IBAR is doing so far being that its the clubs first time competing in the top league A1 League. After the first 5 games of the season, we are now 2-3 tied for 5th place with three other clubs. Lately we've won two games in a row one of those wins was against Lovcen at home in the first round of the Montenegro cup games, as a team we played great together a lot of my teammates really stepped up on the defensive end and made shots. Lately most of the teams are now doubling me or sending two defenders at me soon as I cross half court and when my teammates step up like they did it will be pretty tough trying to beat us, especially at home in Rozaje. For the fans, this was the first time I have seen our fans come out in full force to support what we have here in Rozaje.
I can say for myself that they are one of the main reasons why we pulled off the upset over Lovcen. And just a few days later we had our 5th league game at home against KK Center (thats like a rivalry game since we are just a hour apart from each other. The fans really packed the house that night). Center gave us a pretty tough game since they still had no wins under their belt coming in. It took us until the late 4th quarter to put them away for good, but it was a really great game. The fans were just awesome. I have never seen anything like it. They were chanting my name during the game (that had me fired up).
After the game it was like a big party outside the gym. All of the fans stayed until we came out of the locker room to show us even more support and love, they even picked me up and carried me around the parking lot for a few seconds (at that moment I really felt like a rock star lol). That one moment was something I will never forget in my life.
In the meantime Im currently still leading the league in scoring and in index points. In 5 games Im averaging 30.6mpg 22.5ppg 2.2apg 2spg and shooting a blazing shooting percentage from the field. 2ptFG 63.4% (26/41) 3ptFG 55% (11/20) FT 78.1% (25/32) Im a true believer in hard work and I can tell that it is paying off. All of those 4am wake up calls, heading to the gym while most players are probably still asleep, at the gym working on my game putting up game like shots are all paying off. I take a lot of pride in shooting and ball handling drills because as a guard if you can master both of those you will most likely always have a job playing somewhere on a professional team. You tell me, who wouldn't want a player that can knock down shots and handle the rock? To me thats a dream playmaker to have on the roster.
Before I go I want to say Happy early Thanksgiving to my family and friends back home in America and a special s/o to my home town Rosharon, Texas. I hope you all enjoy and have a safe holiday. Dont worry about me the only thing I will be missing and wanting is the honey roasted ham and turkey legs with my grandmas favorite dressing mmmmm! Yall just dont know thats some good eating, but I will be here in Montenegro grinding as usual.
God Bless!
SHARE ON:
 
  
|
Brandon
Roberson
| Home Sweat Home- Dec.17, 2012 (by Eurobasket Center)
It's winter here in Rozaje the northern part of Montenegro is very cold, ICE cold if you ask me, especially being born and raised in the southern part of Texas. It sometimes snows non-stop but it's a very beautiful site to see when the tallest trees and mountains are covered in thick snow while the river water streams are slowly flowing [read more] | |
It's winter here in Rozaje the northern part of Montenegro is very cold, ICE cold if you ask me, especially being born and raised in the southern part of Texas. It sometimes snows non-stop but it's a very beautiful site to see when the tallest trees and mountains are covered in thick snow while the river water streams are slowly flowing. Every time I step outside I'm like "wow this is amazing", and my teammates are looking at me like this is normal, just wait until January when the snow can get as high as six feet. I'm thinking to myself like "sheesh" the only big snow I've ever been in was St. Louis, Missouri when I was in college. Rozaje has already surpassed the little snow that Missouri gets compared to here. In Rozaje I'm witnessing with my own two eyes, it's like looking at a snow storm on a discovery channel episode or some world geographic documentary back home on TV.
Back to the hardwood, this past Saturday we won a very close game against KK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje (78-77). It was a hard fought game came down to the wire with seven seconds to go. One of KK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje players drove the length of the court trying to put up a quick despaired shot in the last seconds of the game. Than out of no where teammate Nedim Felic came up with an amazing game winning block, the crowd went bananas. That game was very important for us if we wanted to be in a good position to make a run in the second half of the season to try in steal a playoff spot. I ended the game with a season high 33pts 4assist 3rebounds 3steals, the best game Ive played thus far this season. I'm still shooting a very consistent shooting percentage for the season (41/63) from 2ptFG 65.1% (20/37) from 3ptFG 54.1% We are now (3-5) in league play, which puts us in 7th place looking to steal a road game this coming Wednesday in a make up game against KK Sutjeska Niksic, a great team that has a big time scorer Nikola Pavlicevic (192-SG-88) averaging 21.3ppg right behind me with 22.5ppg. Im expecting this to be a really good game especially when you have two of the best scorers in the league going head to head trying to lead their respective team to a victory.
Lately I've been getting a few questions about who's one of the best players I've played against in this league. I would say as of now since I have played against all the teams except for one, its 6'7 swingman from BC Ulcinjska Rivijera Ulcinj, Nikola Vucurovic (200-G/F-80, agency: Global Sports Plaza) I mean this guy can light it up from anywhere on the court. You must have a hand in his face at all times or else he will make you pay. There are other good players but this guy stood out to me. And I will say a lot of guys from Montenegro, Serbia and other former Yugoslavia countries can really play they have my respect for sure, just take a look at some of those NBA rosters and you will find a couple of guys from this part of the country on a NBA roster. I also know for a fact that Serbia has placed the most ever European players in the NBA. The funny thing to me now is during warm ups or right before the tip i'll say some things in my Serbian language to the opposing team players that I've learned since being here for four months. Most of them would just look at me and be kind of surprised especially at the free throw line, I tend to talk a little trash in their language sometimes it makes them miss, probably because I sound so funny and most of them are shocked that I even know a few trash talking words in their language. I love it makes the game even that much funnier.
Home sweet home, after all I get to go back home to the great state of Texas, for a much needed 15 day break after being in Europe for 7 months straight. Three of those months I spent my time in Barcelona, Spain trying to make a name for myself. I now have just 7 days left before I board my 18 hour total plane ride back home with two stops in Austria, Washington DC than I'll finally arrive in Houston Texas, on Christmas eve. Looking forward to seeing and spending a lot of time with my family. I already know for a fact that they are going to cook a lot of my favorite foods, and yes I'm craving some American foods so every family members house I go to, I'm warning you, you better hide what you don't want me to eat, if not I'm going in like a "lock jaw buzzard" that haven't ate in two weeks.
I would like to share some inside information about some of the music I tend to enjoy listening to since I don't ever get to hear much of my American Hip-Hop and R&B music on the radio here Montenegro. Here are my top 3 songs that I enjoy listening to when I want to hear something different. #1. Djogani - (Hej tugo moja) #2. ALLEGRO BAND - (Neka ide zivot) #3. JELENA KARLEUSA [feat. Teca] (KRIMI RAD)
Brandon Roberson (180-PG, agency: BBEH Cokrlija, college: Missouri Baptist)
Cao, and may God continue to bless you all.
|
|
Trying 2 Stay Alive - Nov.21, 2012 (by Eurobasket Center)
Cao to all my good people out here in Montenegro and hello Eurobasket. Sorry I havent blogged in a couple of weeks, I have been really busy or too tired to even think about blogging. Well let me tell you how team IBAR is doing so far being that its the clubs first time competing in the top league A1 League. After the first 5 games of the season, we are now 2-3 tied for 5th place with three other clubs [read more] | |
Cao to all my good people out here in Montenegro and hello Eurobasket. Sorry I havent blogged in a couple of weeks, I have been really busy or too tired to even think about blogging. Well let me tell you how team IBAR is doing so far being that its the clubs first time competing in the top league A1 League. After the first 5 games of the season, we are now 2-3 tied for 5th place with three other clubs. Lately we've won two games in a row one of those wins was against Lovcen at home in the first round of the Montenegro cup games, as a team we played great together a lot of my teammates really stepped up on the defensive end and made shots. Lately most of the teams are now doubling me or sending two defenders at me soon as I cross half court and when my teammates step up like they did it will be pretty tough trying to beat us, especially at home in Rozaje. For the fans, this was the first time I have seen our fans come out in full force to support what we have here in Rozaje.
I can say for myself that they are one of the main reasons why we pulled off the upset over Lovcen. And just a few days later we had our 5th league game at home against KK Center (thats like a rivalry game since we are just a hour apart from each other. The fans really packed the house that night). Center gave us a pretty tough game since they still had no wins under their belt coming in. It took us until the late 4th quarter to put them away for good, but it was a really great game. The fans were just awesome. I have never seen anything like it. They were chanting my name during the game (that had me fired up).
After the game it was like a big party outside the gym. All of the fans stayed until we came out of the locker room to show us even more support and love, they even picked me up and carried me around the parking lot for a few seconds (at that moment I really felt like a rock star lol). That one moment was something I will never forget in my life.
In the meantime Im currently still leading the league in scoring and in index points. In 5 games Im averaging 30.6mpg 22.5ppg 2.2apg 2spg and shooting a blazing shooting percentage from the field. 2ptFG 63.4% (26/41) 3ptFG 55% (11/20) FT 78.1% (25/32) Im a true believer in hard work and I can tell that it is paying off. All of those 4am wake up calls, heading to the gym while most players are probably still asleep, at the gym working on my game putting up game like shots are all paying off. I take a lot of pride in shooting and ball handling drills because as a guard if you can master both of those you will most likely always have a job playing somewhere on a professional team. You tell me, who wouldn't want a player that can knock down shots and handle the rock? To me thats a dream playmaker to have on the roster.
Before I go I want to say Happy early Thanksgiving to my family and friends back home in America and a special s/o to my home town Rosharon, Texas. I hope you all enjoy and have a safe holiday. Dont worry about me the only thing I will be missing and wanting is the honey roasted ham and turkey legs with my grandmas favorite dressing mmmmm! Yall just dont know thats some good eating, but I will be here in Montenegro grinding as usual.
God Bless!
|
|
GRIND-HARD101- Oct.28, 2012 (by Eurobasket Center)
Hello world. Hope all is great well after a big road win against Primorje we are now 1-1 Im pretty happy where we are as a team do to playing our first two longest road trip games of the season traveling 6hr to Tivat then the following week 7hrs to Primorje. But let me start off by updating you about our season opener last weeks against Teodo Tivat [read more] | |
Hello world. Hope all is great well after a big road win against Primorje we are now 1-1 Im pretty happy where we are as a team do to playing our first two longest road trip games of the season traveling 6hr to Tivat then the following week 7hrs to Primorje. But let me start off by updating you about our season opener last weeks against Teodo Tivat. The first few minutes of the game we looked good until Tivat got going knocking down 3 after 3 they then went on a 12-0 run led that had us going into half time down 18 points or so. Second half we came out firing away from 3 cutting the league down to 9 but the tough more experienced Tivat team kept a double digit lead going, so we ended up losing to considered the best team in the league by 12 points. I Played pretty well started off a bit slow with only 7 points going into the 2nd half but ended up scoring 19 of my 26pts in the second half.
This past Saturday against Primorje we were in the same situation as our first game, we started off good again then all of the sudden we found ourselves in a dog fight again going into the half down 15 points not to mention I was in early foul trouble and didn't play much of the first half with only 2 points. But the first couple trips down the court in the beginning of the second half I came out on a mission hitting four 3s straight and with a little better defense from us as a unit we were able to get a couple steals for some easy buckets, but that second half I can say was my best second half performance in Europe hitting 27pts in 20min ending the game with 29pts. Coach Rejhan Palamar did an great job rotating the right players in at the right times one thing about coach Rejhan hes a young coach with a lot of ambition to do great things he keeps us fired up on game days so that's a big plus hes kinda like a players coach and for those who don't really understand when I say players coach that means he will treat you like a best friend on and off the court but when its time to get serious we all know by that look he gets in hes eyes that means he means business. Not to mention a lot of our bench players stepped up huge, like Marko Perovic who hit some big shots and clutch free throws down the stretch & Admir Nurkovic with some solid point guard play when I was in foul trouble to help us seal the win.
Now to the fun part road trips, They can be a bit long and boring when your traveling 6-7hrs for a game so of course we clown around and play jokes on who ever falls asleep first but most of the time were singing songs off the radio, I dont know most of them so I just play like I do to pass time. But getting a chance to see the sea and some of the most gorgeous mountains in the world as far eyes can see is a amazing. I didn't know Montenegro was this beautiful now I cant wait to see how everything looks once it starts to snow I bet its going to be breath taking.
I always like to give special shutouts at the end of every blogs to show appreciation. My good friend Jason Fry with Legends Basketball & William Logan former assistant coach at Missouri Baptist University, now coaching at the University of Bridgeport, these two great guys I couldn't thank them enough for their passion for the game and their own dedicated and personal time they gave me over 2 years of grinding every day, night in night out. Last season I didn't get a job to playing overseas so I took the PBL route which is a minor league in the states right under the NBADL for the St. Louis Phoenix. Before and after the season every morning I would wake up at 4am to meet up with Jason Fry at the gym around 5am to train and work on every aspect of my game for about a hour or so then I would take a quick shower because I had to be downtown St. Louis at one of the local public schools to substitute teach all grades 1-12 for our future leaders of America until 3:30pm but that wasn't enough for me because I knew how bad I wanted to be successful so right after I would finish teaching for the day, I would grab something to eat then be right back at the gym to meet up with William Logan at 6pm for a second workout for about 2 hours and that was my routine Monday-Friday and those two guys never asked me for a penny thats why those two guys will always get max respect and love from me If I got it they got it Team #GrindHard. Now for the 2012 -13 season Im back in Europe playing in the top league in Montenegro leading the league in scoring with 27.5ppg shooting 56.5%FG 61.5% from behind the arc playing every game with a sense of urgency and a chip on my shoulder not to disrespect anyone but I came here to kill. I have put in to many countless hours and sacrificed way to much not to, if I didn't tell you I wanted to be the best player in the league I would be lying to you thats why I play the game to be the best, Im very competitive I even have ambition to be the best blogger in Europe. If you put your mind to it hard work really does pay off if you have the drive,dedication and can stay consistent at whatever your working at the sky's the limit. But the #1 key to success is keeping God first with him anything is possible.
One last thing before I let you go because I can keep you reading forever if you let me hahaha... but for the people and fans from Montenegro & Serbia last week I had a chance to watch a good Adriatic League rivalry game Buducnost vs. Partizan The atmosphere of that game was something to see I absolutely love how passionate the fans are for both teams, I mean you have die hard fans that are willing to go to jail or having to be pepper sprayed in the eye.at games. Cmon now who wouldn't want to play for a group of loyal fans like that night in night out. I Know I would absolutely love to play for either one of those clubs in front of 7,000-18,000+ fans every night going nuts you cant help but to bring youre A game.
Signing out -B.ROB
<<>><<>>
|
|
| All most show time Dawg!!! Oct.15, 2012 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Eurobasket Inc. Disclaimer
WARNING:
Do not copy, redistribute, publish or otherwise exploit information that you download from the site !
Do not encumber, license, modify, publish, sell, transfer or transmit, or in any way exploit, any of the
content of the site, nor will you attempt to do so.
|
|
|
|
| |
