The Unicaja youth squad Alessandro Scariolo was chosen in the best quintet of the LEB Plata en this week. His team, the Wolf Huesca, fight to ensure salvation in the West Group of the third national basketball competition. He couldn’t get the match against him. Albacete (68-71) despite the great game of the player trained in The Guindos, who in 26 minutes on the court scored 17 points (4/7 in two-pointers, 1/3 in triples and 6/6 in free shots), eight rebounds, six steals and four assists for a PIR of 29. It was his best personal performance in a season that is being notable in what is his return to Spain after continuing his academic and basketball training in USA.
Scariolo (2001) left after playing from childhood to juniors at Unicaja to the NCAA, just after being European champion under 18 with the generation of Santi Aldama and Usman Garuba (there was also the man from Malaga Golden Dike and the composer Ishmael Tamba). Started in Manhattan Jaspers in 2019, although he did not play games and was as a ‘red shirt’. Right there the pandemic began and the following season began a three-year cycle in Ouachita, in Arkansas, in NCAA II, where he was able to work away from the spotlight in the heart of the United States, although with a different game. Last summer he decided to make the leap to professional basketball and Huesca is his first season there, with the intention of climbing the steps.
After 1.90, his stay in USA It has helped him improve his body visibly and now he is in the process of readapting to a quite different basketball. He plays most of the time as a point guard, occasionally as a shooting guard. However, he is taking flight with increasing performance. In 22 games he averages 22 minutes on the court, with 10.7 points (48% on two-point shots, an interesting 39% on three-pointers and 68% on free throws), 2.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 0.9 steals for a 9.6 rating in a fairly young team. in which there is room to progress. The Huesca team is eleventh in the West Group with a balance of 8-14, with a margin victory over the relegation places although also one victory away from getting into the play off zone.
In the category there are numerous players trained in the Unicaja quarry. It is also highlighting Jeffry Godspower and they are making their first weapons Rubén Vicente or Álvaro Mena. The challenge of the club, which is working on it in offices, is to have a subsidiary team in this category to reduce the distance of the jump of Los Guindos al Carpena and also offer a competitive alternative to those who finish the junior stage and are hesitant to continue their training in the NCAA.