The Euroleague is back ! And the first week of the season offered us a Belgian confrontation between Valencia (with Sam Van Rossom) and ASVEL (with Ismael Bako). Bako played only 8 minutes for ASVEL in which he dished out 2 assists. In the starting lineup, Sam Van Rossom scored the firsts points of the…
Traditionally we at TIB publish a little overview at the start of each season discussing the Belgian Players who will be playing abroad. We do this in three seperate categories: Belgian Players Abroad in which we discuss the Belgian professional players abroad. Belgian Youngsters Abroad in wich we discuss the Belgian youngsters (born in 1999…
Tonye Jekiri played the 2017-2018 season in Belgium with Oostende. With the BCO he won the Belgian Cup and the Championship, he was also named Finals MVP this Year. After 1 year in Turkey, the former Miami Hurricanes player (where he played with Manu Lecomte) signed a deal with ASVEL last season. He shared the…
ASVEL just announced that the French powerhouse and Ismael Bako have agreed to a contract extension till 2022. In 2019-2020, he was averaging 6.6 ppg, 3.6 rpg and 1.1 bpg in 14 minutes in the Jeep ELITE. In Euroleague action he played on average 11 minutes per game for 3.8 ppg, 2.2 rpg and 1.0…
1) Matt Lojeski (Tofas – TUR D1): 48.1 rtpg2) Sam Van Rossom (Valencia – ESP D1): 44.8 rtpg3) Jean Salumu (Pistoia – ITA D1): 38.8 rtpg4) Pierre-Antoine Gillet (Fuenlabrada – ESP D1): 37.8 rtpg5) Ismael Bako (ASVEL – FRA D1): 37.1 rtpg6) Jonathan Tabu (Le Portel – FRA D1): 34.2 rtpg Thomas De Thaey (Breogan…
The Belgian Lions remained undefeated in the European Championship Pre-Qualifiers as they easily put aside Iceland with the 90-62 final score. Despite playing with a heavily altered roster – which included 3 youngsters who were getting their first minutes with the National Team – the Belgian Lions overcame a somewhat slow start to fairly easily pull away…
The Belgian Lions did what they were supposed to do as they defeated Portugal on the road with the 60-70 final score. It was anything but an easy victory though. The Portuguese came out with a lot of intensity, while our Lions struggled to hit the few open shots they received and so at the half our…
