An Unnecessarily Exhaustive Guide To The Euroleague Final Eight
The backcourt is headed up by Logan and Brazilian national team main stay Marcelinho Huertas. The book on Huertas is well written by now; he will run 146 pick-and-roll sets on you in a game, and there's not an awful lot you can do about it. Huertas leads the ACB in assists with 5.9 a game, and his 5.5 in Euroleague play rank second only to Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos - this is all the more impressive when you consider that his main pick-and-roll option, Tiago Splitter, now backs up DeJuan Blair and Antonio McDyess. Alongside him, Logan plays the role of the scorer, the athletic undersized scoring guard who can get to the rim, finish, score in isolation, and hit jumpshots off the dribble, as well as off of curls. Additionally, with the early onset of male pattern baldness now impossible to conceal, Logan no longer feels he should wear his headband at an angle so steep that it was almost vertical. Nobody sweats at that angle, and we weren't fooled.
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