Sign an American with an Irish passport with three seasons of experience in Europe and a low profile
He was one of the acquisitions that has been kept level the longest by Alejandro Gómez and finally he has a first and last name. UCAM signs the American with an Irish passport Ryan Luther (Pennsylvania, 1995), a 2.06 meter power forward from Gaziantep in Turkey, where he was a teammate of former UCAM player Milton Doyle.
Luther coincides with the profile being commented on about the player who would come to fill James Webb III’s vacant position, but not to replace the outstanding American power forward, already ex-UCAM. With three seasons of experience in Europe, two of them in double competition, first in the modest FIBA Europe Cup with Latvian Ventspils and then another in the Champions League with Turkey’s Darussafaka, Luther is an insider by profession and with a good reputation. hand from the outside, as evidenced by his three-point percentage of around 40% in his career, but very different from the athletic profile and shooter in speed situations as depicted by Webb III.
At the age of 26, he has only three seasons of experience in Europe as he played college basketball until five. That is, one more than a conventional four-season cycle, the one he completed at the University of Pittsburgh, plus an extra year he developed at the University of Arizona as he was given the opportunity to play an extra year later with a foot injury that sidelined him for more than half of the 2017-18 season, his senior year, when he averaged 12.7 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, trading the Panthers for the Wildcats. Both universities, one in the excellent ACC conference and the other in the Pac-12, belong to the first division of the NCAA.
In 2019, he made the leap to professionalism with Latvian Ventspils, the previous year’s rival in the UCAM Champions League, with whom he averaged 12.1 points per game in the FIBA Europe Cup, a competition between the Baltic States. after failing to qualify for the round before the Champions League, where he will play next season with Turkish team Darussafaka.
Rotational player at Darussafaka, with the Ottomans barely 4.2 points and 2.3 rebounds per game in the European league, rose to 8.7 and 5.4 in the Turkish league. It is in Europe where Luther begins to specialize in triples, from which he only shoots free shots and standing feet, and last year with Gaziantep, he went to 39.7% success in triples for 9.7 points per game, listed as owner .
With a robust body, UCAM wants to have this player next season to defend corpulent interiors and not to make mistakes in attack. In addition, Nemanja Radovic is expected, at least initially, to carry more weight in the rotation than in the past two seasons.
Luther made official, the next signing UCAM will make official is that of shooting guard David Jelínek, who is already a free agent after breaking away from Andorra and in full agreement with the Murcians.
Source: La Verdad
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