The 2.18-meter Ukrainian signs for a season to be Sito Alonso’s starting point and get his best version back
The tastiest icing on the cake. Artem Pustovyi (Sofiyivka, Ukraine, 1992) is officially a UCAM player who has drunk the wind for him since learning that Augusto Lima was leaving the team and left the thirteen-player squad on June 17 with which the UCAM team Sito Alonso a 2022-23 season of the Endesa League and the Champions League.
The signing of Pustovyi is one that Alejandro Gómez’s management is particularly celebrating, as the operation to bring him to Murcia was not an easy one at all. And it is that, as soon as it became known that Gran Canaria would not have the player in his second year of contract, half of the Endesa League were interested in his situation. However, we are talking about a ‘seven-legged friend’ who is one of the tallest players in Europe and who, until landing in Las Palmas a year ago, had just completed three seasons with Barça, winning all 21 Endesa League matches, in which Pustovyi participated in the 2020-21.
And previously three more at Obradoiro, a team he grew exponentially with until he was crowned a Euroleague player. The player who shone in Santiago de Compostela is the one UCAM wants to recover, because there, in 2017-18, he averaged 11.1 points, 6 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, with ten games with a PIR of 20 or Lake. And, despite what is customary for players of his size, he is a very good free-throw shooter. In his career, he has a 73.8% pass rate that has increased to 80.2% last year.
Pustovyi is not a player who wants to sign UCAM apart from an abnormal condition in his situation. That was Gran Canaria’s cutback, which forced the Ukrainian to compensate around 60,000 euros to get under a contract of which 650,000 euros was insured for next season. A price way above the market that no other candidate to sign him was willing to pay, less considering the termination and lower cache.
In this, UCAM played his tricks and since it was not the team that offered him the most salary, it was the team that convinced him. In Murcia, Pustovyi must be a key player in a team that maintains the same ambitions as last season, namely the Copa del Rey and the play-offs, plus how far they can go in the Champions League.
His friend Nemanja Radovic also played a key role. The Montenegrin was his partner in the 2016/17 season at Obradoiro, as was Diop’s last in Gran Canaria, and sharing a dressing room with him is something the Ukrainian is particularly excited about.
Source: La Verdad
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