While being at European championship, David Blatt head coach of Russian basketball team was asked to say something about Giorgi Shermadini centre-forward of Georgian national team, he appraised him much. Blatt called him progressive player and mentioned that he expects more much from him. As it seems, Blatt who is head coach of “Macaabi”Tel-Aviv is still observing Shermadini and wants to transfer him in this club.
Lithuanian basketball web-site “Krepsins.net” reports this following information. According to this web-site, transferring is expected for the next season and supposedly Shermadini’s trauma will not cause any problem. As far as you know, while training Shermadini injured and decided to be operated on, that’s why he cannot help “Bennet Cantu” of Italy in regular championship. 216 cm tall Georgian basketball player renovated playing in Serie A play-off.
As for “Maccabi”, Jew basketball club was very close to going through fours’ final in Euro League. According to the statistics, it is hard to say which is a weak position in Blatt’s club, but the weakest point of the club is the position where Blatt wants Shermadini to play.
Greek giant Schortsanitis Sofoklis is the leading centre-forward in “Maccabi”.
It is newsworthy that in this current season of Top 16 “Bennet Cantu “ held two matches against “Maccabi” and Georgian centre forward did well in these both matches. In the match, which was held in Italy Giorgi player more than 25:23 minutes, during this time he scored 13 points, 5 turn-overs, 2 assists, 3 block-shots and 2 covers. As for the match in Israel, he had 15 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and one block-shot in 29:22 minutes. It is clear that his career under David Blatt will have progress.