Sanchez and Miralles

[FLCeltsFan]

It appears from this Spanish article that the Celtics are inviting Albert Miralles and Sergio Sanchez to our Summer Camp.

www.20minutos.es/noticia/237998/0/Sergio/Sanchez/Celtics/

Here is a rough translation of it...

The Celtics will test out Sergio Sanchez this Summer ( Title )

- The franchise would like to test out Sanchez as a backup to Rondo.
- The Celtics are the owners of the rights to Miralles, who also should be invited to Summer League.

(Story)

The Students base Sergio Sanchez will play with the Boston Celtics in the Summer League.

The franchise wants, according to Mark, to prove the school player as substitute of Rajon Rondo, base selected by the ' mythical greens ' in the past 'draft' of the NBA, in this hard summer league that will be disputed (played) from July 6 until July 15 in the last arena where the 'All Star' game was held( basically Vegas is what there trying to say ).

The franchise of Boston also has the option to invite to this Summer league Albert Miralles, centre ( center ) of the Pamesa ( team overseas ). After overcoming a few problems at the start of the season, the Catalan player has reached his best level during the 'playoffs' of the ACB.

The Celtics are the owners of the NBA rights of Miralles, since they achieved last year in a trade with Miami (that received him because of the Raptors, which selected him in the 'draft').

Fernando Martín, José Miguel Antúnez, Tomás Jofresa, Rodrigo de la Fuente and player Albert Miralles are some of the Spanish players who have proved themselves in the competitive summer leagues of the NBA, whereas other Spanish as Alberto Herreros (Pacers), Javier Mendiburu (Bucks) and Ferrán Martínez (Raptors), were proving themselves in trainings ( workouts ).

[greenblood]

Who needs Greg Oden after all?

[DERRENMATTS]

greenblood said:

Who needs Greg Oden after all?

Hehehe.

Well, lets finally see what Miralles has to offer. I didn't know we still had the rights to him.

Anyone have any information on Sergio Sanchez?

[FLCeltsFan]

Here is a link to some info on him

www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=ESP&PlayerID=32042

Apparently he is a 6'3 guard who plays for Estudiant in the Spanish league and he is 25 or 26 years old.

There is a video of Miralles over on Loy's Place.

[eja117]

Well now we know this about Miralles from the video over on Loy's

He is way taller than the guys on the team he plays against, and for reason they don't defend him or box him out ever. Also Spanish refs don't call over the back ever.

Also he has a pg that sometimes gets him the ball in dunk situations, and misses lots of shots, which he then cleans up with dunks.

We also know that he didn't hit a single shot other than a dunk in the highlight video

I'd guess if they bring him in maybe they plan on trading away something like our 2nd rounder or Powe

[FLCeltsFan]

Got this from Pierce, our Spanish friend over on Loy's Place

Well, I saw the post about Miralles and Sanchez, and I have to say that I don't consider them NBA players. They aren't in Spanish national team, they aren't in good teams (well, miralles' team is in playoffs right now but they will be eliminated this week)and sanchez is a young PG with good skills but nothing more. Don't expect too much about them. If Danny wants to get Euros, he should look at Rudy Fernandez, Ricky Rubio, Marc Gasol, Papaloukas, Diamantidis, Belinelli (I think he will be the steal of the draft).

[DERRENMATTS]

Yeah, I wasn't going to put too much stock on those 2 international players. If Miralles was any good, Ainge would have brought him over by now. Ainge could be bringing in Sanchez just to give us some depth at PG. If Telfair isn't going to be with the team this season, we are only 2 deep at PG in the summer league (Rajon and Allan Ray).

[FLCeltsFan]

Another opinion on Miralles and Sanchez from Fabio who is a scout and who lives in Italy.

I saw plenty of Albert Miralles, this season, and although I know
most of the hearts here are broken by the lotto splash, I can't give
you false hope just because we are in dire straits.
Miralles played sub-par most of the season, and even if he showed
signs of life in the playoffs against Real Madrid (Moiso's new team),
he still looks very slow and not strong enough to play in the NBA. He
canned a few treys lately, but do we really need another big man
shooting from outside?
On Sergio Sànchez Càrdenas, well, he has never played for the Spanish
National Team, and this should be enough to steer our wheel toward
another guard. Chrissake, plenty of young "playmakers" (Nikos Zisis
just to name one) here, and even of experienced point guards
(Papaloukas, Basile, Pepe Sànchez, Navarro) and we end up inviting
Sergio? Yes, he has a nice touch from afar, but he just scored at a
6.7 pace for Estudiantes in the spanish ACB, not mentioning his 2.5
assists per game (but honestly here assists are treated a little less
largely than in the USA).
Even if they will really be a part of our Summer League's roster, I
don't see them becoming a part of the Celtics roster in the next
season.