May 19, 2010

Bilbao destroys to rebuild

Bizkaia Bilbao Basket is making some changes after the club has failed getting into the ACB playoffs. Renaldas Seibutis, Damir Markota and Jerome Moiso will leave the Basques this summer. All three have been underachieving at Bilbao and the club is looking for some fresh and improved talent. Chris Warren, another underachiever for Bilbao, and Robert Conely will probably join them and be fourth and fifth to leave this summer. Axel Hervelle will finish his loaning contract and be back with Madrid. 
While 6 players are about to leave, Bilbao still willing to keep their biggest star and Eurocup MVP Marko Banic, Captain Javi Salgado, Latvian Guard Janis Blums (whos contract expires this summer) and Spaniard star Alex Mumbru. Javi Rodriguez and Francisco Vazquez will probably stay in the squad as well. 
When the deprature of key players is about time, Bilbao is already working at adding some talent to their roster. Felipe Reyes is the top goal for the Basques who loves the Spanish Center to join Banic at the front court. Young talented Nikos Pappas is another addition, after coming from a loan year at Greece. Among the other names that Bilbao has been checking are Daniel Santiago, Rawle Marshall and Jiri Welsch- all three comes with some ACB experience. This summer will be pretty crucial for BBB, who badly requests to join the top clubs of the ACB and Europe.