Joe Thomasson is the chosen one by the sports management of the CB Gran Canaria to have more dynamite in the shooting guard position. While the final details of the operation are still pending, the American with a Georgian passport would form a duo with Caleb Homesley in the two to torpedo the rival hoops. A negotiation, advanced by the colleague Óscar Herreros and confirmed by this medium, that has not yet crystallized but that is not far from it given the good understanding of the three parties involved: player, club and representation agency.
Thomasson would not occupy a non-EU player’s place after having made his debut with Georgia in the last FIBA window to face Denmark and Serbia in the qualifying matches for the next Eurobasket 2025. Therefore, Gran Canaria would still have the possibility of allocating the second non-EU player spot to the missing pivot if it so wishes.
All this after the national quotas are currently filled by point guard Carlos Alocén, shooting guard Jovan Kljajic, forward Miquel Salvó, and it is expected that the player who last season defended the LEB Oro team, Jakub Urbaniak, could be part of the first team. A similar issue to that experienced by Dylan Bordón, who also has a U-22 player card in view of Jaka Lakovic’s call-ups.
As for Thomasson, the Slovenian coach adds to the cause a microwave who, without going any further, last season was one of the top scorers in the Endesa League until he left Coviran Granada for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Metepoints in Granada
With the Granada team he averaged 14.1 points with 34.6% success in three-point shots points, in addition to billing 3.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists in the 20 games of the national competition that he played. Even, in the duel against Gran Canaria he had outstanding numbers with 19 points scored (6 of 10 in two-point shots and 2 of 4 in three-pointers), 3 rebounds and 2 steals (he lost 5 balls) in the almost 34 minutes that he was on the court.
Once he joined the Israeli team, his numbers were lower than those of Coviran, partly because he was not Maccabi’s first offensive piece and shared the outside game with Lorenzo Brown and Wade Baldwin IV as the team’s penetrators. Still, he averaged 7.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 14 regular season games.
Meanwhile, in the playoff for the title that Maccabi won in the final against Hapoel Tel Aviv, his numbers dropped to 3.7 points, 0.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.
2024-07-02 13:30:51
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