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Thursday, October 20th, 2011Ersan Ilyasova
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Ersan Ilyasova Profile
Ersan Ilyasova is a Turkish Basketball player currently playing in the NBA. He started his career in Ulker playing in the pro Turkish league. In 2004-2005 Ersan was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round. He didn’t play any games for the Bucks that season but instead played for the Tulsa 66ers in the D-League.
The following season, Ersan Ilyasova played 65 games for the Bucks where he average six points per game and three rebounds per game in 15 minutes of play. The next two seasons he spent in the Euroleague in Spain playing for Barcelona. In July of 2009, he signed a two year contract worth seven million dollars with the Milwaukee Bucks. Ersan is now a starter seeing major minutes in the NBA.
Ersan Ilyasova Scouting Report
Ersan is 6’10 and weighs around 107 kilograms. His natural position is at small forward, but he is comfortable playing anything except for center. He is as versatile of players you can find in the NBA. Many people compare his game to Hidayet Turkoglu, partly because they are both of Turkish Nationality, but the similarities run deeper than that. Since they are both long players who can both shoot the ball and dribble, they create match up nightmares for opposing defenses.
One of Ersan Ilyasova’s favorite plays is dribbling around near the three point line and then creating room by stepping back for a three pointer. His shot is a little unorthodox but he’s capable of shooting it at a decent percentage and from practically anywhere on the floor.
Ersan’s biggest strength comes in his activity level when he is on the floor. You will be hard pressed to ever find him standing still. On offense, if he doesn’t have the ball, he will set screens, trying to make back cuts, and challenge the offensive boards whenever there’s the slighest of chance. On defense, he will play as hard defense as you can find a 6’10 European play. Besides that, he will be active defender as a help defender as well, able to both step in to take a charge or creating deflections leading to steals.
Ersan Ilyasova is a complete player and doesn’t really have a weakness in his game. At 22 years of age, he is one of the brightest NBA prospects of this year.
Ersan Ilyasova Predictions
Ersan has already shown flashes of his true potential this season starting for the Milwaukee Bucks. He is a monster of a rebounder and can score in the 20′s with ease and still maintain good shooting percentages. His only apparent weakness is forcing the issue at times and taking tough shots when he shouldn’t be. As he learns about the game and accumulates more experience. He will surely improve as he gets more playing time and his coach Scott Skiles has more confidence in him.
Ersan Ilyasova will hopefully fill that hole being left by Hedo Turkoglu and Mehmet Okur as they approach the downward slope of their career. I am looking forward to following his career as I am certain Ersan Ilyasova will be an All-Star in the near future.
Acer Liquid A1 Price, Release Date and Full Specs
Saturday, October 24th, 2009After the tragedy of losing mybrand new Google G1 phone in one short week, I’ve been looking for a suitable replacement to take its place. Then I read about the release of the Acer Liquid A1, and I was immediately convinced. Let’s have a look at some of the features of this new Acer Liquid phone:
- 1GHz Snapdragon processor. This is the fastest chip on the market for a mobile phone and it will help handle complicated applications and the multimedia possibilities of this phone.
- WVGA Screen (800 x 480 resolution) capable of displaying video at HD quality. This is the highest resolution screen available for a mobile phone. Most new smartphones have resolution of 400 x 240.
- Google Android operating system. The Android open source platform is ideally designed for a phone with high technical capabilities, and this Acer Liquid phone gives it the first chance to truly shine.
- 5MP autofocus camera that has ISO levels as well as the ability to tag pictures with your current location thanks to the inbuilt GPS
- Internet browsing capabilities at HSPA speeds (High speed packet access) that allows you to surf at 7.2Mbps
- Wifi Synching options that will allow you to share files between your computer and Acer phone with ease
- Social Network integration inside the phone so that you can easily see and follow updates from your favorite social media sites
Acer Liquid A1 Price
Well the problem usually with great pieces of technology that have everything you want in them is the price tag. So when I first read about this phone I envisioned it to be somewhere cExercise/”>Lose to a computer’s price. However Acer always tend to release products at affordable prices and this time around has been no different. The Acer Liquid A1 Price is 380 euros or 570 dollars before any discounts or subsidies from carriers.
Acer Liquid A1 Release Date
So all that leaves is when will this cheaply price technological product be released. Don’t worry, you won’t have to wait couple of years for it to come out. In fact, its much sooner that anyone anticipated. Dell, who has talked much more about releasing an Android phone, has yet to reveal anything. But Acer have announced that their Acer Liquid phone will come out on November 28 2009. That’s right, only 1 month away, and this could be in your hands.
That wraps up a look at the phone that I plan to replace my older G1 google phone. The Acer Liquid features and price look great, and stay tuned for a full review when I get my hands on the phone.
上海博克
Thursday, May 21st, 2009上海博克
Shanghai Blog in Chinese characters can be written like this: 上海博克. Reason why I’m writing 上海博克 is to see whether a Shanghai Blog in English using the 上海博克 characters can show up on the google search results. Let’s see if 博克上海 will get Chinese people to come here.
Probably not, lets see.
NBA Expansion in China
Thursday, April 16th, 2009NBA China
Basketball in China has become so huge that the NBA has already made enormous investments in building a NBA-branded league in the PRC. First it was the announcement of the NBA China entity, then it was the 12 arenas, then the reality TV shows, and the news just keeps rolling in.
I for one am hugely excited and it’s quite refreshing to finally be in a country that the NBA actually cares about. In the weeks and months ahead, I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on any development and news coming from NBA china.
I urge you do the same if you want to know truely where the future of basketball in China and the fate of the NBA in China and the rest of the world is headed.