The transition from the NCAA to European style of basketball was really hard for ‘Nick the Greek”.
Ex-Gator superstar, the only player of this college who made four triple-doubles in just two seasons, the leader of Donovan’s team selected 45th in the 2009 NBA draft preferred to come to the country of his grandfather’s origin and work with the most successful coach in Europe, Zeljko Obradovic rather than the NBA.
It was really hard for him to adjust to this new role from the almost 37 minutes average in Florida to having just garbage time with Panathinaikos but he still learned so many things in the past year.
With the National Team he made his rookie appearance in Poland at last year’s EuroBasket and convinced Kazlauskas that he can be a great back-up guard for Spanoulis and now Diamantidis.
