Turkey beats Australia, Atsür still on the bench

Turkey beat Australia handily today, 76-68. Ersan Ilyasova, a rookie with the Milwaukee Bucks consigned to the NBDL in the U.S. last year but the MVP of the Under-20 Turkish NT last year, has emerged as a key player on the Turkish team, tucking away 17 points in Turkey’s victory. Engin Atsür did not get any PT again. I must trust to greater wisdom and that Tanjevic knows what he’s doing as long as they are winning, even if he team is full of guys who can’t hit their foul shots. Atsür hit 78% of his free-throws last year and is a 40% three-point shooter. But . . . higher wisdom. I did watch yesterday’s game on NBATV last night, and Engin looked ecstatic when they won. Very cool.

Now that FIBA.com is back up and all of their news articles are accessible, I figured out that Engin was never off the team. Dinc was apparently cut back around the 3rd of August, as I had thought. FIBA’s website crashed yesterday, and now that it is back up I am seeing feeds from a month ago I never got. Wonky marketing, and Atsur on the bench. Sigh. It is not a perfect world.

Tags: engin atsur, FIBA, wolfpack basketball