BC Astana

BK Astana Tigers is a Kazakhstani basketball club based in the Kazakhstani capital, Astana. The team competes in the First Division of the Kazakhstani National League, having already won 6 championships[1]. The Tigers competed in the 21st FIBA-Asia Champions cup held last May 22–30, 2010, bagging fifth place[2]. BC Astana entered the VTB United League[3] for the 2011-2012 season, making it the first Central Asian team in that league. Having also competed in an Asian tournament, BC Astana has achieved the rare feat of playing in two separate continental tournaments (the VTB United League for European countries and the FIBA Asia Champions Cup).

Roster

Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt.
G/F 4 Marshall, Rawle 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
G 5 Johnson, Jerry 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
C 6 Fadeykin, Vsevolod 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
G 7 Biriulin, Yegor 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
F 8 Voyeikov, Maxim 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
F 11 Ponomarev, Anton 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)
F 12 Klimov, Dmitriy 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
G/F 13 Yargaliyew, Rustam 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
C 14 Williams, Eric 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)
C 15 Skornyakov, Artem 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)
G/F 20 Cvetković, Branko 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
F/C 21 Cakić, Goran 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)
G 24 Ilyin, Pavel 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
G 33 Milošević, Igor 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Head coach
  • Matteo Boniciolli
Assistant coach(es)
  • Evgeniy Ovsiannikov
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (DP) Development player
  • (TP) Training player
  • (I) Import player
  • Injured

Roster • updated 03/10/2011

Notes

  1. ^ Sixth Gold for Astana! (2010, March 7). Retrieved 10 June 2010 from the Internet at http://en.astana.kz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2330&Itemid=1.
  2. ^ Fiba Asia. (2010, May 30). KAZ/SYR – Second half surge gives Astana the fifth place. Retrieved 10 June 2010 from the Internet at http://doha2010.fibaasia.net/doha/TournamentNewsDetails.aspx?id=49.
  3. ^ http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/the-final-list-of-participants-and-format-of-competition-for-season-201112-has-been-defined.htm

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