Point guard Marcus Hall has signed with Istanbulspor in Turkey's second division according to several sources and his agency. Hall joins the team from Byblos in Lebanon, where he spent the first half of this season. In nine games Hall averaged a career-high 19.2 points and 6.2 assists per game in Lebanon, and his scoring and playmaking abilities will come in handy for an Instanbulspor side that is near the bottom of the Turkish Basketball League standings with a 6-14 record. This will be the Colorado grad's fifth different team in Turkey having spent time with four other teams, most recently with Afyonkarahisar Belediyespor during the 2015-2016 season.
BOTW takes us to Germany, where John Bryant had a monster game for the Giessen 46ers in German Basketball Bundesliga play. The Santa Clara grad dropped 38 points while shooting 70 percent from the floor and a perfect 12 out of 12 from the free throw line. Bryant also grabbed 14 rebounds in addition to two blocks and a steal.
Though his team came up short in the game (a 99-95 loss to EWE Baskets Oldenburg), Bryant’s huge performance and dominance in the paint got our attention enough to name him our Baller of the Week. |