06-24-2026, 09:45 PM
Even accounting for the Russia thing and their ongoing ban from Euro League that limits the exposure, I look at Ishchenko´s stats, accolades and the highlights and I´m absolutely bewildered how he dropped to #56. He´s athletic, the highlight reel is a total package of ball handling, decision-making, lob passes, 3pt shooting, defensive awareness, footwork and vertical blocks, athletic dunks. That VTB league is still pretty strong, even if it´s only 10 teams and they were the 2nd best team; only team to win a play-off game against the CSKA juggernaut. It says he was an All-Star selection and ROTY. I think they got a HUGE steal with this kid. Gives me Andrei Kirilenko vibes based obviously on limited evidence.
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