Experience, talent, enthusiasm land a Trieste with the arrival in red and white of Adrian Banks. The US guard will be at Coach’s disposal Franco Ciani for next season, wearing the colors ofAllianz Basketball Trieste.
“We are happy to welcome Adrian in red and white – comments the President Mario Ghiacci – he is an extraordinary player and his arrival also certifies the growth made by the club in recent years. Obviously when a player of this caliber is on the market there are many suitors; his strong conviction in choosing Trieste is a great satisfaction for us. Our enthusiasm in welcoming him is equal to what he transmitted to us at the idea of joining us, he could almost be a satisfied player but his stimuli and motivations are very high and they go perfectly with ours “.
“From a technical point of view it is an operation that speaks for itself – explains Coach Franco Ciani – he is one of the players who have most marked the last few seasons and who has left his mark and his seal in the experiences he has undertaken the most. It is almost impossible to say something new about its qualities, everyone knows them and we are convinced that they integrate perfectly with our project. For this reason, when we realized that this negotiation was viable, we started it with great decision. I have spoken several times these days with the boy, we immediately found the harmony between what he wanted for next season and what we wanted to add to the team. His ability to be both a soloist and first striker and a team man capable of building together with his teammates complete that mix of experience and youth that is Pallacanestro Trieste “.
Banks signed an annual contract. Born in 1986, born in Memphis (Tennessee), Adrian Banks is a guard of 191cm for 88kg
Raised between the universities of Northwest Mississippi and Arkansas State University, he arrived in Europe in 2008 by signing with Vervier. He then remained in Belgium also in the following year, but in the ranks of Liège, and then moved to Israel in 2010 with the colors of Elitzur Maccabi Netanya. He arrived in Italy for the first time in 2012 at Cimberio Varese, where he recorded 13.9 points per game, before returning to Israel again for a brief interlude with Hapoel Gilboa Galil Elyon.
He then returns to Italy where over the years he wears the jerseys again from Varese and then Avellino, Brindisi and Fortitudo Bologna, a tricolor sequence interrupted between 2016 and 2018 for a third experience in Israel at Hapoel Tel Aviv.
In Italy he played 201 games scoring 3341 points and 603 assists in total.
In the last season, in the ranks of Fortitudo Bologna, the average points stood at 16.8 and that of assists at 4.4 while the previous year, in Brindisi, he reached his career record with an exceptional 21.2 points average a match, resulting in the best scorer in the Serie A championship.
Source: Pallacanestro Trieste press office
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