Noah Allen, last season with HLA Alicante against Palencia Baloncesto. /
The North American forward, also a former HLA Alicante player who led the new purple coach, stands out for his rebounding ability and intensity
Palencia Basketball continues to add troops to its squad next season, and at an almost dizzying pace, as it has already announced five signings when even the equator of July has not yet been passed. Pedro Rivero, new coach of the purple team, does not want to waste a minute probing the market and the college club yesterday announced the arrival of North American Noah Allen (California, February 1, 1995), 2.01 meters high, to reinforce the perimeter of the team.
The new member of the Palencia Basketball outdoor game that was trained at the University of Hawaii, became an outstanding player in the NCAA and played the NBA Summer League in 2017 with the Golden State Warriors.
That same year, Allen signed for ICL Manresa, a team with which he achieved promotion to the ACB League and then began a tour of the US and Europe until, in January of this year, he returned to the LEB Gold League of the hand of HLA Alicante, averaging 10 points, 4.1 rebounds and 0.9 assists in the Levantine team, to value 11.7. “It is a ‘3’ with the ability to rebound, to play one against one and even has the ability to shoot three. And then it has a great quality, which is the defensive sacrifice. He is capable of rebounding and taking the ball out into the open field and, in three pots, being from one field to another, “says coach Pedro Rivero in relation to the new signing.
The Alicante fishing ground
Thus, Palencia Baloncesto continues fishing in the HLA Alicante fishing ground, a team led by the new coach of the purple club. Noah Allen joins the signings of Chumi Ortega and Bamba Fall, two players that Pedro Rivero already had at his command at HLAAlicante. And it is that Chumi Ortega and Bamba Fall coincided in the Alicante team in the 2019-2020 season.
Chumi Ortega arrived at the Levantine club a season earlier from LEBPlata’s Albacete and stayed in Alicante for three seasons, achieving an average of 5.7 points, 4 rebounds and 1.2 assists in the last one. For his part, Bamba Fall, who finished in the LEB Gold League with HLA Alicante, was the most valued player in the competition in the 2019-2020 season. The Senegalese center averaged 14 points with a 60.7% accuracy in shooting and 73.5% in free throws. In addition, he accompanied his statistics with 8.6 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 3.9 fouls received per game. Fall achieved an average valuation of 20.5, a figure that made him the best player in the League during the 24 games that were played before confinement.
Along with these three players, the Murcian Juan Rubio, 25 years old and 1.98 meters tall, has also arrived in Palencia, who began his training in the quarries of CB Capuchinos and UCAM Murcia and made his debut in the 2016-17 season. in LEB Plata with Xuven Cambados. A year later he reached the LEB Oro from the hand of Club Melilla Baloncesto and, after two seasons at Melilla, he signed for Real Valladolid Baloncesto, with whom he only played nine games and ended up at Real Murcia Baloncesto where he has played both last seasons, achieving in the last 7.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.8 assists on average.
The American point guard Mica Speight, from Liberbank Oviedo –which averaged 11.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists last year– is another of the reinforcements of Palencia Baloncesto, which also has the Catalan point guard Dani Rodríguez, with a current contract.
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