Sergio Llull continues to receive praise from his colleagues for his countless successes in basketball. One of the latest comes from the mouth of a player who is taking his first steps in the European sphere and whom he has already faced several times this season. Justin Anderson, Valencia Basket forward, highlighted, in addition to his quality, his ability to sustain himself after so many years compared to the generations that come after him.
“Sergio Llull is, in my opinion, the best of all time in Europe. The guy has ice in his veins and still plays harder than half of the young kids today,” Anderson noted through his social networks.
Llull remains at a good level both in the Spanish National Team and in Real Madrid at 36 years of age. Without going any further, last season he gave the Whites the Euroleague with a historic basket, beating Fall and the rest of Olympiacos.
The assumption of Justin Anderson has more value given that he is taking his first steps in European basketball in 2023/24. First in Breogán and now in Valencia. The American places Llull above other generational talents such as Spanoulis, Navarro, Kukoc, the Sabonis, Ricky Rubio, the Gasols, Kirilenko or Petrovic (understanding that they have competed in the European Cup at some point).
Llull faced Anderson’s Valencia for the last time in the Malaga Cup and scored 11 points against them. Mumbrú’s team has played against Mateo’s four times in just over three months given that they share the League and Euroleague.
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Anderson, 30, entered Europe via Breogán. He had to wait to see if he got a satisfactory offer in the NBA and, seeing that this was not the case, he decided to embark on the Lugo project with the ACB season already started. In the team led by Mrsic, with which he also played in European competition (Basketball Champions League), he fit in like a glove, averaging 11.6 points.
This led Valencia to sign him on a temporary contract that was later extended until the end of the year, given his good performance. Anderson, a stocky 1.98 meter forward born in Montross and trained in the Virginia Cavaliers, has fallen on his feet in Spain after being chosen 21st in the 2015 Draft and not meeting the expectations of his team, Dallas Mavericks, which He left before the arrival of Luka Doncic from -precisely- Llull’s Madrid. His time in several NBA affiliates (Raptors, Nets, Cavaliers, Pacers) strangled his chances of success in the country of his birth and in Europe a new path has been opened for him.
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2024-04-14 09:57:47
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