[ballah09]

Layer going International??



Tomasz Gielo
6'9 218 SF
Szczecin (POLAND)

Tomasz Gielo (POL) – interested schools: Iona, Liberty
2m04 – Forward
Current Team: SMS PZKosz Wladyslawowo (Poland)
More info: ■U18 European Championship 2010 Division A: the Big Guys - August 16, 2010
■U17 World Championship 2010: Poland - July 15, 2010

http://www.europeanprospects.com/inform ... lass-2011/

stats in FIBA
http://hamburg2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/f ... ofile.html


Draftexpress profile...on NBA radar
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Tomasz-Gielo-6209/

[ballah09]

Tomasz Gielo – 2m04 – F – 1993 – Trojka Kos Szczecin

If there would have been a Sixth-Man-Award, Tomasz Gielo would have been among the favorites for sure. The athletic forward is most likely the player that showed the most progress since last summer in the Polish team. The left handed Power Forward runs the floor very well and is really present on both ends of the floor. He is not afraid to go for the tough dunk even against bigger players than himself.

Offensively, Gielo showed good improvement on the drive where he is now able to beat his defender with his left hand. His right hand still needs some additional development as he barely uses it at the moment. His jump shot goes out until the three point line from where he can hit the occasional one, especially from the corner. His future should be on the SF position as he has the necessary athletic abilities and the handles to become an interesting player. On defense, Gielo is a nice shot blocker but needs to improve his individual and team defense as he lacks probably the necessary concentration over the full game. However, he remains one of the most interesting players for the future of the whole Polish team.

Stats: 13.8ppg (63.9% 2FG – 17.6% 3FG), 6.6rpg, 2.4apg, 1.4bpg

more info


http://www.europeanprospects.com/contin ... 10-poland/

[Sly Fox]

Great find, ballah09!

[ToTheLeft]

Interesting that he's interested in Iona and Liberty... hopefully we win and convince him we're the right choice.

[ALAFlamesFan]

Wow. This would be a great pick up. Fingers crossed!

[jcmanson]

Interesting that he's interested in Iona and Liberty... hopefully we win and convince him we're the right choice.

My first reaction as well

[TDDance234]

Layer's digging deep. Wonder how he got connected with Liberty?

[Cider Jim]

If we sign him, poor Carter drops ever further on the bigs depth chart.

[ALAFlamesFan]

If we sign him, poor Carter drops ever further on the bigs depth chart.

If we sign him I don't think Carter will be on the depth chart for our team.

[TDDance234]

If we sign him, poor Carter drops ever further on the bigs depth chart.

If we sign him I don't think Carter will be on the depth chart for our team.

Regardless of who we sign, don't see Carter on the depth chart for our team. Will be hard for him to transfer, already using up a redshirt year, but I can't see him sticking around.

[jcmanson]

Carter is on pace to graduate in May. If he does he can transfer to a school without using a year of eligibility if they have a graduate program that we don't offer.

[PAmedic]

All I can think is "Jay-lo"

I can hear it now...

"lets go Gielo" clap-clap-clapclapclap

[olldflame]

I really can't judge, not having seen any of them play, but if we sign this kid along with Smith and Baird, "on paper" it looks like we will have 3 very similar new players starting out next year. Having said that, if you are going to have 3 players that are a lot alike, 6'8"-6'9", athletic and skilled is a good kind to have.

[ALAFlamesFan]

I really can't judge, not having seen any of them play, but if we sign this kid along with Smith and Baird, "on paper" it looks like we will have 3 very similar new players starting out next year. Having said that, if you are going to have 3 players that are a lot alike, 6'8"-6'9", athletic and skilled is a good kind to have.

That is almost too much to hope for given our recent past. What a turn around in terms of personnel! I think we could find some PT for all these guys eventually.

[jcmanson]

I really can't judge, not having seen any of them play, but if we sign this kid along with Smith and Baird, "on paper" it looks like we will have 3 very similar new players starting out next year. Having said that, if you are going to have 3 players that are a lot alike, 6'8"-6'9", athletic and skilled is a good kind to have.

I would also think either Smith or this kid would redshirt.

[ALAFlamesFan]

I really can't judge, not having seen any of them play, but if we sign this kid along with Smith and Baird, "on paper" it looks like we will have 3 very similar new players starting out next year. Having said that, if you are going to have 3 players that are a lot alike, 6'8"-6'9", athletic and skilled is a good kind to have.

I would also think either Smith or this kid would redshirt.

Agree. And it sounds like this kid could use a redshirt year to work on his game.

[ballah09]

he's probably been prep he's whole life in bball like most european basketball players

played against the best of the world (18 under) in the FIBA games. I think it would give him the edge but it would depend what Layer wants him to be. SF or PF. could redshirt if put in PF to gain weight but i think he would be too highly skill to redshirt.

anyway
Video
http://www.fibatv.com/page/fibaeuropeVi ... 40,00.html

looks like Andrei Kirilenko

[olldflame]

I'll be surprised if either are redshirted. Non-medical redshirts are just not done that often. JVP was the first one we had in years. If you burn a year on a voluntary and then later the kid has an injury, you lose a year on the court.

[ballah09]

They heard he committed to us

While we heard a few weeks ago already that Tomasz Gielo has decided to play for the small school of Liberty, this information did not get confirmed yet though

http://www.europeanprospects.com/1987-b ... -the-ncaa/

[olldflame]

Even if he commits getting him past the clearing house will probably be a nightmare...still, great pickup.

The clearinghouse has been a nightmare for Nigerian recruits. Not so much for Euros as long as they haven't gotten excessive compensation from a club team.

[ballah09]

he doesnt play a on a pro team. he goes to a strictly bball school

http://www.sms-cetniewo.pl/

The school was founded with the aim of training the most talented players in the country, and its graduates in the future to be the strength of PLK and the senior national team. Basketball workouts in SMS PZKosz leads an experienced group coaching, which includes specialists in basketball training, and overall physical wellness coach. About pozasportową care youth education group of teachers from the county of Puck, who make the high school educational program.

they have a strict recruiting policy

The Basketball School Sports Championships learns the most talented young people in Poland, which has a predisposition to achieve in the future as a result of sports at the highest level. Competitors are mostly representatives of SMS in the country's youth cadres of the National U-18 and U-20, which allows them to gain experience not only basketball on national grounds. Recruitment to the first high school class is the result of continuous observation and selection of athletes participating in the Regional Training, competitions Youngsters, Youth and the National Olympiad competition Cadets (age 14-16 years).


• I STAGE - 14latków observation - as a preparatory stage to acquire information about the talented young people in a given vintage. The main point of this activity is to observe the Youngsters Cup Provincial Personnel, which starts about 160 players selected in the two tournaments (the Tatras Cup and Cup of Pomerania). In parallel, next to these tournaments are held at the Polish Championship game Youngsters, where the central system of monitoring will be about 384 players from 32 teams throughout the country. Early observation of a younger vintage SMS allows coaches to make the initial selection of vintage, and thus observations of these players in future years.
• STAGE II - 15latków observation - as a step further selection of players, coaches where SMS will focus on observation of the regional training center (kampy Kamp provincial and central), where he made will be the first diagnostic evaluation of athletes (psychological tests, motor skills, techniques and decisiveness in a basketball game) under which selection will be narrowed to a select group Competitive. A very important element of selection at this stage of the tournament will be observing National Junior Olympics, where the work will be rated players in match situations of stress.
• PHASE III - 16latków observation - as the final stage of observation Athletes, where our goal will be monitoring a group of players selected in the two earlier stages of action and assess their degree of progress of the basketball, mental and motor development. The main objective observation of the game here will be the central Polish Championship of Cadets and the activities of the National Team U-16.
• PHASE IV - organization "Open Day" NLO SMS PZKosz Wladyslawowo, where the OPO Cetniewo invite 20 players selected in the earlier stages, and we give them psychological tests, motor, basketball. The results of these tests will be crucial for the adoption of new players to our school.

was the leading the scorer in the in the USA U17 FIBA gold medal game w/ 21 points.

Saving their best performance for last, and fittingly seeing all-12 members of the USA U17 World Championship Team score, the Americans’ depth and teamwork again proved, as it had all tournament, too much for its opponent and the U.S. ran to a 111-80 victory over Poland (7-1) Sunday to claim the gold medal in the inaugural 2010 FIBA U17 World Championship in Hamburg Germany.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u17/m ... 07_11.html

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[ALAFlamesFan]

Crossing my fingers that the rumors are true. This would be one of the best 2 person recruiting classes in LU and perhaps Big South history.

[olldflame]

I will be surprised if we don't have 3 in our recruiting class, with the 3rd being a guard.

[jcmanson]

Hughes will sign if he makes the grades

[bigsmooth]

cider, you should just come to grips that carter is done...