Although I would have loved to have seen him play fro a Euroleague side straight away, this could be good for Ogilvy to showcase he has what it takes to be a very good pro big man in Europe - a potential stepping stone to bigger and better things.

Eurobasket Link: http://linky.com.au/za710

Signing with a Euroleague would have been a bad move in my opinion, as those teams tend to play rookie imports only sparingly while they adjust to the physical style of play.

At Besiktas he gets to play in a good league in Turkey as well as (hopefully) the Eurocup which is a comparable level to the NBL playoffs. If he can excel there then the big Euro clubs will come knocking.

Maric is a good example. Did it tough in Spain, then excelled in Serbia and now he's being rumoured to go to every big club in Europe...

Aleks has shunned the rumours though and resigned with Partizan.

RE goddamn SIGNED.

NOT resigned (quit)

You cant quit 'with' a team, you can quit 'from' a team. Pretty self-explanatory.

Self explanatory or contradictory?

Much of the English language is contradictory, Sector 7G, this is but one glaring example. The word resign has many meanings in English, two of which include:

To give up an office or position.

To renew or extend a contract.

http://linky.com.au/0865l

It is the latter which is most often used in sporting parlance. An intelligent person can usually glean the correct meaning from the context.

You appear to be advocacing the use of a hyphen to differentiate the latter from the former. There is no obligation to do so in terms of being linguistically correct. You are merely trying to impose your personal preference upon others.

paul has proven himself to be a highly literate poster and journalist and is the wrong target for your grammar crusade. God knows there are far more worthy targets for your ire posting here every day.

advocating^

Yes I am advocating the use of the hyphen and as I interpret your link above, so is Dictionary.com

I think you are confused by their use of the hyphen in their definition of re-sign and thier use of a seperator in the word "resign" where the seperator is used to clarify pronunciation.

Dictionary.com goes on to highlight that the two "Can be confused: ?re-sign, resign"

Your defence of Paul as as admirable as it is touching, but if paul is a journalist he will surely know he is WRONG.

FFS - who really cares?

We all know he is returning to Partizan!

I also know that people who spend time picking out others' grammar mistakes on internet forums have some issues. How do you go reading texts?

Aahhh. Personal abuse.
So you admit you are wrong.
Nice.

Kudos, Sector 7G, Mea Culpa. The seperator and the hyphen do appear to be slightly different lengths. Don't get me wrong, I too would use the hyphen were I writing the word but I see it so often without, that it just seems moot. Especially with all the should of's and your instead of you're that I see posted every day, to use but two examples that are like nails on a chalkboard to me.

But perhaps you are right to expect more from journalists. Poor paul, I still luv ya!

I'll sleep well tonight. :)

If I wrote 'thier' instead of their, 'as' instead of is, and 'seperator' instead of separator, I would not be demanding of others' use of the English language! I think forums should be free from want-to-be English teachers!

Back to Maric, Panathinaikos are apparently keen to acquire him from Partizan, but the Serbian club is asking for one million Euros to release him from his contract.

journalist hey?

Touché, paul!

I think it is actually "wannabe English teachers" there paul..

; )

Paul, If you wrote 'thier' instead of their, 'as' instead of is, and 'seperator' instead of separator I would think you were ignorant.

When you write resign instead of re-sign I just think you are wrong.