Isaac
Years ago
Ingles wins Copa del Rey with Regal Barcelona
Surprised no one's posted this yet.
Copa del Rey is a Spanish basketball tournament (King's Cup) played between the top eight teams from the Spanish league at around the half-way mark of the regular season. They play a four day tournament.
Joe Ingles' team, Regal Barcelona, won this year, beating rivals Real Madrid on Feb 13. Here's a list of results of the 2010-11 tournament.
From that page, attendances are around 10-14,000 people. Regal Barcelona have playing for them Rubio, Navarro, Vazquez, etc. Ingles is a back-up SF behind an American, Alan Anderson.
For those who haven't loosely followed Ingles' recent travels in European basketball, his club's site has this:
After seven ACB games with Granada, Joe was picked up by Regal Barça to cover the loss through injury of Gianluca Basile, but also as a long term option, with the Aussie signing on for three years. His impressive stats so far this season mark him out as a player for a big club with an average of 33 minutes on court, 13,3 points, 4 defensive rebounds and nearly 1 in attack, 3,9 assists and a global valuation average of 17 points.Joe had 22 points in the three games of the tournament, including 15 points in one game.
For the few people who've recently sounded hopeful of luring someone like Ingles back to the 36ers, the transfer fee to get Joe from Granada to Barcelona was listed as 450,000 Euros (just over AU$600k). I read that Boniface N'Dong (back-up centre for Barcelona) is on a two-year 3.3m Euro contract.
I think it's easy to forget what Joe has and is achieving here.
It's not always easy to keep track of Australian players in detail while they play in Europe, so hopefully a few people find this interesting.
