Brent Petway played in EuroLeague title game

Submitted by Chaz_Smash on

He scored 2 points in 16 minutes for Oympiacos in a 78-59 loss to Real Madrid on Sunday. Not a bad career progression. EuroLeague Final Four is a huge event.

Olympiacos is based in Athens. This is his second year with that team.

Tate

May 18th, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^

Is 2 points in 16 minutes thread-worthy? I mean I can come back tomorrow and post a recap of my intramural game tonight if you want.

Blue Noise

May 18th, 2015 at 3:36 PM ^

Yes, extremely threadworthy. I, for one, was very interested to see this thread. There aren't that many Michigan alums playing professional basketball, and Brent Petway just had a role (however limited) in one of the biggest basketball events in the world. I had seen nothing about this until reading this thread, so it was quite informative.




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Mercury Hayes

May 18th, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^

I was in Greece watching this game. There were 8 turnovers in the first 4 minutes. Also Othello Hunter plays in the front court along side Petway. The league also has some former NBA players like Sonny Weems and Andrei Kirilinko but it is garbage to watch. Looks like the guys have never played a game together.

ijohnb

May 18th, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^

He was our high flyer during the long winter, early/mid 2000s.  Could absolutely jump out of the gym but never really became anything more than that for us.

Yo_Blue

May 18th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^

Here's an interesting web site that shows all of Michigan's NBA and ABA players.  It is sortable by topic (for instance Rice and Webbe are 1-2 in career points, Webber and Howard are 1-2 in rebounds, Rickey Green and Jamal Crawford are 1-2 in assists, Trey Burke is #3 in assists per game).  Check it out.

LINK

Did you know that possibly the greatest Michigan player of all time, Cazzie Russell, never made a 3 pointer as a pro?  Trick question - he played before the 3 pointer was allowed.

ypsituckyboy

May 18th, 2015 at 4:40 PM ^

I took a class entitled "Earth: A Dynamic Planet". It was nicknamed "rocks for jocks" due to the heavy concentration of athletes in it. It was no joke. Harder than almost any other LSA class I took and it ended up being one of my worst grades at UM.

On the flip side, I'd recommend Anthro Bio 101, which gave me my first and only A+ of my academic career (kindergarden through law school).

JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

May 19th, 2015 at 12:36 AM ^

We didn't do ourselves any favors, but our 2006 team got screwed out of a tournament bid.

2007 as well.

Similar teams record wise over these past few years made it, but back then it was fun for the committee to screw us over.  

When you see laughable bids like 2011 Michigan State and 2014 Iowa, it makes me shake my head.  

In the end, it worked out because it forced the school and program about getting serious and improving the facilities.

I do wish we would have hired Beilein around 2002.