Thursday, December 17, 2009

BC Donetsk signed Giorgi Tsintsadze


BC Donetsk signed Giorgi Tsintsadze (193-PG-86) until the end of the season.



The 23-year old point guard recently terminated his contract with AS Trikalla 2000 of Greece due to lack of payments. Giorgi Tsintsadze is a product of CSKA Moscow juniors. He played in Dusan Ivkovic’s CSKA Moscow at the age of 16 and later signed with Dynamo Moscow when his life-coach moved there. Giorgi Tsintsadze’s Dynamo Moscow won the ULEB Cup title in 2006 and Tsintsadze helped his team in 6 games averaging 2.5ppg, 2.0rpg, 4.0apg and 2.0spg. In Russian Superleague Tsintsadze took part in 12 games averaging 5.7ppg, 1.3rpg, 2.1apg, 3PT:52.0%.

From 2006-07 Tsintsadze joined Estonian TU/Rock where his game flourished. He personally led the small team of TU/Rock to its historical  qualification to the Final Four of FIBA EuroCup 2008. 21-year old Giorgi Tsintsadze was named PG of the Year of FIBA EuroCup 2008 while averaged 14.4ppg, 3.8rpg, Assists-2(5.2apg), 1.8spg in 13 games. He was selected in the All-Star team of Baltic League and FIBA EuroCup in 2008.

Last year Tsintsadze led the Baltic League in Assists-1(5.3apg) while averaged 16.4ppg, 3.6rpg and helped his Tartu Rock to reach the Baltic League semi-finals. He was named MVP of Estonian League in 2008-2009 seasons while led the EMKL league in Assists-1(4.2apg). This year he also led European Championships Division B in Assists-1(5.3apg) with his native Georgian National Team and qualified to European Championships Division A 2010.


source : LMG Sports

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kristjan Kangur of BC Kalev-Cramo was MVP in 2009 Estonian finals NOT Giorgi Tsintsadze!!!

Anonymous said...

Yes Kangur was MVP of "Finals" but Tsintsadze was MVP of Estonian League which means that he was nominated as best player of the Estonian League in 2008-09.