Before closing Juani Marcos's return to Barça, The Barca club thought of Lorenzo Brown To reinforce the base position. The American player with Spanish nationality fit into the game direction of the Catalan club for his versatility.
With Tomas Satoransky and Juan Núñez in payroll, Barça thought of Brown as an orchestra director with a privileged game vision, but also with a necessary annotation to '1', something that the team did not have Joan Peñarroya Last year as soon as Nico Laprovittola fell.
Peñarroya's alternatives
The Argentine exterior was the preferred option of the Barca coach in the base position, but when falling in combat, it was only with 'Sato' and the young Spanish '1'. With Núñez's knee injury, the situation was even more traumatic in the first Barca team: Peñarroya threw the young Raul Villar, And in some moments he gave the keys of the ship to a Darío Brizuela which fulfilled in a solvent manner.
Joel Parra, Darío Brizuela and Joan Peñarroya, in the Endesa League match in Valencia / ACB Photo – Miguel Ángel Polo
With the possible arrival of Brown, The base position in Barça de Basket was quite complete incorporating a player with more points and much more exterior threat than Satoransky and Núñez. But there was an important impediment, such as the contract that the Spanish international still had in force with Panathinaikos, a club that signed last summer after his good work in the MacCabi.
Important signing in Panathinaikos
It has not been an easy or brilliant season for Brown in the Athenian team. He has had a practically testimonial role, and his numbers (6.2 points and 2.6 assists per match in Euroleague) do not correspond to what the player exhibited in recent years. Pao has moved token this summer closing one of the great incorporations of the market as it is TJ Shorts. After shining in Paris the last two years, the American base is waiting for him with open arms in Greece.
TJ Shorts, in Euroleague's match against Barça played at the Palau Blaugrana / Valentine Enrich
But the team that trains Ergin Ataman Nor was he willing to give Brown, something that caused Barça to discard the operation for the high cost that his signing meant. Instead, there is already another Euroleague team willing to pay the toll to get their services. It is about Olimpia Milan, That according to several media from Italy, the player signing has closed.
Lorenzo Brown's new team
In fact, Andrea Calzoni states that The player spent medical examination in Milan this Wednesday, so that in the next few hours there could be news in the form of formalizations.
A few days after 35 years old, Brown will continue to stretch the list of teams he has played in the old continent. I arrive in Europe in 2019 by the Red Estrella to later play in Fenerbahçe, Unics Kazan, Maccabi and Panathinaikos himself.
