GENTOFTE: SISU henter deres anden amerikaner. Til at flankere Mario Brown og Thomas Soltau har klubben fundet Donald Rutherford, frisk udklækket fra Catawba College i North Carolina. SISUs nye forward måler 198 cm. og vejer 95.5 kg – en fysisk spiller, som efter sigende også skulle kunne hæve sig selv og sit spil højt over gulvet.
The dunker
I en artikel skrevet tidligere på året af en amerikansk avis, går Rutherford under navnet “the dunker”. Om han kan leve op til den titel må tiden i den danske liga vise. Efter fire år på college kommer Rutherford til Danmark og SISU med statistikken 15.2 ppg, 7.0 rpg og 50 blokerede skud i 31 kampe.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark –
Morganton native Donald Rutherford has responded from an “off” month of December with a fury to start 2011.
Through Friday, the 2005 Freedom High graduate had recorded three consecutive games with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds while playing his first season of professional basketball in Denmark for SISU, the country’s oldest and most established pro hoops squad.
Rutherford played in just three of the team’s contests in December, twice playing fewer than 20 minutes.
But since the start of January, Rutherford has scored at least 12 points in each of SISU’s 11 games while grabbing 10 or more rebounds eight different times over that span. He’s also added three or more assists on five occasions in ’11, has connected on 21 of 24 free-throw attempts over the last four games and has failed to shoot at least 50 percent from the floor only once this calendar year.
Rutherford’s 14.4 point per game average ranks third on the team, while his 6.8 rebounds are second-best.
SISU (11-16) currently holds the sixth and final playoff spot in the Grundspil division. The league’s playoffs begin Thursday.