Toulouse: Shavy Babicka set to sign for Red Star Belgrade
Gabon international Shavy Babicka is on the verge of joining Red Star Belgrade.
According to recent reports, Toulouse and Red Star Belgrade have reached an agreement for the transfer of Shavy Babicka during this summer transfer window. As reported by Serbian outlets Mozzart and Arena Sport, the club from Haute-Garonne has accepted a €4 million offer for the Gabonese forward.
Meanwhile, Les Violets have brought in Santiago Hidalgo to strengthen their attack.
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- Indianapolis Star
'Me being me.' Lamar Wilkerson showed Indiana basketball why he was a high-profile transfer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lamar Wilkerson smiled a knowing half-smile Saturday night, as he listened to the last question of his postgame session with assembled media inside Coliseo Roberto Clemente. Wilkerson spoke in the minutes following a remarkable turnaround win from Indiana, which trailed by as many as 23 points in the first half against Serbian club side Mega Superbasket before rallying to win 93-71. The redshirt senior Sam Houston State transfer had played a pivotal role in that comeback, scoring a team-best 18 points. Fully 13 of those had come during the second half that saw the Hoosiers — now 2-0 on this trip — outscore their opponents 58-23. They were Wilkerson's best minutes of the preseason so far. Immersed in the flow of Indiana's high-gear offense, he moved fluidly with and without the ball, and when he stepped into shots or ball fakes leading to scores off the bounce, all his movements looked fixed, smooth and effortless. 'It's just like being,' Wilkerson said, 'in an empty gym. I don't see nobody. 'It's just me being me.' Indiana will need that all winter long. Wilkerson was among the most high-profile new faces added during Darian DeVries' spring roster makeover. He averaged better than 20 points per game last season with the Bearkats, and was widely regarded among the most dangerous shooters in the transfer portal during this cycle. When he signed with Indiana over, among others, Kentucky, it was seen as a major coup for DeVries in his earliest weeks on the job. On the evidence of the Hoosiers' first two preseason games in Puerto Rico, DeVries' hard work bringing Wilkerson to Bloomington was not wasted. 'Lamar,' DeVries said afterward with a smile, 'can shoot as many times as he wants.' That range did not find Wilkerson in IU's first game here, a 51-point blowout of Central Universidad de Bayamon on Wednesday. Wilkerson finished that game 3 of 14, and 3 of 13 from 3, struggling for that familiar rhythm before giving way to teammates with hotter hands. 'We haven't told him that yet.' New Indiana basketball player Aleksa Ristic learning quickly DeVries joked after the Bayamon win that he 'kind of like(d) the fact that (Wilkerson) struggled shooting.' 'Because he doesn't struggle very often,' DeVries explained, 'so this is a good one to get out of the way.' Wilkerson struggled like Indiana did in Saturday's first quarter, trying to get to grips with Mega Superbet's length and physicality. Indeed, he reached halftime — by which point the Hoosiers had at least steadied themselves, trimming a 23-point deficit to 13 — with only five points on three field goal attempts. But as IU's momentum built, so did Wilkerson's confidence. Hand in hand, the Hoosiers' control of Saturday's game extended as their most dangerous scorer found that empty-gym feeling. 'I have ultimate faith in Lamar making shots,' DeVries said postgame Saturday. 'I think you saw a glimpse of why we do in that second half. He can just change a game in two, three possessions. He can go 0 for 4 to 4 for 8, 6 for 10 in a hurry.' Ultimately, Wilkerson finished 7 of 11 from the floor. He made 4 of 7 3s. His 18 points were a team- and a co-game-high. On an evening when multiple Hoosiers ignited the many small runs that eventually added up to a 70-19 turnaround on the scoreboard, Wilkerson showcased to assembled fans — both IU and local — why his teammates and coaches believe he is so dangerous. 'It felt good,' Wilkerson said, 'for all of our pieces to fall (into place) together, all of us stay together and make that run.' In that way, Wilkerson signified something wider about Indiana on Saturday too. The change in offensive emphasis across these two games has not been surprising. Little about DeVries' fast-paced, open-floor offensive philosophy ever bore resemblance to the more methodical, post-driven approach IU took under Mike Woodson. But there's preaching spacing and shooting, and there's actually following through on it. Even when shots aren't falling, like they weren't Wednesday. Or when it's not stopping the bleeding, like it wasn't in the first quarter Saturday. Indiana didn't recruit a roster of shooters on the idea of 3-point shooting, but the act of it. DeVries believes it is central to their identity and their success, no matter the circumstance. 'We have a lot of faith in our shooters,' he said. 'We want them to play with confidence.' Insider: Darian DeVries' offensive shift for IU is obvious and a complete 180 from Mike Woodson's Which made Wilkerson's observation Saturday — that it was beneficial for IU to experience this kind of game — a fair one. 'We'd rather get punched in the mouth right now,' he said, 'than in March.' DeVries might be pleased with the results so far in Puerto Rico. He should certainly be pleased with the method to getting there, and his team's willingness to respond to his coaching and stick to his principles, no matter the weather. And, while the sample size is small, that certainly appears to apply to Wilkerson, a player who might wind up as important as any Hoosier this season.
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- Indianapolis Star
'We haven't told him that yet': New Indiana basketball player Aleksa Ristic learning quickly
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Aleksa Ristic spent a few minutes exchanging pleasantries with the other side Saturday, before Indiana's preseason game against Serbian club side Mega Superbet. Then, he turned in 24 1/2 steady, meaningful minutes for Indiana in a 93-71 comeback win. It would have been easy to forget the players he was chatting with pregame had been his teammates longer than the ones he followed off the floor victorious at night's end. Ristic, an incoming freshman from Nis, Serbia, signed with Indiana in June but only joined the Hoosiers in the days leading up to this preseason tour of Puerto Rico. He's spent the last two games, in his new coach's words, speeding up the process of settling into his new team. Bob Knight: On the Record 'It's hard, because Alex' — Ristic goes by Alex — 'has only been here a little while,' DeVries said postgame Wednesday. 'He doesn't even know a whole lot of the (plays). I would call something, it's like, 'Oh, we haven't even told him what that is yet.' 'But that's all fine, that's part of the game. He's done a really good job adjusting.' Familiarity will come with time. Ristic's first job now is to make the best first impression possible. It's going well so far. A three-year pro for KK Dynamic in Serbia's top basketball league, Ristic averaged 13.6 points, 4.2 assists and 3.2 rebounds in his most recent senior campaign. The primary reason he was late in joining Indiana this summer was his time spent playing with the Serbian U20 team at this summer's FIBA Eurobasket tournament. There, Ristic averaged 11.3 points and a team-high 6.3 assists per game playing alongside, among others, Andrej Musicki, who played 11-plus minutes for Mega on Saturday. Beyond those pregame hellos with former teammates and friends, Ristic will have been focused on his own adjustment — one DeVries has not been shy about accelerating on this trip. With Jason Drake kept at home due to injury, starting guards Tayton Conerway and Conor Enright comprise the bulk of Indiana's capable point guard stable right now. Ristic saw close to 17 minutes, with six points, three rebounds and two assists, in Wednesday's blowout win against Central Universidad de Bayamon. Any doubts about Ristic's role with Indiana were put to rest with the Hoosiers' preseason opener. Despite being able to count his in-person Indiana career in days, Ristic took virtually every out-of-bounds pass as a point guard against Bayamon, and ran his team's offense accordingly. Saturday presented a different test. Both Enright and Conerway struggled with foul trouble. Indiana as a whole struggled to grapple with Mega's aggressiveness and physicality and then, when the game turned 180 degrees, the Hoosiers needed steady hands at the tiller to keep the momentum that eventually crested in a 70-19 run driving forward. More simply than all of that, point guard is a devilish position to play when you don't know what's supposed to be happening around you. Yet through these two games, Ristic has consistently just pushed forward. 'He's in a tough spot,' DeVries said after the midweek win over Bayamon. 'But we thought it was really important to get him here, get him in a few of our practices that we're allowed to have and get him out in the games.' In an admittedly small sample size, Ristic has shown the ability to read and play with good pace. His shot mechanics are good and the ball comes out clean. And he doesn't look either overawed by his teammates' athletic level, or the responsibility of pulling them together with the ball in his hands. There will be sterner tests in the months ahead. But Ristic looks like he's passing the first one. 'In his situation,' DeVries said, 'it's pretty difficult to do. I think he's done a nice job.'
