By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Who will be named Best Young Player in the 2019-20 Basketball Champions League? Only six games into the Regular Season but it has already become apparent that are several worthy contenders and championsleague.basketball presents the list of contenders.
Last year it was Tamir Blatt of Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem to take the award home, but is no longer eligible at 22, so he will have to pass on the torch to one of the following players:
Carlos Alocen – Zaragoza
Carlos Alocen is well on his way to becoming a special player. At 18 he’s already won the Spanish Liga Endesa Best Young Player award and he is already the lead point guard on a Casademont Zaragoza team with a 7-3 record in the Liga Endesa (3rd on the table), as well as sitting at 3-3 in Group D.
To add some context to this, there isn’t a long list of players under the age of 19 to play more than 20 minutes per game in the Liga Endesa. The list includes the likes of Ricky Rubio, Sergio Rodriguez, Rudy Fernandez and most recently, Luka Doncic. Esteemed company, to say the least.
Alocen’s stats in the BCL also hint at a player that has the potential to be much more than the average point guard: 6.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists are those of a player that impacts the game in a variety of ways.