Szymon Szewczyk

Szymon Szewczyk Pawel ( born December 21, 1982 in Szczecin ) is a Polish basketball player. Szewczyk moved in 2002 from his native country to the German Basketball Bundesliga to Brunswick. After the Milwaukee Bucks had the NBA rights to Szewczyk secured in the 2003 NBA Draft, he played two more years in the German BBL Alba Berlin. He then played by stations in Slovenia, Italy and Russia since 2009 in the Italian Serie A.

Career

In his second Premiership season 2000/ 01 in Poland Szewczyk could draw attention to themselves with good statistics that marked him according to its size not only as a good rebounder, but also as a good distance shooters with a three-point throw ratio of approximately 48%. In the following season 2001 /02 playing for the then second division of Starogard Gdański before he was obliged energy from Brunswick in the 2002/ 03 BBL season from German first division TXU. After he was able to convince a complete player here and was awarded as the best rookie of the season, the NBA Club Milwaukee Bucks secured the following Draft 2003, the rights to Szewczyk. After appearances in NBA Summer Camps 2003-2005 Szewczyk had each returned to Europe to collect more match practice and initially stood at the German series champion Alba Berlin under contract. Despite ranking first in the regular seasons in the play-offs with the Berliners did not manage another championship success.

2005 moved Szewczyk the dominant KK Union Olimpija in Slovenia from the capital Ljubljana, in contrast to the Berliners had the right to start in the highest European League ULEB Euro League and thus offered him a better stage for his remaining NBA ambitions. But even with the Slovenes Szewczyk was used no more than 15 minutes per game and was rarely represented in the starting five. After the double- win at the national level Slovenian Szewczyk moved on to Italy, where he played one season at the premier league climbers from Scafati under the Slovenian coach Teoman Alibegovic. From 2007 on, he played two years in the Russian Rostov before he went to another Summer League appearances for the Milwaukee Bucks in the summer of 2009 back to the first Italian league to Avellino, where he played among others with the Belgian national team Dimitri Lauwers, the already his teammate at Scafati Basket was. In 2011, he transferred to the newly promoted from within Italy Venice. With Szewczyks help the Premiership returnees could qualify in the following two seasons each just for the play- offs for the championship, but in which one was eliminated in the first round both times.

With the Polish national Szewczyk participants was at three European finals since 2007. It could reach as host the second round, where they lost all three games, however, and was eliminated before the quarter- finals in 2009 in their own country. In the European Championship finals in 2013 Szewczyk found by national team coach Dirk Bauer man not included in the final squad, but which was already occupied in the first class " frontcourt " Marcin Gortat with Maciej lamp and Michał Ignerski. Nevertheless, the Poles dropped out early and won in five group matches only the final game against hosts already meaningless Slovenia. After a spinal disc injury Szewczyk got in the 2013/14 season until the beginning of January 2014, a new contract with the Italian runner Acea Virtus Rome.