Szymon Szewczyk

Szymon Szewczyk
Player information
Full name	Szymon Pawel Szewczyk
birthday	December 21, 1982
place of birth	Szczecin , Poland
size	208 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
NBA draft	2003 , 35th Pick Milwaukee Bucks
Club information
society	Anwil Włocławek
league	PLK
Jersey number	33
Clubs as active
1999–2001 SKK Pogoń Stettin 2001–2002 SKS Starogard Gdański 2002–2003 TXU Energie Braunschweig 2003–2005 ALBA Berlin 2005–2006 KK Union Olimpija Ljubljana 2006–2007 Scafati Basket 2007–2009 Lokomotive Rostow 2009–2011 Air Avellino 2011–2013 Umana Venezia 2014 Acea Virtus Rom 2014–2015 AZS Koszalin 2015–2016 Stelmet Zielona Góra 2016–2017 Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski Since 2017 Anwil Włocławek 0000 0
National team
Since 02003	Poland

Szymon Pawel Szewczyk (born December 21, 1982 in Stettin ) is a Polish basketball player . Szewczyk moved from his home country to the German basketball league in Braunschweig in 2002 . After the Milwaukee Bucks had secured the NBA rights to Szewczyk in the 2003 NBA Draft , he played for two more years in the German BBL at Alba Berlin. He then played again in the Polish league after stints in Slovenia , Russia and Italy .

Career

In his second first division season in 2000/01 in Poland, Szewczyk was able to draw attention to himself with good statistics, which, according to his size , showed him not only as a good rebounder , but also as a good distance shooter with a three-point throw rate of a good 48%. In the following season 2001/02 played for the then second division team from Starogard Gdański , before he was committed in the BBL season 2002/03 by the German first division team TXU Energie from Braunschweig. After he was able to convince here as a complete player and was named the best rookie of the season, the NBA club Milwaukee Bucks secured the rights to Szewczyk in the following 2003 draft. After appearing in NBA Summer Camps from 2003 to 2005, Szewczyk had to return to Europe to gain more match practice and was initially under contract with the German series champion Alba Berlin. With the Berliners, despite first places in the regular play-offs, no further championship success was achieved.

In 2005, Szewczyk moved to the Slovenian dominant KK Union Olimpija from the capital Ljubljana , which, unlike the Berliners, had the right to start in the top European division ULEB Euroleague and thus offered him a better stage for his NBA ambitions. But even with the Slovenes, Szewczyk was not used for more than 15 minutes per game and was rarely represented in the starting five . After winning the double at the national Slovenian level, Szewczyk moved on to Italy, where he played a season with the first division promoted team from Scafati under the Slovenian coach Teoman Alibegović . From 2007 on he played for two years in Rostov , Russia , before he returned to the first Italian league in Avellino after further Summer League appearances for the Milwaukee Bucks in summer 2009 , where he also played with the Belgian international Dimitri Lauwers , among others was already his teammate at Scafati Basket. In 2011 he moved within Italy to the newcomer from Venice . With Szewczyk's help, the first division returnees could just about qualify for the play-offs for the championship in the following two seasons, in which, however, they were eliminated both times in the first round.

With the Polish national team , Szewczyk has been a participant in three European Championship finals since 2007. You could reach the intermediate round in your own country as a host in 2009, but where you lost all three games and were eliminated before the quarter-finals. At the European Championship finals in 2013 Szewczyk was not included in the final squad through national coach Dirk Bauermann , which was already top-notch in the " front court " with Marcin Gortat , Maciej Lampe and Michał Ignerski . Nevertheless, the Poles were eliminated early and only won the final, already meaningless game against hosts Slovenia in five preliminary round games . After a disc injury , Szewczyk got a new contract with the Italian runner-up Acea Virtus Rome in the 2013/14 season in early January 2014.

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Szymon Pawel SZEWCZYK (POL) - Overview of participation in FIBA competitions ( English )
• Legabasket: Szymon Szewczyk - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• SZEWCZYK, SZYMON - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• easyCredit BBL - Szymon Szewczyk - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ALBA BERLIN - Szymon Szewczyk # 12. (No longer available online.) ALBA Berlin , formerly in the original ; accessed on September 11, 2011 (ALBA player profile).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Summer League: Szewczyk still without a win. (No longer available online.) Basketball-Bundesliga.de, July 10, 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 11, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ Szymon Szewczyk in the NBA. (No longer available online.) Pnba.basket2.net, archived from the original on September 23, 2011 ; Retrieved September 11, 2011 (English, Summer League statistics). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Carlo Santi: Basket, Roma has scelto Szewczyk il polacco è il nuovo lungo dell'Acea. Il Messaggero , January 9, 2014, accessed on January 9, 2014 (Italian, based on media information from Acea Rom).