Welcome back to the Taking The Charge Podcast. This week’s interview is with Travis Trice, point guard with Polish club Slask Wroclaw. He talks about playing in various places around the world, how it helps being a coach’s son when you join a new club during a season, playing on an aircraft carrier, playing for the United States national team in FIBA windows and competing in the EuroCup.
Before that … let’s take a quick look around the world of basketball with the Big Three
1:45 - Story we are watching - What a night for the Basketball Champions League as all three games in the quarter-final playoffs were won in the waning seconds for three two-game series sweeps.
3:30 - Young player of the week - Aleksa Vucetic - 2004-born Serbian point guard with FC Bayern Munich had a heck of a week. First off he made his easyCredit BBL debut against EWE Baskets Oldenburg and then he collected 21 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists in Bayern’s U19 NBBL quarter-final playoffs Game 1 win over kickz IBAM, a game which Bayern basically played with six players.
5:20 - Up-coming event we are watching - This one is easy - ANGT Ljubljana which runs from April 15-17 in the Slovenian capital.
Before we get into the talk with Travis Trice, we would like to give you a sneak peak of the Taking The Charge Prospects Podcast interview with Mexican forward Gael Bonilla of FC Barcelona - which is part of the paid subscription section of the TTC substack.
6:15 - Sneak preview of interview
Travis Trice, point guard Slask Wroclaw - 13:35
Here is an article written about Travis playing together with his brother at Slask.
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Taking The Charge: Travis Trice, Slask Wroclaw