i'm looking at making in tonight's slate of games i'm thinking of going with avery bradley to score over six and a half points joel embiid to dish out over four and a half assists and steph curry to knock down over three and a half threes if this sounds at all intriguing to you then go use the link down in the description of the video to sign up today and use promo code reference to receive a NUMBER_TOKEN deposit match bonus up to a hundred dollars once again thank you to prize picks for sponsoring this video now let's get back into the topic at hand omar yurtsevin is a turkish player growing up in turkey where he came through the basketball ranks playing for fenerbahce in the turkish professional league on top of that he was playing with the turkish youth national team at tournaments and he got a few brief stints of euro league action at a very young age too one of the most notable accomplishments of his early youth career is that at NUMBER_TOKEN years old he got to take part in an nba pre-season game when fenerbache flew over to brooklyn to play the nets before a NUMBER_TOKEN preseason game and in that game he scored eight points and grabbed seven rebounds while also becoming the youngest player to ever take part in an nba preseason game at the time the writing was definitely on the wall that he had a bright future but the thing about international clubs is that they rarely give their young players heavy minutes because of their focus being more on winning now than development so because of that he knew he needed more playing time to develop and he chose to commit to play for north carolina state in college basketball where he had plenty of offers because quite simply who wouldn't be interested in a NUMBER_TOKEN-foot rebounding machine at that level the rebounding dominance is going to be a recurring theme in this video as you'll see moving forward because he's always had a natural talent for positioning himself properly and hunting down boards at an elite rate this move to college had a few complications at first though with the ncaa being annoying with their rules like they always are by choosing to suspend him from the first nine games of his freshman season because of his prior history playing professional basketball once he served his suspension he stepped right into the rotation and his first two seasons at north carolina state showed off plenty of improvement over time including being named an all-acc player in his sophomore season after both seasons he tested the waters of the nba draft and seemed to get advice from people in the league telling him he's not quite ready to go to the draft which must have frustrated him because his goal had always been to make it to the nba so after two seasons at north carolina state he transferred over to georgetown because you have to sit out a year in college when you transfer he didn't get to play for them until his fourth year in college which was already longer than he intended on staying at that level he had his best year yet at georgetown though averaging about NUMBER_TOKEN points and NUMBER_TOKEN rebounds per game that year he was a big strong guy who has instincts crashing the glass that you can't teach soft touch around the basket a nose for creating second chance opportunities on
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