The Knight to Cats Blog

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Thomas Soltau

Part of Coach Carmody's international movement, Thomas "the Danish Sensation" Soltau, is proof that European basketball has not come as far as some of us would like to believe.  Soltau's career is really only distinguised by is length. 

Feeling that he had nothing left to learn in the Big Ten, Soltau made "the leap" to pro ball (in Denmark) after his sophomore season.  Amazingly, other Wildcat players (TJ Parker) would later follow his lead. 

Who could blame him really.  He showed he could dominate over here (8 games 26 minutes) so what was left to prove? 

The pressure of cracking the rotation with inside forces like Aaron Jennings and Ivan Tolic (profiled later) probably hurt him as well.  Thomas looks very happy in the included picture, so we are happy for him.