Montepaschi Siena hosted Cimberio Varese on Saturday May 19 in Game 2 of the playoffs. Although the scores were a little closer than the last game, Montepaschi still managed to walk away with a comfortable 16 point win, 88-72. Dave played 14 minutes and scored nine points, shooting at 66.7% from the floor. Ksistof Lavrinovic was the top scorer and rebounder for Montepaschi with 19 points and five rebounds.

Dave has been playing exceptionally well as of late. Last week he become the first player to ever win our International Player of the Week award for the second time in as many months.

Montepaschi will now travel to Varese for their third game in the best of five playoff series on Monday May 21. If Montepaschi win the next game they will clean sweep the first round of playoffs and head into the quarter finals.

By Anita Andersen

http://www.davidandersen.com.au/

CAREER STATS

EUROLEAGUE

Season	Team	G	Pts	Avg	2FG M-A	%	3FG M-A	%	FT M-A	%	Reb	St	As	Bl
2000-01	Kinder Bologna	22	160	7.3	53/92	57.6	2/8	25	48/58	82.8	82	12	10	10
2001-02	Kinder Bologna	22	191	8.7	72/149	48.3	0/0	0	47/70	67.1	95	19	9	4
2002-03	Virtus Bologna	8	70	8.8	27/65	41.5	0/0	0	16/19	84.2	38	4	5	7
2003-04	Montepaschi Siena	21	191	9.1	83/162	51.2	0/3	0	25/39	64.1	97	13	15	6
2004-05	CSKA Moscow	23	286	12.4	102/177	57.6	0/1	0	82/99	82.8	161	19	19	11
2005-06	CSKA Moscow	12	177	14.8	65/127	51.2	1/2	50	44/48	91.7	92	10	13	2
2006-07	CSKA Moscow	25	244	9.8	69/151	45.7	18/37	48.6	52/67	77.6	124	13	22	10
2007-08	CSKA Moscow	25	320	12.8	96/191	50.3	26/48	54.2	50/59	84.7	145	14	30	9
2008-09	Regal FC Barcelona	23	255	11.1	80/147	54.4	21/52	40.4	32/40	80	95	9	19	13
TOTALS		181	1894	10.5	647/1261	51.3	68/151	45	396/499	79.4	929	113	142	72
AVERAGES		181	1894	10.5	647/1261	51.3	68/151	45	396/499	79.4	5.1	0.6	0.8	0.4

OTHER COMPETITION

Season	Team	G	Pts	Avg	2FG M-A	%	3FG M-A	%	FT M-A	%	Reb	St	As	Bl
1998/99	Wollongong	23	142	6.2	56/124	45.2	0/0	0/0	30/47	63.8	89	10	16	14
1999/00	Virtus Bo	33	202	6.1	83/140	59.3	0/4	0	36/52	69.2	134	26	13	13
2000/01	Virtus Bo	32	288	9	112/193	58	3/9	33.3	55/76	72.4	148	32	11	12
2001/02	Virtus Bo	43	354	8.2	123/227	54.2	0/2	0	108/151	71.5	235	41	17	16
2002/03	Virtus Bo	14	150	10.7	52/99	52.5	0/2	0	46/61	75.4	74	22	7	5
2003/04	MS Siena	42	370	8.8	123/229	53.7	0/3	0	124/168	73.8	201	53	26	21
2004/05	CSKA	29	394	13.6	144/265	54.3	0/0	0/0	106/134	79.1	223	14	28	12
2005/06	CSKA	14	219	15.6	71/129	55	0/2	0	77/99	77.8	89	3	14	3
2006/07	CSKA	33	362	11	112/198	56.6	21/42	50	75/106	70.8	129	19	34	15
2007/08	CSKA	26	256	9.8	111/196	56.6	23/42	54.8	65/85	76.5	167	17	37	15
2008/09	Barcelona	40	414	10.4	127/256	49.6	30/78	38.5	70/87	80.5	169	19	50	12
2009/10	Houston	63	367	5.8	120/262	45.8	27/78	34.6	46/67	68.7	208	15	44	12
2010/11	Toronto	11	56	5.1	20/37	54.1	3/10	30	7/7	100	34	3	7	3
	New Orleans	28	78	2.8	28/61	45.9	5/13	38.5	7/15	46.7	50	2	6	6

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