{"id":88311,"date":"2024-02-07T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/?p=25868"},"modified":"2024-02-07T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:15:59","slug":"chris-coffey-is-an-implausible-dream-in-the-basketball-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/chris-coffey-is-an-implausible-dream-in-the-basketball-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Coffey is an implausible dream in the Basketball Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"667\" height=\"667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chris Coffey has the heart of a fighter. Promitheas Patras needed it in their win over Hapoel Holon in the Basketball Champions League\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav.jpg 667w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav-262x262.jpg 262w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Coffey-vs-Misgav-574x574.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>At Promitheas Patras, Chris Coffey has proven to be the living embodiment of workrate. That could make the difference for them in the Basketball Champions League<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are small school players and then there\u2019s Chris Coffey. His alma mater of Georgetown College has fewer than 1,600 students at any given time. There is some basketball heritage there, most notably 1972 Olympian Kenny Davis, but it\u2019s not the obvious place to start a journey like Coffey\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely nobody in Patras, Greece, cares about how Coffey got started. They\u2019re just delighted he\u2019s playing in their city right now.<\/p>\n<h4>Who even is this guy<\/h4>\n<p>Chris Coffey doesn\u2019t have a Wikipedia page. That\u2019s not entirely true. He doesn\u2019t have an English language Wikipedia page. There is a page for him in Italian, the <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Coffey\" rel=\"noopener\" >entirety of which<\/a> translates as \u201cChris Coffey (July 8, 1997) is an American basketball player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also one in Spanish but you have to scroll down a bit to find it on Google. It has more detail but it also has the wrong club history for him.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Coffey has never played for any club in Spain or Italy. The man should be a footnote of a footnote in basketball. He played college basketball at the NAIA level, excelling with a national championship and winning NAIA Player of the Year in 2020. Still, that\u2019s more associated with plucky underdogs. It\u2019s not where you expect difference makers at the next level to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Yet anyone who has watched Promitheas Patras play this season in the Basketball Champions League can\u2019t help but be captivated by this centre.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In Post Ad by Rob --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8330822894995250\" data-ad-slot=\"1076584095\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Scoring is secondary<\/h4>\n<p>Dennis Rodman is the first name that comes to mind when you think of players for whom rebounds mattered more than points. Get the boards and work from there. It\u2019s a simple approach but a difficult one to make exciting.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve watched Promitheas Patras this season, you\u2019ll have found ways to get excited by the way Chris Coffey grabs boards. I was on the call for their Tuesday night win over Hapoel Holon in the Basketball Champions League. Over and over again I kept on going back to one word to describe Coffey: workrate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost like he considers taking a shot a form of cheating. Getting passed the ball and being presented with an opportunity? No, that\u2019s not a 50\/50 battle in the true sense. Coffey plays with a verve that demands every time he has an opportunity to touch the ball, it must be a contest. Present him an opponent, maybe two or three, and give him the fight he desires.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BallinEurope is ramping up its YouTube game this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ballineurope\" rel=\"noopener\" >Subscribe to our channel now<\/a> for player exclusives, analysis videos, and much more.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>A shining example<\/h4>\n<p>The big highlight from Coffey that was shared around social media by the Basketball Champions League after Tuesday\u2019s win was a block on Netanel Artzi. It was a really good block but I felt for the folks having to cut the highlights. To truly understand the impact of Chris Coffey for Promitheas, it was his plays that didn\u2019t necessarily lead to anything that made him stand apart.<\/p>\n<p>There were four offensive rebounds by Coffey in the win. Each of them came with the type of body sacrifice that almost caught his teammates off guard. It\u2019s worth noting that Promitheas Patras <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/hunter-hale-has-his-moment-just-when-promitheas-patras-needed-it-8352\/\" rel=\"noopener\" >have the January MVP Hunter Hale<\/a> in their ranks, alongside serious performers in Anthony Cowan Jr and Cameron Reynolds. These men, these quality ballers, were somewhat in awe of what their big man was doing.<\/p>\n<p>That ferocious workrate from Coffey was vital to getting Promitheas Patras over the line. Tuesday\u2019s clash was a grind it out affair, one for the purists, and not the easiest environment for anyone to cook.<\/p>\n<p>Coffey, as the beverage so often does, shook men from their slumber. Hale and Reynolds, who both struggled to impact the game in the first half, found their rhythm working off him. The Greeks took the vital win and Coffey another step forward.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>BallinEurope has a book, a real life actual book called I Like it Loud, and you can buy it on Amazon now. It\u2019s <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/like-loud-basketball-through-Europe\/dp\/1796221341\"><b><i>here as a book<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/like-loud-basketball-through-Europe-ebook\/dp\/B081K6S5T4\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\"><b><i>here in Kindle form<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<h4>A chance to regroup<\/h4>\n<p>That victory over Hapoel Holon has put Promitheas Patras, and Chris Coffey, in a useful position. There\u2019s a break in the Basketball Champions League now for national cups and internationals.<\/p>\n<p>With a 2-1 record in the group, the side knows that a win over Holon in the return game would almost certainly be enough on its own to book their passage to the quarter finals. It\u2019s far from a sure thing but it at least enables them to control their destiny. In the interim, they can focus more on domestic matters.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Cup is next, with a quarter final against Panionios awaits. Once that duty is done, there\u2019ll be a rest for most of the roster with the international break before a rapid and thrilling conclusion to the Round of 16 in their primary target for the season. A European title would be extraordinary for Promitheas Patras, even making the playoffs would be an achievement. Fortunately for them, they have a man familiar with the extraordinary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25870\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Coffey&#039;s insatiable work ethic will have been noticed far and wide.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25870\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-837x558.jpg 837w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-667x445.jpg 667w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-262x175.jpg 262w, http:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chris-Coffey-vs-Artzi-574x383.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-25870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Coffey&#8217;s insatiable work ethic will have been noticed far and wide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>A solid launchpad<\/h4>\n<p>The value of Chris Coffey will have been obvious to anyone watching the Basketball Champions League this season. He doesn\u2019t need a lot of the ball, hardly any, to make an impact that can change the course of a game.<\/p>\n<p>The workrate will never be an issue and he clearly has the athletic talent to aid anyone. With him turning 27 in July, he still hasn\u2019t hit the peak of his powers. Through time in Latvia with Ventspils, MBC in the Bundesliga in Germany, and a stint at Kolossus before joining his current side, Coffey has built up a constantly developing resume.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to make him alluring to quite a few coaches and clubs. His current home will naturally want to keep him but there will be demand. That\u2019s quite the position to be in for a man who was less than an afterthought on the college scene when he began that journey. In the humble surroundings of NAIA basketball, Chris Coffey made the sport take notice of him. 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Promitheas Patras needed it in their win over Hapoel Holon in the Basketball Champions League\"><\/div>\n<p>At Promitheas Patras, Chris Coffey has proven to be the living embodiment of workrate. That could make the difference for them in the Basketball Champions League There are small school players and then there\u2019s Chris Coffey. His alma mater of Georgetown College has fewer than 1,600 students at any given time. 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