Moore third on German team in scoring

Moore third on German team in scoring

Rasheed Moore was third on the Fraport Skyliners in points scored and minutes played during the 2020-21 EasyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga season in Germany.

Moore, a Meyers and East Stroudsburg University graduate, played in 33 of the 34 games, averaging 11.2 points while playing in the highest-level professional league in Germany, completing the process of moving up a step in each of his four seasons there.

Fraport went 13-21 to finish tied for 11th in the 18-team league.

The 26-year-old Moore moved up to the Bundesliga after averaging 15.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists for wiha Panthers Villingen-Schwenningen in Pro-A, the second level of professional basketball there, during 2019-20. He had also played for Villingen-Schwenningen teams, although at lower levels, in his first years.

Moore shot 44.0 percent from the floor, 37.6 percent on 3-pointers and 79.7 percent from the line in his most recent season. He contributed 4.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists.

The 6-foot-6 power forward had three games of 20 or more points.

Moore finished strong, scoring 58 points in the last 3 games, including a season-high 23 in the next-to-last game, a 95-66 win over s.Oliver Wurzburg May 7. After also grabbing 8 rebounds in that win, Moore closed out the season with 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in a 96-89 victory over Hamburg Towers.

At East Stroudsburg, Moore started 113 of 116 career games. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year was a second-team PSAC all-star as a freshman and sophomore before making the first team in the last two seasons of a career that produced 1,677 points and 775 rebounds.

Moore averaged 21.4 points and 7.4 rebounds in 27 games in his first season in Germany, playing for the wiha Panthers Villingen-Schwenningen in the Regionalliga. He moved up to the Pro B level the next season, averaging 20.8 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 52.6 percent from the floor in 2018-19.

 

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