{"id":489400,"date":"2026-03-23T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489400"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:03:31","slug":"anwil-sign-shaq-buchanan-to-strengthen-the-backcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anwil-sign-shaq-buchanan-to-strengthen-the-backcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Anwil sign Shaq Buchanan to strengthen the backcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"2088\"><strong data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"1811\">Anwil<\/strong> have officially signed <strong data-start=\"1835\" data-end=\"1852\">Shaq Buchanan<\/strong>, a 190 cm American guard, through the end of the <strong data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"1920\">2025\/26 season<\/strong>. The player, who has spent the last few years in Israel, Greece and Lithuania, brings international experience and athleticism to the Polish team\u2019s perimeter rotation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2090\" data-end=\"2406\">Buchanan spent the latest part of this season with <strong data-start=\"2141\" data-end=\"2160\">Elitzur Netanya<\/strong> in Israel, where he averaged <strong data-start=\"2190\" data-end=\"2235\">11.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists<\/strong> in 16 games. However, he is mainly described as a defensive specialist on the perimeter, a player who brings energy, pressure and intensity more than pure scoring volume.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2408\" data-end=\"2896\">Coach <strong data-start=\"2414\" data-end=\"2432\">Ronen Ginzburg<\/strong> said: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2440\" data-end=\"2637\">Shaq Buchanan is the type of player who can give the team what the coach expects. He has strong defensive tools, and here he has to bring athleticism, commitment and energy on the defensive end<\/strong>\u201d. Club president <strong data-start=\"2655\" data-end=\"2679\">\u0141ukasz Pszcz\u00f3\u0142kowski<\/strong> also underlined the move: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2707\" data-end=\"2894\">This is our final signing of the season, and I expect that, also thanks to Shaq Buchanan, the team will start playing up to our expectations in the final stretch of the regular season<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish club have added Shaq Buchanan for the rest of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":489399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poland","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/90a2d4b4569976cd5f4822e660f31250_1774256374_single.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489400"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489400"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489400"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}