According to European basketball journalist Tolis Kotzias, Jovan Novak, a Serbian backcourt player who played for Spanish league team Fuenlabrada last season, may join CBA team Shenzhen in the new season.
Born in November 1994, Novak is 28 years old, 191cm tall and 85kg in weight. He is a skillful backcourt player with excellent passing ability. Novak’s career has been spent in Europe, and he has played in Serbian League, Adriatic League, Polish League, German League and Spanish League.
Novak spent the past two seasons in Fuenlabrada. Last season, he made 25 appearances for the team in La Liga, averaging 27.2 minutes, averaging 8.2 points, 3.3 rebounds, 7.6 assists and 0.8 steals, shooting 42.8% from the field, 39.7% from three-pointers and 76.7% from free throws. It is worth mentioning that Novak was also the king of assists in La Liga last season. However, Fuenlabrada, where Novak is located, did not perform well last season, ranking at the bottom of La Liga, and finally suffered relegation, which may be one of the reasons why he chose to switch to other leagues.
Novak is a player with relatively stable comprehensive ability. Although his scoring ability on the offensive end is average, it seems that his projection ability has also made great progress in recent seasons. His dribbling ability and his basic skills are very solid, and his passing ability and organization ability are also excellent. Of course, his performance on the defensive end is very general and his defensive ability is not ideal. For Shenzhen team, Novak’s ability is not far from CBA’s top foreign aid, but he is actually a good third foreign aid choice.
