Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor signs Garret Siler, ex Leones

- March 20, 2019

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Garret Siler

GARRET SILER

Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor (SBL) signed 32-year old American center Garret Siler (213-127kg-86, college: Augusta). He played last summer at Leones in Ecuadorian National League. In three games he had 15.0ppg and 11.7rpg. The last season Siler played at Fubon Braves where in 42 SBL games he recorded very impressive stats: 15.0ppg, 14.5rpg (#3 in the league), 1.2apg and 1.6bpg. Siler helped them to make it to the final. Quite impressive season as he was named to Asia-basket.com All-Taiwanese SBL Honorable Mention and League Player of the Week.
In 2009 he was drafted by Utah Flash (D-League) as #5 pick overall.
Siler attended Augusta University (NCAA Div.II) and it is his tenth season in pro basketball.
He has tried to make it to the NBA and played in the NBA Pro Summer League in 2012.
The list of the past achievements is quite long as among others Siler won Venezuelan LPB championship title in 2015. He was also voted Asia-basket.com Taiwanese SBL All-Imports Team back in 2015.
Siler is quite experienced player. He has played in five different countries on three different continents (Asia, Latin America and of course North America). Siler has played previously professionally in China (Jiangsu Dragons), Puerto Rico (Capitanes), NBA (Phoenix Suns), Venezuela (Marinos) and D-League (Utah F.).
He could be described: What you would expect a 7-foot, 300 pound center to be. He establishes himself down low with ease due to his incredible strength and overpowering size. His length and size allow him to dunk the ball with barely jumping, but his immense size limit him greatly in footwork and athleticism. Knows what it takes to get to the line where he shoots fairly well.
Siler is incredibly strong, has great hands, and establishes position in the paint against players of this caliber with the greatest of ease, barely needing to jump in order to dunk the ball because of how long his arms are. Combine those things together, and it becomes pretty obvious why he shoots such a high percentage from the field.

By Eurobasket Data Center