Zurab Talakvadze

Oto Chincharauli is facing a challenge

Georgia has another talented young player in basketball. That is the case in the last few decades, but not many of those promising students happened to achieve a real success. We do not have to go far, as Georgia failed to unleash a National Team level point guard, since… well, since the guy called Giorgi Tsintsadze was making the ground.

It is too risky to compare some promising player to mighty Bu (Tsintsadze), but the promise comes from few different angles. Today we talk about the young fella almost everybody was discussing in his youth career prime. Enter Oto Chincharauli, the point guard from Zentro Basket Madrid, one of the premier basketball homeages now in Europe.

Oto is a point guard. We all witnessed this young guy’s progress when he was storming with menace in the U 18 Georgian League. He is 198 tall. He is matured for his age (born on October 22nd, 2007). He is a very good attacker, who can ocassionally dish out to his team mates and find the best possible solution in the attack. He is that good.

He was in Orbi, a team with a bright future and some promising youth movement. Oto started by becoming the U 16 League points leader with Orbi. Well, he did not stop there, as some might have thought and went to another level. He repeated as the points leader, only this time he was among the 18 years old kids willing to sacrifice everything for the team success. He was scoring, dishing out some cute dimes and, in the process  gaining the bronze medal in a fierce competition.

Oto was promoted to Division A and was good enough to get some needed experience. This time with BC Griffin Kaspi team. But before that he was the undisputed pearl of Orbi.

Let us unleash some of his ageless highlights.

52 points (!) with Orbi against Overtime team. Oto was 24 from 33 on two pointers and he got to 52 52 points without a single triple!

He had a 11 game streak, when he was scoring at will. During this streak, he was making minimum, or 30 points per game, thus cementing his status as a go to guy of Orbi and the leader of this franchise.

He was all over the floor in the other games as well, and in the end, the biggest challenge he faced was to enter Spanish powerhouse school and giving that Zentro Basket Madrid all that he had, all that he could have offered.

The sky is the limit for this guy.

Only time will tell, where he enters from here, but for now, Oto is gaining confidence, experience and class. Well dome boy and, good luck.