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Alandu Tucker, Little Transparent who has played only 51 games in three years

Does anyone still remember Alandu Tucker (also translated as Alando Tucker)? The little transparent who played in the NBA for three years but only played 51 games.

Alando Tucker, Alandu Tucker, 6-foot-6 (198 cm), plays as a shooting guard (SG). He was born in February 1984 in Rockport, a city in northeastern Illinois, USA. He was produced by the University of Wisconsin. He was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 29th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.

Alandu Tucker has strong scoring ability, excellent ball-holding ability, good at using rhythm changes to complete the end of the basket, solid shooting skills, standard jump shots, mid-range emergency stop jump shots, and high stability. His career NBA free throw shooting percentage reached 78.3%, and he has certain free throw punishment ability. However, as a defender player, he is thin in size, lacks ability to fight, slow lateral movement speed, limited defensive ability, insufficient defensive awareness, insufficient ball control skills, high risk of mistakes, weak organizational offensive ability, especially his three-point threat, and his three-point shooting percentage in his NBA career is only 29.4%.

played in the NBA for three seasons. Alandu Tucker played for the Suns (2007-2009.12) and the Timberwolves (2009.12-2010.3). He played in a total of 51 games in the regular season, including one starter, averaging 8.4 minutes per game, scoring 4.1 points, 0.1 rebounds, 0.3 assists, 0.1 steals, and 0.04 blocks, and failed to get a playoff chance. Although his career failed to meet expectations for draft picks, he still had some performances that were considered qualified.

Local time in the United States, on November 21, 2007, in the Phoenix Suns' home victory over the Sacramento Kings 127:111 at home, Alandu Tucker played for 12 minutes on the bench, making 4 of 10 shots (including 1 of 3 three-pointers), and 1 free throw, scoring 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 block. He scored in double figures in his first single game in his NBA career. On February 26, 2009, local time, in the Phoenix Suns lost to the Los Angeles Lakers 106:132 away game, Alandu Tucker started for 32 minutes, making 7 of 11 shots (including 2 of 3 three-pointers), scoring the highest single-game 16 points in the NBA career, plus 4 rebounds and 1 assist.

After being cut by the Timberwolves again in March 2010, Alandu Tucker played in the NBA Development League for a while. In October 2012, he signed with the Bucks and returned to the NBA again, but was cut again before the end of the month and left the NBA completely since then. From 2013 to 2017, he played for Slovakia, Bulgaria, Israel and other leagues. In November 2017, after being cut by the Israeli Super League Hapoel Eilat, Alandu Tucker completely bid farewell to his player career and began to work as an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.