James Thues

Infobox NBA Player
name = James Thues
nickname =
league = American Basketball Association
position = Guard
height_ft = 5
height_in = 10
weight_lb = 170
team = Detroit Panthers
nationality = USA
birth_date = birth date and age|1981|6|6
birth_place = flagicon|Michigan Detroit, Michigan
highschool = Martin Luther King (Detroit, Michigan)
college = Syracuse University
University of Detroit-Mercy
draft = not drafted
draft_year =
draft_team =
career_start = 2005
career_end =
former_teams = Helsingborg Pearls (2005–2006)
awards =

James Thues (born June 6, 1981) is a former college basketball player for the Syracuse Orange and the University of Detroit-Mercy from Detroit, Michigan. He currently plays for the Detroit Panthers.

High School

Thues played at Detroit Martin Luther King and led the Crusaders to the Detroit City Championship and a PSL title in 1999, his junior season. That year, he scored a career-best 34 points in a PSL playoff game against Denby. As a senior, he averaged 18.4 points, 6.8 assists and 4.0 steals per game. For his efforts, he was named a Class A All-State selection of both the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News and was also a first-team All-Metro honoree. Thues also finished ninth in the balloting for Mr. Basketball in 2000. [http://www.detroittitans.com/news.jsp?id=1098815294785]

College

Thues played in 24 games as a freshman at Syracuse University, averaging 1.6 points and 1.3 assists.

In his sophomore year, he appeared in 31 games, starting 18 of them as Syracuse advanced to the National Invitation Tournament. Thues averaged 5.6 points and had a team-leading 178 assists (4.9 apg), good for third in the Big East in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.02-to-1). In additional, Thues had Tied the school record with 101 steals that season and shot 44% from the field, including 13-for-43 (.302) from three-point land. [http://www.detroittitans.com/news.jsp?id=1098815294785]

Following his sophomore season, Thues, wanting to be closer to home, transferred to Detroit-Mercy. [http://www.dailyorange.com/media/paper522/news/2002/04/16/Sports/Thues.Transfers.To.Detroit.Mercy-237882.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailyorange.com] As a result, Thues had to sit the entire 2002-03 season as per NCAA rules.

In his junior year, Thues started 18 games to begin the season, and then came off the bench as a sixth man from early February on after suffering an ankle injury midway through the conference schedule. Thues finished fifth on the team with an 8.4 scoring average and led the Titans in assists with 107 (a 3.6 average). He was named to the Horizon League All-Defensive Team.

In his final season, Thues played in 30 games, finishing with averages of 10.2ppg, 2.9rpg, 2.6apg, 2.0spg per game. [http://www.usbasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=USA&PlayerID=37468&AmNotSure=1]

Professional career

Following graduation, Thues played in the 2005 Summer League in Treviso (Italy) (Gatorade team). He also participated in the Backcourt Legabasket camp in Syracuse, N.Y. In the 2005-06 season, Thues played in Ligan, the premier league for basketball in Sweden, with the Helsingborg Pearls (SWE-Basketligan,1T). In 22 games, he averaged 13.2ppg, 2.3rpg, 3.6apg, 2.2spg per game. [http://www.usbasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=USA&PlayerID=37468&AmNotSure=1]

In the 2006-07 season, Thues signed with the Detroit Panthers in the American Basketball Association. He appeared in eight games, averaging 7.4 points and 6.3 assists per game. [http://www.detroitpanthers.com/2006-2007Results.html]

External links

1. [http://www.orangehoops.org/JThues.htm Orangehoops.org]

2. [http://www.detroittitans.com/news.jsp?id=1098815294785 DetroitTitans.com]

3. [http://www.usbasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=USA&PlayerID=37468&AmNotSure=1 USBasket]