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Player Profile: Kyle Austin

Statistics: Kyle Austin

Position: Power Forward/Small Forward

Shooting Hand: Right Hand

Height: 201cm

Weight: 102kg

Birthdate: 10/18/1988

Passport: USA

College: UC Riverside, NCAA 1

Outlook

An extremely talented player possessing GREAT size and NBA ability.  An athletic forward, whose versatility could see him spend time at either forward position .  Has a great scoring ability in close to the bucket and will find a way to get a shot up in traffic.  He sees the floor extremely well and can find open teammates when he draws a double team. He has worked on his 3pt range and shoots well beyond the arc with great accuracy.  Really is a complete player with great ability to slash to the basket and finish with authority.  He is an effective defender on and off the ball always rotating to the correct spot on the floor and has a knack for getting his hands on passes and deflecting them to disrupt an offense.  He is solid with his rebounding ability and always contributes on the glass well.  Can score well around the basket and uses his quickness to easily go by players of his size or bigger.  Effective on the low block both getting to the rim and dunking with authority or utilizing a nice little touch to bank in close range jumpers.  Can put the ball on the floor much better than most players his size.  Had to spend some time at the power forward spot due to his strength and size in his college program.

VIDEO:  Highlight#1: See Kyle kill his competition in Portugal with some highlights form his first pro season.  CLICK HERE

Highlight#2: Get another look at Kyle Austin's athletic ability and overall ability with a quick glimpse of his complete game.  CLICK HERE

GAME 1:  See Kyle in Portugese league play as he takes apart Ginasio with a display of 31pts, 7rebs while shooting a red hot 5-8 3pt!  CLICK HERE

GAME 2: Watch Kyle take it to EuroChallenge competitor Benfica as he leads him team to a huge victory in the Portugese Cup.  He records 21pts, 6rebs and 2 assists. CLICK HERE

GAME 3: Watch Kyle take apart the competition as he leads UCR to a big win against Cal State Fullerton.  He is unstoppable as he finishes with 35pts, 11rebs while going 3-3 from beyond the 3pt arc!  CLICK HERE

GAME 4: This game followed the one above in the regular season and Kyle came back the next night to score 39pts in a double overtime game against Cal Poly.  Perhaps the most amazing stat besides his 39pts and 9rebs is the fact he recorded 0 turnovers in 50 minutes of play!  CLICK HERE

Vitoria - Portugal 2010-11, Palencia - Spain LEB Gold 2010, University of California Riverside - NCAA 2008-10, USC - 2006-08

2011-12: Signed with Pepinster of the top league in Belgium.

2010-11:

Signed in LEB Gold with Palensia but after a very successful preseason moved over to Portugal and Vitoria after 8 games.  He immediately became the leading scorer in Portugal with an average of 21.7ppg while shooting 50% from behind the 3pt arc after 10 games.  That is when the problems started.  The team became unable to fulfill their financial commitments to the players and this caused the entire team to become unfocused and sadly eventually leave the team.  Kyle was no exception.  Amid these first year pressures he found himself constantly embroiled in a battle of paperwork and payments.  To his credit he still did manage to control the hardwood and lead his team to several impressive victories including wins over Eurochallenge competitor Benfica and the league's top team in Porto.

2009-10:  Austin finished the 2009-10 regular season ranked second in the league in scoring (17.6), fourth in rebounding (7.4), second in offensive rebounds (3.3), 10th in defensive rebounds (4.1), and third in minutes played (34.3). In conference play, the Pasadena, CA native led the Big West in scoring (19.4) while finishing fourth in rebounding (7.4), 10th in field goal percentage (.440), third in three-point field goal percentage (.457). third in offensive rebounds (3.2) and third in minutes played (36.2). Austin's scoring averages, both overall and in conference, were the highest ever in the Division I history of the program. He had two 30+-point scoring games this season including a career-high 39 vs. Cal Poly on February 13, and had five double-doubles on the year.  Earned Big West Player of the Week honors on Dec. 7 after averaging 23.5 points and 9.0 rebounds while connecting on 63.0 percent of his field goal attempts in the Highlanders wins over CSU Bakersfield (Dec. 2) and San Diego (Dec. 4) ... In the San Diego win, he scored 22 of his career-high 28 points after the half, outscoring the Toreros by himself in the period (22-15) as the Highlanders erased a 19-point second-half deficit for the win ... Has three 20-point, 10-rebound games on the season —25 points and 11 boards vs. La Verne on Nov. 19; 20 points and a career-high 14 rebounds on Nov. 22; and 28 points and 10 boards vs. San Diego on Dec. 4 ...Has five double-figure scoring games and three games of 20 or more points ... Grabbed 10 or more more rebounds on three occasions ... Named to the First-team All-Big West squad for the second consecutive season

2008-09: Named First-Team All-Big West . . . Finished second in the Big West in scoring (16.8), seventh in rebounding (6.2), eighth in field goal percentage (.449), ninth in offensive rebounds (2.0), eighth in defensive rebounds (4.2) and seventh in minutes played (31.3) . . . Led the Highlanders in scoring and minutes played, finished second in rebounding and first in free throws made and attempted . . . Received two Big West Player of the Week Awards - for games played February 23 - March 1 when he averaged 21.5 points and 10 rebounds, and December 14-21 (his first two games at UCR) when he averaged 19.0 points and 6.0 rebounds . . . Scored 20 or more points on seven occasions and 10 or more points on 20 occasions . . . Grabbed 10 or more rebounds on four occasions . . . Recorded two 20-point, 10-rebound games - 21 points an 10 rebounds vs. Cal State Fullerton on February 26 and 24 points and 10 boards at UC Irvine on February 28 . .  Established what were then career highs in nearly every category including points (24 on two occasions - vs. Cal Poly on January 2 and at UC Irvine on February 28), rebounding (11 vs. UC Davis on February 7), assists (4 on two occasions - at UC Irvine on February 28 and at Cal Poly on March 7), steals (2 on two occasions - vs. UC Davis on February 7 and at Cal Poly on March 7) and minutes played (38 on two occasions - vs. Long Beach State on February 11 and at UC Irvine on February 28) . . . Sat out the first seven games of the season due to NCAA Transfer Rules . . . Scored 20 points and grabbed 7 rebounds in his season-debut for the Highlanders at Loyola Marymount on December 15 . . . Became the second member of the Highlanders during the team’s Division I era to  his UCR debut by scoring 20 or more points(Nate Carter, 24 points at USC on November 22, 2002) . . . Led the team in scoring in each of his first 8 games. Last person to lead the team in scoring in more consecutive games was Larry Cunningham who had a streak of seven straight in the 2007-08 season . . . Began his career with eight consecutive double digit scoring games joining Nate Carter (15 straight in 2002-03) as the only Highlander with that long of a streak . . .

USC (2006-08): Played basketball at USC under head coach Tim Floyd . . . Team advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament in 2007. . .

High School Played basketball at Pasadena HS under coach Tim Tucker … Led the Bulldogs to a perfect league record his last two years … Named and Pacific League team Player of the Year as a junior and senior … Selected to the Press-Enterprise 2006 Division-IA First Team … Named San Gabriel Star News Player of the Year as a junior and senior … Two-time First-Team All-State … Received his school’s Outstanding Athlete Award as a senior … Volunteered as a camp counselor at a local park . . .    

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