Education
Brewster Academy.
Brewster Academy.
He is 6"2 tall and weighs 180 pounds. Doğuş Balbay started playing basketball in the Turkish club Fenerbahçest After two years in the Turkish Basketball League, he moved to Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, United States. to study.
Balbay spent the last two years playing on the Under-18 Turkish national team, and he helped the squad place fourth at the 2006 European Championships.
He also played two years on the Under-16 Turkish national team and led that squad to the 2005 European Championship. He led Brewster to a 29-6 record and a runner-up finish at the NEPSAC Class A Championship while averaging 13.5 points and 7.5 assists per game during his senior season under coach Jason Smith.
After Balbay signed a letter of intent with Texas, Longhorns" head coach Rick Barnes declared that "Dogus is an important pickup for our program, as he will provide us quality depth at the point guard position." Barnes also said that Dogus "has a clever international game and good athleticism. Dogus is a strong perimeter defender and a good playmaker who has the ability to score in the lane."
At the midway mark of the 2009-2010 season, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network analyst Jay Bilas named Balbay one of the two top perimeter defenders in college basketball that season, along with Chris Kramer of Purdue.
Bilas said about Balbay,
Doğuş was not drafted in the 2011 National Basketball Association Draft but was linked with various European teams, including his native Fenerbahçest
His strength, versality, defensive prowess and speed is said to resemble Fenerbahçe and national player Ömer Onan. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network analyst Fran Fraschilla named Doğuş his favourite player in the 2011 Eurocamp. In July 2011, he signed a three-year contract with Anadolu Efes.
In May 2014, he re-signed his contract with Anadolu Efes.