European Prospects

The Polish forward Tomasz Gielo is a member of the highly talented 1993 generation from the Eastern European country. The 2m04 tall player made a very early commitment to play NCAA Basketball for the Liberty Flames which came a bit by surprise to some people. We spoke to Tomasz on what motivated him to take this direction and how he sees the future of his career.

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This season has so far been a break-out year for the Turkish power forward/center Furkan Aldemir. The 2m07 tall player, who recently even got votes for being among the best international player not in the NBA by the General Manager of the American league, is averaging this season 6.8ppg, 4.8rpg and 0.4bpg in the Euroleague. Let’s analyze his game a bit deeper as he looks to be one of the European prospects that is the most highly regarded at the upcoming NBA Draft.

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Today, we share with you the interesting thoughts of the Norwegian guard Stian Emil Berg. Berg plays for the Northern Illiniois Huskies in the Mid-American Conference.

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We start our 2011-2012 season of the Living in America series with the Belgian inside player Thomas de Thaey. He is the first freshman that we portray through a little interview and more of this kind will come in the next days and weeks.

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The Türk Telekom Tournament, one of the major U16 events, will start this Saturday in Sakarya. Twelve teams have been invited to participate and we wanted to take a quick look at who might shine in the week of action.

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David Jelinek, the Czech Shooting Guard is already in his fifth season with the Spanish team Joventut Badalona. After having arrived in 2007 to play with the Junior Team, the Brno native spent several seasons with the Joventut farm team at Prat where he gained experience on the professional level. In 2010, he started his first full season with the ACB team and finished with 7.0ppg at 40.4% from the field and 45.7% from behind the arc. This season, he has increased his scoring and his role in the rotation but his shooting percentages have gone down below 40%. We checked his game recently in an overtime win against Unicaja Malaga where the Czech had his best game of the season.

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A new year has started so it is time for the reviews and recaps of the past 12 months. This time, I wanted to try something new. Got a Kindle for Christmas or do you have an e-book reader already? I don’t but I wanted to check what is the potential of publishing an EuropeanProspects.com E-Book.

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On Tuesday, the 2012 edition of the Baltic Sea Cup will start in Tallinn. Our Finnish friend Hippo has sent us more info on the two teams from his country that are participating to the event this year.

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This week, the game between TBB Trier and Brose Baskets Bamberg was a good opportunity to see some of the most promising Centers of German Basketball face-to-face. The already drafted Tibor Pleiß together with the top prospect Philipp Neumann had to play against one of the best big men of the Bundesliga season so far: Maik Zirbes.

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Traditionally, the weeks around Christmas and New Year are filled with interesting tournaments. Because of logistical reasons (I moved and am still moving to a new place), I can not cover any of these tournaments live. However, here is a quick overview of the major events of the next days.

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Today, the German NBBL League announced the name of their All-Stars that will compete in the North vs. South game during the Bundesliga All-Star Day. This event will take place on the 21st January in Ludwigsburg. See below the selections for the U19 NBBL Game.

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Tornike “Toko” Shengelia is one of the few but talented Georgian players currently active in the Euroleague. After having spent several years in Spain, Shengelia is now in his second season playing in Belgium. With Spirou Charleroi, he is a rookie in the Euroleague competition and one of the candidates for the Rising Star Trophy winner this season.

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Like any other Connecticut resident, Aaron Torres grew up living and breathing University of Connecticut athletics.  After attending UConn and beginning a career as a young sportswriter, Torres has continued his passion for UConn basketball and explores the 2011 NCAA National Men’s Basketball Champions is his book, “The Unlikeliest Champion.”

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SLUC Nancy was one of the main attractions in the Euroleague this season because of the presence of the French National Team player Nicolas Batum. However, since his departure, the team struggles in the main competition but they find some time to integrate one of their most interesting prospects into the regular rotation.

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The 2011/2012 edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament is still several weeks ahead. But after the Euroleague officially announced the dates, we checked which teams will normally participate in the four Qualification Event for the NIJT 2012 in Istanbul. Please note that the official participants will only be announced in the next weeks and that there might be some changes to the names published here.

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In the second part of the analysis of the best 1992 born players in Spain, the experts from www.futurestars.uk.com came up with 5 players that do not have a Spanish background but are already factors in the ACB or have big potential.

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In a new collaboration with www.futurestars.uk.com we exchanged content for a series of articles of the Top10 1992 born players in the Spanish professional basketball. Check the first part below to see 5 of the players the experts from Future Stars see among the 10 most promising players from the Iberian peninsula.

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This Friday, the French team of Chalon traveled to Dijon for the Burgundy derby in the LNB ProA. Chalon is known for their good youth program, they will participate for the first time to a Nike International Junior Tournament this season, featuring players like Nicolas Lang or Joffrey Lauvergne. But it was the 20 years-old Jordan Aboudou who stole the show this weekend with a nearly perfect basketball game.

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This week starts the 2011-2012 season of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague. The league looks stronger than ever with several big names using the lockout to play in the toughest competition outside the United States. But there is one name that we might have to follow more than others in relation with our blog which is Dario Saric.

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Leo Westermann, who was featured in our players to watch list for the LNB season 2011-2012, started extremely well from an individual point of view into the season. Before the arrival of Tony Parker at ASVEL which means probably less responsibilities for the young guard, we had the chance to take a quick luck at the first game of the French guard this season in the ProA.

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