European Prospects

News about Young European Basketball Prospects

Entries For 'Guard'

NIJT Belgrade 2012: Day 1 Review

February 25th, 2012 · 3 Comments

After having arrived in the afternoon only, I had the possibility to follow one game from the Nike International Junior Tournament plus the Adriatic League game between Crvena Zvezda and KK Zagreb. So the report on the first day is quite short.

[Read more →]

Tags: ············

Living in America: Malte Ziegenhagen

January 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment

The NCAA option remains a very interesting career choice for a lot of German players. Malte Ziegenhagen is an atypical guard from Berlin who is currently in his freshman season with the Tulane Green Wave. Read below what the 1m95 tall Berlin native has to tell.

[Read more →]

Tags: ····

Living in America: Stian Emil Berg

January 26th, 2012 · No Comments

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.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

U20 European Championship 2011: Scoutings

August 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Thomas Drouot followed the Final Phase of the U20 European Championship 2011 in Bilbao and he has sent us his scouting on the best players from the tournament in his eyes. Let’s see what he has to say.

[Read more →]

Tags: ········

Finland U20 Preview

July 13th, 2011 · No Comments

With the U20 European Championships starting tomorrow, our friend Hippo has sent us his preview on the Finnish U20 National Team that will compete in the B Division tournament in Sarajevo. The team will face Norway, Great Britian, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg in Group C. The team features several members of the succesful [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

Young guns from Finland (2010/2011)

March 1st, 2011 · No Comments

Our Finnish friend Hippo came up with his already traditional annual review on the Top Finnish prospects. After Kilian Cato committed this week to the University of Maine, the Finnish League has once again confirmed its status of interesting talent reservoir both for the NCAA and the European Leagues. Check out his report for the [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ············

Vesely and Nedovic shine in Serbian derby

February 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments

After the NIJT, I had the possibility to attend the Serbian derby between Crvena Zvezda and Partizan Belgrade in the legendary Hala Pionir. Zvezda is currently (once again) in big trouble and last in the standings of the Adriatic League. So everybody expected a blow out victory for Partizan but the game was closer than [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

Living in America: Chris Czerapowicz (Davidson)

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments

We continue our series on European Freshmen today with an interview with the Swedish Christopher Czerapowicz. After having lead the Swedish U18 National Team to Division A in 2009, the guard/forward had a major role on the U20 team this summer that won the Silver Medal and the promotion to A Division.

[Read more →]

Tags: ····

The main ACB prospects in Video

January 4th, 2011 · No Comments

This post features some of the main prospects playing currently in the Spanish ACB in different Video Clips.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·······

Mirza Sarajlija – »Lost and found« or Where is he now?

December 31st, 2010 · No Comments

At the last day of the Year 2010, Luka Bassin brings us once again an excellent article on a Slovenian prospect. This time, I guess several ALBA Berlin fans will be happy to read the article as it talks about Mirza Sarajlija. Enough said I guess, so let’s go Luka.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

Rannar Raap–the youngest top scorer in Europe

November 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

When going over the scorer rankings in Europe, you mostly see either US-born or other experienced players at the top. Not so in Estonia were the local EMKL league is having the youngest top scorer of a first division in Europe with Rannar Raap. The 1992 born player from Parnu currently averages 19.9ppg after 8 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ····

Talent Meeting in Malaga: Rafa Freire vs. Tomas Satoransky

October 24th, 2010 · No Comments

The ACB started a few weeks ago and a interesting that could be registered is that the young players get more and more minutes. We followed through the excellent ACB360 today the game between Unicaja Malaga and Cajasol Sevilla where several interesting players got a lot of minutes on both sides.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group D

October 21st, 2010 · No Comments

The last group of this year’s Euroleague competition is a bit more limited in terms of interesting prospects by the number. However, there are some quality young men playing with the Group D teams. Here we go to present the most interesting of them.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·········

U20 European Championship Division B 2010

September 27th, 2010 · No Comments

This summer, the Austrian U20 National Team won the Gold Medal at home by dominating the U20 European Championship in Oberwart. In this first article on Division B events, we will cover this tournament by taking a look at the teams qualified for the semi-finals: Austria, Sweden, Bulgaria and Poland.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···········

Euroleague Qualification Phase Preview

September 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Today starts the Euroleague Qualification Phase with the first games of the 2010-2011 season. 15 teams compete in two-games elimination match-ups for the remaining two spots in the Regular Season of the Euroleague. We took a quick look at the players to follow during these 3 elimination rounds that determine the two last competitors.

[Read more →]

Tags: ············

Sasu Salin, the sniper from the Dark

August 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

With all eyes on the upcoming FIBA World Championship, it is easy to miss the games that are currently played in the Qualification phase for the Eurobasket 2011. After having spoken already about Adam Hanga who is battling against relegation with Hungary, there is another young player currently stepping up, the Finnish guard Sasu Salin.

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

U20 European Championship Division B Preview on Finland

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments

Our Finnish friend Hippo is always happy to share his thoughts on the prospects coming from the North. With the U20 European Championship of Division B starting today, Hippo has sent us his opinion on the Finnish team for the tournament in Austria.

[Read more →]

Tags: ········

Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010: U20 National Teams

June 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Currently on holidays in the lovely Austrian Alps to recharge my batteries for the summer, I took some time to share my thoughts on the Croatian and French U20 National teams that compete in the Adidas Eurocamp 2010 in Treviso. Both teams prepare the upcoming U20 European Championships that will be played in Croatia.

[Read more →]

Tags: ········

Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 2)

June 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Today we continue our review of the players from the Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso with a few additional names that we are thinking are worth to be mentioned.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·········

Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 1)

June 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

The Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso is done for 2010 and I must admit that the overall level was lower than during the previous editions. There was only a limited number of direct 2010 NBA Draft prospects and no overwhelming new additions. Today, we go over a first part of those players that stood out in [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·····

remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_kses_data' ); remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_kses_data' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wpautop' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'convert_chars' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wptexturize' ); remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wptexturize' ); remove_filter('term_description', 'strip_tags'); remove_filter('pre_term_description', 'strip_tags');