Philipp Neumann has been considered a high-level talent for a long time already. But this season is the one where he really emerges on the top level in Germany and shows what potential he has. The 2m09 big guy, who was moving between PF and C in the youth categories playing often facing the basket [...]
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Philipp Neumann continues to improve
April 20th, 2013 · No Comments
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The big day of Joffrey Lauvergne
February 28th, 2013 · No Comments
During the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade, I also had the possibility to follow the Adriatic League game between Partizan Belgrade and Union Olimpija Ljubljana. Over the last two years, Nemanja Nedovic used this moment where lots of NBA Scouts are present to showcase his skills. This time, the French big guy Joffrey Lauvergne [...]
Tags: Alen Omic·Bogdan Bogdanovic·Dejan Musli·Joffrey Lauvergne·Klemen Prepelic·Leo Westermann·Luka Rupnik·Nikola Milutinov·Sasu Salin
Rudy Gobert: a non-scouting report
December 12th, 2012 · No Comments
Rudy Gobert is currently the hottest name in terms of European chances to get selected in the NBA Draft 2013 among the lottery picks. As his game is already pretty much known and as we reported already several times about him, I wanted to go for a little more background information on the French inside [...]
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Philipp Neumann hustling ahead in Germany
December 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
After being on the radar in Germany for the last four years, Philipp Neumann is currently playing his break-out season for the German champions Brose Baskets. The German big guy is seeing regular and quality minutes in the Euroleague and the Bundesliga and is showing nice progress over the last months. Not very well known [...]
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5 players to follow in Portugal 2012/2013
October 18th, 2012 · 4 Comments
(Luís Cristóvão) When you talk about Basketball, Portugal isn’t the place you go looking for young talent. Mostly, because the Portuguese don’t usually are in the big competitions. With almost no teams playing in European Cups (Benfica was the exception in the 2010/11 Eurochallenge) and a weak National Team (after making it to Eurobasket 2011, [...]
Tags: Carlos Ferreirinho·Diogo Ventura·Emmnuel Sa·Joao Fernandes·Marko Loncovic·Miguel Maria Cardoso·Pedro Belo
5 players to follow in the French ProA 2012/13
October 5th, 2012 · No Comments
In the next part of our season preview, we take a look at the players to follow in the French ProA. This preview does not feature Rudy Gobert who has already been presented in a previous article and I will not speak either of Mam Jaiteh who will play in the Pro B this season. [...]
Tags: Axel Toupane·Clint Capela·Hugo Invernizzi·Joffrey Lauvergne·Livio Jean-Charles·Louis Labeyrie
5 players to follow in the Bundesliga 2012/13
September 30th, 2012 · 1 Comment
After having discussed already 5 players to follow for the NBA Draft 2012, we will take a look today at 5 players (and a Wildcard) in the Beko BBL. These players should be able to significantly improve their presence this season. We do not mention in this preview Maxi Kleber who was already talked about [...]
Tags: Daniel Theis·Danilo Barthel·Dennis Schröder·Ole Wendt·Philipp Neumann·Vitalis Chikoko
5 players to follow for the NBA Draft 2013
September 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment
The new season in Europe is about to start and there are several players that are already emerging in the different pre-season tournaments as potential NBA Draft picks 2013. We selected five players and a Wildcard that we suggest you should follow particularly well as they might end up as some of the most intriguing [...]
Tags: Achille Polonara·Alex Abrines·Dario Saric·Maxi Kleber·Nemanja Nedovic·Rudy Gobert
Adidas Eurocamp 2012: National Team players
June 26th, 2012 · 5 Comments
In the last part of our review of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will take a look at those players that competed in the different national selections that were present in Treviso. Unfortunately, Dmitry Kulagin got injured so that he could not fully play during all the games. Therefore, he is not in our reports. [...]
Tags: Adidas Eurocamp 2012·Leo Westermann·Livio Jean-Charles·Owen Odigie·Rudy Gobert·Valentin Bigote·Vladislav Trushkin
Adidas Eurocamp 2012: the next generation
June 24th, 2012 · No Comments
In the third part of our player analysis of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will look at some players that might develop into to prospects in the next years. You can do some Sportsbook Review in order to see how to bet on their future but here is a first analysis on their potential. The [...]
Tags: Adidas Eurocamp 2012·Artem Klimenko·Boban Dubljevic·Daniel Diez·Devon van Oostrum·Louis Labeyrie·Nikola Ivanovic·Oleksandr Lypovyy·Riccardo Moraschini
Maik Zirbes confirms, Philipp Neumann emerges
December 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments
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: [...]
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92 born players to watch in Spain 2011/2012 (Pt.2)
November 5th, 2011 · 3 Comments
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.
Tags: ACB·Haukur Palsson·Lucas "Bebe" Nogueira·Marko Todorovic·Rafael Freire·Raul Neto
92 born players to watch in Spain 2011/2012 (Pt.1)
November 3rd, 2011 · No Comments
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.
Tags: ACB·Joan Tomas·Jose Pozas·Malick Fall·Ondrej Balvin·Spain·Victor Arteaga
5 prospects to follow in the LNB 2011/2012
September 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments
After having discussed five prospects to follow in the German Bundesliga, we will check today who are the players to follow in the French LNB League this season.
Tags: Christophe Leonard·Evan Fournier·Joffrey Lauvergne·Leo Westermann·Rudy Gobert
5 prospects to follow in the Bundesliga 2011/2012
September 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The seasons in the different European Leagues are about to start next weekend so that we check who are the prospects to follow in some of the main leagues. We will start today with the German Bundesliga that becomes more and more interesting also for young players to get some minutes on a good level.
Tags: Anthony Canty·Besnik Bekteshi·Bogdan Radosavljevic·Daniel Theis·Danilo Barthel·Femi Oladipo·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Maik Zirbes·Maurice Stuckey·Maxi Kleber·Michael Wenzl·Nico Adamczak·Philipp Neumann·Simon Schmitz
FIBA U19 World Championship 2011: the Bigs
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments
The tournament is over for quite some time but I managed to finish my report on the Big guys only today. So here we go for a review of the most interesting inside players including an updated on the Toronto Raptors drafted Lithuanian Center Jonas Valanciunas.
Tags: 2011 U19 World Championship·Boris Barac·Jonas Valanciunas·Marcos Delia·Marko Gujanicic·Nemanja Besovic·Przemyslaw Karnowski·Rolandas Jakstas
FIBA U19 World Championship Preview: Brazil
June 25th, 2011 · No Comments
Our Preview series continues with a piece on the Brazilian U19 National written by Rafael Uehara. We can already inform you that the competition will be broadcasted as LIVE Stream and without Geo-Blocking on FIBA TV. Click here if you want to subscribe for the event.
Tags: 2011 U19 World Championship·Lucas "Bebe" Nogueira·Raul Neto
NBA Draft 2011: the Euro-Review
June 24th, 2011 · No Comments
The NBA Draft 2011 is in the books and before we move on to other things, we go first for a quick overview of the different European picks with a short analysis of their situation.
Tags: Adam Hanga·Bismack Biyombo·Bojan Bogdanovic·Davis Bertans·Donatas Motiejunas·Enes Kanter·Jan Vesely·Jonas Valanciunas·Milan Macvan·NBA Draft 2011·Nikola Mirotic·Nikola Vucevic
The INSEP Signing season has started
May 31st, 2011 · No Comments
With the announcement of Hugo Invernizzi’s future destination today, you can say that the signing season of the INSEP athletes is in full swing. We take a quick look at the first decisions and what might come in the next days and weeks.
Tags: Hugo Invernizzi·INSEP·Livio Jean-Charles·Ulysse Adjagba·Vincent Pourchot·William Howard·Yannis Morin
NBBL Top4 2011: Player review
May 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment
After having run through the major prospects of the JBBL Top4, it is about time to check who are the players that shined in the NBBL semis and Final game. This season was the last one for the highly talented 1992 generation from Germany and several of the real big prospects managed to qualify with [...]
Tags: Bazou Kante·Daniel Theis·Dennis Schröder·Johannes Richter·Jörg Dippold·Julius Wolf·Kenneth Ogbe·Malik Müller·Mario Blessing·NBBL Top4·Ole Wendt·Philipp Neumann

