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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Maik Zirbes confirms, Philipp Neumann emerges
December 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Tags: Maik Zirbes·Philipp Neumann
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: Daniel Theis·Dennis Schröder·Johannes Richter·Jörg Dippold·Julius Wolf·Junior Kante·Kenneth Ogbe·Malik Müller·Mario Blessing·NBBL Top4·Ole Wendt·Philipp Neumann
NBBL Top4: Daniel Theis vs Johannes Richter
May 13th, 2011 · No Comments
The first semi-final of the NBBL Top4 will see Braunschweig play against Breitengüssbach. We spoke with a player from each team to get their feelings on the upcoming event.
Tags: Daniel Theis·Johannes Richter·NBBL Top4
NBA Draft 2011–Early Entrants Analysis
April 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The NBA has published yesterday the list of Early Entrants for the NBA Draft 2011. It features 20 players based in Europe and two Europeans playing in the NCAA. We will go over the 20 Internationals, give a short scouting report with Video (where available) and make a prediction on their Draft Stock.
Tags: Abdel Kader Sylla·Abdoulaye Loum·Andrew Albicy·Bismack Biyombo·Davis Bertans·Donatas Motiejunas·Emmanouil Koukoulas·Femi Oladipo·Furkan Aldemir·Jan Vesely·Joffrey Lauvergne·Jonas Valanciunas·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Leon Radosevic·Lucas "Bebe" Nogueira·NBA Draft 2011·Negueba Samake·Nihad Dedovic·Nikola Mirotic·Tomislav Zubcic·Tornike Shengelia
Nike Hoop Summit 2011 Review
April 18th, 2011 · No Comments
A week ago, the Nike Hoop Summit 2011 saw a victory of Team USA over the World Team 92-80. We take a quick look at the European based players to see how they competed in this prestigious event.
Tags: Bismack Biyombo·Dario Saric·Davis Bertans·Evan Fournier·Lucas "Bebe" Nogueira·Mateusz Ponitka·Nike Hoop Summit·Przemyslaw Karnowski
NBBL All-Star Game 2011
January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Last Saturday, the German NBBL U19 League had its fourth ever All-Star Game featuring the top players for the 33 NBBL participating teams. Unfortunately, several prospects had to sit out because of injuries (Daniel Theis, Bogdan Radosavljevic, Ole Wendt, Thomas Reuter) so that the level of the game this year could not reach the same [...]
Tags: Bill Borekambi·Bogdan Radosavljevic·Daniel Theis·Lars Wendt·NBBL·Ole Wendt·Patrick Heckmann·Philipp Neumann·Thomas Reuter·Tim Kasper
A “big” Euroleague night
January 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment
With the start of the Top16, it is about time to get an update on some of the most promising players in relation with the upcoming NBA Draft. The schedule allowed me to follow three “big” guys in the same evening, even if they are all three very different players. I speak of Jonas Valanciunas, [...]
Tags: Branislav Dekic·Dragan Milosavljevic·Euroleague·Jan Vesely·Jonas Valanciunas·Nikola Mirotic·Vladimir Lucic
Rudy Gobert: I work hard on every practice
January 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The French 1992 born Center prospect, who currently plays for Cholet Basket has come up recently with an excellent game in the Espoirs championship. He scored 35pts and grabbed 13rebs and our friends at Catch & Shoot came up with a quick interview that we translated into English for a global audience. In fact, Gobert [...]
Tags: Rudy Gobert
Living in America: Alasdair Fraser (Maine)
December 21st, 2010 · No Comments
It is not the classic Basketball territory that Alasdair “Ali” Fraser is coming from. The 2m01 tall big guy is born in Falkirk/Scotland and plays this season a very interesting role with the Maine Black Bears in the America East Conference. He even got honored with a Rookie of the Week Award after his 10pts, [...]
Tags: Living in America·NCAA
Jonas Valanciunas debuting strong
October 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Lithuanian Center was the MVP of the recent U18 European Championship. Everybody expects big things in the future from the 1992 born big guy. But the future for Valanciunas has already begun as he is averaging impressive numbers for an 18-years old in the opening days of the Euroleague. We took a closer look [...]
Tags: Euroleague·Jonas Valanciunas·Lietuvos Rytas
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group C
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments
The Group C of the Euroleague 2010/2011 features some of the most interesting young big men in Europe and several potential NBA Draft candidates. Additionally, Ricky Rubio is also active with his FC Barcelona in this group and the games of these 6 teams will certainly attract a large number of NBA scouts over the [...]
Tags: Bojan Bogdanovic·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Jonas Valanciunas·Karlo Vragovic·Leon Radosevic·Mario Delas·Maxim Can Mutaf·Ricky Rubio·Simas Buterlevicius·Tomislav Zubcic
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group B
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Today started the Euroleague season 2010/2011 with the opening game in the Group B between Olympiacos and Real Madrid. So it is about time to check who are the players to follow in the different groups of this season. We will go through the different groups and point out who are the players that we [...]
Tags: Augusto Cesar Lima·Euroleague·Ioann Iarochevitch·Kostas Papanikolaou·Maurice Stuckey·Nihad Dedovic·Nikola Mirotic·Philipp Neumann·Rafael Freire·Tibor Pleiss





