European Prospects

This weekend, the NBBL Top 4 will determine who will become the new German U19 champion. Before the tournament, we talked to some of the players to follow during the two days in Hagen. We start with the hosts from Phoenix Hagen and their Forward Fabien Bleck.

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The German U19 League NBBL is developing into one of the most interesting youth leagues to follow in Europe. This season, a quite unknown name is leading the league in both scoring and rebounding (25.2ppg, 56.0% 2FGs, 13.5rpg, 2.3spg, 1.9topg, 36.1mpg), the 2m04 tall inside player Till Gloger from Paderborn. After the departure of the [...]

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After a bucket full of talented guards, the prospects on the wing positions were rather limited. We picked out only four players that were worth of being talked about with two hard workers in the main focus: Nikola Cvorovic and Sinisa Cvetanovic.

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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 [...]

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In the last part of our series of reports on the U18 European Championship, we will talk about the big guys today.

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After the guards, here is the report on the most interesting wing players from the U18 European Championship 2011 in Wroclaw.

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Tomorrow starts the U18 European Championship of Division A in Wroclaw. When Serbia, Spain or the hosts are generally considered as favorites, the Finnish team wants to be more than just an underdog and save their spot in Division A during the next 10 days. Hippo presents the U18 Team from his home country.

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After having analyzed the most impressive guards a few days, here we go for the wing players that stood out the most. As previously, I concentrated my scouting mostly on European players which explains the small information on non-Europeans in the report.

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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.

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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 [...]

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The Nike International Junior Tournament has been played already several days ago. After having analyzed the game of the MVP of the tournament Dario Saric as well as the other prospects in his team KK Zagreb, we are taking a look today at some of the prospects that have not been that much in the [...]

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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.

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In the third and last part of our Nike International Junior Tournament review, we will take a look at the big guys today. So check out who are the players to follow in the next years to play in the paint.

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After having started the review with the highly talented Guard’s group of this NIJT in Belgrade, we will take a look at the Wing players. While there is probably not the same high-level talent level than among the guards, there are several forwards that are worth to take a look at.

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In the last part of our review of the 2011 edition of the l’Hospitalet Tournament, we will talk about the Big guys. These do not only include centers but a whole lot of Power Forwards as well as the number of real center players was limited. Let’s take a look.

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After the first part that discussed the guards in the 2011 edition of the l’Hospitalet tournament, we will speak today about the main wing prospects with among them the MVP of the tournament, Marcus Eriksson from Sweden.

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The German Basketball Academy from Urspring, that produced already several Division 1 players (Lucca Staiger, Christian Standhardinger, Justin Raffington,…) will participate at two prestigious tournaments in the USA during the Christmas Break. They will play the City of Palms Classic Signature Series where they will face Westchester County Day on the 20th December. After this [...]

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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 [...]

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Together with our Russian friend Nikita, we put together an article about the Russian U18 National Team that won the Silver Medal at the recent European Championships in Vilnius. Nikita was so kind to speak with the Russian head coach Sergey Skorochkin about his players and what his thoughts were on the Silver Medal team.

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The big guys drew the most interest in the U18 European Championship as this group featured several highly interesting players. Even if Enes Kanter was absent, the tournament featured several NBA potentials and we go over the players that have impressed us the most.

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