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NIJT London 2013: the Guards

May 17th, 2013 · No Comments

Here we go for the first part of our scouting reports from the Nike International Junior Tournament. The guard group was somehow quite limited in this event but overall you have to add that it was once again difficult to scout all the players in details with two games running parallel at all times.

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NIJT Belgrade 2013: the Guards

March 7th, 2013 · No Comments

We start the review of the main players of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade traditionally with the guards. The overall talent level on this position was a bit limited and the number of future top level back-court players present in this tournament was not very high. But here we go for those that [...]

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Turkey wins the U16 Gold Medal–Player Scoutings

July 29th, 2012 · No Comments

Turkey won the Gold Medal of the U16 European Championship of Division A 2012 in Vilnius. The very balanced team managed to overcome France in the Final. See below for a quick scouting report on the main players of the two Finalists.

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JBBL Top 4 2012: Player Review

May 21st, 2012 · No Comments

The Top 4 of the German U16 League JBBL was overall on very good level. When last year, the Urspring team around Gavin Schilling dominated everything, the competition was more balanced this time and no individual dominator was present but teams were deeper and had especially interesting players in the younger age groups 97 or [...]

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Albert Schweitzer 2012: the Best of the Bottom 8

April 17th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Before analyzing the best prospects from the Top 8 teams; teams that I have seen at least twice during the tournament; I wanted to give a quick recap on several players from the teams that finished in the Bottom 8 and that I could only see once. So these scouting reports remain quite short and [...]

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NIJT Belgrade 2012: the Guards

February 29th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Here we go for the first part of our individual player analysis for the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade. The guards feature among others the All-tournament team members Nikola Rebic and Nikola Radicevic along the three-point contest winner Brano Djukanovic or the very young Jules Akodo.

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U16 European Championship 2011: Day 1

August 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

After a nice drive through the Polish backcountry from Wroclaw to the Czech Republic, we arrived in Pardubice to cover the U16 European Championship of Division A for two days. As all teams except one played at least one game in the small Hala Dukla of the Czech town, we could get a bit of [...]

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