Entries from January 2008

Today’s picks

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

FMP Zeleznik, the Serbian basketball team that is a regular producer of top flight talent, has released the contract with their professional team coach Vlada Vukoičić. Vukoicic, who has also led the Serbian U20 team to a Gold medal this summer in Nova Gorica will be replaced by the actual youth coach Slobodan Klipa. The […]

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Getting to know: Rihards Kuksiks (Latvia)

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

In today’s edition of Getting to know, we will check out what the Latvian forward Rihards Kuksiks has to tell us.

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Omri Casspi plays

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I have talked already about the story that Omri Casspi’s dad was threatening Maccabi Tel Aviv about his son’s playing time. At least, he has seen the floor in this week’s Euroleague action. But apparently, he did quite well.

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Update on Samuel Deguara

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Samuel Deguara is one of the most interesting prospects in Europe only by considering his size. The 1991 born and 2m23 tall Maltese kid is actually member of Benetton Treviso and he was actually member of their U19 squad that played the tournament in Rome this weekend.

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Douai Tournament 2008: first names announced

January 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

As you know, the Douai International Junior Tournament is one of the big events to follow in European youth Basketball. And the organization team made already some names public that will be present this year.

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Getting to know: Mikhail Linskens (Belgium)

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

In our series about “unknown” European NCAA prospects, we will talk today about the Belgian Center Mikhail Linskens.

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Today’s picks

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

If you want to know a little bit more about the Dutch Center prospect Roeland Schaftenaar, then check the interview with him here NBA Draft.net published an interview with Rodrigue Beaubois. I was a little surprised by the polished and very well suited answers from Beaubois. Maybe the translator, who is also Beaubois’ agent, helped […]

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Other tournament results

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Besides the Hospitalet Tournament, there have been some other important Youth basketball meetings this weekend. Here you will find information about three of them.

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FMP Zeleznik wins the Hospitalet Tournament

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

In an extremely close game, FMP Zeleznik has won the Final of the Hospitalet Tournament by the closest of margins against FC Barcelona 79-78. Bojan Subotic was the man of the final with the winning layup 2 seconds before the end of the game. He finished the Final with an amazing 37pts and 12rebs. Dejan […]

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Rudy Mbemba with a career night

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

We have lost a bit of his trace since he went from Fankfurt to Sweden to play with Solna in the first Swedish division. But I found this stat sheet that made me wondering a bit.

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