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NBA Draft 2009: the European candidates

June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

With the NBA Draft being held at the Madison Square Garden this Thursday, I go for a quick check of the most interesting European Draft candidates for the year 2009.

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Tags: 2009 NBA Draft Process · Christian Eyenga · Emir Preldzic · Gasper Vidmar · Henk Norel · Jonas Jerebko · Milenko Tepic · Nando de Colo · Omri Casspi · Ricky Rubio · Rodrigue Beaubois · Rudy Mbemba · Sergi Llull · Sergiy Gladyr · Slava Kravtsov · Victor Claver

Reebok Eurocamp: the NBA Draft prospects

June 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In our first part of the review on the recent Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, I took a look at those players being automatically eligible or early entrance candidates and that have a correct chance of being drafted. The review contains only information on the European players, so Patrick Mills or Patrick Beverley have not been [...]

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Tags: Daniel Hackett · Henk Norel · Jonas Jerebko · Nando de Colo · Reebok Eurocamp · Rodrigue Beaubois · Sergiy Gladyr · Vladimir Dasic

Today’s picks (live from Treviso)

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Here we go for quick recap of the action I was able to catch from the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso so far. A camp that has representatives from all the 30 NBA teams in attendance in addition to a long list of Agents and representatives from European teams as well.

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Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye · Alexey Shved · Anton Ponomarev · Boban Marjanovic · Jaka Klobucar · Nando de Colo · Nikos Pappas · Pablo Aguilar · Reebok Eurocamp · Rodrigue Beaubois · Roger Zaki · Stefan Markovic · Tomas Satoransky · Vladimir Dasic

Rudy Mbemba is finally in the Draft

June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The Swedish guard Rudy Mbemba is in the NBA Draft, finally. After multiple seasons in different European teams, the 1m83 tall player is currently playing the Italian LegaDue Finals in order to earn a Lega spot for his team of Vanoli. I had the possibility to see several of his last games with the Italian [...]

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Tags: 2009 NBA Draft Process · Reebok Eurocamp · Rudy Mbemba

Today’s picks

May 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments

The upcoming European and World Championships are coming closer so that the first preliminary rosters get published. Additionally, some interesting news around the NBA Draft.

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Tags: Fabien Causeur · Nando de Colo · Terrence Oglesby · Victor Claver

Playoff picks

May 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Today, I give you a few thoughts on the different European playoff games I saw these last days.

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Tags: Joel Freeland · Karsten Tadda · Pau Ribas · Per Günther · Ricky Rubio · Roger Zaki · Sergi Llull · Tim Ohlbrecht

A first look at the upcoming 2009 NBA Draft

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, I took a first look at the upcoming NBA Draft from a European perspective. I will check who are the players that have already declared to enter the draft and who is supposed to do so in the next days. Who are the players that are automatically eligible?

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Tags: 2009 NBA Draft Process · Donatas Motiejunas · Emir Preldzic · Fernando Raposo · Giorgi Shermadini · Henk Norel · Jonas Jerebko · Ludo Vaty · Milenko Tepic · Nando de Colo · Omri Casspi · Ricky Rubio · Rodrigue Beaubois · Sergi Llull · Slava Kravtsov · Tim Ohlbrecht · Victor Claver · Vladimir Dasic

German Bundesliga roundup

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

I took a deeper look into the most interesting prospects coming of the German Bundesliga this week. The number of domestic players is really limited due to the particular regulations (9 US players allowed per team) but some youngsters emerged this season and in particular over the last weeks.

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Tags: Johannes Lischka · Karsten Tadda · Per Günther · Philipp Schwethelm · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht · Tom Spöler

Euro NCAA report

March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Over the past few weeks, I checked out the performances of some of the Europeans currently playing NCAA College basketball. The selection I made is not putting them in any order and is far from being complete but it covers those guys that I had the opportunity to see. So any additional comments by readers [...]

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Tags: Daniel Hackett · Dogus Balbay · Jeffery Taylor · Nikola Dragovic · Rihards Kuksiks · Terrence Oglesby

German talent meeting in Speyer

December 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

After a first look at some promising players in the Bundesliga, I will cover today some of the biggest prospects that are currently playing in the third German League, ProB. This league features a nice bunch of talented young players and the match-up between Speyer and Ehingen was the opportunity to get a look at [...]

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Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Cornelius Adler · Elias Harris · Maurice Stuckey · Nicolai Simon · Simon Schmitz · Thierno Agne

Today’s picks

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Here we go for some short notes before the Christmas break.

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Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye · Nando de Colo · Rihards Kuksiks · Tim Ohlbrecht

Prospect of the month: November 2008

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

A quick check who is on the list for our Prospect of the month November. While in the younger categories, the choice was done pretty rapidly, I had more trouble to go for a selection in the other cases. But here we go.

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Tags: Emir Preldzic · Ludo Vaty · Milan Macvan · Mirza Sarajlija · Rasid Mahalbasic

Prospect of the month: October 2008

November 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

With the new seasons that have started, we also go again for the vote of Prospect of the month. This year, we consider the generations from 1987 to 1991. As it is always very tough to find the right first choice for every year, I had some choices that may look strange in the beginning, [...]

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Tags: Donatas Motiejunas · Nicolo Melli · Sergi Llull · Thomas Heurtel · Victor Claver

Season Preview: 1987 generation (Part 2)

September 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here we go for the second part of the story.

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Tags: Dimitris Verginis · Henk Norel · Johannes Lischka · Jonas Jerebko · Luigi da Tome · Nando de Colo · Nicolai Simon · Oguz Savas · Pau Ribas · Rudy Mbemba · Sergi Llull

Season Preview: 1987 generation (Part 1)

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The 1987 generation is this season’s automatically eligible class for the NBA Draft 2009. The will be the first group of players that I take a look at in order to talk about their upcoming season. The list will of course not be complete and without any order, I took out the players that I [...]

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Tags: Andrei Vorontsevich · Emir Preldzic · Ernests Kalve · Gasper Vidmar · Jaka Klobucar · Maxim Sheleketo · Milenko Tepic · Povilas Butkevicius · Slava Kravtsov · Vladimir Stimac

Today’s picks

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The different European Youth National Teams are in their preparation phase for the European Youth championships that will be played this summer. Here are some of the notes on the different teams as they have done so far.

The Greek U20 team will get the support from Florida Gator Nick Calathes this summer in the U20 [...]

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Tags: Elias Harris · Nicolai Simon · Robin Benzing · Victor Claver · Vlad Moldoveanu

NBA Draft 2008: 1986 born automatically eligibles

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tomorrow is the big day, the NBA Draft 2008 is going on in the Madison Square Garden, New York. Besides the 5 early entrants, there is a long list of 1986 born automatically eligible players that can be drafted. I took a short look at the most promising of these guys.

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Tags: Anton Ponkrashov · Goran Dragic · Nikita Kurbanov

The European Prospects Mock Draft Review

June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

A few days before the NBA Draft on Thursday, I will take a look at the latest editions of the Mock Draft and calculate the positions for the different Europeans that are still in the process.

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Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Ante Tomic · Anton Ponkrashov · Danilo Gallinari · Goran Dragic · Mock Draft Review · Nicolas Batum · Serge Ibaka

Reebok Eurocamp Treviso 2008: the Bigs

June 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

In the last part of my review of the Reebok Eurocamp 2008 in Treviso, I will tell who were the big guys that impressed the most during the camp.

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Tags: Artem Zabelin · Henk Norel · Jakub Wojciechowski · Reebok Eurocamp · Serge Ibaka · Vladimir Stimac

Reebok Eurocamp Treviso 2008: the Forwards

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In the second part of the review of the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, I will talk about the Forwards. The last part will then talk about the big guys.

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Tags: Jonas Jerebko · Marko Keselj · Nikita Kurbanov · Semen Shashkov · Vladimir Dasic