Today, I will talk about the second European team to have played in this year’s edition of the Douai World Tournament: Lithuania. A team that was composed of 1990 and 1992 born players missing all their talented 91 guard players. This came up to a situation having a team dominated by inside players and totally […]
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Douai 2009: Lithuania Review
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas·Dovydas Redikas·Gediminas Orelikas·Tadas Padegimas·Tautvydas Slezas·Vytenis Cizauskas
Douai 2009: France Review
June 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
To start the in-depth reports about the Douai World Tournament, I will take a closer look to the third placed French team. Being only one point short of the Final victory, the team looks a bit undersized compared to the different other teams in the competition and also the typical hyper athletic inside player is […]
Tags: Alexis Tanghe·Andrew Albicy·ASVEL·Cholet Basket·Christophe Leonard·Douai·Elan Bearnais Pau-Orthez·Paris-Levallois·Paul Lacombe·Tanguy Ramassamy
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.
Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye·Alexey Shved·Anton Ponomarev·Boban Marjanovic·Nikos Pappas·Pablo Aguilar·Reebok Eurocamp·Rodrigue Beaubois·Roger Zaki·Stefan Markovic·Tomas Satoransky·Vladimir Dasic
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.
Tags: Brose Baskets Bamberg·Joel Freeland·Joventut Badalona·Kalise Gran Canaria·Karsten Tadda·Pau Ribas·Per Günther·Ricky Rubio·Roger Zaki·Sergi Llull·SLUC Nancy·Tim Ohlbrecht
NBBL Top4 2009: the Wendt-show was not enough (UPDATED with Videos)
May 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
This weekend, the German U19 NBBL League had its third edition of the Top4 played in Berlin. For the first time, the home team qualified for the event which made the Finals day particularly loud and enthusiastic. However, the overall level of the tournament, except for the final was not very high, which may be […]
Tags: ALBA Berlin·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Justin Raffington·Kevin Bright·Lars Wendt·Maik Zirbes·NBBL Top4·Niels Giffey·Ole Wendt·Paderborn Baskets·Steven Monse·TSV Tröster Breitengüssbach·Urspring
Today’s picks
April 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
After the heavy Easter weekend, let’s go for a recap of all the action of the last days.
Tags: Brito dos Santos·Cholet Mondial Basket·Luka Rupnik·Ricky Rubio·Victor Rho Tournament·Vilagarcia Basket Cup
Nike Hoop Summit 2009 review
April 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The Nike Hoop Summit 2009 has seen the first victory of the World Select team since Dirk Nowitzki in 1998. The team of coach Rob Beveridge took over the lead in the final minutes of the game despite being athletically far behind the more spectacular US kids. Being more limited in that are was not […]
Tags: Cholet Basket·Cibona Zagreb·Donatas Motiejunas·Hemofarm Vrsac·Kevin Seraphin·Milan Macvan·Nikos Pappas·Tomislav Zubcic
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?
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas·Fernando Raposo·Giorgi Shermadini·Henk Norel·Jonas Jerebko·Ludo Vaty·Milenko Tepic·Nando de Colo·Omri Casspi·Ricky Rubio·Rodrigue Beaubois·Roger Zaki·Sergi Llull·Tim Ohlbrecht·Victor Claver·Vladimir Dasic
Heavy weekend picks
April 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments
This Easter weekend is once again packed with interesting tournaments and events around European Youth basketball. I try to give a short preview about all the stuff that you can follow throughout the net over the upcoming days.
Tags: Bellegarde Tournament·Cholet Mondial Basket·Donatas Motiejunas·Edwin Jackson·Maik Zirbes·Mamadou Samb·Maurice Stuckey·Memorial Barila·Milan Macvan·NBBL·Nike Hoop Summit·Nikola Mirotic·Nikos Pappas·Olimpija Ljubljana·Sabonis Basketball School·Urspring
The fabulous destiny of Jan Vesely
March 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you asked which 1990 born player would have any kind of impact in the Euroleague, the name of Ricky Rubio would be all over the place. Jan Vesely was known as a promising player but his transfer to Partizan Belgrade, that just lost their dominant inside player Nikola Pekovic, was considered as a bit […]
Tags: Jan Vesely·Partizan Belgrade