One of the most interesting German prospects has made the step to play College Basketball this summer. After Elias Harris in 2009, the summer of 2010 saw Niels Giffey move from ALBA Berlin to UConn and have some interesting impact right from the start. We spoke with Giffey about his current situation and what his […]
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Living in America: Niels Giffey (UConn)
January 12th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Living in America·NCAA·Niels Giffey
Rudy Gobert: I work hard on every practice
January 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The French 1992 born Center prospect, who currently plays for Cholet Basket has come up recently with an excellent game in the Espoirs championship. He scored 35pts and grabbed 13rebs and our friends at Catch & Shoot came up with a quick interview that we translated into English for a global audience. In fact, Gobert […]
Tags: Rudy Gobert
NIJT l´Hospitalet 2011: the Guards
January 10th, 2011 · No Comments
We start our review of the 2011 edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament in l’Hospitalet traditionally with the guards. But before going into the details of the scouting, it has to be mentioned that the overall level of the tournament was not particularly high. The absence of some major Spanish teams like Unicaja Malaga […]
Tags: Agusti Sans·Albert Homs·Dorijan Jelenek·Guillem Vives·Hospitalet·Josip Perez·Karlo Lebo·Kaspars Vecvagars·Lluis Costa·Marc Bauza·Mario Hezonja·Martin Junakovic
Under the Radar: Dmitry Kulagin
January 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments
There aren’t probably many 1992 born players that average double-digit points this season in one of the better European Leagues. One player, that we particularly liked the times we have seen him play before is in that case. 10.3ppg, 2.0rpg, 2.0apg and 1.4spg in just 19.1 minutes on the court, these are the numbers that […]
Tags: Dmitry Kulagin·Nizhny Novgorod·Russia
The main ACB prospects in Video
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments
This post features some of the main prospects playing currently in the Spanish ACB in different Video Clips.
Tags: ACB·David Jelinek·Jaime Fernandez·Joan Sastre·Josep Franch·Nikola Mirotic·Pere Tomas·Tomas Satoransky
Mirza Sarajlija – »Lost and found« or Where is he now?
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments
At the last day of the Year 2010, Luka Bassin brings us once again an excellent article on a Slovenian prospect. This time, I guess several ALBA Berlin fans will be happy to read the article as it talks about Mirza Sarajlija. Enough said I guess, so let’s go Luka.
Tags: Euroleague·Mirza Sarajlija·Olimpija Ljubljana·Slovenia
Breaking down Kostas Papanikolaou
December 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments
One of the nice surprises of the Euroleague Regular season is the contribution of the 1990 born Greek prospect Kostas Papanikolaou. Together with the statistical database of in-the-game.org, I put together a analysis of his game based on numbers and skills as well as a short scouting report.
Tags: Euroleague
Living in America: Alasdair Fraser (Maine)
December 21st, 2010 · No Comments
It is not the classic Basketball territory that Alasdair “Ali” Fraser is coming from. The 2m01 tall big guy is born in Falkirk/Scotland and plays this season a very interesting role with the Maine Black Bears in the America East Conference. He even got honored with a Rookie of the Week Award after his 10pts, […]
Tags: Living in America·NCAA
Marko Pajić and Jaka Blažič – important pieces of Geoplin Slovan (Pt. 2)
December 18th, 2010 · No Comments
After having introduced Marko Pajić on Thursday, Luka Bassin gives today his scouting report on another Geoplin Slovan prospect: Jaka Blažič.
Tags: Slovenia
Marko Pajić and Jaka Blažič – important pieces of Geoplin Slovan (Pt. 1)
December 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Slovenian Coach Luka Bassin continues to send us interesting and highly-detailed scouting reports on the prospects of his country. Today we start a 2 articles series on the players from Geoplin Slovan. Let’s go Coach Bassin.
Tags: Slovenia