The Netherlands are a country without any major basketball tradition but one of the nations on the rise currently in Europe. The youth National Teams showed some progress over the last years and more and more players are trying the American way by going to play College Basketball. Today, we talk about an additional Freshman […]
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Living in America: Sam de Haas (St. Bonaventure)
December 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Living in America
Nikola Mirotic getting his minutes (VIDEO)
December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Montenegrin-Spanish Nikola Mirotic is getting more and more minutes with Real Madrid at the moment. After scoring 3pts in 5 minutes of Euroleague action against Unicaja last week, the 2m08 tall forward, born in 1991 played 19 minutes in the ACB game against the same this weekend. Check out below for a Video of […]
Tags: ACB·Nikola Mirotic·Real Madrid
Urspring travels to the United States again
December 6th, 2010 · No Comments
The German Basketball Academy from Urspring, that produced already several Division 1 players (Lucca Staiger, Christian Standhardinger, Justin Raffington,…) will participate at two prestigious tournaments in the USA during the Christmas Break. They will play the City of Palms Classic Signature Series where they will face Westchester County Day on the 20th December. After this […]
Tags: Gavin Schilling·Julius Wolf·Kenneth Ogbe·Kevin Bright·Malik Müller·Mario Blessing·Nevylle Richter·Sid-Marlon Theis·Urspring
Living in America: Aksel Bolin (Northern Illinois)
December 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
After having spent several seasons with the Norwegian team Asker Aliens, the 1990 born forward decided to move over the Atlantic Ocean and play College Basketball. Aksel Bolin spoke to europeanprospects.com these days about his choice and what we can expect from him in the next years.
Tags: Aksel Bolin·Living in America·NCAA·Northern Illinois·Norway
Matej Rojc vs. Luka Rupnik – the dynamic duo of the ’93 generation
December 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Slovenian Coach Luka Bassin continues with his series on the Slovenian prospects. Today, he will analyze the game of the two 1993 born Point Guards Matej Rojc and Luka Rupnik and compares their forces and weaknesses.
Tags: Luka Rupnik·Matej Rojc·Slovenia
Living in America: Eividas Petrulis (St. Mary’s)
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments
We start the Living in America season again this winter and we present some European-born NCAA College Freshmen that have arrived in the United States this summer. To start the series, we take a look at one of the more unknown players, the 1990 born Lithuanian Forward Eividas Petrulis.
Tags: Lithuania·Living in America·NCAA
Nihad Dedovic–the underestimated scorer
November 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Nihad Dedovic plays already his 2nd season on the highest level after having spent several seasons in lower Spanish divisons before coming to Roma to compete for the first time in the Euroleague. The 1m96 tall Bosnian is growing step by step and looks like a veteran despite being only 20 years old at the […]
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina·Euroleague·Italy·Lottomatica Roma·Nihad Dedovic
Alen Hodžić – time to move on
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Slovenian Coach Luka Bassin continues to present some prospects from his country. Today, he will present us the 18 year old Alen Hodžić.
Tags: Alen Hodzic·Gregor Horvat·Matej Rojc·Slovenia
Some quick hits from the Euroleague
November 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Having followed several Euroleague games this week, I put together some thoughts on three players that I scouted in particular. I speak of the following three guys: Nicolo Melli, Christophe Leonard and Augusto Cesar Lima.
Tags: Augusto Cesar Lima·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Nicolo Melli
Rannar Raap–the youngest top scorer in Europe
November 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments
When going over the scorer rankings in Europe, you mostly see either US-born or other experienced players at the top. Not so in Estonia were the local EMKL league is having the youngest top scorer of a first division in Europe with Rannar Raap. The 1992 born player from Parnu currently averages 19.9ppg after 8 […]
Tags: 2010 U18 European Championship Division B·Estonia·Janari Joesaar·Rain Veideman·Rannar Raap