European Prospects

The biggest surprise of the tournament was of course the third place of the German U17 team. Coming to Mannheim in order to prepare the U17 World Championships, the team of coach Frank Menz wanted to gain experience and eventually win a game or two. Even if they had probably the easiest group stage, the […]

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Spain came to Mannheim without three major players that were all in activity with their respective professional teams: Miki Servera, Malick Fall and Joan Tomas. Without these three, Spain finished however at the 5th place and were the only team capable of beating Australia in the tournament. But the loss against the USA in the […]

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We start our review on the Albert Schweitzer Tournament with the 7th placed Croatian team. As Croatia had to play without PG Toni Katic and forward Filip Najev and herefore had a very limited and young rotation, the result in Mannheim gives no reason to be annoyed according to crohoops.com.

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I spoke about it already a few days ago on my Twitter account, Gordon Herbert has been named as U18 National Team head coach. Our friend Hippo has sent us an interesting piece about the background of this surprising move and gives us also information on who are probably the main contributors for Herbert’s Finnish […]

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The German Center Tibor Pleiss gave recently an Interview to spox.com where he spoke about very interesting details on his past but also showed some surprise about the interest NBA Teams are having for him. You can read the full Interview in German here, I summed up the main parts in English.

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After having presented the reasons for the recent upswing of Swedish Basketball in the first part of our article, I will focus today on those prospects that represent the future of Swedish Basketball. The players mentioned are only those being born in 1991 or younger though.

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This is the question that the leading weekly French Basketball magazine Basketnews asked recently. They discussed this point in a long story out of which europeanprospects.com will report you some extracts.

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Jan Vesely is one of the most looked at prospects this season in terms of the NBA Draft 2010. Even if he has not declared officially so far, it is highly probable that the Czech forward will enter his name for this year’s edition. Together with our German friend and Stat man Simon (in-the-game.org), I […]

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Sasu Salin probably wasn’t among the favorites to get a spot in the Nike Hoop Summit roster, but it seems he was a bit unhappy with the snub. Check the report we got from our Finnish friend Hippo about the 1991 born guard from Honka Espoon Playboys.

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Today, we will talk about a young player that was one of the surprise of the French Semaine des As played one week ago. Nicolas de Jong, a 1988 born and 2m09 tall center from Vichy, was recently featured in a nice article and interview on the new French website Catch-and-shoot. Europeanprospects.com will translate in […]

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