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Nicolas de Jong: the surprise of the Semaine des As

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Nicolas de Jong

German All-Star Day 2010: the NBBL steals the show

January 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The German All-Star Day 2010 was on the schedule this Saturday in Bonn. With the move from Mannheim to the Telekom Dome, the BEKO BBL has made an excellent decision as the arena was sold out and a great atmosphere throughout the event confirmed the popularity of the sport in Bonn. Even Euroleague CEO Jordi [...]

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Tags: Besnik Bekteshi · Daniel Theis · Dennis Ogbe · Niels Giffey · Patrick Heckmann · Per Günther · Philipp Neumann · Robin Benzing

Two shooters to look at in Germany

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

The German Bundesliga is still a US-dominated League but more and more young players are earning their minutes and showing good progress. Today, I discuss two young Shooting Guards that come from very different backgrounds. Both are having their first real impact season on the highest professional level and both are set for improving in [...]

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Tags: Karsten Tadda · Stefan Tapuskovic

Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season

December 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

With the year 2009 coming to an end, it is time to look back at what happened during the last months. The EuroCup season is quite shorter than the Euroleague but the teams playing here are stuffed with interesting talent. So it is time to take a quick look at those players that are emerging [...]

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Tags: Alessandro Gentile · Alexey Shved · Antoine Diot · Boban Marjanovic · Carl Ona Embo · Dairis Bertans · David Jelinek · Deividas Gailius · Dimitry Khvostov · Donatas Motiejunas · Elmedin Kikanovic · Janis Strelnieks · Karsten Tadda · Kevin Seraphin · Lauris Blaus · Marko Keselj · Milan Macvan · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Nemanja Bjelica · Pere Tomas · Pietro Aradori · Stefan Markovic · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht

Two German Bigs on the rise (Pt2: Tim Ohlbrecht)

December 26th, 2009 · No Comments

After having talked about the current rise of Tibor Pleiss, today’s article will focus on Tim Ohlbrecht, the 1988 born German player who is already on the radar of many scouts for several years. In the year of his automatic NBA Draft eligibility, Ohlbrecht is playing the best season of his career.

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Tags: Tim Ohlbrecht

Pietro Aradori 4 years later

December 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Back in 2006, at the beginning of this website, Pietro Aradori was one of the first players that I covered as he was a major factor for the Italian team at the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament. I scouted him later on again in 2007 at the U20 European Championship in Gorizia and now, at the edge of [...]

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Tags: Pietro Aradori

Update on Finnish Prospects 2009/2010

November 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Approximately one year ago, EuropeanProspects.com made an introduction to several Finnish prospects together with our friend Hippo from Finland. Today, we will check who are the players that emerge in the season 2009/2010 up North.

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Tags: Antti Kanervo · Antto Nikkarinen · Bojan Sarcevic · Sasu Salin

Great Documentaries about French Prospects

November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Nicolas de Virieu is a French Documentary movie maker that has produced a lot of highly interesting movies about Basketball. Among them, you can find different portraits or coverage of the famous Slam Nation dunkers in their worldwide tours. For fans of young European basketball players, two films are highly recommended.

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Tags: 2008 NBA Draft Process · Alexis Ajinca · Antoine Diot · Nicolas Batum

Scouting trip to Hesse

November 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

This weekend, I visited some friends in the German Land of Hesse and I used this opportunity to see a bit of basketball action. With no major European prospect present in these games, I wanted however to mention the players I could observe. You will not find a detailed scouting report but more a general [...]

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Tags: Falko Theilig · Mathias Perl · Vincent Kittmann

Martynas Gecevicius shooting star

November 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Lithuanian guard is on fire during the beginning of this season so it was time to take a closer look at the Lietuvos Rytas player. Martynas Gecevicius, who I follow for quite a few years now is finally getting the playing minutes with Rytas to show what he is able to do on the [...]

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Tags: Martynas Gecevicius

Living in America: Canarias BA alumni

October 17th, 2009 · No Comments

The Canarias Basketball Academy is probably the team that brought the most players to a Division 1 Scholarship this summer; there were 6. Here we go for a short video review on 5 of them and also present what the Canarias Basketball Academy is about.

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Tags: Ben Daniels · Daniel Thompson · Fahro Alihodzic · Jason Beharie · Living in America · Menelik Watson · Tomas Bruha

5 French Espoirs to follow this year

October 10th, 2009 · No Comments

The website of the French Espoirs League has published recently an article about the 5 former Espoirs players to follow this season. I took the freedom to translate the article into English and tell you about the 5 players that want to confirm their potential this year.

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Tags: Bangaly Fofana · Kevin Seraphin · Nobel Boungou-Colo · Seidou N'Joya · Steeve Ho You Fat

Eurobasket 2009: the NBA Draft candidates

September 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Eurobasket 2009 is history now and I take a look at the players that can be considered as the most interesting prospects of the tournament. The players featured in the article are those that are still potentially NBA Draft candidates, so all the players born in 1988 or earlier but not drafted yet.

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Tags: Antoine Diot · Baris Hersek · Elias Harris · Eurobasket · Lucca Staiger · Milan Macvan · Miroslav Raduljica · Nemanja Bjelica · Robin Benzing · Stefan Markovic · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht

Reebok Eurocamp: the best of the rest

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments

After having discussed the NBA prospects in Treviso, I take a closer look at the other players present in Treviso that may be NBA candidates in the next years or stay in Europe.

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Tags: Adam Hanga · Alexey Shved · Anton Ponomarev · Artem Zabelin · Carl Ona Embo · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Nikos Pappas · Pablo Aguilar · Reebok Eurocamp · Tomas Satoransky

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

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