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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Center'
Nicolas de Jong: the surprise of the Semaine des As
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Nicolas de Jong
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 [...]
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.
Tags: Tim Ohlbrecht
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.
Tags: Ben Daniels · Daniel Thompson · Fahro Alihodzic · Jason Beharie · Living in America · Menelik Watson · Tomas Bruha
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.
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.
Tags: Adam Hanga · Alexey Shved · Anton Ponomarev · Artem Zabelin · Carl Ona Embo · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Nikos Pappas · Pablo Aguilar · Reebok Eurocamp · Tomas Satoransky
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 · Jaka Klobucar · Nando de Colo · 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: 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?
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
German Bundesliga roundup
April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
I took a deeper look into the most interesting prospects coming of the German Bundesliga this week. The number of domestic players is really limited due to the particular regulations (9 US players allowed per team) but some youngsters emerged this season and in particular over the last weeks.
Tags: Johannes Lischka · Karsten Tadda · Per Günther · Philipp Schwethelm · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht · Tom Spöler
Today’s picks
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Here we go for some short notes before the Christmas break.
Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye · Nando de Colo · Rihards Kuksiks · Tim Ohlbrecht
An afternoon with German prospects
September 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Today, I had the possibility to follow two games of the German Bundesliga that featured some of the most promising prospects that see the floor on a regular basis. Here is my report about these three young men.
Tags: Philipp Schwethelm · Tibor Pleiß · Tim Ohlbrecht
U20 European Championships (Division A): the Big guys
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments
After the wings and the guards, I finally come to the big men. And despite having them in just smaller number here in my report, the talent level is extremely high for these young men.
Tags: Boban Marjanovic · Division A European Championship · Donatas Motiejunas · Milan Macvan · Miroslav Raduljica
Today’s picks (from U20 Tournament)
July 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Some more notes from the U20 Tournament that has been played in Luxembourg this week.
France continued their run to finish the tournament unbeaten. And it was also Kim Tillie that continued his impressive play during this tournament. After the performances here, France U20 can seriously be considered as a Medal candidate in Riga for the [...]
Tags: Adrien Moerman · Antoine Diot · Artem Zabelin · Baris Hersek · Division A European Championship · Dogus Balbay · Evaldas Zabas · Guy-Marc Michel · Kim Tillie · Martynas Gecevicius · Pablo Aguilar · Sarunas Vasiliauskas · Thomas Heurtel · Zygimantas Janavicius
Today’s picks (from U20 tournament)
July 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
These days is played a U20 tournament with European top teams in the tiny Luxembourg. France, Lithuania, Russia, Turkey, Spain and a U23 selection of the host play against each until Sunday. After two days, here are my first thoughts on the games.
In the first game of the tournament, Turkey lost against Lithuania where the [...]
Tags: Alexey Shved · Alexis Ajinca · Artem Zabelin · Division A European Championship · Dogus Balbay · Nicolas Batum · Rodrigue Beaubois · Victor Claver
Reebok Eurocamp Treviso 2008: the Bigs
June 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
In the last part of my review of the Reebok Eurocamp 2008 in Treviso, I will tell who were the big guys that impressed the most during the camp.
Tags: Artem Zabelin · Henk Norel · Jakub Wojciechowski · Reebok Eurocamp · Serge Ibaka · Vladimir Stimac
Today’s picks (back from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)
June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
After a last day in Treviso yesterday, here are some more notes before the detailed reports will be published in the upcoming days.
Tags: Alexey Shved · Artem Zabelin · Dusan Mladjan · Henk Norel · Jaka Klobucar · Jonas Jerebko · Reebok Eurocamp · Semen Shashkov
Tim Ohlbrecht update
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
With the Reebok Eurocamp starting off in just 10 days, I will give an update on those players that did not get invited or won’t be present in Treviso for several reasons. I will start with the German PF Tim Ohlbrecht.
Tags: Tim Ohlbrecht
German prospects on the move
May 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
The NCAA is still a very popular destination for some of Germany’s best prospects. And despite some problems with the NCAA regularization last year (you surely remember the case of Lucca Staiger and Fabian Böke who got suspended for one season), there is still a number of players that want to join the College league.
Tags: Christopher Niemann · Frank Wiseler · Patrick Horstmann · Robin Benzing · Thierno Agne
Nike Hoops Summit: a look at the Euro bigs
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
While not having seen the game (if anyone wants to send me a copy would be nice ), I had to take a look at what the other websites are saying about the Europeans present in Portland. I found a nice article from SI.com taking a look particularly at Serge Ibaka and Alexis [...]
Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Serge Ibaka · Tim Ohlbrecht

