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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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After a last day in Treviso yesterday, here are some more notes before the detailed reports will be published in the upcoming days.

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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.

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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.

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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 Ajinca.

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This Saturday will be played the already traditional Nike Hoop Summit in Portland. I have selected a couple of Internet clips of the European based players that will participate in this year’s edition.

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We just got the news that the International Roster for the Nike Hoop Summit has been announced. You can find it here. From the European side, there will be Zygimantas Janavicius, Alexander Kolchenko, Tim Ohlbrecht, Alexis Ajinca and Boban Marjanovic while European based Internationals Diego Gerbaudo and Serge Ibaka while also join the International team. [...]

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An interesting update in Spanish about Giorgi Shermadini including some interesting videos of the Georgian seven footer.
NBA Draft.net has translated an article about another European giant: Boban Marjanovic
The Douai Tournament organisation confirmed the following participants for this year’s edition: France, USA, Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Germany and Lithuania. There is one spot to be filled and [...]

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The next player to discover in the series of “unknown” Europeans in the NCAA is the Russian Power Forward Kirill Pishchalnikov.

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Xavi Rey, who was one of the dominant Centers of the U20 European Championship this summer will move to Ricoh Manresa. He was already with the team this Friday but he did not enter the court in a loss against Bilbao
Another prospect on the move in Spain is Daniel Clark. The English Center will be [...]

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