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U20 European Championship (Division A): the Wings

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

After the Guards, the next step will be the coverage of the most outstanding forwards of the tournament.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Baris Hersek · Lukas Bazdauskis · Marko Keselj · Mladen Jeremic · Victor Claver · Vladimir Dasic

Today’s picks (live from Riga)

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I have arrived in Riga to cover the last two days of the U20 European Championship. I use this post to give you a few updates of both U20 tournaments as well as some other stories about European prospects. But let’s start with the U20s.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · 2008 U20 DivB European Championship · Donatas Motiejunas · Frank Wiseler · Kostas Sloukas · Rasid Mahalbasic · Victor Claver

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 [...]

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Adrien Moerman · Antoine Diot · Artem Zabelin · Baris Hersek · 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 [...]

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Alexey Shved · Alexis Ajinca · Artem Zabelin · Dogus Balbay · Nicolas Batum · Rodrigue Beaubois · Victor Claver

Today’s picks

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The different European Youth National Teams are in their preparation phase for the European Youth championships that will be played this summer. Here are some of the notes on the different teams as they have done so far.

The Greek U20 team will get the support from Florida Gator Nick Calathes this summer in the U20 [...]

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Tags: Elias Harris · Nicolai Simon · Robin Benzing · Victor Claver · Vlad Moldoveanu

Today’s (Draft) picks

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Here are the latest rumors concerning the NBA Draft that will start tonight at 1h30 CET.

After the period of Nicolas Batum’s heart problems, the medical bulletin has not been released by his agents. The only teams that have it right now are the San Antonio Spurs (26th) and the Cleveland Cavaliers (19th).
After the hype on [...]

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Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Danilo Gallinari · Nicolas Batum · Serge Ibaka

NBA Draft 2008: Nicolas Batum

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Nicolas Batum, who got cleared today by US hospitals that he can play basketball and that his heart “problem” was probably the result of fatigue, is one of the players that has been covered extensively here. Read how he progressed over the last years here.

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Tags: 2008 NBA Draft Process · Nicolas Batum

NBA Draft 2008: Alexis Ajinca

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

A few days before the NBA Draft, I will give you recaps of my former reports on the European Early Entrants so that you can see a bit their development. I will also add the current status.

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Tags: 2008 NBA Draft Process · Alexis Ajinca

The European Prospects Mock Draft Review

June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

A few days before the NBA Draft on Thursday, I will take a look at the latest editions of the Mock Draft and calculate the positions for the different Europeans that are still in the process.

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Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Ante Tomic · Anton Ponkrashov · Danilo Gallinari · Goran Dragic · Mock Draft Review · Nicolas Batum · Nikola Pekovic · Omer Asik · Semih Erden · Serge Ibaka

Euro-workouts continue (Ajinca, Batum, Claver)

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

More and more European Prospects are moving around the United States for workouts with the different NBA teams. Today, we have a focus on Alexis Ajinca and Victor Claver but also some footage of Nicolas Batum with the Phoenix Suns.

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Tags: 2008 NBA Draft Process · Alexis Ajinca · Nicolas Batum · Victor Claver

Reebok Eurocamp Treviso 2008: the Forwards

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In the second part of the review of the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, I will talk about the Forwards. The last part will then talk about the big guys.

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Tags: Jonas Jerebko · Marko Keselj · Nikita Kurbanov · Semen Shashkov · Vladimir Dasic

Tonight’s picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

And the day goes on and we have some more short infos for you from Treviso.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Andriy Agafonov · Anton Ponkrashov · Marko Keselj · Nicolas Batum · Vladimir Dasic

Morning picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

After nice Italian food, here are some picks from the Morning session today in Treviso.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Nicolas Batum · Serge Ibaka

Today’s picks (live from Reebok Eurocamp Treviso)

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

After arriving in Italy and a first day at the La Ghirada Sportcomplex, here are my first thoughts about the camp so far.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Alexey Shved · Nikita Kurbanov · Rudy Mbemba · Serge Ibaka · Thomas Heurtel · Vladimir Dasic

The European Prospects Mock Draft Review

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

With 30 days left until the 2008 NBA Draft, the sprint around the Globe for GM’s, scouts and other executives has begun. And europeanprospects.com comes up with its latest Mock Draft Review to check what are the trends in the most popular Mocks on the Web.

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Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Ante Tomic · Anton Ponkrashov · Danilo Gallinari · Goran Dragic · Nicolas Batum · Nikola Pekovic · Omer Asik · Omri Casspi · Semih Erden · Serge Ibaka

Reebok Eurocamp Treviso: the participants

May 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

While the list have not been published on the official website of the camp, the usually well informed sources have the names already online for a few days. Here are the names then again with a few comments from my side.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Adrien Moerman · Anton Ponkrashov · Danilo Gallinari · Giorgi Shermadini · Luc Louves · Nikola Pekovic · Vladimir Stimac

Two prospects for MVP in France

May 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today, the French press announced the MVP trophies of the last season for the ProA and ProB league. And the least one could say is that these votings have been dominated by young prospects.

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Tags: Adrien Moerman · Alexis Ajinca · Nando de Colo · Nicolas Batum

European Early-entrants for the 2008 NBA Draft

May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The list of the European early-entrants has been published a few days ago, so I took the time to go over it and give you my opinion, who will get drafted, who will take his name out again and other thoughts on the list.

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Tags: 2008 NBA Draft Process · Alexis Ajinca · Ante Tomic · Danilo Gallinari · Giorgi Shermadini · Henk Norel · Jonas Jerebko · Luc Louves · Maxim Sheleketo · Maxim Vilkhovetskyi · Mladen Jeremic · Nando de Colo · Nicolas Batum · Omri Casspi · Rodrigue Beaubois · Ronals Zakis · Rudy Mbemba · Serge Ibaka · Victor Claver

Today’s picks

April 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Euroleague has announced the winner of its Rising Star Trophy: it is Danilo Gallinari. I thought it would be Nikola Pekovic though but the selection committee took the Italian.
Today starts the Victor Rho tournament for U18 and U14 teams. All infos can be found on the official website. A few names from the [...]

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Tags: Danilo Gallinari · Dejan Musli · Nikola Mirotic · Robin Benzing · Vladimir Stimac

The European Prospects Mock Draft Review

April 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A little bit later than usual, but here it is again: the European Prospects Mock Draft Review. After adapting the formula to calculate a bit in order to take into account the update dates of the different mocks, here we are with the results as of today.

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Tags: Alexis Ajinca · Ante Tomic · Anton Ponkrashov · Danilo Gallinari · Goran Dragic · Mock Draft Review · Nicolas Batum · Nikola Pekovic · Omer Asik · Semih Erden · Serge Ibaka