Hungary is currently playing the Qualifiers for the Eurobasket 2011 in Lithuania. Even if their chances to reach the tournament next summer have evaporated, the performances of Adam Hanga are worth to take a closer look at. Before the last two games (tonight versus Bosnia-Herzegovina and Thursday against Ukraine), the athletic forward/guard is leading his [...]
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Adam Hanga: the future of Hungary
August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
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“This guy called Wall, I have never heard of him”
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments
This weekend, the BEKO Super-Cup is being held in Bamberg. Germany, Lithuania, Turkey and Croatia prepare the upcoming World Championship. Similar to last summer, the German National Team features a large number of interesting prospects like Tibor Pleiss, Elias Harris or Robin Benzing. The German website spox.com talked to the Oklahoma Thunder draftee and also [...]
Tags: Elias Harris · Robin Benzing · Tibor Pleiß · World Championship
Tibor Pleiss: from the Circus-Tent to the NBA
June 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The German big guy Tibor Pleiss was the 2nd European player drafted in the 2010 NBA. He was picked by the New Jersey Nets who traded him to the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks then sold his rights to the Oklahoma City Thunder for close to 3,000,000 USD. Sam Presti and his team got what they [...]
Tags: 2010 NBA Draft Process · Tibor Pleiß
Kevin Seraphin: Now listen to this Wizards
June 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
With the number of European prospects drafted this year, I decided to have a review on every specific player. The first name that has been announced was Kevin Seraphin from France. It looked like David Stern has specifically practiced his French before the draft as he started his announcement with a very proud “Now listen [...]
Tags: 2010 NBA Draft Process · Kevin Seraphin
NBA Draft 2010: Quick Euro Analysis
June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments
The NBA Draft 2010 is in the books and the number of European players picked by the Franchises has not been as low for years. With one player in the first round and only four in the second round, Europe was under-represented compared to the last years but it will probably be a different story [...]
Tags: 2010 NBA Draft Process · Kevin Seraphin · Nemanja Bjelica · Pape Sy · Ryan Richards · Tibor Pleiß
Only 5 Europeans remain Early-Entries for the NBA Draft 2010
June 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments
The number of Europeans that stay in the NBA Draft 2010 as Early-Entry players has dropped to only 5. A multitude of big talents have opted out or did not even declare this spring so that the 2011 edition looks to be highly promising for European players. I will talk about that in a later [...]
Tags: Kevin Seraphin · Ryan Richards · Thomas Heurtel · Tibor Pleiß
Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 2)
June 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Today we continue our review of the players from the Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso with a few additional names that we are thinking are worth to be mentioned.
Tags: Dairis Bertans · David Jelinek · Dejan Musli · Josep Franch · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Nihad Dedovic · Nikos Pappas · Ousmane Camara · Pietro Aradori
Adidas Eurocamp Treviso 2010 Review (Part 1)
June 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso is done for 2010 and I must admit that the overall level was lower than during the previous editions. There was only a limited number of direct 2010 NBA Draft prospects and no overwhelming new additions. Today, we go over a first part of those players that stood out in [...]
Tags: Adidas Eurocamp · Edwin Jackson · Linos-Spyridon Chrysikopoulos · Robin Benzing · Thomas Heurtel · Tomas Satoransky
Robin Benzing prepares the Adidas Eurocamp
May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The German Early-Entry Candidate Robin Benzing is currently preparing for the Adidas Eurocamp with European coaching legend Svetislav Pesic in Berlin. The 2m08 tall Small Forward has been scouted regularly throughout the season by NBA franchises when he played with his club team ratiopharm Ulm. Benzing will be one of the players followed particularly during [...]
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ASVEL builds a French future
May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment
With the signing of Kim Tillie this Tuesday, the French team of ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne has brought the next high-quality prospect to their team after having confirmed the arrival of Leo Westermann a few days ago. With the already under contract Bangaly Fofana, Paul Lacombe, Thomas Heurtel and Edwin Jackson and some interesting young players [...]
Tags: Bangaly Fofana · Edwin Jackson · Kim Tillie · Leo Westermann · Paul Lacombe · Thomas Heurtel
Vesely vs. Bogdanovic: a SF matchup
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
One week ago, the Final 4 of the Adriatic League was in the Press for days because of the incredible finish where Partizan won the Final with an improbable Buzzer Beater. But this Final 4 was also a good opportunity to see two interesting NBA Draft prospects playing the Small Forward position. Let’s take a [...]
Tags: Bojan Bogdanovic · Jan Vesely
NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 2)
May 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today we check out the second part of the NBA Draft Early entrants from Europe. This list contains mainly those players where the presence for the NBA Draft 2010 has only been announced a few days before the early entry deadline.
Tags: 2010 NBA Draft Process · Bangaly Fofana · Dusan Korac · Fernando Raposo · Luc Louves · Miralem Halilovic · Ousmane Camara · Pablo Aguilar · Semen Shashkov · Stefan Bircevic · Uros Lukovic · Xavi Rabaseda
NBA Draft 2010 European Early Entries Analysis (Pt. 1)
April 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Today, the NBA released the official Early Entry Candidates List for the NBA Draft 2010. You can find the list of all the European players here. We will go through all of them and check where they will probably end up.
Tags: 2010 NBA Draft Process · Andrew Albicy · Antoine Diot · Bojan Bogdanovic · Donatas Motiejunas · Edwin Jackson · Kevin Seraphin · Mindaugas Kuzminskas · Robin Benzing · Ryan Richards · Thomas Heurtel · Tibor Pleiß · Tomasz Nowakowski
Mindaugas Kuzminskas Video Recap
April 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
This week, the Lithuanian forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas announced that he will enter his name into the 2010 NBA Draft as an early entry candidate. I got a hand on a recent playoff game in the Lithuanian League LKL and put together a short reel about his major plays of that game against Techasas. This is [...]
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Tibor Pleiss: the NBA-Interest sounds strange to me
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Tibor Pleiß
Did Thomas Heurtel really progress?
March 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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European Impact Players: Elias Harris and Jeffery Taylor
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments
March Madness is getting closer and closer and the hype gets higher as the players are looking to improve their game so their teams can get as far as they can in the tournament.
Tags: Elias Harris · Jeffery Taylor
Copa del Rey quarter-final impressions
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments
This weekend is played the highly regarded Spanish Copa del Rey regrouping the top teams of the ACB League in a direct elimination setting in order to win the Cup of the King of Spain. This event is seen as one of the most important events in Spanish basketball and winning a Copa is a [...]
Tags: David Jelinek · Josep Franch · Pere Tomas · Tomas Satoransky
Robin Benzing ready for the next step?
February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today, ratiopharm Ulm, the team of Robin Benzing played on the road in Frankfurt in front of the cameras of DSF so that I had the chance to see the progress of the German prospect since my last report.
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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 [...]
Tags: Besnik Bekteshi · Daniel Theis · Dennis Ogbe · Niels Giffey · Patrick Heckmann · Per Günther · Philipp Neumann · Robin Benzing

