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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.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Boban Marjanovic · Donatas Motiejunas · Milan Macvan · Miroslav Raduljica

U20 European Championship (Division A): the guards

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

In a tournament, that was mostly dominated by the Wings and Big guys, it was quite to hard to take out some prospects on the guard positions. So here is a little choice of the player I had the chance to see in Riga.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Abdoulaye M'Baye · Alexey Shved · Antoine Diot · Dogus Balbay · Dusan Katnic · Joaquin Colom · Martynas Gecevicius · Oleksandr Kolchenko · Pietro Aradori · Sarunas Vasiliauskas · Sead Sehovic · Zygimantas Janavicius

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

Douai Tournament 2008: the forwards

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

In general, not a lot of good forward material was present in Douai. The most talented one would have been Tomislav Zubcic but he was not present with the Croatian National team. So I included some PF into this category in order to have some guys to talk about.

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Tags: 2008 Douai · Bandja Sy · Carmel Bouchman · Chrislain Cairo · Furkan Aldemir · Mamadou Samb · Mario Delas · Niels Giffey

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

Today’s picks

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The team of Real Madrid won the Spanish U20 Circuit this weekend in Inca. They beat Unicaja Malaga in the Finals easily with 74-52. Pablo Aguilar got named MVP of the tournament.
Vladimir Jankovic, one of the best players during the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament signed a 4 year deal with Panionios Athens. He will however be loaned [...]

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Tags: Pablo Aguilar · Samuel Deguara · Vladimir Jankovic

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

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.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Artem Zabelin · Henk Norel · Jakub Wojciechowski · Serge Ibaka · Vladimir Stimac

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

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.

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Tags: 2008 Reebok Eurocamp · Alexey Shved · Artem Zabelin · Dusan Mladjan · Henk Norel · Jaka Klobucar · Jonas Jerebko · Semen Shashkov

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

Euro-workouts in Portland

June 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Portland Trailblazers worked out several European prospects theses days. Here are the videos of theses sessions.

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Tags: Giorgi Shermadini · Rodrigue Beaubois · Rudy Mbemba

NBBL Top4: Final Review (Part 2)

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is the part two of the NBBL Top4 Review.

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Tags: Daniel Leithner · Dimitry McDuffie · Dominique Tholey · Fabian Thülig · Kevin Bright · Niels Giffey

NBBL Top4: Final Review (Part 1)

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

After a sweaty weekend in Langen, I am back home now and give you a detailed report about the Final event of the German U19 League. The four teams that qualified for the Final phase were already present last season with the exception of ALBA Berlin who reached the final phase instead of Phoenix Hagen. [...]

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Tags: Andreas Seifferth · Christian Standhardinger · Frank Wiseler · Maurice Stuckey · Thomas Schoeps

Today’s picks (live from Frankfurt/Langen/NBBL Top4)

May 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here are the first impressions from the semi-finals day of the NBBL Top4 in Langen.

ALBA Berlin defeated Breitengüssbach in a relatively poor semi-final behind the nice scoring effort of Thomas Schoeps
The second semi-final has been won like last year by Team Urspring. The guys from Southern Germany started with an incredible 16-2 run which they [...]

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Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Fabian Thülig · Maurice Stuckey · Robin Benzing · Thierno Agne · Thomas Schoeps

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