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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.

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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 [...]

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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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Tags: Robin Benzing

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 [...]

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Tags: Besnik Bekteshi · Daniel Theis · Dennis Ogbe · Niels Giffey · Patrick Heckmann · Per Günther · Philipp Neumann · Robin Benzing

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 [...]

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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

Robin Benzing grows step by step

November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

After an interesting Eurobasket this summer, Robin Benzing had to get back to business quickly as he signed his first Bundesliga contract this summer and needed to adapt to play for ratiopharm Ulm without doing the preparation with his new team. But his adaption phase was very short as Benzing is currently the third best [...]

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Tags: Robin Benzing

Living in America: Davis Martens (Siena College)

October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Davis Martens from Germany is a bit of a different case than the previous players presented in this series. The 2m04 tall forward played last season at the Patterson Prep School in the United States and so it won’t be a real Rookie Season for him. However, the Siena freshman will need to sit out [...]

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Tags: Davis Martens

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.

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Tags: Ben Daniels · Daniel Thompson · Fahro Alihodzic · Jason Beharie · Living in America · Menelik Watson · Tomas Bruha

Living in America: Christian Standhardinger (Nebraska)

September 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the most interesting players to join the NCAA ranks directly from Europe is the German forward Christian Standhardinger. The former Ehingen/Urspringschule player has been recruited by the Big12 team Nebraska Huskers but he will miss the 15 non-conference games this season. Here we go for a close look at the forward from Munich.

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Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Living in America

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Nike Hoop Summit 2009 review

April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Nike Hoop Summit 2009 has seen the first victory of the World Select team since Dirk Nowitzki in 1998. The team of coach Rob Beveridge took over the lead in the final minutes of the game despite being athletically far behind the more spectacular US kids. Being more limited in that are was not [...]

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Tags: Donatas Motiejunas · Kevin Seraphin · Milan Macvan · Nike Hoop Summit · Nikos Pappas · Tomislav Zubcic

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?

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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

Heavy weekend picks

April 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments

This Easter weekend is once again packed with interesting tournaments and events around European Youth basketball. I try to give a short preview about all the stuff that you can follow throughout the net over the upcoming days.

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Tags: Cholet Mondial Basket · Donatas Motiejunas · Edwin Jackson · Maik Zirbes · Maurice Stuckey · Milan Macvan · NBBL (Germany) · Nike Hoop Summit · Nikos Pappas

Nike Hoop Summit 2009: International team announced

March 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The International team of the 2009 edition of the Nike Hoops Summit has been published.

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Tags: Donatas Motiejunas · Edwin Jackson · Mamadou Samb · Milan Macvan · Nike Hoop Summit · Nikos Pappas · Tomislav Zubcic

Euro NCAA report

March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Over the past few weeks, I checked out the performances of some of the Europeans currently playing NCAA College basketball. The selection I made is not putting them in any order and is far from being complete but it covers those guys that I had the opportunity to see. So any additional comments by readers [...]

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Tags: Daniel Hackett · Dogus Balbay · Jeffery Taylor · Nikola Dragovic · Rihards Kuksiks · Terrence Oglesby

Today’s picks

February 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Here we go for a round of interesting infos and articles from around the net.

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Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Donatas Motiejunas · Elias Harris · Fernando Raposo

German talent meeting in Speyer

December 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

After a first look at some promising players in the Bundesliga, I will cover today some of the biggest prospects that are currently playing in the third German League, ProB. This league features a nice bunch of talented young players and the match-up between Speyer and Ehingen was the opportunity to get a look at [...]

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Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Cornelius Adler · Elias Harris · Maurice Stuckey · Nicolai Simon · Simon Schmitz · Thierno Agne

Prospect of the month: November 2008

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

A quick check who is on the list for our Prospect of the month November. While in the younger categories, the choice was done pretty rapidly, I had more trouble to go for a selection in the other cases. But here we go.

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Tags: Emir Preldzic · Ludo Vaty · Milan Macvan · Mirza Sarajlija · Rasid Mahalbasic