This weekend, the German U19 NBBL League had its third edition of the Top4 played in Berlin. For the first time, the home team qualified for the event which made the Finals day particularly loud and enthusiastic. However, the overall level of the tournament, except for the final was not very high, which may be [...]

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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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The German U19 NBBL playoffs started this weekend with some interesting match-ups. Europeanprospects was present in Trier to cover the game between TBB Junior Team around Maik Zirbes and Basket College Rhein Neckar. Additionally, two Top4 participants of last year challenged each other already in the first round.

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This weekend has been played the NBBL All-Star game in Mannheim. It is always difficult in such a context to scout players, especially if the game has no real impact and the clock is not stopped during the first 3 quarters. The result of this was a very poor first half. At least, during the [...]

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During the German All-Star Day, the U19 NBBL All-Star game is the main event for checking out which are the current top prospects in the NBBL. So here are the rosters of both teams that will play each other on the 17th January in the Mannheim SAP Arena.

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The Toronto Raptors are currently scouting throughout Europe. GM Bryan Colangelo will be in Cologne next Friday to scout the German seven-footer Tibor Pleiss
The German U19 NBBL has started last weekend. I will come back to the top performers a little later in the season
Victor Claver looks very promising in this beginning of the season. [...]

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Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.

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Finally, we come to the big guys present in Douai. And here, the quality was rather high with some top European talent but also good prospects from Africa and the United States.

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Back in the Salle Corot for the Finals day of the tournament and the most important games of the week.

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After having analyzed in the detail the four best placed European nations of the tournament, I will come back to the other European teams, unfortunately only in a shorter fashion as I saw these teams only once in Mannheim. Also, I will limit myself really to the main players of these teams in order to [...]

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Before returning to Mannheim for the Finals day tomorrow, here are some important facts of the last two days.

The Final will be the awaited Greece – Turkey clash. It will be loud and rowdy in the US Sports Arena tomorrow.
Nikos Pappas is the absolute favorite for the MVP trophy. The Greek guard went for 39pts [...]

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Before heading off to Mannheim, here are a few picks out of yesterday’s action.

Spain is dominating its group. After a 40pts success against New Zealand, the team from Iberia also demolished Croatia by 38. And it was once again a nice team effort with 5 guys in double figures. Title candidate?
Some nations are already out [...]

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The last day of the regular season of the German U19 NBBL has been played last weekend. So it is time to check who were the best performers of the last weeks and see where is the top talent of the 1989 and younger German generation.

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Ricky Rubio is still amazing (13pts 5rebs 5asts 2stls), even if his team lost this weekend against local rivals Barcelona. However, he had a very special move to score against the whole Barcelona defense.
Predrag Samardziski came up with a huge statistical effort this week in the Adriatic League. He destroyed Geoplin Slovan with 19pts (8/11), [...]

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Yesterday, Ursrping Academy started their second tournament of this year’s High School Tour to the United States at the popular Arby’s Classic. In the opening game, the German team had to play without their top scorer Christian Standhardinger and 1991 born Forward Justin Raffington who both were out because of illness.

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