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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Maik Zirbes'
NBBL Top4 2009: the Wendt-show was not enough (UPDATED with Videos)
May 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann · Justin Raffington · Kevin Bright · Lars Wendt · Maik Zirbes · NBBL (Germany) · Niels Giffey · Ole Wendt · Steven Monse
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.
Tags: Cholet Mondial Basket · Donatas Motiejunas · Edwin Jackson · Maik Zirbes · Maurice Stuckey · Milan Macvan · NBBL (Germany) · Nike Hoop Summit · Nikos Pappas
NBBL Playoffs started this weekend
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Alexander Kuhn · Danilo Barthel · Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann · Maik Zirbes · Max Bohrmann · Maxim Schneider · NBBL (Germany) · Niels Giffey
NBBL All-Star game review
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Femi Oladipo · Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann · Maik Zirbes · Philipp Neumann · Robert Hülsewede · Simon Schmitz
NBBL All-Star Teams published
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Erik Land · Femi Oladipo · Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann · Kevin Bright · Maik Zirbes · Nico Adamczak · Niels Giffey · Simon Schmitz
Today’s picks
October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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. [...]
Tags: Andrija Milutinovic · Enes Kanter · Maik Zirbes · Tibor Pleiß · Victor Claver
Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.
Tags: Alejandro Hernandez · Division A European Championship · Division B European Championship · Enes Kanter · Jakub Wojciechowski · Konstantinos Papanikolaou · Leonidas Kasselakis · Maik Zirbes · Mario Delas · Maurice Stuckey · Nikos Pappas · Rasid Mahalbasic · Ryan Richards · Sebastian Szymanski · Tautvydas Slezas · Vladimir Jankovic
Douai Tournament 2008: the Centers
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas · Douai Tournament · Enes Kanter · Leon Radosevic · Maik Zirbes · Tanguy Ramassany
Douai Tournament 2008: Sunday’s picks
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Back in the Salle Corot for the Finals day of the tournament and the most important games of the week.
Tags: Andrew Albicy · Donatas Motiejunas · Douai Tournament · Enes Kanter · Leon Radosevic · Liran Moran · Maik Zirbes · Mario Delas · Maxim Mutaf · Melih Mahmutoglu · Ron Sabag · Simon Schmitz · Toni Prostran
Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2008: the best of the rest
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Albert-Schweitzer Turnier · Femi Oladipo · Leon Radosevic · Maik Zirbes · Pasquale Paolisso · Simon Schmitz · Tomislav Zubcic · Vladimir Ivlev
Today’s picks from the Albert Schweitzer Tournament
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Albert-Schweitzer Turnier · Maik Zirbes · Nikos Pappas
Today’s AST picks
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Albert-Schweitzer Turnier · Maik Zirbes · Tomislav Zubcic
NBBL Regular Season Review
February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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.
Tags: Azeez Oladimeji · Christian Standhardinger · Elias Harris · Erik Land · Florian Trmal · Maik Zirbes · Robin Benzing · Simon Schmitz · Tibor Pleiß
Today’s picks
January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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), [...]
Tags: 1988 born · 1989 born · 1990 born · Alexis Ajinca · Center · Christian Standhardinger · Elias Harris · Florian Trmal · Forward · Forward · Guard · Guard · Jorn Steinbach · Maik Zirbes · Ricky Rubio
Urspring goes USA (1st win in the Arby’s Classic)
December 27th, 2007 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Christian Standhardinger · Justin Raffington · Maik Zirbes


