Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.
Entries Tagged as 'Maik Zirbes'
Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 2008 U18 DivA European Championship · 2008 U18 DivB European Championship · Alejandro Hernandez · 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: 2008 Douai · Donatas Motiejunas · Enes Kanter · Leon Radosevic · Maik Zirbes · Tanguy Ramassany
Douai Tournament 2008: Sunday’s picks
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Back in the Salle Corot for the Finals day of the tournament and the most important games of the week.
Tags: 2008 Douai · Andrew Albicy · Donatas Motiejunas · 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: 2008 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: 2008 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: 2008 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: 1986 born · 1988 born · 1989 born · 1990 born · Alexis Ajinca · Center · Center · Christian Standhardinger · Elias Harris · Florian Trmal · Forward · Forward · Guard · Guard · Jorn Steinbach · Maik Zirbes · Predrag Samardziski · 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: 1989 born · 1990 born · 1991 born · Center · Christian Standhardinger · Forward · Forward · Justin Raffington · Maik Zirbes
