German Basketball is expecting a lot from two of its most talented generations: the players born in 1989 (Elias Harris, Tibor Pleiss, Robin Benzing) and in 1992 (Philipp Neumann, Patrick Heckmann). But in between these two generations, there is a group of players born in 1990 that is ready for the next step. Playing either […]
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1990: the in-between generation for Germany
January 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment
Tags: Femi Oladipo·Germany·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Maik Zirbes
A “big” Euroleague night
January 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment
With the start of the Top16, it is about time to get an update on some of the most promising players in relation with the upcoming NBA Draft. The schedule allowed me to follow three “big” guys in the same evening, even if they are all three very different players. I speak of Jonas Valanciunas, […]
Tags: Branislav Dekic·Dragan Milosavljevic·Euroleague·Jan Vesely·Jonas Valanciunas·Nikola Mirotic·Vladimir Lucic
Breaking down Kostas Papanikolaou
December 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments
One of the nice surprises of the Euroleague Regular season is the contribution of the 1990 born Greek prospect Kostas Papanikolaou. Together with the statistical database of in-the-game.org, I put together a analysis of his game based on numbers and skills as well as a short scouting report.
Tags: Euroleague
Living in America: Aksel Bolin (Northern Illinois)
December 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
After having spent several seasons with the Norwegian team Asker Aliens, the 1990 born forward decided to move over the Atlantic Ocean and play College Basketball. Aksel Bolin spoke to europeanprospects.com these days about his choice and what we can expect from him in the next years.
Tags: Aksel Bolin·Living in America·NCAA·Northern Illinois·Norway
Living in America: Eividas Petrulis (St. Mary’s)
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments
We start the Living in America season again this winter and we present some European-born NCAA College Freshmen that have arrived in the United States this summer. To start the series, we take a look at one of the more unknown players, the 1990 born Lithuanian Forward Eividas Petrulis.
Tags: Lithuania·Living in America·NCAA
Some quick hits from the Euroleague
November 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Having followed several Euroleague games this week, I put together some thoughts on three players that I scouted in particular. I speak of the following three guys: Nicolo Melli, Christophe Leonard and Augusto Cesar Lima.
Tags: Augusto Cesar Lima·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Nicolo Melli
Blaz Mahkovic–the late bloomer from Slovenia
November 7th, 2010 · No Comments
(by Luka Bassin) – When Blaž Mahkovic scored 23 points in just 23 minutes on the court in 2nd round of Slovenian Telemach league against Helios Domžale two weeks ago and put some attention on himself, many experts did not believe that there is a player in Slovenia who is 20-year-old and it is not […]
Tags: Blaz Mahkovic·Slovenia
Cibona’s youth starting strong into the season
November 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Cibona Zagreb is certainly the team to watch this season in the Euroleague in terms of young potential. It is not uncommon that the Croatian team plays with four 1989 or earlier born players at the same time. And all of them have a very important role in their specific strengths. We took a closer […]
Tags: Bojan Bogdanovic·Cibona Zagreb·Croatia·Leon Radosevic·Mario Delas·Tomislav Zubcic
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group D
October 21st, 2010 · No Comments
The last group of this year’s Euroleague competition is a bit more limited in terms of interesting prospects by the number. However, there are some quality young men playing with the Group D teams. Here we go to present the most interesting of them.
Tags: Burat Yüksel·Dino Muric·Euroleague·Georgios Bogris·Giorgi Shermadini·Jan Span·Jose Simeon·Nick Calathes·Nicolo Melli·Sasu Salin
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group C
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments
The Group C of the Euroleague 2010/2011 features some of the most interesting young big men in Europe and several potential NBA Draft candidates. Additionally, Ricky Rubio is also active with his FC Barcelona in this group and the games of these 6 teams will certainly attract a large number of NBA scouts over the […]
Tags: Bojan Bogdanovic·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Jonas Valanciunas·Karlo Vragovic·Leon Radosevic·Mario Delas·Maxim Can Mutaf·Ricky Rubio·Simas Buterlevicius·Tomislav Zubcic