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

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This Friday will start the FIBA Europe U18 European Championship of Division A in Amaliada and Pyrgos in Greece. I took a closer look at the different teams and collected some expert opinions on the upcoming tournament.

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To start the reports about the tournament in Douai, I will first of all take a look at the Guards of the different teams. Please note that I will focus on the European guys, so the US and African players will be named but not described in detail.

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I arrived this morning in Douai, the city of the Giants for the 22nd edition of the Douai World Tournament. And here are short recaps of the games from this Saturday.

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After a sweaty weekend in Langen, I am back home now and give you a detailed report about the Final event of the German U19 League. The four teams that qualified for the Final phase were already present last season with the exception of ALBA Berlin who reached the final phase instead of Phoenix Hagen. [...]

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Here are the first impressions from the semi-finals day of the NBBL Top4 in Langen.

ALBA Berlin defeated Breitengüssbach in a relatively poor semi-final behind the nice scoring effort of Thomas Schoeps
The second semi-final has been won like last year by Team Urspring. The guys from Southern Germany started with an incredible 16-2 run which they [...]

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In 10 days, the NBBL Top4 tournament will be played in Langen. On the 31st of May and the 1st of June, the German U19 champion will be decided. And the first thing to remember is that three of the four semi-finalist have already been at this stage of the competition last season. But let’s [...]

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A few minutes before watching the top Euroleague clash between Partizan and Panathinaikos, I come up with some interesting notes

Maurice Stuckey is injured and won’t play the Albert Schweitzer Tournament
No Matias Nocedal for Argentina either
Australia beat Germany heavily in the first of the AST preparation games. While the Germans could stand till halftime, the second [...]

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Here is also a recap of the four series of the South teams in the NBBL. Here also, some surprises arrived and we also had some impressive individual performances.

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It is time again for another vote of the prospect of the month. After the victory of Nando de Colo in January, it is now time to check who were the performers in the month of February.

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Ricky Rubio has been elected Young Player of the year. Not really what I have voted.
Seydou N’Joya is back in Nancy and has signed a “jeune aspirant” contract valid until the end of the season. He played with Norköpping in Sweden where he averaged 8.2ppg and 4.2apg in the 5 games he played.
Giorgi Shermadini [...]

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Urspring has reached the Semi-Finals of the Arby’s Classic and will play Biarcrest Christian tonight to reach the Final of this important Tournament for the first time.

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