This week, Mirza Sarajlija used his first minutes in the Euroleague to put his name in very big letters on the boards of many observers. The 1991 born PG from Slovenian came up with 13 points and 3 rebounds in his debut against ALBA Berlin.

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With the new seasons that have started, we also go again for the vote of Prospect of the month. This year, we consider the generations from 1987 to 1991. As it is always very tough to find the right first choice for every year, I had some choices that may look strange in the beginning, [...]

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Here are my thoughts about the ending U18 and starting U20 European Championships.

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The first phase of the A Division is already done and the least one could say is that there have been some surprise. I will give you a short review about the results so far and also give an update on the B division.

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Here are my thoughts on the 2nd day of the U18 European Championships of Division A and B.

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

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Not only the Division  A of the U18 European Championship will start this weekend, but also the Division B will have its first games on Friday in Debrecen, Hungary. To preview this tournament is quite more difficult because lots of nations are not known for producing elite prospects, but this year, the tournament looks particularly [...]

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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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In general, not a lot of good forward material was present in Douai. The most talented one would have been Tomislav Zubcic but he was not present with the Croatian National team. So I included some PF into this category in order to have some guys to talk about.

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

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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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The team of Real Madrid won the Spanish U20 Circuit this weekend in Inca. They beat Unicaja Malaga in the Finals easily with 74-52. Pablo Aguilar got named MVP of the tournament.
Vladimir Jankovic, one of the best players during the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament signed a 4 year deal with Panionios Athens. He will however be loaned [...]

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Here is the part two of the NBBL Top4 Review.

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Interview with Ryan Richards during the Nike International Junior Tournament.
A few plays from Nicolo Melli during the Legadue playoffs
Check out the main French prospects of the ProA in Video
German U18 NT coach Kay Blümel selected 20 players for the preparation phase of the U18 European Championship this summer
The 9th Meneghin - De Silvestro International Basketball [...]

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The last part of my International Junior Tournament report talks about the two finalists: FC Barcelona and FMP Zeleznik Belgrade. FMP has reached with this win the deserved European crown for Junior teams and it does not look like any other European club team is at their level right now.

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The next part of the Junior Tournament Report talks about the two Lithuanian teams of Lietuvos Rytas and Zalgiris Kaunas. Both were very different. While Lietuvos Rytas’ game was based a lot on their guards play, the Zalgiris team lived essentially from their inside guys.

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After the first part of my recap of the Nike International Junior Tournament yesterday, here is the second part of the report which contains player profiles of Cibona Zagreb and Real Madrid junior teams.

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The Nike International Junior Tournament 2008 is history and the winner is coming from Serbia. Without any big surprise, the 2008 edition goes to FMP Zeleznik who can consider themselves now as the top European youth program after having won all the major tournaments this season.

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I have spent this 1st of May in the Palalido in Milano, Italy to follow the final day of the 25th edition of the Victor Rho Tournament. Unfortunately, this year’s edition did not feature the same amount of talent than the years before because of the International Junior Tournament played in Madrid. For this reason, [...]

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