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, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Forward'
Prospect of the month: October 2008
November 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas · Nicolo Melli · Sergi Llull · Thomas Heurtel · Victor Claver
Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)
July 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Here are my thoughts on the 2nd day of the U18 European Championships of Division A and B.
Tags: 2008 U18 DivA European Championship · 2008 U18 DivB European Championship · Augustas Peciukevicius · Chrislain Cairo · Enes Kanter · Kostas Sloukas · Nicolo Melli · Nikos Pappas · Pasquale Paolisso · Tautvydas Slezas · Toni Prostran · Vladimir Jankovic
U18 European Championship Division A - Preview
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 U18 DivA European Championship · Alberto Jodar · Alejandro Hernandez · Andrew Albicy · Andrija Milutinovic · Bojan Subotic · Bozhidar Avramov · Bransilav Djekic · Carmel Bouchman · David Garcia · Deniz Kiliçli · Donatas Motiejunas · Enes Kanter · Femi Oladipo · Gilvydas Biruta · Lazar Radosavljevic · Leon Radosevic · Mario Delas · Maurice Stuckey · Nicolo Melli · Niels Giffey · Nikos Pappas · Simon Schmitz · Tomislav Zubcic · Toni Prostran
Douai Tournament 2008: the forwards
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 Douai · Bandja Sy · Carmel Bouchman · Chrislain Cairo · Furkan Aldemir · Mamadou Samb · Mario Delas · Niels Giffey
Douai Tournament 2008: Saturday’s picks
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 Douai · Deniz Kiliçli · Donatas Motiejunas · Enes Kanter · Gilvydas Biruta · Jonathan Bourhis · Liran Moran · Mario Delas · Maurice Stuckey · Sven Smajlagic · Toni Prostran
NBBL Top4: Final Review (Part 2)
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Here is the part two of the NBBL Top4 Review.
Tags: Daniel Leithner · Dimitry McDuffie · Dominique Tholey · Fabian Thülig · Kevin Bright · Niels Giffey
Today’s picks
May 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Charis Giannopoulos · Nicolo Melli · Ryan Richards
Nike International Junior Tournament (Part 3)
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 Nike International Junior Tournament · Augustas Peciukevicius · Donatas Motiejunas · Mantas Kadzevicius · Osvaldas Matulionis
Nike International Junior Tournament (Part 2)
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 Nike International Junior Tournament · Leon Radosevic · Nikola Mirotic · Ryan Richards · Tomislav Zubcic
Nike International Junior Tournament (Part 1)
May 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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.
Tags: 2008 Nike International Junior Tournament · Carmel Bouchman · Lazar Radosavljevic · Nemanja Nedovic
Today’s picks
April 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The Euroleague has announced the winner of its Rising Star Trophy: it is Danilo Gallinari. I thought it would be Nikola Pekovic though but the selection committee took the Italian.
Today starts the Victor Rho tournament for U18 and U14 teams. All infos can be found on the official website. A few names from the [...]
Tags: Danilo Gallinari · Dejan Musli · Nikola Mirotic · Robin Benzing · Vladimir Stimac
Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2008: Spain
April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
The Spanish team was present but of course without their absolute superstar of the 1990 generation Ricky Rubio. The team from coach Jota Cuspinera presented however a nice combination of talent and was probably one of the deepest teams present in Mannheim. We took a particular at one of the most talented players of the [...]
Tags: 2008 Albert-Schweitzer Turnier · Alberto Jodar · Alejandro Hernandez · David Garcia
Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2008: general impressions
March 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
The Albert Schweitzer Tournament is over and it is time to talk about the players and the tournament in general. The first article will be about the level of the tournament and a report about the best non-European players.
Tags: 2008 Albert-Schweitzer Turnier · Brooke Ruscoe · Dion Prewster · Jorden Page · Mangisto Arop · Matthew Dellavedova · Murphy Burnatowski · Pablo Orlietti · Rob Gagliardi
FMP Junior Tournament
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Today started the FMP Junior Tournament (City of Belgrade Tournament ) in Belgrade. The tournament is also a qualifying event for the Nike International Junior Tournament to be played in Madrid during the Final Four. We took a look at the different rosters and the first results.
Tags: 2008 City of Belgrade · Bransilav Djekic · Dejan Musli · Nemanja Arnautovic · Osvaldas Matulionis
Cholet Mondial Basket report
March 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Our reader Guillaume Althoffer has sent us a quick report on the most promising prospects in this year’s edition of the Cholet Mondial Basket tournament. Here are his notes on the players.
Tags: 2008 Cholet Mondial · Ante Bakovic · Antoine Porquier · Enzo Tsonga · Filip Sepa · Linas Valatkevicius · Negueba Samake · Nikola Vukovic · Patrick Hervé Gnagbo · Radim Klecka · Remi Dibo · Vojtech Bratcenkov · Wilfried Koutouan
A first look at Nicolo Melli
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This weekend, I had the possibility to see the talented forward from Italy in action with his LegaDue team Trenkwalder Reggio Emilia. The U16 European Championship All-Tournament team member is actually getting some regular minutes with his team on the second highest Italian level.
Tags: 1991 born · Forward · Nicolo Melli
Some more tournaments to come
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
After having talked already about the Interperformances Cup in London, the Onil tournament in Spain and the Urspring tour through the United States, there are two other important Youth events coming up this week.
Tags: 1990 born · 1991 born · Alejandro Hernandez · Alexander Andreev · Bozhidar Avramov · Bransilav Djekic · Center · David Jelinek · Dejan Musli · Forward · Forward · Guard · Guard · Josep Franch · Nikola Mirotic · Tomislav Zubcic
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
