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U20 European Championships (Division A): the Big guys

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

After the wings and the guards, I finally come to the big men. And despite having them in just smaller number here in my report, the talent level is extremely high for these young men.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Boban Marjanovic · Donatas Motiejunas · Milan Macvan · Miroslav Raduljica

U20 European Championship (Division A): the Wings

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

After the Guards, the next step will be the coverage of the most outstanding forwards of the tournament.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Baris Hersek · Lukas Bazdauskis · Marko Keselj · Mladen Jeremic · Victor Claver · Vladimir Dasic

U20 European Championship (Division A): the guards

August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a tournament, that was mostly dominated by the Wings and Big guys, it was quite to hard to take out some prospects on the guard positions. So here is a little choice of the player I had the chance to see in Riga.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Abdoulaye M'Baye · Alexey Shved · Antoine Diot · Dogus Balbay · Dusan Katnic · Joaquin Colom · Martynas Gecevicius · Oleksandr Kolchenko · Pietro Aradori · Sarunas Vasiliauskas · Sead Sehovic · Zygimantas Janavicius

Today’s picks (live from Riga)

August 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

After having watched some Olympic Games basketball with Lithuanian fans in a Irish in Riga (Latvia), I am now back in the Riga Arena to cover the Final day of the U20 European Championships of Division A.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship

Today’s picks (live from Riga)

August 9th, 2008 · No Comments

After a first day in Riga, visiting the city and meeting some people, the tournament of the U20 European Championship beings for me today.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship

Today’s picks (live from Riga)

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I have arrived in Riga to cover the last two days of the U20 European Championship. I use this post to give you a few updates of both U20 tournaments as well as some other stories about European prospects. But let’s start with the U20s.

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · 2008 U20 DivB European Championship · Donatas Motiejunas · Frank Wiseler · Kostas Sloukas · Rasid Mahalbasic · Victor Claver

Today’s picks

August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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

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Tags: 2008 U18 DivA European Championship · 2008 U18 DivB European Championship · 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Donatas Motiejunas · Enes Kanter · Jakub Wojciechowski · Jan Vesely · Kostas Sloukas · Mario Delas · Marko Vranjkovic · Mirza Sarajlija · Tomas Satoransky · Vladimir Jankovic

U20 European Championship Division B - Preview

July 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

The FIBA Europe U20 European Championships will start tomorrow in Targu Mures for Division B while the Division A will be played in Riga. Because I will be in Riga during the Finals weekend, and will therefor have an in-deep coverage of the tournament, I will only come up with a preview of the B [...]

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivB European Championship

Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: 2008 U18 DivA European Championship · 2008 U18 DivB European Championship · Dino Muric · Joao Soares · Richard Grznár · Vladimir Jankovic

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.

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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

Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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

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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

U18 European Championship Division B - Preview

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: 2008 U18 DivB European Championship · Alexander Lindqvist · Andreas Person · Dino Muric · Eldin Camdzic · Jakub Wojciechowski · Jan Vesely · Matic Sirnik · Mirza Sarajlija · Omar Zaghden · Ryan Richards

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.

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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

Today’s picks (from U20 Tournament)

July 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Some more notes from the U20 Tournament that has been played in Luxembourg this week.

France continued their run to finish the tournament unbeaten. And it was also Kim Tillie that continued his impressive play during this tournament. After the performances here, France U20 can seriously be considered as a Medal candidate in Riga for the [...]

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Adrien Moerman · Antoine Diot · Artem Zabelin · Baris Hersek · Dogus Balbay · Evaldas Zabas · Guy-Marc Michel · Kim Tillie · Martynas Gecevicius · Pablo Aguilar · Sarunas Vasiliauskas · Thomas Heurtel · Zygimantas Janavicius

Today’s picks (from U20 tournament)

July 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

These days is played a U20 tournament with European top teams in the tiny Luxembourg. France, Lithuania, Russia, Turkey, Spain and a U23 selection of the host play against each until Sunday. After two days, here are my first thoughts on the games.

In the first game of the tournament, Turkey lost against Lithuania where the [...]

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Tags: 2008 U20 DivA European Championship · Alexey Shved · Alexis Ajinca · Artem Zabelin · Dogus Balbay · Nicolas Batum · Rodrigue Beaubois · Victor Claver

Today’s picks

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The preparation phase of the different European Youth championships continues. And here are some of the results collected through the net.

Turkish U16 team won an International Tournament in Russia after beating the Serbian National team in the Final 67-65. Turkey, who played without Enes Kanter, was led by Kevin Kaspar and Burat Yüksel in the [...]

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Tags: Continental Championships

Six candidates for U17 World Championship

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

For the newly created U17 World Championship, which will be played for the first time 2010, 6 countries have announced their candidature. Germany, France, China, Italy, Maroc and Kazakhstan will be in the race to organize this new event. This has today been announced by the German basketball federation.
The decision who will organize this event [...]

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Tags: 2010 U17 World Championship · Continental Championships