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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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