European Prospects

After the tournament and a seventh place for the German team, I had the possibility to ask a few questions to the German U16 coach Alexander Krüger about his team and the German basketball in general.

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The excellent official website of the tournament features interviews with some of the coaches of the different U16 National teams and some of them gave the names of the players they wanted to mention as the best potential.

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I want to take a first look at the rosters or pre-selections that are already known to participate at this year’s edition. Maybe this can be an indication to see who can be the possible successor of Nicolas Batum as the 2006 MVP.

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After five days of intensive basketball, the quarter finals for the probably strongest U16 tournament in Europe are set and will be played this Friday in Sakarya.

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Today, the officials of the Douai tournament announced the names of the 8 participating teams in this year’s edition. And I have to call it teams, as there won’t be National teams only.

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The Türk Telekom U16 Tournament is about to start tomorrow and so the Turkish federation just put the official website of the tournament online. You can find there the rosters of the different participating teams as well as all the dates of the games. Although the official opening of the tournament will be tomorrow, Turkey […]

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I have already talked about the Hikmet Erden Tournament in Turkey for U16 teams. The Turkish federation now published their official roster but also a change in the name of the tournament and some other participants than previously announced.

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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 […]

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The Turkish Basketball federation will organize a very important U16 tournament in February and tries to build something similar to the Albert Schweitzer Tournament for the U16 age category.

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Another tournament that has been in the eyes of the Euroleague to become a qualifying event for the Nike International Junior Tournament is the traditional Cholet Mondial Basket. We have here the names of the already confirmed teams of the 2008 edition.

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