European Prospects

The Spanish federation FEB has announced the roster of 12 players that will join Mannheim for the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in two weeks. And the team looks like it is a potential candidate for one of the top spots.

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Today, the roster for the US team has been announced. The team that should have been coached by Dwayne Casey will finally be led by Lionel Hollins due to medical reasons. Hollins is member of the Memphis Grizzlies.

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The 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship will very probably be played in New Zealand. According to the article of Bahrain Daily Gulf News, the Tall Black Nation is actually the only candidate for the organization as Bahrain has decided not to go through with a potential bid to host next year’s Under-19 World Basketball Championships. […]

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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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