European Prospects

Both are born in 1992, both are from France, both made major career choices in the last days, but these choices could not be more different. These decisions will probably have a major impact on their future careers but both prospects will take a certain risk. While Evan Fournier got drafted on the 20th position by the Denver Nuggets, Leo Westermann decided to ink a three year deal with the Serbian team Partizan Belgrade. I wanted to check why these choices have been made and why they are probably the right ones for both of them.

[Read more →]

With the NBA Draft 2012 being over, we wanted to see how the different European Draft picks have been received by the respective press outlets of their new destinations. But I also checked some of the comments written in their home country.

[Read more →]

The picks are made so the time for the analysis and the judgments has come. I have put together a quick paragraph an every European player picked last night so here we go.

[Read more →]

It is NBA Draft 2012, the day all the fans of the non-Playoff Teams are waiting for as they hope that their team will get new players that can turn around their franchise. Over the last years, European players have always been a major point of discussion, is it because they were overhyped or under the radar or simply good prospects. This year, the European Draft is a bit different as the number of prospects from the Old Continent that have a chance to get drafted in the first round is rather small.

[Read more →]

In the last part of our review of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will take a look at those players that competed in the different national selections that were present in Treviso. Unfortunately, Dmitry Kulagin got injured so that he could not fully play during all the games. Therefore, he is not in our reports. For Australia, we also did not cover Emmett Naar and Dane Pineau who have already been featured in our reports on the Albert Schweitzer Tournament a few weeks ago.

[Read more →]

The U17 World Championship will start in Kaunas on Friday so we want to take a look forward to see who are the players to follow. Our friend Facundo from Argentina was so kind to send us a preview on his team that recently reached the second place in the Douai tournament by losing in the Final to the future winner or France. So let’s check who will be on the court for the Gauchos.

[Read more →]

In the third part of our player analysis of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012, we will look at some players that might develop into to prospects in the next years. You can do some Sportsbook Review in order to see how to bet on their future but here is a first analysis on their potential. The last part of the review will take care of the members of the different invited teams to the event.

[Read more →]

After having talked about the automatically eligible players and the vitals and measurements of all participants, the article of today discusses the camp of the NBA Draft 2012 early entrants. At the moment, it is not sure who will really stay in the Draft but we will talk about all the players that were present in Treviso under this status.

[Read more →]

This year, the Adidas Eurocamp analyzed the Vitals of the participants for the first time with the methods of the company BAM. Next to the usual metrics like size, wingspan or weight, we could get more detailed info on lane agility or Reaction Drills for example. ShoeAdviser recently released a preview on one of their future designs targeted to young enthusiasts. See below for the table with the most common numbers but also a more specific analysis of additional figures.

[Read more →]

We start our in detail analysis of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012 with those players that are automatically eligible for the NBA Draft 2012. Even if the number of high level prospects is limited, there might be one or two players that will see their name come up in the second round as a pick and stash option.

[Read more →]