European Prospects

The third and last day of the Adidas Eurocamp 2012 is done and all the scouts and observers can make their conclusions. The major thing is that there was no camper that really stood out and was dominating everything. Several players have helped their stock nicely and one player not in the camp but playing here too was the storyline of the three days in Italy.

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The second day of the 2012 edition of the Adidas Eurocamp is history now and you can probably say already now that it was the best of the three days. Some players participated today that were not there yesterday or have left already while the overall competition level went up.

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The Adidas Eurocamp 2012 has kicked off this Sunday morning in la Ghirada Treviso for the tenth time. All NBA teams and a multitude of coaches and agents from Europe traveled to Italy to see the best young European players compete in one small gym. Let’s check what happened during the first day.

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One of the 1990 born and therefore automatically eligible players for the NBA Draft 2012 who do not see a lot of hype is the Turkish Power Forward Ilkan Karaman. Karaman is 2m05 tall and listed at 115kg and presents an interesting physical and athletic combination to play in the paint. The left-handed prospect finished his season in the Turkish League with interesting numbers and he might be a long term option for some NBA Teams.

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The NBBL Top 4 level was a bit lower this season in my opinion. The winners from Breitengüssbach deserved the victory because of their endless will and deeper rotation as they had 11 players capable of contributing on this level. Urspring had their trauma in the semi-final where they were up 17 points in the last quarter and finally lost to the future champion. The absence of a good point guard (Thomas Grün injured, Zaire Thompson still limited on this level) and the quick ankle injury of Sid-Marlon Theis shortened their rotation and might be an explication for the disaster in the final minutes. Bremerhaven played a nice rotation as well but the overall talent level was not good enough while Phoenix Hagen had a really bad day in their semi-final.

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The Top 4 of the German U16 League JBBL was overall on very good level. When last year, the Urspring team around Gavin Schilling dominated everything, the competition was more balanced this time and no individual dominator was present but teams were deeper and had especially interesting players in the younger age groups 97 or even 98. As usual, we do not go too much into details with scouting reports about such young players as their development is still ahead. We concentrate in this report only to a few players that caught our eyes and can not give a full report on all the prospects of the four teams as most of these kids are still in an early development of their basketball skills.

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After the interesting day with the semi-finals on Saturday, the time was come to crown the champions of the 2011/2012 season in the two national German Youth Leagues. One thing was sure, in both categories, the winner would be a first time champion as none of the participating teams ever won it all.

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The traditional weekend of German Youth Basketball was organized this year in Hagen. 8 teams qualified for the event in the U16 (JBBL) and U19 (NBBL) categories to play for the National Championship.

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In the third part of our NBBL Top 4 Preview, we spoke with Johannes Thiemann from TSV Tröster Breitengüssbach about their surprising win against Jena and his personal situation before the Top 4.

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In the second part of our Preview to the upcoming NBBL Top 4 in Hagen, we spoke with the electric guard from Eisbären Bremerhaven Bazou Kante. The Ivorian native played already last season in the Top 4 when he was still with Braunschweig.

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