European Prospects

This weekend, the NBBL Top 4 will determine who will become the new German U19 champion. Before the tournament, we talked to some of the players to follow during the two days in Hagen. We start with the hosts from Phoenix Hagen and their Forward Fabien Bleck.

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After describing the new youth movement of Olympiacos this season yesterday, the semi-final of the Euroleague Final Four underlined the emergence and importance of the 1990 born Small Forward Kostas Papanikolaou. We checked his game through a quick video analysis.

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12 games started this Euroleague season, 13 games started this Euroleague season, 56.3% 3pt shooting percentage, 4 games started this Euroleague season. These are the characteristics of 4 players in the Olympiacos roster this season that you might not think of immediately. With lighting up their roster and integrate more local talent, the Greek Final Four participant has made a surprising turn-around and reached the semi-finals of the Euroleague again after their qualification to the Final in 2010. So who are these players that do their job next to the uncontested star Vassilis Spanoulis and the role players like Kyle Hines, Pero Antic or Marko Keselj.

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The NBA has published the list of European players that have entered their names as Early Entry Candidates for the NBA Draft 2012 yesterday. In quite weak class, there are not many first round talents in the group. See below to get a feel for the names and see our prediction on their Draft chances this year.

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In the last part of our analysis on the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2012, we will talk about the big guys. Quite a lot of talent was present among the Top 8 teams on these positions so let’s got to the details.

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After discussing the main guards of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2012, I will take a closer look at the forward from the best eight teams of this year’s edition of the main tournament of the U18 category.

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With a little bit of delay, we start today our detailed review of the players that reached the Top 8 of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament with their respective teams. Traditionally, the review starts with the guards where a lot of top prospects have been present.

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Before analyzing the best prospects from the Top 8 teams; teams that I have seen at least twice during the tournament; I wanted to give a quick recap on several players from the teams that finished in the Bottom 8 and that I could only see once. So these scouting reports remain quite short and not every aspect of the game of the players is mentioned. Additionally, I eventually missed out several players because of poor games, injuries or other reasons that kept them from having an impact in that specific game.

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The 26th edition of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament came to an end yesterday in Mannheim with the Final games. The two best teams reached the Gold Medal game with Spain and Serbia while the hosts played against Turkey for the third place.

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Today, the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2012 saw the semi-finals going on in Mannheim. The games could be followed LIVE on the net so here we go for a little recap of the two decisive games before we are back to the gym tomorrow.

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