European Prospects

The 2nd day of the Adidas Eurocamp was marked by two very different stand-out individual performance with Dwight Howard doing the Haka with the Rugby U20 National Team of New Zealand and the Boris Barac shooting clinic from behind the three-point line.

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Day 1 of the Adidas Eurocamp 2011 is in the books. The day featured three games of which two have been played with a regular clock and one with running time. There have been some additional drop-outs in relation with the published lists and there is not even one European first round projection of 2011 active in the game situations. It looks like the top prospects decided to skip the camp either completely or just go for some individual workouts avoiding the direct competition.

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In cooperation with the very up-to-date in terms of Web 2.0 initiatives French team of PB86 Poitiers, Gaetan Carrasset has launched the youtube Channel LNB Prospects a few days ago. This youtube Channel features highlight clips, interviews and other stuff around the French Espoirs League. See below for the official teaser and some of the already uploaded clips.
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Having dropped to the second round in the NBA Draft.net Mock Draft or even being put in the 2012 Mock by Draftexpress, Nikola Mirotic is a bit the “loser” of the last weeks according to these predictions. It is clear that since the departure of Ettore Messina from Real Madrid, the impact of the Spanish-Montenegrin player has dropped consequently. We took this situation as an opportunity to check his current situation a few days before the beginning of the Adidas Eurocamp.

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This weekend, ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne got eliminated from the French playoffs in a semi-final Game 3 against SLUC Nancy. Despite a deplorable team effort and several imports clearly having other problems than a functioning team, the young players who have been recruited specifically by the former coach Vincent Collet to build a team on the long term, had to take over the game a lot more in the decisive moments than expected. In these conditions, it is difficult for them to win a game like this one against a team stacked with athletic veterans. Let’s take a look at the youngsters of the French team that will also participate at the Adidas Eurocamp next weekend (Fofana, Jackson, Lacombe, Westermann).

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Every year, the Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso is the place to go for NBA Teams in order to scout the European Draft prospects. But the camp does not always invite all the Early-Entrants or Automatically eligible players that are out there. This year, 6 Early Entrants are not on the list as of today so we checked with their respective agents to get a feeling how the players are doing at the moment and how they see the current situation of their players concerning the NBA Draft.

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With the announcement of Hugo Invernizzi’s future destination today, you can say that the signing season of the INSEP athletes is in full swing. We take a quick look at the first decisions and what might come in the next days and weeks.

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After having run through the major prospects of the JBBL Top4, it is about time to check who are the players that shined in the NBBL semis and Final game. This season was the last one for the highly talented 1992 generation from Germany and several of the real big prospects managed to qualify with their team for this event. But the 1993 generation showed that there are as well some interesting players for the future.

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One week ago, the German U16 Championship came to its highlight of the season with the Top4 that was played in Ludwigsburg. We take a look at the main prospects of the event but limiting our analysis as most of these players have still a long way to go physically. Compared to South-European competitions in this age category, most of the German players look rather young from a physical point of view which makes the overall potential rather difficult to judge as it is not clear how much growth is left. Nevertheless, let’s check who impressed the most during the two days in Southern Germany.

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In our final report on the Nike International Junior Tournament series for the 2010/2011 season, we will take a look at some of the players that we might see again in future editions. We picked out four talents that we consider highly interesting for the upcoming years.

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