European Prospects

The Montenegrin-Spanish Nikola Mirotic is getting more and more minutes with Real Madrid at the moment. After scoring 3pts in 5 minutes of Euroleague action against Unicaja last week, the 2m08 tall forward, born in 1991 played 19 minutes in the ACB game against the same this weekend. Check out below for a Video of all his plays from that game where he ended up with 11pts 3rebs 2asts and 1blk.

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The German Basketball Academy from Urspring, that produced already several Division 1 players (Lucca Staiger, Christian Standhardinger, Justin Raffington,…) will participate at two prestigious tournaments in the USA during the Christmas Break. They will play the City of Palms Classic Signature Series where they will face Westchester County Day on the 20th December. After this tournament, the team of coach Ralph Junge will travel to Tennessee where they will participate to the Arby’s Classic in Bristol. We take a quick look at the roster from an NCAA point-of-view.

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After having spent several seasons with the Norwegian team Asker Aliens, the 1990 born forward decided to move over the Atlantic Ocean and play College Basketball. Aksel Bolin spoke to europeanprospects.com these days about his choice and what we can expect from him in the next years.

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Slovenian Coach Luka Bassin continues with his series on the Slovenian prospects. Today, he will analyze the game of the two 1993 born Point Guards Matej Rojc and Luka Rupnik and compares their forces and weaknesses.

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We start the Living in America season again this winter and we present some European-born NCAA College Freshmen that have arrived in the United States this summer. To start the series, we take a look at one of the more unknown players, the 1990 born Lithuanian Forward Eividas Petrulis.

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• France: Leo Westermann with 0pts 3rebs 8asts 1to in 22 minutes and the win for ASVEL yesterday vs Poitiers where Evan Fournier had 13mins #
• Dragan Milosavljevic with his best @The_Euroleague game so far. the 1989 born with 16pts 2rebs 2stls at the moment. big three at the moment #
• and in Bamberg with @sirhines RT @LithuaniaBasket: You know slamball? Happening in Belgrade at th moment! Jawai and then Vesely! #
• EL: Having never seen them comment together, but my guess is that Frank Buschmann and Ademola Okulaja should be the perfect duo tonight #

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Nihad Dedovic plays already his 2nd season on the highest level after having spent several seasons in lower  Spanish divisons before coming to Roma to compete for the first time in the Euroleague. The 1m96 tall Bosnian is growing step by step and looks like a veteran despite being only 20 years old at the moment. After being present in the Adidas Eurocamp in 2010, Dedovic is certainly on the radar of the NBA as he offers a really interesting scorer skill-set combined with good height for the SG position.

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Slovenian Coach Luka Bassin continues to present some prospects from his country. Today, he will present us the 18 year old Alen Hodžić.

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• NBBL: Till-Joscha Jönke honored his U20 selection with a triple-double 25pts 11rebs 10asts 5stls and 38eff for Leverkusen vs. Köln #
• Robin Benzing 14pts 10rebs 2blks 13eff but -19 +/- in a 96-89 win #
• Germany: Good stats for Maik Zirbes with 16pts 5rebs 1stl 18eff in bad lass for his team @tbbtrier #
• Italy: Career game for the 91 born Achille Polonara with 13pts 5rebs 3blks in 27minutes vs. Benetton where Motuejunas had 23pts 7rebs #
• New coach means big minutes for Leo Westermann. The French 92 born propect had 8pts 4asts 2stls in 15 minutes for ASVEL #

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The German U20 National Team head coach Frank Menz, who successfully practiced with the U17 team last summer, has announced a list of 32 players that have been invited for a Try-out camp from 20th to 23rd December in Heidelberg in order to create the group of players for the U20 European Championship this summer.

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