European Prospects

The organizers of the Rho International Tournament have sent us the names of the participants for the 2011 edition that will be played in Italy from the 26th April to 1st May 2011. The tournament will be played only with U16 teams next year which means that only players born in 1995 or younger are eligible.

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Having followed several Euroleague games this week, I put together some thoughts on three players that I scouted in particular. I speak of the following three guys: Nicolo Melli, Christophe Leonard and Augusto Cesar Lima.

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Today starts the EuroCup Regular season with three Live games that can be watched online on Eurosport. The evening starts at 19h00 CET with the game between Anwil Wloclawek and ALBA Berlin. At 20h15 CET, the match between ASVEL and BG Göttingen is a lot more interesting as the French team features some interesting young players. Finally, at 20h45 CET, you can follow the game between Estudiantes Madrid and PAOK Saloniki LIVE.

Here we go for a quick look at all the players to follow in the 2010/2011 edition of the 2nd highest club competition in European Basketball.

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The month of December/Christmas/New Year period is normally filled with interesting tournaments for Youth Basketball. We checked a few news and notes that are in relation with those upcoming events. For a full overview of the main tournaments, you can find it on our Tournament Agenda.

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• Drake men’s basketball: Wiseler hustles back from injury http://t.co/9GqJyir via @DMRegister #
• He will practice with Union Olimpija on a daily basis though but play only official games for Skofja Loka. Buyout unknown, probably >300k #
• he has a buyout after 3 yrs -> therefore 3+3 RT @LithuanianY: @ChristopheEPcom Any information on possible buyout? 6 years is a lot. #
• TTHcast Mercator Skofja Loka definetly a team to watch this season with Bertans, Mahkovic, Lebedintsev, Morina, Micic, Nowakowski,… #
• The team is the same one where plays Blaz Mahkovic who @LukaBassin talked about on my blog a few days ago http://digs.by/c2Un9q #

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When going over the scorer rankings in Europe, you mostly see either US-born or other experienced players at the top. Not so in Estonia were the local EMKL league is having the youngest top scorer of a first division in Europe with Rannar Raap. The 1992 born player from Parnu currently averages 19.9ppg after 8 games and leads his extremely young team (the oldest player being born in 1987) to a 2-6 record. [Read more →]

• Maik Zirbes with a career-high 11pts vs. Ludiwgsburg. The German 2.06 tall C also had 3rebs #
• RT @matteozuretti: NJIT team in Rome, Dec 27-29: Rytas, Fenerbahce, CSKA, KK Zagreb, Siena, Benetton, Lottomatica, Stella Azzurra Roma, NICE #
• RT @huskerextra NU’s Standhardinger learns from benching http://bit.ly/cVZEpa #
• RT @xb7: @ChristopheEPcom — CBA’s Michael Ochereobia has a nice first game..
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(by Luka Bassin) – When Blaž Mahkovic scored 23 points in just 23 minutes on the court in 2nd round of Slovenian Telemach league against Helios Domžale two weeks ago and put some attention on himself, many experts did not believe that there is a player in Slovenia who is 20-year-old and it is not well known. All attention in 1990 generation, which is not one of the strongest in Slovenian history, goes to Dino Murić, Marko Vranjkovič and Luka Dimec. [Read more →]

Cibona Zagreb is certainly the team to watch this season in the Euroleague in terms of young potential. It is not uncommon that the Croatian team plays with four 1989 or earlier born players at the same time. And all of them have a very important role in their specific strengths. We took a closer look at their beginning of the season. [Read more →]

• LNB Espoirs Player of the week: Fabien Paschal again with 19pts 15rebs 2blks and 29eff #
• Die spielen für ein Lux. Team RT @gruebler: Ich find die Trierer Blechbläser Klasse. Das gehört in alle Hallen. #bbl_de #
• Follow Mantas Mockevicius on Twitter.com/mocke8 More on the 1993 born Lithuanian here: http://digs.by/a0mNqv #
• Former team of Dirk Nowitzki, Demond Greene, Kresimir Loncar and Robert Garrett will face the future giant of German Basketball #
• Big sold-out game tonight in German ProA: Würzburg vs. Bayern Munich. The two favorites for moving to Beko BBL. # [Read more →]