European Prospects

Slovenia is a country with great basketball tradition (not long as independent country even; since 1991) that has produced many good players. Many of them played even in NBA. But today’s reality is a little bit different. If we look for Slovenian prospects born between 1988 and 1991, so players who are 19, 20, 21 and 22 years old, Zoran Dragić is one of rare who could become member of national team. Results on last European Championships for youth categories also show that Slovenia don’t have a lot of extremely good prospects any more.

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Still on holidays which explains that there no new posts or tweets about the ongoing World Championship. But here, you can at least find a recap of the messages from my Twitter account of last week. [Read more →]

Today starts the FIBA World Basketball Championship 2010 in Turkey. 24 teams will compete for the Gold Medal and succeed to the 2006 winner of Spain. FIBA TV will once again offer an attractive package to follow all the games through LIVE Stream over the web. See below for all the details and how to watch the FIBA World Championship on your PC (or Mac).

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With all eyes on the upcoming FIBA World Championship, it is easy to miss the games that are currently played in the Qualification phase for the Eurobasket 2011. After having spoken already about Adam Hanga who is battling against relegation with Hungary, there is another young player currently stepping up, the Finnish guard Sasu Salin.

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With the U18 European Championships in the books, it was about time to update our Ranking of the 1992 born players. This category is still easily dominated by Lithuania and it was tough to find a 2nd best team because of either the absence of the main 92 born players in the U18 European Championship or the important part of 93 born players with the teams having a good result. So here we go for the update of the 1992 Ranking.

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Hungary is currently playing the Qualifiers for the Eurobasket 2011 in Lithuania. Even if their chances to reach the tournament next summer have evaporated, the performances of Adam Hanga are worth to take a closer look at. Before the last two games (tonight versus Bosnia-Herzegovina and Thursday against Ukraine), the athletic forward/guard is leading his team in not less than 5 statistical categories (points, assists, steals, blocks and FTs attempts) and is as well their second best rebounder.

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Together with our Russian friend Nikita, we put together an article about the Russian U18 National Team that won the Silver Medal at the recent European Championships in Vilnius. Nikita was so kind to speak with the Russian head coach Sergey Skorochkin about his players and what his thoughts were on the Silver Medal team.

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One of the most interesting players of the recent U18 European Championship was the Latvian Small Forward Davis Bertans. I took some time in order to put together a short Video Analysis of the highly talented 1992 born player.

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With a bit of delay, we got the names of the U18 and U20 B Division European Championship All-Tournament teams and MVP trophy winners. A big thank you to FIBA Europe for providing us with the names. So here we go for the three All-tournament Teams of the B Division for 2010.

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