European Prospects

With the tournament starting tomorrow, it is about time to accelerate the pace of preview. So here we go for a first one of lots more to come online tonight: Canada.

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Australia comes to Hamburg with certainly one of their typical teams built around Australian Institute of Sports members. Unfortunately, we could not find a contributor from down under so that I had to go for a Preview on a team that I have never seen play. The article is mainly based on the Press Releases of the Australian Basketball Federation.

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Spain won the Gold Medal at the U16 European Championship 2009 in Lithuania. Our friends from www.Eurohopes.com who are based in Spain were of course the perfect authors of the Preview article on the Spanish team for the tournament in Hamburg that will start this Friday.

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The hosts of the first ever U17 World Championship come with high hopes to the competition. Germany did not qualify by the result but the team has shown its value during the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in spring. Kay Blümel gives us his opinion on the German U17 National Team.

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Poland finished with a very surprising 4th place at the Under 16 European Championship last summer in Lithuania. This great generation is also the core of the U17 team that plays the World Championship in Hamburg. We spoke with the Polish youth coach Robert Kosciuk who gave us a great insight on the main players of the team.

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Today, we take a look at the Chinese U17 team that will compete in the World Championships in Hamburg. The article though has not been written by a local Chinese journalist but it is based on different Chinese sources.

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A new competition implicates new features on Europeanprospects.com. With the upcoming first ever U17 World Championship in Hamburg, I decided to check out with different authors from all around the globe to get an insight and preview on their team. At the moment where I write this introduction, I am not quite sure if I get somebody from all the participating nations, but honor to the first one who answered: Facundo Iatzky from Argentina.

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When the name of Pape Sy got called during the NBA Draft ceremony, there was a bit of confusion as nearly anybody had the French guard on its radar. Nobody except the Atlanta Hawks which was also the only Franchise that worked him out before the Draft. Who is this guy that got even “big man” comparisons as his height or position was not even known by some of the major news outlets.

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The British with Jamaican background Ryan Richards was the youngest of all the Europeans drafted in 2010. After an odyssey through different teams and countries, the Kent raised has now made his first step into the direction of his dream: playing in the NBA. The next step in his trip should now be to earn a roster spot with the San Antonio Spurs. But let’s take a look back and see where Richards comes from.

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Nemanja Bjelica was the third European player that got called in the Madison Square Garden on Thursday. The Serbian forward was some kind of late developer as he was not considered as a major talent a few years ago. But over the last two seasons, he played himself into the Serbian Senior National Team and the automatic eligible player has now been drafted.

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