European Prospects

Today started the Qualification Round of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in Mannheim with the games of the second phase. The results from the first round are taken into account. Here is a quick review of the games from today from a statistical point of view. Europeanprospects.com will be back in Mannheim on Friday for the semis and the final games on Saturday.

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Back from Mannheim where I have spent the day in the MWS Halle in order to see the 8 other teams. And the least to say is that these two groups are a step below in terms of general playing level compared to what is played at the US Sports Arena.

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Game Day 2 of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2010 is history. I have not been in Mannheim yesterday, so this review will only be a quick statistical update just before I take off to go follow Day 3 once again live in the gyms.

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The 25th Albert Schweitzer Tournament has started yesterday in Mannheim. 16 teams from 4 continents will compete to become the successor of Greece that managed to win the Gold Medal 2 years ago behind their spectacular generation of Nikos Pappas, Kosta Sloukas and so on. This first day was marked by a lot of blowouts and confirmed that there are clearly two groups of playing level in the tournament.

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This year’s edition of the most prestigious U18 tournament in the world starts tomorrow (europeanprospects.com will cover it extensively, I will be present tomorrow, Monday, Friday and during the Final day), so that we went through the very latest news around the preparation of the participating teams.

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2006 was the second Albert Schweitzer Tournament for me as an observer and the first one where I really wrote about it. It was at the beginning of this website so I wanted to check back what happened to some of the players I have seen play 4 years ago. As I was there only on the Finals day, it was a bit short to really evaluate all the players, so I don’t go back in detail. But I wanted to pick out one player in particular to see what has happened to him.

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The Cholet Mondial Basket U18 tournament will be played this weekend from Friday to Sunday in the French city. As the official rosters have been published, we take a quick look through them to see who will be present and have also a first result of a preparation game.

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With just a few days to go, the teams participating to the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2010 have started their preparation phase for one of the major events of the year. We take a look at the main results and information we could get over the last days.

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I spoke about it already a few days ago on my Twitter account, Gordon Herbert has been named as U18 National Team head coach. Our friend Hippo has sent us an interesting piece about the background of this surprising move and gives us also information on who are probably the main contributors for Herbert’s Finnish U18 selection.

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The German Center Tibor Pleiss gave recently an Interview to spox.com where he spoke about very interesting details on his past but also showed some surprise about the interest NBA Teams are having for him. You can read the full Interview in German here, I summed up the main parts in English.

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