European Prospects

The organisation of the International Rho Tournament for U17 Club Teams has published the participating teams today. It looks like the 26th edition that will be played from 21st to 26th April 2009 will be a bit stronger than last year’s edition which saw the first place of Mario Delas’ KK Split. So here are the teams for this year. [Read more →]

The Montenegrin team of Buducnost Podgorica features some very interesting players this season. Two of them come of an excellent start into the new Adriatic League season. I took a closer look at them this week. [Read more →]

With the new seasons that have started, we also go again for the vote of Prospect of the month. This year, we consider the generations from 1987 to 1991. As it is always very tough to find the right first choice for every year, I had some choices that may look strange in the beginning, but I did them on purpose and just to follow my own preferences.

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One of the nice surprises in this beginning of the season in France is PG Thomas Heurtel. The player of Elan Béarnais Pau Lacq Orthez is compiling very regular statistical performances as a back-up and totally deserves his large playing time. In a team that struggles to make a first win this season, the 1989 born player is showing his interesting talent on the offensive end by being one of the best scorers. [Read more →]

• The Toronto Raptors are currently scouting throughout Europe. GM Bryan Colangelo will be in Cologne next Friday to scout the German seven-footer Tibor Pleiss
• The German U19 NBBL has started last weekend. I will come back to the top performers a little later in the season
• Victor Claver looks very promising in this beginning of the season. The Spanish forward shined in a recent win in front of Miami Heat and Houston Rockets scouts
• The Euroleague has started again. So don’t forget to join the BallinEurope Fantasy League division if you want to win two tickets for the Euroleague Final Four in Berlin
• One of the stories this summer was the eventual move of Enes Kanter to a High School in the United States. This is not the case as it has been known already for several weeks in Turkey. Now with the Euroleague having started, Kanter sits on the bench for the Fenerbahce team in Vitoria
• Another interesting prospect that has decided not to join the United States is German Center Maik Zirbes. He signed a three year deal with TBB Trier this week and won’t join a NCAA team next season as it has been announced previously.
• EurocupBasketball.com had a nice article about the Serbian prospect Andrija Milutinovic

Today, I had the possibility to follow two games of the German Bundesliga that featured some of the most promising prospects that see the floor on a regular basis. Here is my report about these three young men.

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Here we go for the second part of the story.

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The 1987 generation is this season’s automatically eligible class for the NBA Draft 2009. The will be the first group of players that I take a look at in order to talk about their upcoming season. The list will of course not be complete and without any order, I took out the players that I think are worth of talking about for any reason. And of course, not all of them can be considered as legit NBA prospects.

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The season of the Youth Championships is over and several young players used these games to promote themselves. We give an overview of the most interesting moves that happened so far this summer.

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After the wings and the guards, I finally come to the big men. And despite having them in just smaller number here in my report, the talent level is extremely high for these young men.

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