A few minutes before watching the top Euroleague clash between Partizan and Panathinaikos, I come up with some interesting notes
- Maurice Stuckey is injured and won’t play the Albert Schweitzer Tournament
- No Matias Nocedal for Argentina either
- Australia beat Germany heavily in the first of the AST preparation games. While the Germans could stand till halftime, the second 20 minutes were a disaster at a combined score of 24-58. So can Australia be considered as a favorite or is Germany simply that weak? Or was it just a bad day for Kay Blümel’s team and Australia went mad in 2nd half. We will see…
- Vlad Moldoveanu gave me also a little update on their upcoming NCAA tournament: We’ve been on the road since Monday. We are gging to play Notre Dame tomorrow night in Denver, Colorado. We got a 12th seed and we will play a 5th seed. Notre Dame comes from the Big East, they are a really good team, but I think we have a really good chance to win this game and advance to the next round. They have the Big East player of the year, and one of the best shooters in the country, and they are also the top assist team in the country, but i think as long as we play defense and stop people we are a team that is really hard to beat.
- Enzo Tsonga will probably join Le Mans’ team for the Cholet tournament that will be played this weekend.
One month ago, I started this review and now today it is time to go for an update of the process. I changed some of the Mocks that I will use and will now stay with a total of 6 different Mocks that are used for this article. So here are the results.
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- South Africa will not be playing in the tournament this year. The team will be replaced by the Netherlands U18 squad.
- Some pre-tournament test dates have also been revealed: 18th March: Germany vs. Australia; 19th March: Germany vs. New Zealand and USA vs. Crailsheim; 20th March: Germany vs. USA and Australia vs. TSG Ehingen and New Zealand vs. Langen.
- The detailed agenda plan of the Australian U18 Emus can be found here together with their roster.
- The IBN discussion forum about the tournament is starting to fill up with infos about the different teams.
Vlad Moldoveanu, freshman from Romania and actually playing for George Mason, is coming us some update about the NCAA big Dance and also about his projects for the summer with the Romanian U20 National team. [Read more →]
The Jordan Brand Classic is an annual event held in the Madison Square Garden where a European team is invited to compete against the best players from the United States in the U16 category.
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Here is also a recap of the four series of the South teams in the NBBL. Here also, some surprises arrived and we also had some impressive individual performances.
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After the first two games of the NBBL Playoffs, we come up with a little update on the best of 3 series.
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The Spanish federation FEB has announced the roster of 12 players that will join Mannheim for the Albert Schweitzer Tournament in two weeks. And the team looks like it is a potential candidate for one of the top spots.
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Today, the roster for the US team has been announced. The team that should have been coached by Dwayne Casey will finally be led by Lionel Hollins due to medical reasons. Hollins is member of the Memphis Grizzlies.
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The 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship will very probably be played in New Zealand. According to the article of Bahrain Daily Gulf News, the Tall Black Nation is actually the only candidate for the organization as Bahrain has decided not to go through with a potential bid to host next year’s Under-19 World Basketball Championships.
Furthermore, the article informed that hosting the under-19 worlds reportedly costs $1.6M and that New Zealand are the only bidders for next year’s event, and will likely be named hosts when the winning bid is announced next month.
So be ready to enter Kiwi territory in 2009 if you want to follow this competition.