European Prospects

It is time again for another vote of the prospect of the month. After the victory of Nando de Colo in January, it is now time to check who were the performers in the month of February.

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After the tournament and a seventh place for the German team, I had the possibility to ask a few questions to the German U16 coach Alexander Krüger about his team and the German basketball in general.

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• Tim Ohlbrecht, the promising inside player from Brose Baskets Bamberg signed for another year with the German team. The fact that he only signed for one more season shows also that he will probably not be in Germany after that date.
• Interesting interview with the Swedish Jonas Jerebko on fibaeurope.com
• 2m17 at 16 years of age. That is always something that stands out. And so Vincent Pourchot from France got his first kind of media coverage in the French National newspaper Libération this week.
• Italian guard Pietro Aradori seems to move from AJ Milano to Rome.
• The Jordan Brand Euro Tour is on its way. The first MVPs that are known are those from the Lithuanian stop: Evaldas Aniulis (Marciulonis Basketball School), Jonas Valančiūnas (Vilnius BS), Vytenis Čižauskas (Sabonis BS) and Edgaras Ulanovas (Kaunas BS)

Today, I had a little chat with 1989 born Fernando Raposo from Pau-Orthez. The 2m04 tall forward already saw some minutes with the pro team in the beginning of the season but is out of the rotation for the moment because of the foreigner rule.

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This weekend, I had the possibility to see the talented forward from Italy in action with his LegaDue team Trenkwalder Reggio Emilia. The U16 European Championship All-Tournament team member is actually getting some regular minutes with his team on the second highest Italian level.

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The excellent official website of the tournament features interviews with some of the coaches of the different U16 National teams and some of them gave the names of the players they wanted to mention as the best potential.

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I want to take a first look at the rosters or pre-selections that are already known to participate at this year’s edition. Maybe this can be an indication to see who can be the possible successor of Nicolas Batum as the 2006 MVP.

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• A short review on the latest U20 reunion in Spain can be found in Spanish on the website of basketdraft.com
• Monthly review of the U19 NBBL in German made by crossover-online
• Jordan Brand International Tour is in Europe right now. Follow it live here
• Don’t forget the Semi finals of the Hikmet Erden Türk Telekom U16 tournament that will be played to today.
• Julien from the French basketball magazine Reverse established a Euroleague Draft with 48 picks on young European prospects.

After five days of intensive basketball, the quarter finals for the probably strongest U16 tournament in Europe are set and will be played this Friday in Sakarya.

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Today, the officials of the Douai tournament announced the names of the 8 participating teams in this year’s edition. And I have to call it teams, as there won’t be National teams only.

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