European Prospects

The last day of the regular season of the German U19 NBBL has been played last weekend. So it is time to check who were the best performers of the last weeks and see where is the top talent of the 1989 and younger German generation.

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FIBA Europe has effectuated the Draw of the different European championships yesterday in Venice. You can find the results of the U16, U18 and U20 Draws of both Division A and Division B together with the dates of the tournaments and the locations in our Tournament Agenda.

European Prospects will be present at some of these tournaments in the summer 2008.

The Türk Telekom U16 Tournament is about to start tomorrow and so the Turkish federation just put the official website of the tournament online. You can find there the rosters of the different participating teams as well as all the dates of the games. Although the official opening of the tournament will be tomorrow, Turkey and Slovenia will play a friendly game this evening at Akyazı Sport Hall.

I will start today, about 4 and a half month before the NBA Draft 2008 a regular review of the different Mock Drafts and their respective places for the European Prospects. I have established a small formula that will give me an average position of the respective players.

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I have already talked about the Hikmet Erden Tournament in Turkey for U16 teams. The Turkish federation now published their official roster but also a change in the name of the tournament and some other participants than previously announced.

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Brazil is getting more and more important concerning importing young players to Europe. Especially the Spanish teams are very active in recruiting talent from the country of Nene and Anderson Varejao.

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When the Copa del Rey in Spain is getting heavily covered these days, but except the well-known prospects like Ricky Rubio and Victor Claver, the scouting interest for draft eligible players is more developed in Toulon where the French version is taking place.

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• Ricky Rubio has been elected Young Player of the year. Not really what I have voted.
• Seydou N’Joya is back in Nancy and has signed a “jeune aspirant” contract valid until the end of the season. He played with Norköpping in Sweden where he averaged 8.2ppg and 4.2apg in the 5 games he played.
• Giorgi Shermadini got elected player of the year in Georgia. Not such a big surprise for somebody who averages 30ppg 17rpg 4apg and 4bpg.
• 15yr old Kevin Bright, one of the top talents of the German 1992 generation, had only his second appearance with the ProB team of Ehingen last weekend. But it was a good one. With 10pts and 7rebs, he was called the matchwinner by his coach Ralph Junge because he also did a great defensive job on the opposing team’s top scorer David Bunts. Maurice Stuckey also took over the scoring role with 20pts as the regular top scorer Christian Standhardinger was not playing because he was ill.
• To stay in Germany, U18 coach Kay Blümel came up with a first selection of 20 players for the upcoming AST in Mannheim. A few names to remember: Niels Giffey, Erik Land, Maurice Stuckey, Akeem Vargas and Maik Zirbes
• Talking about the AST, here you can find the official Trailer video of the tournament. And you may recognize some faces in there.
• The Cholet Mondial Basket Tournament informed us that KK Split will also join this year’s edition.
• I have also updated the Tournament Agenda section.

The Turkish Basketball federation will organize a very important U16 tournament in February and tries to build something similar to the Albert Schweitzer Tournament for the U16 age category.

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And here it is again, the Europeanprospects.com vote for the Prospect of the month January 2008. After the success of Ricky Rubio in the December 2007 vote with nearly half of all the voices, we are back now with the nominees for the first month of the new year.

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