European Prospects

This Saturday, the NBBL All-Star game will be played in Mannheim in the SAP Arena. It will be a part of the German All-Star day. This year, the game will be a North vs. South game while last year, it was a NBBL All-Star team playing the German U20 team. Here is a short preview for the game and the selected players.

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• FMP Zeleznik, the Serbian basketball team that is a regular producer of top flight talent, has released the contract with their professional team coach Vlada Vukoičić. Vukoicic, who has also led the Serbian U20 team to a Gold medal this summer in Nova Gorica will be replaced by the actual youth coach Slobodan Klipa.
• The hospitalet tournament is over and I recommend you to read the report of Draftexpress which is mainly focusing on the Balkan dominance with their club teams but also talking about the big presence of Balkan area players in the other present teams.
• You can also find reports, in Spanish, about the Hospitalet tournament on Basketdraft and in a blog entries on solobasket.com
• A report on the Interperformances Cup 2007 can be found here. And here are the All-Stars of the Tournament.
• A small update on Bojan Bogdanovic and his evolution with Real Madrid can be found here

In today’s edition of Getting to know, we will check out what the Latvian forward Rihards Kuksiks has to tell us.

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I have talked already about the story that Omri Casspi’s dad was threatening Maccabi Tel Aviv about his son’s playing time. At least, he has seen the floor in this week’s Euroleague action. But apparently, he did quite well.

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Samuel Deguara is one of the most interesting prospects in Europe only by considering his size. The 1991 born and 2m23 tall Maltese kid is actually member of Benetton Treviso and he was actually member of their U19 squad that played the tournament in Rome this weekend.

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As you know, the Douai International Junior Tournament is one of the big events to follow in European youth Basketball. And the organization team made already some names public that will be present this year.

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In our series about “unknown” European NCAA prospects, we will talk today about the Belgian Center Mikhail Linskens.

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• If you want to know a little bit more about the Dutch Center prospect Roeland Schaftenaar, then check the interview with him here
• NBA Draft.net published an interview with Rodrigue Beaubois. I was a little surprised by the polished and very well suited answers from Beaubois. Maybe the translator, who is also Beaubois’ agent, helped a bit to make the sentence more hype-ready.
• Draftexpress has a nice report on the Amare Stoudemire Invitational and comes back with some scouting reports about the top prospects from the German Urspring Academy.
• Nikola Pekovic is close to sign with Panathinaikos, either in the summer or already before the beginning of the Euroleague Top16. His buyout is 2mio€ during the season and 500.000€ in the summer. It is up to Panathinaikos to chose. Of course, both teams are declining any type of talks about such a deal.
• Interview with Henning Harnisch, member of the German U19 league NBBL board. He announces the probably creation of a national U16 league in Germany.
• 1989 born Dominik Spohr hits the game winner for Phoenix Hagen in the 2nd German league. He played only 51 seconds during the game but it was worth it.

Besides the Hospitalet Tournament, there have been some other important Youth basketball meetings this weekend. Here you will find information about three of them.

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In an extremely close game, FMP Zeleznik has won the Final of the Hospitalet Tournament by the closest of margins against FC Barcelona 79-78. Bojan Subotic was the man of the final with the winning layup 2 seconds before the end of the game. He finished the Final with an amazing 37pts and 12rebs.

Dejan Musli, who had a little injury played only 14 minutes for scoring 6pts. For the Spaniards, it was the Georgian Konstantine Tomarazde who was the top scorer with 17pts in just 18mins of action together with big man Michel Diouf who had 19pts and 11rebs. Nihad Dedovic could be handled by the FMP defense as he only scored 12pts.

Nikola Mirotic from Real Madrid got elected MVP of the tournament. You can find all the results and stats here.