European Prospects

In their first season in the ABA League, the team from Mega Vizura is one of the most exciting ones to follow for talent scouts. Next to a multitude of interesting prospects, the team also features three high-level talents in their back court combo of Vasilije Micic and Nenad Miljenovic together with the upcoming inside presence of Nikola Jokic. I took a look at the latest developments of their talents recently.

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In 2010, I travelled to Solna in Sweden to cover the Nordic Championship, a tournament that regroups the Youth National Teams of the different Scandinavian countries. Back then, I saw for the first time Rasmus Larsen and Marcus Eriksson competing. Three and a half years later, both prospects have made the move to Spain and play now together for the same team in Manresa. It was time to make an update on the two very promising players.

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Around 2010, the name of Amedeo della Valle appeared first in the European scouting circles as a flashy and superbly quick Italian PG of the future. Playing for Junior Casale, della Valle impressed some scouts traveling around Italy before making it to the Italian U18 National Team in 2011. The next season might be a crucial one for the MVP of the U20 European Championship so here we go for an analysis.

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In the third part of our season preview, we take a look at the French ProA today. Several of the most interesting prospects have left the league to play in the NBA or in Serbia, the number of talented prospects remains high even if it might be not that impressive than it was over the last years. Nevertheless, here we go for our five prospects that we suggest to follow this season.

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The BEKO BBL season starts this Saturday with the Champions Cup while the regular season really kicks off on the 2nd October. It’s time to check who are the players to follow this season in one of the upcoming leagues in Europe.

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Before the seasons in the different professional leagues start in the next weeks, we will take a look at the players to follow in some of the main competitions in Europe. We start with a new addition in this already traditional pre-season show as we analyze the Belgian Ethias League. The Belgian league is constantly on the rise in terms of quality over the last years and a specific rule giving financial advantages to teams signing young players (not regarding their nationality) has had an effect that more international prospects came to the Ethias League over the last years. But also the Belgian players are improving.

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The Eurobasket 2013 starts tomorrow in Slovenia and we took a quick look at some prospects that will most likely use this stage to make a name for themselves on the International scene for the first time.

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The U16 European Championship 2013 is history. I was not able to cover the event from the Ukraine and despite the great coverage by the Ukrainian media, I could not even follow many games through live streams. So here are a few notes on the players that I managed to see at least a little. This report can not be considered as complete as I did not see all the teams nor did I see many teams over long stretches.

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We conclude our reports on the U18 European Championship 2013 from Riga with the scouting reports on the Big Men. These include of course the Latvian twin towers Porzingis and Pasecniks but also the highly recruited Domantas Sabonis and the Croatian talents Arapovic and Zganec.

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After discussing the guards of the U18 European Championship, here we go for a roundup of the most interesting prospects at the wing position.

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