European Prospects

We have lost a bit of his trace since he went from Fankfurt to Sweden to play with Solna in the first Swedish division. But I found this stat sheet that made me wondering a bit.

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Normally, Freshmen in the NCAA don’t see the court that much except if they have extraordinary talent. Today, we are going to talk with a Freshman from Romania who is actually seeing some interesting minutes with a good NCAA team, George Mason.

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A few thoughts about Day 2 in Hospitalet from the Top U18 tournament in Spain.

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The next player to discover in the series of “unknown” Europeans in the NCAA is the Russian Power Forward Kirill Pishchalnikov.

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Here are a few thoughts about the first day of the Hospitalet Tournament. As I am not in Spain, all what I say here is based on what I have found on the web.

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After having talked already about the Interperformances Cup in London, the Onil tournament in Spain and the Urspring tour through the United States, there are two other important Youth events coming up this week.

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Finally, Urspring Academy finished the Arby’s Classic at the 4th place, their best ever result. The Germans lost their last game against the Columbia Eagles 64-46 on Monday evening. When you look at the stats, you can imagine that the accumulation of games in the last two weeks made the team from Ralph Junge earn a 4th spot. With a team shooting at 19 out 52, the fatigue was an important factor in this game.

Another German team that was playing abroad over the last days was the U19 selection of TV Langen who participated at the Interperformances Cup in London. This yearly event organized by the Barking Abbey Basketball Academy featured 6 teams this year: England U16, Bulgaria U16, Playoff Sarajevo, Barking Abbey Academy, Estudiantes Madrid and TV Langen.

In the Final game between Langen and Estudiantes Madrid, the Germans went ahead from the beginning and won the first quarter 24-9. The team was led by the tournament MVP Robin Benzing, who finished the final with 29pts as well as by the inside force of Thomas Armbrecht who had 26. The 2m05 center was also elected into the All-Tournament team.

After we started the series about European Prospects in the NCAA with Maros Zuffa, I continue today with the Swedish Point Guard Sorena Orandi. If you want to discover his story, just read on.

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And here it is again, the Europeanprospects.com vote for the Prospect of the month December 2007. The nominees are Tadija Dragicevic, Ante Tomic, Danilo Gallinari, Antoine Diot and Ricky Rubio.

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This year’s edition of the Onil U18 Tournament ended with the success of the Spanish U18 team. The second place was for Turkey, while Germany beat Croatia for the third place.

The Spanish PG Alejandro Hernandez, a NBA Basketball Without Borders participant in 2006 and member of the Youth teams of FC Barcelona, got elected MVP of the tournament. He has been joined in the All-Tournament team by his team mate Ignacio Esteban as well as by the German Power forward Erik Land who finished the tournament with 16.0ppg and 9.0rpg.

Unfortunately, I could not find out who were the two other members of the All-Tournament team but my guess would be Mario Delas from Croatia, Melih Mahmutoglu (16.0ppg) or Erdinc Balto (12.3ppg 3.0bpg) from Turkey. The Turkish team that did not feature Birkan Batuk however.

UPDATE: Crobasket.com reports the trouble that Croatia had during this tournament. And they also give the information that Mario Delas was a member of the All-tournament team. So my guess was right 🙂