European Prospects

Ricky Rubio is considered since his first appearance in the ACB League as one of the top prospects in Europe. Some people compare him already to Magic Johnson or I don’t know whom and consider him as the best European player ever. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see Ricky in action again and here are some mixed thoughts about him.

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Urspring Academy lost its semi final game against Briarcrest Saints 44-52. In the 8th game in 11 days, the batteries were empty and the shots were not falling (18/60). Even a 21-19 advantage at halftime was not enough to overcome the team around Leslie McDonald, a University of North Carolina recruit.

Now, the Germans will play their last game on Monday for the third place against Columbia (Georgia).

It is already well know that Omri Casspi’s family is really pushing hard his development and career. In a recent article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Shimon Casspi was reported to have once again passed the line.

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• Xavi Rey, who was one of the dominant Centers of the U20 European Championship this summer will move to Ricoh Manresa. He was already with the team this Friday but he did not enter the court in a loss against Bilbao
• Another prospect on the move in Spain is Daniel Clark. The English Center will be playing until the end of the season for Leche Río Breogán in the LEB Gold. He will arrive there to replace the injured Davin Davis.
• In the beginning of the preparation for the U18 European Championship this summer, the Spanish Federation organizes a tournament in Onil. And the Spaniards defeated Germany in the first game of the tournament 81-75
• It was time to finally mention Adrien Moerman and his performances in the French ProB. He is actually the 8th best scorer (16.7ppg) and 4th best rebounder (8.0rpg) in the second French division.
• A little high flying action from Italy with Swedish forward Jonas Jerebko going for the tip in and Danilo Gallinari with a powerful dunk

Urspring has reached the Semi-Finals of the Arby’s Classic and will play Biarcrest Christian tonight to reach the Final of this important Tournament for the first time.

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These days are All-Star game days in some European countries. And this counts especially for two regions that provide generally a lot of interesting NBA prospects. I speak about France and the Adriatic region. The French All-Star game will be held tomorrow Saturday while the Adriatic League had their annual show event yesterday evening.

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It has always been the goal of this blog to cover Young European Basketball players. Of course, all the different NBA aspirants get the most attention. But I tried to cover also other young players that are not that much hyped but are also doing their job on the basketball court. In order to present some more “unknown” young players, I start a series about Europeans playing in the NCAA and that may not be familiar to European readers. The players I chose are probably not big time NBA prospects but they are all worth to be talked about. And as the choice had also to be limited, this is not a selection on sportive criteria either but I tried to find players from different European countries. Maybe we will see some of these guys in the future in the different European leagues.

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After having been hyped a lot 2-3 years ago, Ponkrashov has come back to earth. And after a correct season with CSKA Moscow where he won some titles but did not see the court that much, he has been loaned to Khimky in order to play. And he is playing good.

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The Slovenian PG was one of the positive surprises of the this year’s edition of the Eurobasket in Spain. Now he is playing his first season in the Euroleague and he mostly does it at his own favor.

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Yesterday, Ursrping Academy started their second tournament of this year’s High School Tour to the United States at the popular Arby’s Classic. In the opening game, the German team had to play without their top scorer Christian Standhardinger and 1991 born Forward Justin Raffington who both were out because of illness. [Read more →]