On last Wednesday, the first game of the Eurocup Quarterfinals has been played in the Lokhalle of Göttingen between BG74 Göttingen and Benetton Treviso. The low-budget hosts matched up with one of the most traditional names in European basketball. But Göttingen, who was a last season Euro-Challenge champion did not want to give up easy […]
Alessandro Gentile stars against Göttingen
March 27th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Alessandro Gentile·Benetton Treviso·BG Göttingen·Donatas Motiejunas·eurocup
NIJT Final 8 teams announced
March 3rd, 2010 · 10 Comments
Today, the French federation published the names of the 8 teams that will play during the Nike International Junior Tournament in Paris from the 6th to the 9th May 2010. 4 teams were known already and the 4 other participants are no big surprise either.
Tags: Benetton Treviso·Cajasol Sevilla·FMP Belgrade·INSEP·KK Split·Lietuvos Rytas·NIJT·Olimpija Ljubljana·Unicaja Malaga·Zalgiris Kaunas
Città di Roma Tournament 2009 (Part1)
January 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments
The first tournament of the 2009/2010 edition of the NIJT Qualification phase has been played once again in Rome. This year, Zalgiris Kaunas totally dominated this first stage of the competition as they won every game by at least 15 points. Here we go for the first part of the detailed analysis of the main […]
Tags: Alessandro Gentile·Armin Mazic·Benetton Treviso·Città di Roma·Dovydas Redikas·Ojars Silins·Rolandas Jakstas·Stella Azzurra Roma·Zalgiris Kaunas
Stella Azzurra Città di Roma Tournament (Day 3)
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments
After a long night at the restaurant (thank you Germano) and a sightseeing and foodtasting trip through Rome yesterday, I arrived save back home only late so that the report on the Final day of the tournament is only online now.
Tags: Alessandro di Pasquale·Alexander Tikhonin·Andrey Loginov·Armin Mazic·Artem Komolov·Benetton Fribourg·Benetton Treviso·Bruno Ondo Mengue·CSKA Moscow·Diego Monaldi·Dovydas Redikas·FMP Belgrade·Lottomatica Roma·Montepaschi Siena·Nemanja Bezbradica·Nikola Siladi·Ojars Silins·Rolandas Jakstas·Stefan Petkovic·Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin·Stella Azzurra Roma·Vytenis Cizauskas·Zalgiris Kaunas
Stella Azzurra Città di Roma Tournament (Day 2)
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments
I arrived this morning in Rome to cover the first NIJT Qualification Tournament of the season. The tournament organized by Stella Azzurra Roma features 8 teams that compete for one spot at NIJT to be played in May in Paris. After Day 1 updated through Twitter, here is my short report on what happened on […]
Tags: 2009 Citta di Roma·Alessandro Gentile·Alexander Tikhonin·Andrey Loginov·Armin Mazic·Artem Komolov·Benetton Fribourg·Benetton Treviso·CSKA Moscow·FMP Belgrade·Francesco Ramengi·Lottomatica Roma·Montepaschi Siena·Nemanja Bezbradica·Nenad Miljenovic·Nikola Siladi·Ojars Silins·Riccardo Ferrarese·Rolandas Jakstas·Stefan Petkovic·Stella Azzurra Roma·Strahinja Mladenovic·Tommaso Ingrosso·Zalgiris Kaunas
Città di Roma 2008: Centers
January 7th, 2009 · No Comments
After talking about the forwards and the guards, time has come to talk about the big guys. Their number is even more limited than those of the Forwards. So let’s check what’s the story.
Tags: Bakary Konate·Benetton Treviso·Cibona Zagreb·Dragan Sekelja·Giedrius Staniulis·Kalise Gran Canaria·Samuel Deguara·Zalgiris Kaunas
Città di Roma 2008: Guards
January 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Here we go for the player portraits of the 2008 edition of the Città di Roma tournament. I will start with the guards where the talent level was particularly dense.
Tags: Alejandro Lopez·Alessandro Gentile·Benetton Fribourg·Benetton Treviso·Brian Savoy·Kalise Gran Canaria·Karolis Babkauskas·Mirza Sarajlija·Montepaschi Siena·Nunzio Sabbatino·Olimpija Ljubljana·Oscar Alvarado·Simone Centanni·Stefan Petkovic·Vytenis Cizauskas·Zalgiris Kaunas
Today picks (Live from Rome)
December 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A very few picks live from the Stella Azzurra Tournament, the first Qualifying Event for the Nike International Junior Tournament that will be held in Berlin this year.