European Prospects

Game Day 2 of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2010 is history. I have not been in Mannheim yesterday, so this review will only be a quick statistical update just before I take off to go follow Day 3 once again live in the gyms.

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The 25th Albert Schweitzer Tournament has started yesterday in Mannheim. 16 teams from 4 continents will compete to become the successor of Greece that managed to win the Gold Medal 2 years ago behind their spectacular generation of Nikos Pappas, Kosta Sloukas and so on. This first day was marked by a lot of blowouts […]

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The Cholet Mondial Basket U18 tournament will be played this weekend from Friday to Sunday in the French city. As the official rosters have been published, we take a quick look through them to see who will be present and have also a first result of a preparation game.

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The German federation published on the official website of the Albert-Schweitzer Tournament the first preliminary rosters of several participating nations. I took a quick look at the already published European teams and give you some first indications concerning the quality of the rosters.

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The Jordan Brand Classic camp was held this weekend in Istanbul. The best U16 players of Europe competed there to earn 10 spots for the Jordan Brand International team. This team will play in April in the Madison Square Garden.

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This summer, I had the opportunity to go for my first ever U16 European Championship and combine it with a first ever trip to the Basketball country of Lithuania. I decided to make just a short scouting report on the teams I have seen (Places 1-8) as these kids are all only 16, or even […]

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Having arrived in Kaunas yesterday late, it has been a full basketball day today in the legendary Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas Hall, the oldest basketball arena in Europe for the U16 European Championship of Division A 2009.

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