The 1990 born players, who will compete this summer in Croatia for the U20 European Championship, are dominated of course by one stellar talent: Ricky Rubio. If you take him out, you have a very interesting group of players and nations that are on the same level, and the competition in Zadar will probably be […]
Generation Ranking: 1990 born players
January 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Alexis Tanghe·Andrew Albicy·Andrija Milutinovic·Birkan Batuk·Bozhidar Avramov·Christophe Leonard·Christopher Ryan·David Jelinek·Dejan Musli·Deniz Kiliçli·Dino Muric·Donatas Motiejunas·Gediminas Orelikas·Hristo Zahariev·Jakub Wojciechowski·Jan Vesely·Kostas Papanikolaou·Kostas Sloukas·Leon Radosevic·Leonidas Kaselakis·Mario Delas·Melih Mahmutoglu·Moritz Lanegger·Nikos Pappas·Omar Zaghden·Rasid Mahalbasic·Ricky Rubio·Tautvydas Slezas·Tomislav Zubcic·Vladimir Jankovic·Zisis Sarikopoulos
Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season
December 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments
With the year 2009 coming to an end, it is time to look back at what happened during the last months. The EuroCup season is quite shorter than the Euroleague but the teams playing here are stuffed with interesting talent. So it is time to take a quick look at those players that are emerging […]
Tags: Alessandro Gentile·Alexey Shved·Antoine Diot·Boban Marjanovic·Carl Ona Embo·Dairis Bertans·David Jelinek·Deividas Gailius·Dimitry Khvostv·Donatas Motiejunas·Elmedin Kikanovic·eurocup·Janis Strelnieks·Karsten Tadda·Kevin Seraphin·Lauri Blaus·Marko Keselj·Milan Macvan·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Nemanja Bjelica·Pere Tomas·Pietro Aradori·Stefan Markovic·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
European Championships are just ahead
June 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments
With the NBA Draft in the books, the excitement will continue throughout the summer with the different European Youth Championships. Europeanprospects.com will be present in Metz for the U18 Division A tournament as well as in Kaunas for the U16 Division A competition. Here we go for a first preview on the U20 and the […]
Tags: Alberto Jodar·Alessandro Gentile·Amath M'Baye·Andriy Lebedintsev·Antoine Diot·Augustas Peciukevicius·Dejan Musli·Deniz Kiliçli·Dimitry Khvostv·Dogus Balbay·Donatas Motiejunas·Dusan Katnic·Elias Harris·Enes Kanter·Furkan Aldemir·Giorgi Shermadini·Haukur Palsson·Ivan Batur·Jan Vesely·Joan Tomas·Jonas Valanciunas·Jonathan Kazadi·Kevin Seraphin·Mamadou Samb·Mantas Kadzevicius·Martin Dorbek·Maxim Can Mutaf·Maxim Grigoryev·Melih Mahmutoglu·Miguel Servera·Milan Macvan·Miralem Halilovic·Mirza Sarajlija·Nicolo Melli·Niels Giffey·Nika Metreveli·Osvaldas Matulionis·Pablo Aguilar·Philipp Neumann·Rannar Raap·Riccardo Moraschini·Robin Benzing·Semen Shashkov·Simone Centanni·Stefan Petkovic·Stefan Stojacic·Tautvydas Slezas·Thomas Heurtel·Tibor Pleiss·Tomas Satoransky·Tommaso Ingrosso·Toni Prostran·Tornike Shengelia·Vytenis Cizauskas
Douai 2009: Lithuania Review
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Today, I will talk about the second European team to have played in this year’s edition of the Douai World Tournament: Lithuania. A team that was composed of 1990 and 1992 born players missing all their talented 91 guard players. This came up to a situation having a team dominated by inside players and totally […]
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas·Dovydas Redikas·Gediminas Orelikas·Tadas Padegimas·Tautvydas Slezas·Vytenis Cizauskas
Today’s picks (back from Douai)
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments
The final day in Douai was marked by the still very open possibilities for the final results.
Tags: Andrew Albicy·Christophe Leonard·Donatas Motiejunas·Gediminas Orelikas·Jordan McRae·Kelly Olynyk·Laurent Rivard·Mike Rosario
Today’s picks (live from Douai)
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments
After three days of high level competition, the 23rd edition of the Douai World Tournament continued today. Having arrived only today in the city of Northern France, it did not last long to see already some big action.
Tags: Andrew Albicy·Cody Ellis·Cory Joseph·Donatas Motiejunas·Douai·Gediminas Bertasius·Gediminas Orelikas·Jordan McRae·Kelly Olynyk·Laurent Bivard·Mangisto Arop·Mike Rosario·Paul Lacombe·Simon Bibeau
First echoes from Douai
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Before leaving for Northern France on Saturday morning, here are some first pieces of information that could be found around the net about the Douai World Tournament 2009.
Tags: Andrew Albicy·Cody Ellis·Donatas Motiejunas·Douai·Gediminas Orelikas·Hugh Greenwood·Jared Sullinger·Jio Fontan·Kelly Olynyk·Mike Rosario·Rob Gagliardi·Ty Nurse
2009 Douai World Tournament preview
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments
The 23rd edition of the Mondial Juniors de Basket will be played from the 10th to the 14th of June in Northern France. It is one of the last events before the NBA Draft and this year’s edition can be considered as one of the strongest preparation tournament for the Under 19 World Championship to […]
Tags: Alexis Tanghe·Andrew Albicy·Donatas Motiejunas·Douai·Jio Fontan·Jorden Page·Matthew Dellavedova·Mike Rosario·Mohamed Koita·Tautvydas Slezas
Nike Hoop Summit 2009 review
April 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The Nike Hoop Summit 2009 has seen the first victory of the World Select team since Dirk Nowitzki in 1998. The team of coach Rob Beveridge took over the lead in the final minutes of the game despite being athletically far behind the more spectacular US kids. Being more limited in that are was not […]
Tags: Cholet Basket·Cibona Zagreb·Donatas Motiejunas·Hemofarm Vrsac·Kevin Seraphin·Milan Macvan·Nikos Pappas·Tomislav Zubcic
A first look at the upcoming 2009 NBA Draft
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Today, I took a first look at the upcoming NBA Draft from a European perspective. I will check who are the players that have already declared to enter the draft and who is supposed to do so in the next days. Who are the players that are automatically eligible?
Tags: Donatas Motiejunas·Fernando Raposo·Giorgi Shermadini·Henk Norel·Jonas Jerebko·Ludo Vaty·Milenko Tepic·Nando de Colo·Omri Casspi·Ricky Rubio·Rodrigue Beaubois·Roger Zaki·Sergi Llull·Tim Ohlbrecht·Victor Claver·Vladimir Dasic