With the start of the Top16, it is about time to get an update on some of the most promising players in relation with the upcoming NBA Draft. The schedule allowed me to follow three “big” guys in the same evening, even if they are all three very different players. I speak of Jonas Valanciunas, […]
A “big” Euroleague night
January 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Tags: Branislav Dekic·Dragan Milosavljevic·Euroleague·Jan Vesely·Jonas Valanciunas·Nikola Mirotic·Vladimir Lucic
Mirza Sarajlija – »Lost and found« or Where is he now?
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments
At the last day of the Year 2010, Luka Bassin brings us once again an excellent article on a Slovenian prospect. This time, I guess several ALBA Berlin fans will be happy to read the article as it talks about Mirza Sarajlija. Enough said I guess, so let’s go Luka.
Tags: Euroleague·Mirza Sarajlija·Olimpija Ljubljana·Slovenia
Breaking down Kostas Papanikolaou
December 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments
One of the nice surprises of the Euroleague Regular season is the contribution of the 1990 born Greek prospect Kostas Papanikolaou. Together with the statistical database of in-the-game.org, I put together a analysis of his game based on numbers and skills as well as a short scouting report.
Tags: Euroleague
Nihad Dedovic–the underestimated scorer
November 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Nihad Dedovic plays already his 2nd season on the highest level after having spent several seasons in lower Spanish divisons before coming to Roma to compete for the first time in the Euroleague. The 1m96 tall Bosnian is growing step by step and looks like a veteran despite being only 20 years old at the […]
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina·Euroleague·Italy·Lottomatica Roma·Nihad Dedovic
Some quick hits from the Euroleague
November 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Having followed several Euroleague games this week, I put together some thoughts on three players that I scouted in particular. I speak of the following three guys: Nicolo Melli, Christophe Leonard and Augusto Cesar Lima.
Tags: Augusto Cesar Lima·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Nicolo Melli
Jonas Valanciunas debuting strong
October 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Lithuanian Center was the MVP of the recent U18 European Championship. Everybody expects big things in the future from the 1992 born big guy. But the future for Valanciunas has already begun as he is averaging impressive numbers for an 18-years old in the opening days of the Euroleague. We took a closer look […]
Tags: Euroleague·Jonas Valanciunas·Lietuvos Rytas
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group D
October 21st, 2010 · No Comments
The last group of this year’s Euroleague competition is a bit more limited in terms of interesting prospects by the number. However, there are some quality young men playing with the Group D teams. Here we go to present the most interesting of them.
Tags: Burat Yüksel·Dino Muric·Euroleague·Georgios Bogris·Giorgi Shermadini·Jan Span·Jose Simeon·Nick Calathes·Nicolo Melli·Sasu Salin
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group C
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments
The Group C of the Euroleague 2010/2011 features some of the most interesting young big men in Europe and several potential NBA Draft candidates. Additionally, Ricky Rubio is also active with his FC Barcelona in this group and the games of these 6 teams will certainly attract a large number of NBA scouts over the […]
Tags: Bojan Bogdanovic·Christophe Leonard·Euroleague·Jonas Valanciunas·Karlo Vragovic·Leon Radosevic·Mario Delas·Maxim Can Mutaf·Ricky Rubio·Simas Buterlevicius·Tomislav Zubcic
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group A
October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Group A of the Euroleague 2010/2011 features on the one hand several teams without any notable prospect but also some of the most talented players of the whole competition. So let’s check who are the guys to follow in this group.
Tags: Bogdan Bogdanovic·Branislav Dekic·Dejan Musli·Devon van Oostrum·Dragan Milosavljevic·Euroleague·Jan Vesely·Mateusz Kostrzewski·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Vladimir Lucic
Euroleague 2010/2011 Preview: Group B
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Today started the Euroleague season 2010/2011 with the opening game in the Group B between Olympiacos and Real Madrid. So it is about time to check who are the players to follow in the different groups of this season. We will go through the different groups and point out who are the players that we […]
Tags: Augusto Cesar Lima·Euroleague·Ioann Iarochevitch·Kostas Papanikolaou·Maurice Stuckey·Nihad Dedovic·Nikola Mirotic·Philipp Neumann·Rafael Freire·Tibor Pleiss