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U20 European Championship 2015: Semi-Finals

July 19th, 2015 · No Comments

The second day in Lignano was already my last day for this time as I can not stay for the Finals on Sunday. Here are the game reportss on the matches from Saturday with two very interesting semi-finals.

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Players to follow in the Euroleague 2014/15 (Pt. 2)

October 15th, 2014 · No Comments

In our second part of the Euroleague preview, we will take a look at some wildcard players that can have an impact this season in the Euroleague. It will be interesting to see if Kenan Sipahi has fully recovered from his injury while everybody is hoping Mario Hezonja to have a break out season soon, […]

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U18 European Championship 2013: the Bigs

August 9th, 2013 · No Comments

We conclude our reports on the U18 European Championship 2013 from Riga with the scouting reports on the Big Men. These include of course the Latvian twin towers Porzingis and Pasecniks but also the highly recruited Domantas Sabonis and the Croatian talents Arapovic and Zganec.

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U18 European Championship 2013: Medal Day

July 28th, 2013 · 3 Comments

The day started with a double-overtime thriller where Bosnia/Herzegovina secured their spot in Division A over Ukraine. Later in the day, it was about the medals.

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U18 European Championship 2013: 1/2 Finals

July 28th, 2013 · No Comments

Here we go for the 2nd day in Riga to cover the U18 European Championship of Division A.

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U18 European Championship 2013: 1/4 Finals

July 27th, 2013 · No Comments

The U18 European Championships of Division A are played this year in Riga. I made the trip to Latvia to cover the last three days of the event but arrived only for the second quarterfinal so that my report does not include a game report on the matchup between Croatia and Russia.

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Easter Weekend Review 2013

April 2nd, 2013 · 3 Comments

The Easter weekend is traditionally the first weekend in the year where a multitude of tournaments and international friendly games are played. Here we go for a review of the most important events of the last days.

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U17 World Championship 2012: European Players

July 16th, 2012 · 1 Comment

In the first part of our review on the U17 World Championship 2012, we take a look at the European players in the event. Four teams had qualified for Kaunas next to the hosts, so this might not be a good representation of whole talent group of the 1995 born players in Europe. But some […]

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U17 World Championship 2012: the Finals

July 8th, 2012 · No Comments

The last day of the U17 World Championship 2012 started with the same situation than the days before, 30 degrees in the streets and nice atmosphere in the Zalgiris Arena. One major change though, Lithuania has qualified for the Olympic Games in London during the night. But that’s not why we traveled to the Baltic […]

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U17 World Championship 2012: 1/2 Finals

July 7th, 2012 · No Comments

Second day for me in Kaunas and the intensity of the competition was increasing as we approached the semi-finals. But before the showdown in the evening, there were several classification games.

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