After a day off, I was back in Mannheim to follow the third day of the 26th edition of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament, this time in the MWS Halle in order to get a look on the eight other teams in the competition.
Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2012: Day 3 Recap
April 10th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Alessandro Procacci·Amedeo Tessitori·Anthony Racine·AST 2012·Boris Dallo·Daniel Sealine·David Michineau·Dominic Lockhart·Gavin Schilling·Guillaume Plas·Idan Zalmanson·Ismet Akpinar·James Birsen·Kalidou Diouf·Kevin Harley·Ludvig Hakanson·Maik Kelly·Malik Müller·Martin Massone·Matteo Imbro·Niklas Larsson·Paul Zipser·Sebastian Schüszler·Simone Fontecchio·Tai Webster·Talat Altunbey·Tayfun Erülkü
Albert Schweitzer 2012: Turkey Preview
March 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment
Next weekend, the 26th edition of the Albert Schweitzer Tournament will start in Mannheim. After the departure of the US troops, the organization had to change the location with the traditional US Sports Arena not being in the schedule anymore. In order to prepare one of the major events of the year, we will take […]
Tags: AST 2012·Burak Yildizli·Cedi Osman·Emre Mirza·James Birsen·Kartal Ozmirak·Kenan Sipahi·Kerem Gülmez·Talat Altunbey·Tayfun Erülkü·Turkey
NIJT Rome 2011 Player Scoutings (Pt.1)
March 6th, 2012 · No Comments
The Nike International Junior Tournament in Rome is already a few months back but our friend Danny Mills has sent us his scouting reports on the main players. We are of course happy to provide you his thoughts on some of the most interesting prospects in Europe. Here we got for the first part which […]
Tags: Ayberk Güleryüz·Dario Saric·Dominik Mavra·James Birsen·Mehmet Sanli·NIJT Rome 2011
Christmas Tournaments Overview 2011/2012
December 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Traditionally, the weeks around Christmas and New Year are filled with interesting tournaments. Because of logistical reasons (I moved and am still moving to a new place), I can not cover any of these tournaments live. However, here is a quick overview of the major events of the next days.
Tags: Albert Homs·Alex Ramon·Amedeo Tessitori·Andreas Obst·Axel Louissaint·Constantin Ebert·Daniel Mayr·Dario Saric·David Taylor·Dominik Mavra·Filip Knezevic·Francesco Candussi·Gerard Sevillano·Guillermo Hernangomez·Ilimane Diop·Ismet Akpinar·James Birsen·Jan-Niklas Wimberg·Josep Perez·Maodo Lo·Marc Bauza·Mario Hezonja·Mehmet Sanli·Oskars Reinfelds·Paul Zipser·Sergio Hernandez·Simas Raupys
NIJT Qualification Participants 2011/2012
November 14th, 2011 · 8 Comments
The 2011/2012 edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament is still several weeks ahead. But after the Euroleague officially announced the dates, we checked which teams will normally participate in the four Qualification Event for the NIJT 2012 in Istanbul. Please note that the official participants will only be announced in the next weeks and […]
Tags: Amedeo Tessitori·Città di Roma·City of Belgrade Tournament·Clint Capela·Dario Saric·Hospitalet·James Birsen·Mam Jaiteh·Mario Hezonja·Rasmus Larsen·Vasilije Micic·Volodymyr Gerun
U16 European Championship 2011: Day 2
August 4th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Last Tuesday has been our second and last day to cover the U16 European Championship of Division A in 2011. We spent another day at the Hala Dukla of Pardubice in order to get an impression on the second group of teams that were still able to qualify for the Quarter-Finals back then. But additionally, […]
Tags: 2011 U16 European Championship DivA·Aleksandar Vezenkov·Anton Dziuba·Ayberk Güleryüz·Cedi Osman·Damien Inglis·James Birsen·Lorenzo Baldasso·Luka Savic·Mario Hezonja·Marko Arapovic·Milovan Draskovic·Okben Ulubay·Olivier Yao-Delon·Paul Rigot·Rolands Smits·Simone Fontecchio
NIJT 2011: the next generation
May 22nd, 2011 · No Comments
In our final report on the Nike International Junior Tournament series for the 2010/2011 season, we will take a look at some of the players that we might see again in future editions. We picked out four talents that we consider highly interesting for the upcoming years.
Tags: Dusan Ristic·James Birsen·Mam Jaiteh·NIJT Barcelona 2011·Nikola Rebic
Nike International Junior Tournament Day 2 (live from Barcelona)
May 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment
We arrived only for the second day of the Nike International Junior Tournament which explains the absence of any comment on Day One. So we start immediately with the coverage of the action from Friday of the Finals for this year’s biggest trophy in Junior Club Basketball.
Tags: Aleksandar Cvetkovic·Alexandr Zhigulin·Andrija Bojic·Arturas Gudaitis·Dario Saric·Dominik Mavra·Hugo Invernizzi·Ignas Ramasauskas·James Birsen·Josep Perez·Kaspars Vecvagars·Kerem Hotic·Livio Jean-Charles·Lluis Costa·Mario Hezonja·Nenad Miljenovic·Nicholas Spires·NIJT Barcelona 2011·Nikola Pavlovic·Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin·Stefan Pot·Tauras Jogela
Nike International Junior Tournament Preview
May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
The 9th edition of the Nike International Junior Tournament will be played from Thursday to Sunday at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. The Euroleague has assembled two groups of four teams that compete in order to follow up on the first French victory which INSEP reached last year at home in Paris. We go […]
Tags: Ailun Guo·Aitor Gomez·Aleksandar Cvetkovic·Alexandr Zhigulin·Andrija Bojic·Berkay Candan·Carles Gasque·Dario Saric·Dominik Mavra·Dusan Ristic·Erbil Eroglu·Hugo Invernizzi·Ignas Ramasauskas·Ivan Marinkovic·Ivan Saicic·James Birsen·Josep Perez·Kaspars Vecvagars·Kerem Hotic·Livio Jean-Charles·Mam Jaiteh·Mario Hezonja·Marius Grigonis·Mate Borbely·Nemanja Bezbradica·Nenad Miljenovic·Nicholas Spires·NIJT Barcelona 2011·Nikola Jankovic·Nikola Rebic·Nuri Gul Guney·Simonas Kymantas·Stefan Popovski-Turanjanin·Tauras Jogela·Tonglin Sun·Turan Oguzhan·William Howard·Xiaochuan Zhai·Yannis Morin
Türk Telekom Tournament 2011 about to start
February 3rd, 2011 · 5 Comments
The largest international U16 Tournament in Europe will start this Saturday in Gaziantep in Turkey. After Serbia won the tournament in 2010 behind the 16pts and 12rebs of Nikola Jankovic, we will take a look at who are the players and teams to follow in this year’s edition.
Tags: Alexander Martynov·Andrei Ciordas·ANdrii Kharchynskyi·Charly Pontens·Damien Inglis·Daniel Mayr·David Taylor·Dogukan Sanli·Filip Kamenov·Gavin Schilling·Giga Janelidze·Ismet Akpinar·James Birsen·Kartal Ozmirak·Kenan Sipahi·Konstantin Kulikov·Luka Kokol·Mehmet Hortoglu·Mehmet Sanli·Niklas Ney·Nikola Jankovic·Olivier Yao-Delon·Paul Rigot·Robyn Missa·Türk Telekom Tournament·Vasil Stoimenov·Vladlen Berezhnyy