European Prospects

Tomorrow Monday starts the 7th edition of the Baltic Sea Basketball Cup for U16 and U18 Girls and Boys Basketball. The participating countries are Latvia, Finland, Sweden and the hosts from Estonia. This year, the U18 games can be watched online as Kullaauk.ee broadcasts live from Tallinn.

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To start our review on the most interesting players of the 2010 European Championship in Vilnius, we attack with the guards of the top 8 teams of the competition. I was not able to follow other team than the Quarter-Final and the relegation teams, the report will only include prospect issued from these 12 nations. […]

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After a little tour in the shopping center next to the Arena, it was about time to follow the relegation round as a decisive game for relegation was ahead. Sweden faced Ukraine in a Final for the last remaining spot on the highest level of U18 European Basketball.

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The Nordic Championships 2010 are now over for one week so it was about time to go through the different player scoutings. We will start today with the review of the most talented U18 players that were present in Solna.

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The third day of the Nordic Championships 2010 was also my last day in Sweden. I really liked the tournament and talent level was also very interesting. Here we go for the round-up of Friday’s action before the detailed player reports will go online somewhere next week.

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The second day of the 2010 edition of the Nordic Championships is over and we had the possibility to see all the teams at least once now. Here we go for the round-up of Thursday’s action.

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After having presented the reasons for the recent upswing of Swedish Basketball in the first part of our article, I will focus today on those prospects that represent the future of Swedish Basketball. The players mentioned are only those being born in 1991 or younger though.

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What counted for the 1992 generation is also valid for the 1993 born players. Because of the limited number of times I could scout these players, the Ranking will only feature 15 teams. This generation will play the U17 World Championship this summer in Hambourg (Germany).

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With a few months of delay, here we go for a report on some of the most interesting players of the 2009 FIBA Europe U16 European Championship of Division B. As I could by far not see all players (I was limited to several games on tape), this report is far from being complete. The […]

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Here we go for the second part of Hippo’s review on the Nordic Championships 2009 with the report on the U16 tournament.

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