Today starts the first European Championship of the summer with the U20 Tournament to be held in Croatia. 16 teams compete for the Medals and 2 teams will drop down to Division B. Europeanprospects.com checked the level of the different participants.
U20 European Championship Preview
July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: 2010 U20 European Championship Division A·Alexandre Gavrilovic·Alexis Tanghe·Andrew Albicy·Augustas Peciukevicius·Branislav Dekic·Daniele Sandri·Danilo Andusic·David Jelinek·Dejan Musli·Denis Polokhin·Deniz Kiliçli·Dino Muric·Giedrius Staniulis·Ignacio Llovet·Jan Vesely·Jessey Vorn·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Jose Simeon·Josep Franch·Kostas Papanikolaou·Kostas Sloukas·Kyryl Natyazhko·Leon Radosevic·Leonidas Kaselakis·Maik Zirbes·Mantas Kadzevicius·Mario Delas·Martins Meiers·Maurice Stuckey·Maxim Can Mutaf·Melih Mahmutoglu·Mirza Sarajlija·Nicolo Melli·Nikola Mirotic·Nikola Vucevic·Nikos Pappas·Ondrej Kohout·Paul Lacombe·Roberto Rullo·Tautvydas Slezas·Tomas Satoransky·Toni Prostran·Vladimir Ivlev·Vladimir Jankovic
Tweets of the week (Week 22+23 – 2010)
June 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Here we go for the recap of the most important tweets of the last 2 weeks. Follow me live on Twitter here.
Tags: Abdoulaye M'Baye·Aksel Bolin·Alistair Mackay·Antoine Diot·Artem Zabelin·Dennis Ogbe·Edwin Jackson·Giulio Gazzotti·Joffrey Lauvergne·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Kevin Seraphin·Kevin van Wijk·Kim Tillie·Lee Goldsbrough·Maik Zirbes·Marko Keselj·Mathias Seilund·Mathis Keita·Maurice Stuckey·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Nemanja Bjelica·Niels Giffey·Nika Metreveli·Nikos Pappas·Riccardo Moraschini·Roberto Marulli·Robin Benzing·Samuel Deguara·Simon Schmitz·Thomas Heurtel·Tibor Pleiss·Tobias Korndörfer·Vladimir Jankovic
NBBL Top4 2009: the Wendt-show was not enough (UPDATED with Videos)
May 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
This weekend, the German U19 NBBL League had its third edition of the Top4 played in Berlin. For the first time, the home team qualified for the event which made the Finals day particularly loud and enthusiastic. However, the overall level of the tournament, except for the final was not very high, which may be […]
Tags: ALBA Berlin·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Justin Raffington·Kevin Bright·Lars Wendt·Maik Zirbes·NBBL Top4·Niels Giffey·Ole Wendt·Paderborn Baskets·Steven Monse·TSV Tröster Breitengüssbach·Urspring
Heavy weekend picks
April 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments
This Easter weekend is once again packed with interesting tournaments and events around European Youth basketball. I try to give a short preview about all the stuff that you can follow throughout the net over the upcoming days.
Tags: Bellegarde Tournament·Cholet Mondial Basket·Donatas Motiejunas·Edwin Jackson·Maik Zirbes·Mamadou Samb·Maurice Stuckey·Memorial Barila·Milan Macvan·NBBL·Nike Hoop Summit·Nikola Mirotic·Nikos Pappas·Olimpija Ljubljana·Sabonis Basketball School·Urspring
NBBL Playoffs started this weekend
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments
The German U19 NBBL playoffs started this weekend with some interesting match-ups. Europeanprospects was present in Trier to cover the game between TBB Junior Team around Maik Zirbes and Basket College Rhein Neckar. Additionally, two Top4 participants of last year challenged each other already in the first round.
Tags: ALBA Berlin·Basketball College Rhein Neckar·Danilo Barthel·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Maik Zirbes·Niels Giffey·TBB Trier·Team Bonn/Rhöndorf
NBBL All-Star game review
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments
This weekend has been played the NBBL All-Star game in Mannheim. It is always difficult in such a context to scout players, especially if the game has no real impact and the clock is not stopped during the first 3 quarters. The result of this was a very poor first half. At least, during the […]
Tags: Femi Oladipo·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Maik Zirbes·NBBL·Philipp Neumann·Robert Hülsewede·Simon Schmitz
NBBL All-Star Teams published
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments
During the German All-Star Day, the U19 NBBL All-Star game is the main event for checking out which are the current top prospects in the NBBL. So here are the rosters of both teams that will play each other on the 17th January in the Mannheim SAP Arena.
Tags: Erik Land·Femi Oladipo·Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann·Kevin Bright·Maik Zirbes·Nico Adamczak·Niels Giffey·Simon Schmitz
Today’s picks
October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The Toronto Raptors are currently scouting throughout Europe. GM Bryan Colangelo will be in Cologne next Friday to scout the German seven-footer Tibor Pleiss The German U19 NBBL has started last weekend. I will come back to the top performers a little later in the season Victor Claver looks very promising in this beginning of […]
Tags: Andrija Milutinovic·Enes Kanter·Maik Zirbes·Tibor Pleiss·Victor Claver
Today’s picks (from the U18 European Championships)
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Here are my thoughts on the first day of both U18 Championships that started today.
Tags: Alejandro Hernandez·Division A European Championship·Division B European Championship·Enes Kanter·Jakub Wojciechowski·Kostas Papanikolaou·Leonidas Kasselakis·Maik Zirbes·Mario Delas·Maurice Stuckey·Nikos Pappas·Rasid Mahalbasic·Ryan Richards·Sebastian Szymanski·Tautvydas Slezas·Vladimir Jankovic
NBBL Regular Season Review
February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The last day of the regular season of the German U19 NBBL has been played last weekend. So it is time to check who were the best performers of the last weeks and see where is the top talent of the 1989 and younger German generation.
Tags: Azeez Oladimeji·Christian Standhardinger·Elias Harris·Erik Land·Florian Trmal·Maik Zirbes·Robin Benzing·Simon Schmitz·Tibor Pleiss