European Prospects

News about Young European Basketball Prospects

U20 European Championship 2015: Quarter-Finals

July 17th, 2015 · No Comments

The quarter finals of the U20 European Championships have been played today in a boiling hot Pala Getur in Lignano Sabbiadoro. Here we go for the review on the four games of the day.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·······················

Xmas Tournament Kortrijk 2014: the Guards

January 1st, 2015 · 4 Comments

As usual, we start with the report on the main backcourt players of the Xmas Tournament 2014 in Kortrijk. In the absence of a large number of top-level prospects in the paint, it was a tournament dominated by guard play so that it was not a surprise that the MVP of the event was a […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··········

Xmas Tournament Kortrijk 2014: Day 2

December 29th, 2014 · No Comments

The 2nd day of the Xmas Tournament was marked by the direct elimination games in the Coca Cola U19 Invitational. The quarter finals were held in the morning while the evening session were based around the semi-finals of the event.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·················

Xmas Tournament Kortrijk 2014: Day 1

December 27th, 2014 · No Comments

After staying overnight in Oostende, I took the short drive to Kortrijk for my first ever Xmas Tournament. This tournament is growing to one of the biggest events in Europe with about 100 teams involved in different youth categories. The main competition is the U19 Coca-Cola Invitational with 12 teams. The “Lange Munte” is a […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ···········

Ponitka and Akyazili playing against each other in Oostende

December 27th, 2014 · No Comments

My trip to Belgium started with a Scooore League game in Oostende where the locals played against Antwerp. The main goal of this first part of the trip was to see the Polish prospect Mateusz Ponitka but in the end, he was not the guy who impressed me the most of the youngsters on the […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·

remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_kses_data' ); remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_kses_data' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wpautop' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'convert_chars' ); remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wptexturize' ); remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wptexturize' ); remove_filter('term_description', 'strip_tags'); remove_filter('pre_term_description', 'strip_tags');