With the 2010-2011 seasons to start within the next days and weeks in Europe, I did some research on the 2009-2010 season to compare the age of the players in the main European leagues. Most of the teams publish average ages of the roster but the goal of this analysis was to find out the […]
Baltic League: the youngest league in Europe
September 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: ACB·Adriatic League·Baltic League·Beko BBL·ESAKE·France Pro A·Italy Lega·Robin Benzing·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
European Auto-Eligible players for the 2010 Draft
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments
With the NBA Draft 2010 being held this week, it is about time to check the current situation of the automatically eligible Europeans.
Tags: Alexey Shved·Artem Zabelin·Boban Marjanovic·Ludo Vaty·Marko Keselj·Miroslav Raduljica·NBA Draft 2010·NBA Workouts·Nemanja Bjelica·Paulao Prestes·Stefan Markovic·Tim Ohlbrecht·Vladimir Dasic
Tweets of the week (Week 21 + 1/2 – 2010)
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
With a little delay, here we go for the main Tweets of my Twitter account over the last 10 days. As there will be probably a lot more over the next days when I will be in Treviso, a quick round-up today will be good.
Tags: Alex Gavrilovic·Antoine Diot·Babacar Niang·Christophe Leonard·Dario Saric·Dennis Kramer·Evan Fournier·Ferdinand Prénom·Gediminas Bertasius·Iikka Maki·Jakob Krumbeck·Jonathan Rousselle·Josip Matic·Kevin Seraphin·Kim Tillie·Kristofer Acox·Luc Louves·Martin Breunig·Martynas Gecevicius·Mathis Mönninghoff·Mauricio Marin·Nebojsa Andelic·Nemanja Bjelica·Niels Giffey·Nikola Mirotic·Patrick Heckmann·Paul Lacombe·Philipp Schwethelm·Rasmus Larsen·Ryan Richards·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht·Toni Katic
European players workout update (29-5-2010)
May 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments
With the Adidas Eurocamp approaching and the Early Entry Withdrawal date only 2 weeks ahead, the NBA teams start to intensify their workouts for European players. We wanted to take a look at who is currently doing what in this domain.
Tags: Edwin Jackson·NBA Draft 2010·NBA Workouts·Pablo Aguilar·Robin Benzing·Ryan Richards·Thomas Heurtel·Tim Ohlbrecht
German All-Star Day 2010: the NBBL steals the show
January 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The German All-Star Day 2010 was on the schedule this Saturday in Bonn. With the move from Mannheim to the Telekom Dome, the BEKO BBL has made an excellent decision as the arena was sold out and a great atmosphere throughout the event confirmed the popularity of the sport in Bonn. Even Euroleague CEO Jordi […]
Tags: Besnik Bekteshi·Daniel Theis·Dennis Ogbe·Germany·NBBL·Niels Giffey·Patrick Heckmann·Per Günther·Philipp Neumann·Robin Benzing·Tim Ohlbrecht
Generation Ranking: 1988 born players
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
A new article series on Europeanprospects.com starts today with the Generation Rankings. These rankings have been established including the results of the specific generation in the different youth tournaments and championships as well as the current level of its players. Additionally, I took into account how the generation performed in relation with the general level […]
Tags: Alexey Shved·Baris Hersek·Chavdar Kostov·Danilo Gallinari·Dogus Balbay·Generation Ranking·Lucca Staiger·Ludo Vaty·Marko Keselj·Martynas Gecevicius·Miroslav Raduljica·Nicolas Batum·Omri Casspi·Pietro Aradori·Rihards Kuksiks·Stefan Markovic·Tanel Kurbas·Thomas Dreesen·Tim Ohlbrecht·Timo Eichfuss·Titus Nicoara·Victor Claver·Vlad Moldoveanu·Vladimir Dasic·Yannick Driesen
Quick review on the ongoing EuroCup season
December 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments
With the year 2009 coming to an end, it is time to look back at what happened during the last months. The EuroCup season is quite shorter than the Euroleague but the teams playing here are stuffed with interesting talent. So it is time to take a quick look at those players that are emerging […]
Tags: Alessandro Gentile·Alexey Shved·Antoine Diot·Boban Marjanovic·Carl Ona Embo·Dairis Bertans·David Jelinek·Deividas Gailius·Dimitry Khvostv·Donatas Motiejunas·Elmedin Kikanovic·eurocup·Janis Strelnieks·Karsten Tadda·Kevin Seraphin·Lauri Blaus·Marko Keselj·Milan Macvan·Mindaugas Kuzminskas·Nemanja Bjelica·Pere Tomas·Pietro Aradori·Stefan Markovic·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
Two German Bigs on the rise (Pt2: Tim Ohlbrecht)
December 26th, 2009 · No Comments
After having talked about the current rise of Tibor Pleiss, today’s article will focus on Tim Ohlbrecht, the 1988 born German player who is already on the radar of many scouts for several years. In the year of his automatic NBA Draft eligibility, Ohlbrecht is playing the best season of his career.
Tags: Germany·Telekom Baskets Bonn·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
Two German Bigs on the rise (Pt1: Tibor Pleiss)
December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tim Ohlbrecht and Tibor Pleiss played with the German National Team this summer during the Eurobasket 2009 in Poland. Both changed their Club teams this summer too so that it was time to take a closer look at them how they have adapted to their new environment in a year that can already decisive in […]
Tags: Beko BBL·Brose Baskets Bamberg·Germany·Telekom Baskets Bonn·Tibor Pleiss·Tim Ohlbrecht
Eurobasket 2009: the NBA Draft candidates
September 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments
The Eurobasket 2009 is history now and I take a look at the players that can be considered as the most interesting prospects of the tournament. The players featured in the article are those that are still potentially NBA Draft candidates, so all the players born in 1988 or earlier but not drafted yet.
Tags: Antoine Diot·Banvit·Baris Hersek·Brose Baskets Bamberg·Crvena Zvezda·Elias Harris·FMP Belgrade·France·Germany·Gonzaga·Hemofarm Vrsac·Iowa State·Le Mans·Lucca Staiger·Milan Macvan·Miroslav Raduljica·Nemanja Bjelica·Philipp Neumann·ratiopharm Ulm·Robin Benzing·Serbia·Stefan Markovic·Telekom Baskets Bonn·Tim Ohlbrecht·Turkey