European Prospects

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.

Wednesday 2nd June 2010

• NBADraft: French Luc Louves had a workout with the Bucks yesterday. Source: http://digs.by/cJEr4A

• Mathis Mönninghoff has 10 offers from bbl_de teams (Braunschweig, Bonn, Bamberg, Bremerhaven, Trier, Ulm,…) http://digs.by/a71Ve4

• RT @Eurohopes: Minnesota Timberwolves scouting Nemanja Bjelica http://bit.ly/dAFzuo @TheHoopsMarket

• Treviso: Larry Bird and Michael Jordan are reported to attend the Adidas Eurocamp according to www.basketball-ulm.de

• NCAA: Niels Giffey, a 6-foot-6 forward from Germany, is in the midst of a visit to UConn, a program source said. http://digs.by/bZ5u3Z

Tuesday 1st June 2010

• NBA: Richards struggled to finish on simple post moves early on in the workout but got better as the day went on. http://digs.by/cu4RgG

• Rasmus Glarbjerg Larsen will stay next season with Vaerloese Basketball Team in Denmark. They also finished 3rd in EYBL U16 competition

• NCAA: Son of former Telekom Bonn player Arvid Kramer, Dennis Kramer, plays for San Diego next season. Selected for German U18 roster last week

• RT @Hoopsfix: Richards worked out for Memphis today; run a quick twitter search to see a few tweets about it…

• Sweden: Pierre Hampton (2m00-91-SF) is reported to play for Solna Vikings next season. http://digs.by/c4skCi

• Youth NT roster page updated. France U20 (incl. Alex Gavrilovic), Montenegro U20, Slovenia U20 updated. http://digs.by/aBcfYb

• Bilbao interested in Antoine Diot according to Solobasket. Recent back injured slowed the process down. http://digs.by/crOCqz

• Kevin Seraphin out for minimum 3-4 weeks. Possibly withdraws from NBA Draft according to BasketNews.net http://bit.ly/d1PUl7

• RT @FIBAEurope: http://bit.ly/9faiGW ticket and hotel offers

• RT @FIBAEurope: for the U18 EC in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tickets to all the games, 11 hotel nights and airport pick-up from 280€ per person

31st May 2010

• NBA draft early entry Kevin Seraphin injured his knee last Saturday. He will normally be absent on Wednesday’s PO game reports www.Basketnews.net
• German top prospect Patrick Heckmann moves to TV Langen in 3rd League ProB. He signs no professional contract as he wants to remain NCAA eligible

30st May 2010

• NBA Draft: Antoine Diot decided to withdraw his name from NBA Draft 2010 because of injury. http://digs.by/comRsm

• Germany: Tibor Pleiß advances with Bamberg to #bbl_de Finals. 5pts, 7rebs, 2asts, 1blk for him today. But no Adidas Eurocamp Treviso for him

• Germany U17 destroys Slovak Republic U18 98-37. Next opponent France U18.

• NBA Draft: David Kahn speaks about Ryan Richards in the beginning of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyxuVVfJxSw

29th May 2010

• Trophée du Futur: ASVEL wins vs Cholet after OT: Paul Lacombe 14pts 6rebs 4stls 11asts but 5/20 FGs. Fofana 5fls in 14mins. Leonard 37pts for Cholet
• Trophée du Futur: But what a bad Final minute for Leonard, missing two clutch FTs and the game winner on the buzzer. We go to OT

• Trophée du Futur: Christophe Leonard is unstoppable. 10/13 3s over the two days until now.Quite an improvement for somebody who couldn’t shot 2 years ago

• Trophée du Futur: Christophe Leonard continues to hit his threes for Cholet, he has 9pts and 4rebs at halftime

• Trophée du Futur: Paul Lacombe confirms that he is a serious talent: 8pts, 3rebs, 4asts at halftime. Fofana with 5pts 3rebs 2asts and 1blk for ASVEL

• RT @crohoops: EXCLUSIVE CROHOOPS.COM SCOUTING REPORT: 2010 Croatian Junior Final Four, Split, May 22nd-23rd 2010 http://bit.ly/8XGuJ0

• Germany U17 beat Slovak U18 yesterday in U17WC preparation game. Top scorer: Jakob Krumbeck 27pts. 94born Mauricio Marin with debut: 8pts

• NBA Draft: Ryan Blake talks about European prospects: Keselj, Raduljica, Diot, Motiejunas, Rubio. http://digs.by/cGkJ6w

• RT @Eurohopes Nebojsa Andelic (’91), from Slavija, Newcomer of the Year at Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to Eurobasket.com

• RT @Eurohopes: Suzuki Manresa (ACB) reaches agreement with Iikka Maki (’94) after the same with Swedish Eriksson (’93) http://bit.ly/a7d9E3

28th May 2010

• France: Just to clarify. Evan Fournier has NOT signed with Poitiers. But J. Medjana confirmed that there are advanced contacts!
• France: Jeremy Medjana (Comsport) confirms that Evan Fournier may move to Poitiers next season on Live stream of Trophée du Futur

• LNB Espoirs All-1st-Team: Jonathan Rousselle, Paul Lacombe, Christophe Leonard, Babacar Niang, Ferdinand Prenom http://digs.by/cPhR84

• NBA Draft: @houstonrockets work out Tim Ohlbrecht from Telekom Baskets Bonn tomorrow. More workouts here http://digs.by/cHLxoP

27th May 2010

• Treviso: RT @Eurohopes: Eurohopes advance some of the prospects who will be at the Adidas Eurocamp http://bit.ly/agGHQN

• RT @Eurohopes: Dinner Rambis – Rubio family 2day / RT @trecet

• Germany: Philipp Schwethelm (89) with 11pts (3/5 3s) and 3rebs for @Die_Eisbaeren #bbl_de

• France: Evan Fournier (92) targeted by the French team of Poitiers according to rumors in l’Equipe

• Kristofer Acox (1m95-F-93) from Iceland moves to the US. He will play for Spring Valley HS in Columbia. More on him http://digs.by/bz77rI

• ITW with Kim Tillie (in French): I am happy to come back home http://digs.by/c1XCN2

26th May 2010

• NBA Draft: Tim Ohlbrecht and Luc Louves working out today in Minnesota http://digs.by/b2FFId

• Spain: Nikola Mirotic will play with the Spanish U20 team this summer. http://digs.by/a69qlQ

• NCAA:Lithuanian Gediminas Bertasius commits to Dartmouth College. He played for Marianapolis Prep School this season. http://digs.by/by57Ad

• RT @Eurohopes: Spaniard looking for his options: Tomorrow Aguilar in USA for workouts http://bit.ly/b0bItq @SportandoBasket

• RT @pesic7: Benzing Work Out: http://bit.ly/bLRDiV via @addthis

• NCAA: Mathis Mönninghoff has an offer to play for Gonzaga next season. No decision has been made yet writes the local press.

25th May 2010

• Spain: Solobasket reports from the Spanish U18 Championship. http://digs.by/9q4lav English coverage @Eurohopes http://digs.by/bwDRRT
• RT @LithuaniaBasket: MVP of the finals – Martynas Gecevicius (Rytas)

• Kim Tillie (2m11-88) 2 years at ASVEL RT @ASVEL_Basket: Kim Tillie rejoint l’ASVEL http://www.asvelbasket.com/asvel_actu.asp?id=245

• Antoine Diot out 2-3 months with herniated vertebral disk reports L’Equipe this morning. No WC and NBA Draft for him this year.

24th May 2010

• NBA Draft: A lot of press these days for Ryan Richards from GB. http://digs.by/aRo7AW http://digs.by/diC9BQ 10:42 PM May 24th via Digsby

• NCAA: Martin Breunig from Germany has signed to play at SJNMA for the Post Graduate program. Martin is a high Div 1 prospect RT @sjnmahoops

• BBL: Tibor Pleiß 10pts 4rebs. Philipp Schwethelm 8pts 8rebs 4asts 2stls 1blk

  BBL: Pleiss really aggressive. 2 nice dunks out of the Pick-and-Roll. Problems to defend Marcus Goree who takes him to the 3pt line

• France-NCAA: Former Utah player Kim Tillie is apparently close to sign with ASVEL. Yet another prospect there. http://digs.by/bATug4

23rd May 2010

• Croatia: KK Split wins U18 Championship. Toni Katic 21pts 4rebs 6asts. Josip Matic 21pts 17rebs. Dario Saric 29pts for losing Zagreb
• RT @Eurohopes: FC Barcelona, the new U-18 spanish champion after beating Gran Canaria (68-62) in the final played in Lanzarote