After the comments of the German and the French coach, we had the chance through our friend Nikita to talk with the Russian U18 National Team coach Mikhail Solovyev and gets his comments on the full Russian roster that finished 6th in this year’s European Championship.
2009 U18 European Championship: Russian coach comments
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·alexander Burtsev·Alexander Knyazyuk·Benjamin-Pavel Dudu·Dmitry Kulagin·Gleb Plotnikov·Ivan Lazarev·Ivan Shamov·Mikhail Nabotov·Nikita Balashov·Nikita Barinov·Pavel Antipov·Pavel Shavkunov·Russia
2009 U18 European Championship: French coach comments
August 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After the comments of the German coach Kay Blümel on his players, we have today what the French coach Philippe Ory told Basketnews about his own players. With the permission of the French magazine, here is the English translation of his words.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Chrislain Cairo·Evan Fournier·Fabien Paschal·France·Frederic Bourdillon·Geoffrey Renon·Henri Kahudi·Kevin Mondesir·Leo Westermann·Mael Lebrun·Nicolas Wachowiak·Nikola Stojiljkovic·Philippe Ory·Vincent Pourchot
2009 U18 European Championship: German Coach comments
August 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After the tournament, I spoke with the German U18 head coach Kay Blümel and he gave me his personal impressions on his full roster and commented every player’s tournament.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Anthony Canty·Daniel Leithner·Danilo Barthel·Falko Theilig·Friedrich Lotze·Germany·Harald Debelka·Justin Raffington·Konstantin Klein·Mathis Mönninghoff·Ole Wendt·Philipp Neumann·Sebastian Koch
2009 U18 European Championship Division A: the Bigs
August 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments
After having presented the different guards and wings, today’s article will feature the big guys that played in Metz and Hagondange. In this area, there is a large number of quality talent present, so read on if you want to become familiar with the most interesting inside players of the future.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Branislav Dekic·Croatia·Dejan Musli·Dragan Sekelja·Enes Kanter·Fabien Paschal·France·Germany·Ignacio Llovet·Ivan Lazarev·Jonas Valanciunas·Latvia·Lithuania·Martins Meiers·Nikola Rondovic·Philipp Neumann·Russia·Serbia·Spain·Turkey·Vincent Pourchot
2009 U18 European Championship Division A: the Wings
August 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
After the Guards, I will talk about the wings today. It was probably the position that showed the least talent in France this summer, however several players need to be mentioned.
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2009 U18 European Championship Division A: the Guards
August 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
We start our in-deep player analysis of the 2009 FIBA Europe European Championship of Division A with a scouting of the most interesting guards. While the tournament was heavily Center-loaded, there have been some guards that I wanted to take a closer look at.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Andrea de Nicolao·Augustas Peciukevicius·Dmitry Kulagin·France·Germany·Italy·Jan Span·Leo Westermann·Lithuania·Ole Wendt·Russia·Safak Edge·Slovenia·Toni Prostran·Turkey·Vytenis Cizauskas
Today’s picks (Day 8 live from Metz)
August 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments
The final weekend of the FIBA Europe U18 European Championship 2009 is behind us. The day featured of course the semi-finals but I had the time to check out some of the other games too.
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Today’s picks (Day 3 live from Hagondange)
July 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Here we go for the round-up of Day 3 of the FIBA Europe U18 European Championship of Division A in Metz/Hagondange. For the third day in a row, I made the short trip to Hagondange to follow this time 4 different teams than the two days before.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Andreas Kanonidis·Augustas Peciukevicius·Deividas Nazarovas·Greece·Jonas Valanciunas·Lativa·Lithuania·Mantas Kadzevicius·Martins Meiers·Pavel Antipov·Russia
Today’s picks (Day 2 live from Hagondange)
July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Day 2 of the FIBA U18 European Championship 2009 is in the books, not as interesting as yesterday but still some quality players on the court in Hagondange in front of a less numerous crowd than yesterday.
Tags: 2009 U18 European Championship Division A·Branislav Dekic·Chrislain Cairo·Dejan Musli·Edo Muric·Fabien Paschal·Frederic Bourdillon·Klemen Panic·Leo Westermann·Nejc Buda·Ondrej Kohout·Tadej Ferme