European Prospects

The U18 European Championships of Division A are played this year in Riga. I made the trip to Latvia to cover the last three days of the event but arrived only for the second quarterfinal so that my report does not include a game report on the matchup between Croatia and Russia.

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The third day of the Nike International Junior Tournament is in the books and it was quite an interesting day that ended with a semi-surprise and an expected final between Joventut Badalona and FC Barcelona.

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We start the review of the main players of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade traditionally with the guards. The overall talent level on this position was a bit limited and the number of future top level back-court players present in this tournament was not very high. But here we go for those that […]

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The last day of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade started again quite early at 9.30am. The game for the 7th place was the opener for us on Sunday while we foresaw to also check out Vasilije Micic in the Serbian League game between Mega Vizura Zemun and Metalac.

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Here we go for the first part of our individual player analysis for the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade. The guards feature among others the All-tournament team members Nikola Rebic and Nikola Radicevic along the three-point contest winner Brano Djukanovic or the very young Jules Akodo.

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The last day of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade came to an end with a great final between two teams that were on the same level. Let’s take a look what happened today in the packed Basket City Hall in Belgrade.

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The tight schedule of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Belgrade continued yesterday with the 4 remaining group games and the semi-finals. As there are always two games running at the same time, it is difficult to cover everything so here we go with the impressions of the day 2.

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After having arrived in the afternoon only, I had the possibility to follow one game from the Nike International Junior Tournament plus the Adriatic League game between Crvena Zvezda and KK Zagreb. So the report on the first day is quite short.

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After a nice drive through the Polish backcountry from Wroclaw to the Czech Republic, we arrived in Pardubice to cover the U16 European Championship of Division A for two days. As all teams except one played at least one game in the small Hala Dukla of the Czech town, we could get a bit of […]

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