After having debuted in the Euroleague last week, the young Slovenian PG Jan Span saw again 2mins37 yesterday in the home loss against Lottomatica Roma. His former coach Luka Bassin took the time to analyze his current situation and came up with a once-again highly interesting Scouting report on the back-up PG from Olimpija Ljubljana.
Jan Špan – first Euroleague taste
February 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Tags: Jan Span·Olimpija Ljubljana
Mirza Sarajlija – »Lost and found« or Where is he now?
December 31st, 2010 · No Comments
At the last day of the Year 2010, Luka Bassin brings us once again an excellent article on a Slovenian prospect. This time, I guess several ALBA Berlin fans will be happy to read the article as it talks about Mirza Sarajlija. Enough said I guess, so let’s go Luka.
Tags: Euroleague·Mirza Sarajlija·Olimpija Ljubljana·Slovenia
NIJT Final 8 teams announced
March 3rd, 2010 · 10 Comments
Today, the French federation published the names of the 8 teams that will play during the Nike International Junior Tournament in Paris from the 6th to the 9th May 2010. 4 teams were known already and the 4 other participants are no big surprise either.
Tags: Benetton Treviso·Cajasol Sevilla·FMP Belgrade·INSEP·KK Split·Lietuvos Rytas·NIJT·Olimpija Ljubljana·Unicaja Malaga·Zalgiris Kaunas
Nike International Junior Tournament: Videos Day2
May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Here we go for the Video roundup of Day 2 of the Nike International Junior Tournament. Again, big thanks for the guys from schoenen-dunk.de for this nice content.
Tags: ALBA Berlin·FMP Belgrade·Hemofarm Vrsac·Kalise Gran Canaria·Lietuvos Rytas·Montepaschi Siena·Nike International Junior Tournament·Olimpija Ljubljana·Unicaja Malaga
Nike International Junior Tournament: Videos Day1
May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Thanks to our friends from the German website schoenen-dunk.de, here we go for a Video roundup of the 4 games of Day 1 of the Nike International Junior Tournament in Berlin.
Tags: ALBA Berlin·FMP Belgrade·Hemofarm Vrsac·Kalise Gran Canaria·Lietuvos Rytas·Montepaschi Siena·Olimpija Ljubljana·Unicaja Malaga
Today’s picks (live from Berlin)
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments
The second day of the Nike International Junior Tournament is in the books. Everything looks like it is going to be a Final between FMP Belgrade and Lietuvos Rytas. But both teams need another win to be for sure in the O2 World on Sunday.
Tags: ALBA Berlin·FMP Belgrade·Friedrich Lotze·Hemofarm Vrsac·Jonas Valanciunas·Kalise Gran Canaria·Lietuvos Rytas·Mirza Sarajlija·Montepaschi Siena·Nemanja Knezevic·Nenad Miljenovic·Niels Giffey·Nika Metreveli·Nunzio Sabbatino·Olimpija Ljubljana·Oscar Alvarado·Petar Lambic·Tommaso Ingrosso·Unicaja Malaga
Nike International Junior Tournament: preview
April 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments
This Thursday starts the Nike International Junior Tournament in Berlin and features some of the best U18 Club Teams in Europe. Three qualification tournaments and two Wildcards later, 8 teams will fight in 2 groups to get the trophy. I took a quick look at the teams and tell you who are the prospects to […]
Tags: ALBA Berlin·Alejandro Lopez·Andriy Lebedintsev·Augustas Peciukevicius·Augusto Cesar Lima·Bakary Konate·Branislav Dekic·Brian Wenzel·Dejan Musli·Djordje Micic·FMP Belgrade·Hemofarm Vrsac·Jonas Valanciunas·Justin Raffington·Kalise Gran Canaria·Kevin Bright·Lietuvos Rytas·Mantas Kadzevicius·Matic Sirnik·Milan Jaros·Mirza Sarajlija·Montepaschi Siena·Niels Giffey·Nika Metreveli·Nike International Junior Tournament·Nikola Vukasovic·Nunzio Sabbatino·Olimpija Ljubljana·Oscar Alvarado·Osvaldas Matulionis·Ovidijus Varanauskas·Petar Lambic·Samuel Dominguez·Simone Centanni·Strahinja Mladenovic·Tautvydas Sabonis·Tommaso Ingrosso·Unicaja Malaga
Heavy weekend picks
April 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments
This Easter weekend is once again packed with interesting tournaments and events around European Youth basketball. I try to give a short preview about all the stuff that you can follow throughout the net over the upcoming days.
Tags: Bellegarde Tournament·Cholet Mondial Basket·Donatas Motiejunas·Edwin Jackson·Maik Zirbes·Mamadou Samb·Maurice Stuckey·Memorial Barila·Milan Macvan·NBBL·Nike Hoop Summit·Nikola Mirotic·Nikos Pappas·Olimpija Ljubljana·Sabonis Basketball School·Urspring
NIJT 2009: Wildcards go to ALBA and Union Olimpija
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We got the news today that the two wildcards for the Nike International Junior Tournament go to the local ALBA Berlin and Union Olimpija Ljubljana. So the Euroleague did not go that much into the sportive results but preferred to take the local team from Berlin and a team that features one of the most […]
Tags: ALBA Berlin·FMP Belgrade·Hemofarm Vrsac·Kalise Gran Canaria·Lietuvos Rytas·Montepaschi Siena·Olimpija Ljubljana·Unicaja Malaga
Città di Roma 2008: Forwards
January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
While the 30th edition of the Hospitalet Tournament starts today and we will know who will be the two next teams to qualify for Berlin, I continue my analysis of the Città di Roma tournament organized by the Stella Azzurra Basketball team in Rome. After the guards yesterday, it is the turn of the forwards […]
Tags: ALBA Berlin·Benetton Fribourg·Cibona Zagreb·Jonathan Kazadi·Matic Sirnik·Montepaschi Siena·Niels Giffey·Nika Metreveli·Olimpija Ljubljana·Riccardo Moraschini·Tauras Jogela·Tommaso Ingrosso·Toni Brnas·Virtus Bologna·Zalgiris Kaunas