After three intensive days in a picturesque Valencia, we have concluded this quick summary of the first qualifier of Adidas Next Generation Tournament. We’ve highlighted a couple of the best performers on each team with some other notable players as well as a short note what each team has achieved. USK FUTURE STARS PRAGUE [...]
First qualifier of AdidasNGT is in the books. Outstanding facility, unexpected winner but rather disappointing level of competition. Full three days on such tournament is definitely waste of time for NBA scouts and you can count legitimate prospects for their standards on the fingers of one hand. Anyway below I am presenting my take [...]
Long awaited another season of Adidas Next Generation Tournaments is about to tip off. For the first time we will witness qualifier in world class newly built facility in Valencia. It will feature 4 domestic teams including two catalan powerhouses: Badalona & Barca as well as teams from Italy, Czech Republic, France and Germany. Below [...]
Often you can hear that scouting is a business of making least mistakes possible. We all make them in life. Key is to make a homework and not to repeat the same ones. Scouting is also heavily experience based business. Talent evaluators are not mistake free people but those who spend life making conclusions [...]
Everyone involved knows how time consuming and also annoying part of scouting job is scheduling trips. If you follow entire market and don’t have one specific target you mostly want to go to tournaments with multiple teams and see as many players as possible. Other prosperous opportunity is heading to minor countries which are [...]
1999 Trending player: NEEMIAS QUETA - Portuguese big man was already notably promoted after solid showing at FIBA U20 Europe of Division B. He looked there bulked up, much more focused and improved in many areas. However after committing to Utah State and starting NCAA career he jumped to another level. Queta was able [...]
Last year we selected five 1999 born players who are not in our Top 30 ranking but seem to show a little bit higher upside than others who are unlisted and published article “Sleepers of 1999 Generation” which had a very good feedback. Now we decided to follow it using the same rules regarding [...]
INTRO Luka Samanic started the season having a very slow start in his first games in a new city and totally different level of basketball. Croatian prospect after showing his versatile skill set in Barcelona youth program playing in ANGT, decided to travel back to Balkans to start his professional career. Olimpija stacked potential [...]
Sekou Doumbouya similarly to his main counter-candidate - Luka Samanic was having very slow start to the most important season of his career. He picked Limoges offer over few other from Jeep Elite League and it seemed a smart step in between Pro B and NBA, as a higher level domestic team which appears [...]
College basketball is about to start. We decided to make a rundown on all the most notable Euro freshman, those who has been underwhelming so far but are hopeful to get better, those who has been doing good job for a while now but can steal make another leap, those who have transfered and finally [...]
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