Attention, youth hoops fans: BallinEurope partner ProspectsInEurope now online

September 24, 2012

BallinEurope welcomes a partner in the European basketball blogosphere this morning and encourages all those into the youth hoops speculation game to check out ProspectsInEurope.com. The brainchild of BiE contributor Sam Chadwick, ProspectsInEurope promises to “scour The Continent” for the latest in developing talent, with all the requisite stats and video.

The website is still in the development stages, having just launched last week but shows promise. BiE can tell you that Chadwick’s been a youth hoops junkie ever since he played on that level and currently holds a coaching post with Britian’s Solent Kestrels. We also hope that ProspectsInEurope will help cover what has been something of a blind spot for BiE, though an integral part of the European basketball scene.

And now, the social networking stuff. Aside from the website itself, ProspectsInEurope may be found on Facebook – click here for instant gratification. The PiE (that is the acronym, presumably) Twitter feed is @ProspectsInEuro.

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Comments: 3
  1. Gabe
    13 years ago

    An interesting article by George Eddy on FIBA’s website:

    http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/colu/p/newsid/53926/arti.html

    The topic is it better to be a role player/bench player in the NBA or be a team leader/get lots of playing time in Europe. Interesting take.

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  2. mike
    13 years ago

    Read the piece by George Eddy. I’m not sure if I totally agree. For sure, there are occasional gems from Europe, but lately, Europe hasn’t produced a real impact player, save for Rubio, as I like to attest.

    The Nowitski’s, Gasols, Parkers may be in the past right now, and many scouts are going back to their American roots precisely because so many foreign players, even big name players like Spanoulis and Jasikevicious have come to the NBA and haven’t really made an impact, and even sometimes, totally failed. I mean Navarro came over and was a decent player, but nobody would have wanted him as a full time starter on a winning NBA team .He would not have matched up defensively night in and night out against quicker and bigger guards. The big guy in Minny from Serbia might be a good player, Pek, whats his name?

    So my conclusion is : stay American, unless a really compelling player is rising in Europe.

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    • Gabe
      13 years ago

      What I think George was saying is Europe is a good place for these prospective players to hone their skills instead of being on the bench or the D-League.

      On the negative side when you have people like Rudy and Navarro who would be prefer to be stars in Europe than role players in the NBA it sort of dilutes the NBA’s talent. With Rudy, Navarro and even Spanoulis choosing to be stars in Europe instead it means that some NBA’s sixth or seventh man is not going to be as good as if those players decided to be role player in the best league in the world. As Eddy said that probably wouldn’t have happened 10 years ago.

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