2010 U16 European Championship

[rikhardur]

http://www.fibaeurope-u16men.com/en/

GROUP A
Croatia
Germany
Italy
Serbia

GROUP B
Denmark
France
Greece
Lithuania

GROUP C
Bulgaria
Latvia
Poland
Spain

GROUP D
Israel
Montenegro
Russia
Turkey

[the_black_planet]

Does anybody know if 15 years old,203 cm guard Aleksandar Vezenkov,son of veteran player Sasha Vezenkov,who was signed by Aris lately will play for Bulgarian u16 NT?In fibaeurope.com page they have him but it's not the final roster.Also any friend from Bulgaria knows something about his game?

[LuDux]

Lithuanian NT
Augustinas Jankaitis 202
Timotis Kuckailis 200
Denis Krestinin 200
Marius Grigonis 197
Simas Raupys 196
Justas Tamulis 194
Tomas Dimsa 192
Arturas Makovskis 192
Jokubas Gintvainis 191
Paulius Naraskevicius 184
Lukas Lekavicius 177
Tomas Galeckas 176

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French nt

Jean-François BASILEU 1.97 1994 forward
Raphaël BINVIGNAT 1.95 1994 forward
Alexandre CHASSANG 2.00 1994 power forward
Boris DALLO 1.92 1994 Ailier sg/forward
Kevin HARLEY 1.91 1994 sg
Damien INGLIS 1.97 1995 forward/pf
Mouhamadou JAITEH 2.03 1994 pf/c
Charly MARAUX 1.82 1994 pg
Benjamin MENDEZ 1.96 1994 forward
Benjamin MERI 2.00 1994 pf/c
Anthony RACINE 1.89 1994 pg/sg
benjamin SENE 1.82 1994 pg


Lots of hope for this generation, even if the staff decided not to add more 95 while the 94/95 mix seems pretty good (it compares with the one we had for 88 & 89 generations)

Not geting any medal would be quite disappointing, even if the other teams have talented prospects (turkey, spain, serbia, etc.).

[the_black_planet]

Who do you think are the most interesting prospects to keep an eye on?I guess Spires and Nikola Jankovic are among them.Also here in Greece they say very good words for Kyprianos Maragkos of pana.Is there any chance for Saric to play?I think he should,he shouldn't be too tired and with him Croatia is the big favorite.

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For france charly maraux (already a mini buzz here for him), dallo, racine and inglis (who is very athletic)
Someone who is following insep here added chassang & jaiteh, and he's less high on inglis despite his numbers.

For spain i assume badalona's players's (sanz & horns), for the rest no clue.

[pohani komarac]

Who do you think are the most interesting prospects to keep an eye on?I guess Spires and Nikola Jankovic are among them.Also here in Greece they say very good words for Kyprianos Maragkos of pana.Is there any chance for Saric to play?I think he should,he shouldn't be too tired and with him Croatia is the big favorite.

Yes he will play but we are not favorites, there are to many problems even 94-95. could be perhaps most talented generation that we ever had from our independence (it is to earley to tell, but i'm pretey sure in that)

hezonja, other posibele star prospect besides saric and member of starting 5 injured hand vey hard and probabley he won't play, herendic one of key players injured and won't play for sure, brzoja curentley 2nd best player is injured consitantly, similar like prostran and he could miss, nicley taleted shooter proleta and PG junakovic were sent home because bad behavior, Saric not being with team, coach changed during preparations because he was beating kidds and throwing chair on them, 210 center bruno beca who left dubrava an went in US refused to sing cotract with our basketball federation in wich player must pay 10-15k euros when becomes senir in return for playing in "U" teams and of corse nepotisam. just for sample, kk zabok coach son, Antonio Crnjevic team was losin over 100 poits per game and he is in team

i don't know and i don't care who will play, all i know this should be our team, not like one or corupted federation will use

Hights are about, from what kids looked to me

Dominik Mavra (PG/SG 94. 192 Zadar)
Martin Junaković (PG 94. 188 D. Petrović)
Dominik Herendić (SG/PG 94. 192 Cedevita)
Marko Proleta (SG 94. 195 Cibona)
Mislav Brzoja ( G-F/PG 94. 195 Dubrava)
Karlo Lebo (SF/SG 94. 195 Cedevita)
Mario Hezonja (SF 95. 198 Zagreb)
Dario Sarić (G-F 94. 205 Zareb)
Nikola Urli (PF 94. 200 Cedevita)
Danijel Zovko (PF/C 94. 204 Zadar)
Filip Bundović (PF/C 94. 207 Cedevita)
Bruno Beča (C 94. 210 US highschool)


First substitusions wold be:

Tomislav Radaoš (SG 94. 193 Đakovo), Karlo Žganec (PF 95. 200 Fenix), Paolo Marinelli (PG 95. 185 Jadran)

unfortunally for us lot of this guys won't be here, while ther will be names like Hrkač, Črnjević...

From rest I knolw that France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro have some very good prospects, don't know for rest

[the_black_planet]

Yes he will play but we are not favorites, there are to many problems even 94-95. could be perhaps most talented generation that we ever had from our independence (it is to earley to tell, but i'm pretey sure in that)

hezonja, other posibele star prospect besides saric and member of starting 5 injured hand vey hard and probabley he won't play, herendic one of key players injured and won't play for sure, brzoja curentley 2nd best player is injured consitantly, similar like prostran and he could miss, nicley taleted shooter proleta and PG junakovic were sent home because bad behavior, Saric not being with team, coach changed during preparations because he was beating kidds and throwing chair on them, 210 center bruno beca who left dubrava an went in US refused to sing cotract with our basketball federation in wich player must pay 10-15k euros when becomes senir in return for playing in "U" teams and of corse nepotisam. just for sample, kk zabok coach son, Antonio Crnjevic team was losin over 100 poits per game and he is in team

i don't know and i don't care who will play, all i know this should be our team, not like one or corupted federation will use

Hights are about, from what kids looked to me

Dominik Mavra (PG/SG 94. 192 Zadar)
Martin Junaković (PG 94. 188 D. Petrović)
Dominik Herendić (SG/PG 94. 192 Cedevita)
Marko Proleta (SG 94. 195 Cibona)
Mislav Brzoja ( G-F/PG 94. 195 Dubrava)
Karlo Lebo (SF/SG 94. 195 Cedevita)
Mario Hezonja (SF 95. 198 Zagreb)
Dario Sarić (G-F 94. 205 Zareb)
Nikola Urli (PF 94. 200 Cedevita)
Danijel Zovko (PF/C 94. 204 Zadar)
Filip Bundović (PF/C 94. 207 Cedevita)
Bruno Beča (C 94. 210 US highschool)


First substitusions wold be:

Tomislav Radaoš (SG 94. 193 Đakovo), Karlo Žganec (PF 95. 200 Fenix), Paolo Marinelli (PG 95. 185 Jadran)

unfortunally for us lot of this guys won't be here, while ther will be names like Hrkač, Črnjević...

From rest I knolw that France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro have some very good prospects, don't know for rest

Very sad to hear that mate,very bad for the country that gave birth to Toni Kukoc,Dino Radja and most of all Drazen Petrovic!

[pohani komarac]

at least some good news for us. brzoja will be ready, not on 100% tough, while new coach called back junakovic

[Levenspiel]

32 points and 29 turnovers in 40 mins from Latvia against Spain.

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And saric that gonna strike a triple double in his first game.
Very disappointing - statistics wise - game from micic btw.

[xtf_no4]

Big surprise in the beginning with Denmark beating Greece. The Danish team has some talent but I did not believe to could be a threat for Greece which is also featuring some nice players like Maragkos. But Denmark won in the end by two points and three players scoring in double-figures: Peter Moeller, David Knudsen and Rasmus Larsen.
Interesting to see how far they can go...

[pohani komarac]

we beat serbia, saric is beast, just neds to stop overfake him self and make so many ofensive fouls to cut down turnovers. i guess with so many problems saric is still nuff to beat probabley one of toughest rivals. nice games for talented Cedevita duo Air Lebo and Bundovic

[the_black_planet]

Congratulations to Croatia!Guys are there any games going to be televised?It would be awesome to be able to watch the game between Croatia and Serbia btw...

[buterbrodas]

Lithuania 46-66 France
quarters: (14:22, 12:15, 12:11, 8:18)
Augustinas Jankaitis 15pts
Charly Marauxas 19pts

[Trifilli]

Big surprise in the beginning with Denmark beating Greece. The Danish team has some talent but I did not believe to could be a threat for Greece which is also featuring some nice players like Maragkos. But Denmark won in the end by two points and three players scoring in double-figures: Peter Moeller, David Knudsen and Rasmus Larsen.
Interesting to see how far they can go...

Which surprise? If you see what's going on in the greek U16 one can only hope that they can somehow avoid the relegation.
It's ridiculous, what is Giannopoulos thinking? Can you believe that they announced the extended roster for the U16 EC two weeks before the final round of the greek championship began? Most likely because they started training for the U16 right after the end of the championship in Kimi and they wanted to have the entire team together rightaway, but very likely also for other reasons...

The two topscorers of the greek championship are not on the U16 national team. Now the question is... were Nikos Pievalitsa (26.4ppg) and Giannis Anagnostakis (25.4ppg) not good enough for this team (Pievalitsa is a bit raw, but wouldn've been a at least a decent backup for the 3/4, while Anagnostakis should've been a starter rightaway on SF, in front of Siologas)... or do they just not have the lobby?...

In addition to that Giannopoulos still refuses to use Giannis Dimakopoulos. Ok, the guy might still be soft... but c'mon, how can you not use a 2.16m C who can shoot the threepointer like a Guard on the U16 level at all? Is the starting Center of the greek champions not good enough for the U16?
Same question about Karamalengos, he played at least, even if only for 7 minutes. And all this with guys like Ambaras and Protoulis covering the PG position. Enough said...

[albiongate]

The two topscorers of the greek championship are not on the U16 national team. Now the question is... were Nikos Pievalitsa (26.4ppg) and Giannis Anagnostakis (25.4ppg) not good enough for this team (Pievalitsa is a bit raw, but wouldn've been a at least a decent backup for the 3/4, while Anagnostakis should've been a starter rightaway on SF, in front of Siologas)... or do they just not have the lobby?...

Nikola Pjevalica is serbian.

[Trifilli]

Nikola Pjevalica is serbian.

As far as I know he also has a greek passport. Similar case to Igor Milosevic or Dusan Sakota. He was called up to the greek U16 before, but was not invited for the tournament this spring in Turkey a few weeks later. Did he play for Serbia already?

[albiongate]

Did he play for Serbia already?

No, our federation scouting is the worst in the world, so I'm probably the only serbian who know who Pjevalica is.


BTW, great careers for Ntusan Sakota and Igkor Milosevits so far.

[Trifilli]

No, our federation scouting is the worst in the world, so I'm probably the only serbian who know who Pjevalica is.

Well, at least they have the excuse that they don't know him then... while the greek federation scouted him, had im in a U16 NT training camp and still doesn't invite him... what's worse?

BTW, great careers for Ntusan Sakota and Igkor Milosevits so far.

Fantastic. Let's hope that Pjevalica will have a better one, no matter which country he'll play for.