2012 U18 European Championship

[pohani komarac]

Our team started with preps. We are probably favorites. Some strange names and some players missing as usual. From U-16 bigest impruvment should be in Jakov Mustapic, player that had great impruvment. athletic combo guard with huge wingspan able to play great defense and who is also very good penetrating to basket. Don't know will any U-17 team player join squad. Also Herendic once one of best players of team slowly coming back from hard knee injury, had good season in Cibona.Hezonja, Bosnjak, Zganec should have place by quality

Martin Junakovic (PG 185 94. Cedevita)
Dominik Herendic (PG 191 94. Cibona)
Jakov Mustapic (PG/SG 194 94. Cedevita)
Dominik Mavra (PG/SG 194 94. Cedevita)
Mislav Brzoja (SG 195 94. USA)
Marko Proleta (SG 191 94. Cibona)
Lovro Demo (SG 195 94. Cibona)
Karlo Lebo (SG/SF 196 94. Cedevita)
Braslav Turic (SF 198 94. Gorica)
Jure Boban (SF 198 94. Alkar)
Ivan Bogdanovic (SF 198 94. Dubrovnik)
Antonio Crnjevic (SF 200 94. Zabok)
Luka Kamber (SF 202 94. Alba Berlin)
Robert Kujundzic (SF/PF 201 94. Darda)
Dario Saric (SF/PF 208 94. Zagreb)
Daniel Zovko (PF 200 94. Siroki)
Filip Bundovic (PF/C 208 94. Cedevita)
Marin Maric (C 208 94. Split)
Valentin Jurkovic (C 207 94. Capljina)

[carlo]

U18 Euro Div A will be played 9-19 Aug in Latvia/Lithuania, see official site.
This year's U18 is particularly important as it's the 2013 U19 World's qualifier.
The only valuable tournament played so far (in springtime) was the Albert Schweitzer tournament, won by Spain over Serbia and followed by 3. Turkey 4. Germany 5. Italy 6. Russia 8. France (Croatia didn't participate).


P.S: Groups A and D, deadly !

[pimpekaustas]

if croatia brings all best players here, it would just be to easy.

[c-myers]

Turkey Roster

Talat Alp Altunbey 2.04 Bandırma Kırmızı
Doğukan Şanlı 1.92 Beşiktaş
Kartal Özmızrak 1.86 Beşiktaş
Gani Erdi Gülaslan 2.00 Bornova Bld.
Metin Türen Uzun 2.05 Darüşşafaka
Atilla Dağdelen 2.08 Fenerbahçe Ülker
Mehmet Şanlı 2.05 Fenerbahçe Ülker
Metecan Birsen 2.05 Fenerbahçe Ülker
Deniz Can Çevik 1.91 Genç Telekom
Burak Can Yıldızlı 2.02 Pertevniyal
Cedi Osman 1.96 Pertevniyal
Efekan Coşar 1.92 Pertevniyal
Tayfun Erülkü 1.93 Pertevniyal
Kerem Kanter 2.03 The MacDuffie School (ABD)
Burak Hacıismail 2.06 Tofaş
İsmail Kerem Gülmez 1.91 Tofaş
Kenan Sipahi 1.98 Tofaş
Tevfik Akdamar 2.00 Tofaş

[carlo]

Spain preliminary roster of 15 named.
The group that won the gold at the Albert Schweitzer tournament is confirmed, with the addition of three players, Joan Reda, Francisco Jimenez and Carlos Toledo.

[c-myers]

This is really good in our generation. especially in the short players ,I think there are only a center lack of, maybe the biggest favorite after the Croats.
Also I wonder Enes Kanter brothers Kerem kanter how will the performance of.I know his brother, looks like play style, and very athletic.
I think In the best prospects kenan sipahi,metecan birsen and burakcan yıldızlı.

[mbenga]

This is really good in our generation. especially in the short players ,I think there are only a center lack of, maybe the biggest favorite after the Croats.
Also I wonder Enes Kanter brothers Kerem kanter how will the performance of.I know his brother, looks like play style, and very athletic.
I think In the best prospects kenan sipahi,metecan birsen and burakcan yıldızlı.

I really like your team, specially Sipahi, but Spain is crearly ahead of Turkey and basically on par with Croatia, we might not have any superstar in the making like Saric or Hezonja but a plethora of very good prospects and a more balanced team.

[pohani komarac]

Croatia bet Montenegro in friendly match 81-49

proleta 3, lebo 6, herendić 5, demo 1, šarić 24,
brzoja 16, bogdanović 2, kujundžić 5, marić 14, kamber 1

some scorers are missing

Imo, Filip Bundovic, starting bigman is probably lost for this summer with injury. Maric and Zganec (now they must call him) will have tough job to replace him. Hezonja has wish to join team but must wait for doctors opinon how his recovery from mononucleosis is going.

[pohani komarac]

I really like your team, specially Sipahi, but Spain is crearly ahead of Turkey and basically on par with Croatia, we might not have any superstar in the making like Saric or Hezonja but a plethora of very good prospects and a more balanced team.

Croatia with full roster has most talented junior roster ever in our history. Mavra, Mustapic, Brzoja, Bosnjak, Bundovic (tough injured) are for sure high level prospects. Mustapic, athletic combo destroyed Josip Perez in their match up this year. People underestimate other in our rooster players becuse Saric and Hezonja domination, but for sample Cedevita destroyed Real and Barcelona in their matchup and only some strange game stop them for not winning NIJT in Barcelona. Mustapic, Lebo, Bundovic and others beat Zagreb with full roster in croatian U-18 championship, whille same Zagreb that beat evryone in NIJT last year finised 5th last season in Croatia

[carlo]

Le Temple-sur-Lot (Fra) tournament: Serbia beat previously undefeated France in last game 81-76 (Doko Salic, 210, 95, 16pt+10reb) finisihing 2-1. France and Germany too were 2-1 but Serbia won the tournament for a better points diff. Russia last, 0-3.
Serbia only loss came from Germany by 1 pt 61-60.
http://www.eurobasket.com/France/bas...?NewsID=278878

[carlo]

Turkish tournament first two games:

Germany-Bulgaria 63-59 (Paul Zipser 14+8 and Malik Mueller 13, Kris Minkov 11)
Slovenia-France 72-52 (Gregor Hrovat 15+8, Mou Jaiteh 17+10)

[pohani komarac]

2 more easy wins over montenegro

karlo zganec and tomislav gabric, 2 undersize pf got call. coaches kept bundovic in hope he could return. hezonja by first doctors infos will miss tornament. they sent home herendic among others, whille kept his back up in cibona proleta...lol, and of corse crnjevic...lol. also junakovic had brain concussion, but should be ready

o guess it could look like this

junakovic, mustapic, mavra, brzoja(40min), lebo, saric (40min), maric, zganec play, others clapp hands...like usual

[iskoch]

I really like this generation,
Metecan Birsen, Kenan Sipahi, Kartal Özmızrak, Burak Can Yıldızlı, Talat Altunbey, Cedi Osman, Tayfun Erülkü are promising guys...
Last year Kenan played with 2 year olders, now he's with the team.
Burak Can Yıldızlı (who leads Efes youth team Pertevniyal in TB2L) also in roster.
I won't be surprised if we win the tournament this year.


+ A prediction: I expect Kartal Özmızrak to be leader of this team. He's the most talented one imo...

[carlo]

Turkey won the International tournament beating France 69-59 and finishing the competition 5-0.

[pohani komarac]

croatia-montegro highlights, saric 9, brzoja 10, herendic 7, maric 14, mustapic and mavra without number

[carlo]

Two interesting pre-championships tourneys, from 27 to 29 July:

Linares Tournament (Spain): Poland, Russia, France and Spain,
Grottaferrata Tournament (Italy): Germany, Israel, Slovenia and Italy.

[Toxicity]

Two interesting pre-championships tourneys, from 27 to 29 July:

Linares Tournament (Spain): Poland, Russia, France and Spain,
Grottaferrata Tournament (Italy): Germany, Israel, Slovenia and Italy.

Do you know if Italy will feature Amedeo Tessitori back from the U20 team?

[euskadi]

is there any tournament in lthuania starting 27.7.? in croatian nt plan stand that today cro goes in lithuania because of some tournament, but they do not told who are opponents

[carlo]

Do you know if Italy will feature Amedeo Tessitori back from the U20 team?

He's expected to be in the roster, though he didn't play in Cisternino being engaged with the U20.
He's in the official list as "available player" and if everything is OK should be included in the final team.

[Toxicity]

He's expected to be in the roster, though he didn't play in Cisternino being engaged with the U20.
He's in the official list as "available player" and if everything is OK should be included in the final team.

He better be in the final roster since our medal chances are linked to him...