European Prospects General Thread

[Toruko]

Watched yesterday the U16 friendly game between Turkey and Slovenia and Slovenia has again a first score PG who can shoot the lights out. Bine Pregl had a game of 27, 7 and 7 with 6/12 from the three point range and he made a couple tough ones.

[Straight forward]

Miikka Muurinen big time Finnish prospect. At 6'11 has a super soft and nice shooting mechanics. Not super quick, but has plus feel for the game and flexibility. Projected top 15 among 2026 NBA prospects. Finland has those super great bigs, shooting one. If they had one wold class guard they could actually go after big things.

[Straight forward]

Dude's from child killers country is not a point guard, come on IDU how people can be so blind at ball. He has it for his position, be it SF or PG whatever, but PG? GTFA. Way too slow, way too lanky. Show me PG in the world that slow playing at high level. It's crazy how much people actually call him PG. Another versatile forward, that's all. Just like young Buzelis was not a Lamelo in any sense, the same way this dude from imbeciles country is not a point guard, Saraf had to be mentioned instead, other than that, yeah, Luka built new breed. Our LTU KJ also fixing his game around him:

https://x.com/databallr/status/1858914383575085119

[Toruko]

Bogi was what you described. Sure fire NBA starter (or one of the best 6th men in NBA). Tarik has great touch from three, but much more rigid player with much less handles, smoothness in drives and facilitation compared to Bogi. Tarik could be perfect 3andD dude, but now he would mainly stick to threes with bad D at NBA.

Yeah he must go more to the rim but he has that in him. Hell be much more than this in two years.

[Straight forward]

He will go and stay in the NBA for a very very long time. Mark my words! He has much more in him.

Bogi was what you described. Sure fire NBA starter (or one of the best 6th men in NBA). Tarik has great touch from three, but much more rigid player with much less handles, smoothness in drives and facilitation compared to Bogi. Tarik could be perfect 3andD dude, but now he would mainly stick to threes with bad D at NBA.

[Toruko]

He's not a prospect anymore though. Soon he's 24. He's good, real touch, real talent. But I wouldn't be as high as saying that he's a starting five material for NBA or even having any guaranteed NBA career. I would just see him as truly premier and potentially true star of EL.

He will go and stay in the NBA for a very very long time. Mark my words! He has much more in him.

[Straight forward]

He's not a prospect anymore though. Soon he's 24. He's good, real touch, real talent. But I wouldn't be as high as saying that he's a starting five material for NBA or even having any guaranteed NBA career. I would just see him as truly premier and potentially true star of EL.

[Toruko]

Amazing season of Tarik Biberovic. Not only he has played with 14 points in 21 minutes of playing time he also grabs 5-6 rebounds per game. In the time where everyone was speaking of Garubas, Jokubaitises and others I wrote hear clearly that hell become a more significant player than them all.

Sarunas Jasikevicius cut even Guduric. He does not allow him to make mistakes without consequences. Tarik is rn one of the best player in a potential final four team and he is also one of the best spot up shooter in Europe. I really hoped that he would be able to create for others initiating pick and roll games but he does not have Bogdanovics ball handling skills. CoachZ was skeptical I have to give him that. Nevertheless, he will be a starting five player of an NBA team very soon.

His defense is nothing special but he pushed his defense from bad to average and I am also sure that he is going to play more with the ball in the future.

[Straight forward]

Coulibaly dropping 19ppg so far. What a leap compared to last season. Surely playing in Olympics plays a part here.

[Serbian_Layup]

Big attention to Bogoljub Markovic (05', 211 cm forward), he has had some great games in ABA league so far. He is very likely to shoot up on the draft board in the next couple of months.

[Straight forward]

I watched Saraf and he's good. To me he's something between Satoransky and Beno Undrih. I'm not sure he has enough of feet work, agility and athleticism to be special in the NBA, but I like how he reads the game, his mid range jimmy. NBA level player, just not sure about his upside yet. Three point shot goes in, but I'm not high on the form and doesn't seem to have long range, might struggle a bit in NBA with it.

[Straight forward]

Some scout said few years ago Luka Ukić, 14 year old son of Roko Ukić is best prospect since Dončić. And to be honest after watching him in I can say I'm hyped. Tough at the moment he is 4th best player in talented 2010 generation behind Jerkić, Volf and Garma he does look like generational prospect with his skills and quick decisions making

https://youtu.be/FhiF6iVy8yo?feature=shared

Too soon to tell. Looks interesting. It will be seen more when he turns 18 or at least 16, how his skill and smoothness get together.

[pohani komarac]

Some scout said few years ago Luka Ukić, 14 year old son of Roko Ukić is best prospect since Dončić. And to be honest after watching him in I can say I'm hyped. Tough at the moment he is 4th best player in talented 2010 generation behind Jerkić, Volf and Garma he does look like generational prospect with his skills and quick decisions making

https://youtu.be/FhiF6iVy8yo?feature=shared

[Dreamcatcher]

Saraf who dominated EC U18 averaging 28 pts, and now in the first game of a season in a new team in Bundesliga he scored 21 pts. At 18 y.o. he looks like a special offensive player.

[Straight forward]

Damn, France dominated the youth. They have tons of big prospects coming next.

https://x.com/NextGenHoops/status/1828076519735865585