Recaps

Over the past weekend, Getafe, a city on the periphery of Madrid, Spain, hosted the II Torneo de Canteras ACB, the first notable date on the calendar for the U14 Spanish basketball generation. Featuring three powerhouses in Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Valencia Basket, notable ACB teams UCAM Murcia, Carplus Fuenlabrada and BAXI Manresa and a youth category staple in Movistar Estudiantes along with the hosts Aristos Getafe.

A recap of the top prospects seen at the third leg of the Euroleague ANGT that took place in Varese, Italy, last weekend. Pole France won the ANGT Varese after beating Next Generation Varese in the final game.

Khayat’s basketball journey started in Lebanon where he played until he was 14. Then, in March 2018, the talented kid went to France for a camp and try-out with Nanterre. It so happened that attending the try-out was a Coach from Limoges who saw him and proposed to join their team for a practice

Martinez represented the U16 Swiss National Team at the FIBA European Championships in 2018 and 2019 as well as the U18 National Team at the FIBA Challengers this past summer. Standing at 6’8 205, the Swiss prospect grew up playing in Switzerland for Bernex before moving to Geneva Basketball Academy. He last played in France in the LNB Espoirs league for Dijon before leaving for the US where he’s about to take a post grad year at Williston Northampton High School in Massachusetts.

Over the last years Iceland has become an important place for prospects that have followed the college route. Plenty of recruits ended up in college just in 2021 whether at the D1 or D2 level with Styrmir Prastarson (Davidson), Aljaz Vidmar (Howard), Arnor Eythorsson (Toledo) among others. Atlason started playing basketball when he was four years old at KR Reykjavik and now at 17 he’s part of the senior team rotation.

Karl Poom is a 6-foot-8, 210-pound power forward out of Estonia and is one of the most intriguing bigs in the class of 2023. Poom started playing basketball when he was 7 years old at Erkmaa Basketball School, a youth basketball academy in the city of Tartu founded by Aivo Erkmaa.

The Paris European Games tournament kicked off this Saturday, and Eurohoops Scouting was present covering the event. The event conducted from September 11-12 at the Halle Georges Carpentier in Paris, France, and the Parisian spectators were able to watch Euroleague level teams since the 2013/14 season of Nanterre 92, as they had the chance to watch Olympia Milano, Alba Berlin, LDLC ASVEL and their team of Paris Basket.