It seems like every year, there are 10-15 names from Europe mentioned in mock draft second rounds, but there are still guys like Chukwudiebere Maduabum that no one really talked about, so I wanted to compile a list of the guys that have been mentioned as second rounders from Europe and see if we can make a comprehensive enough list that we can peg all the 2nd round Euro's this year with no surprises. The guy's I've heard about so far are - Alex Abrines - SG - Spain Alexandre Paranhos - SF/PF - Brazil Augusto Lima - PF - Spain (via Brazil) Bojan Dubljevic - PF/C - Spain (via Montenegro) Daniel Theis - PF - Germany Janis Timma - SF - Latvia Joan Sastre - SF - Spain Jordan Aboudou - SG/SF - France Joffrey Lauvergne - PF/C - France Livio Jean-Charles - SF/PF - France Marko Todorovic - C - Spain (via Montenegro) Mindaugas Kupsas - C - Lithuania Nemanja Nedovic - PG/SG - Lithuania (via Serbia) Philipp Neumann - C - Germany Oleksandr Lypovyy - SF - Ukraine Raul Neto - PG - Spain (via Brazil) Vitalis Chikoko - PF/C - Germany (via Zimbabwe) Excluded First Round Prospects - Sergey Karasev (Spain), Dennis Schroeder (Germany), Giannis Adetokoubo (Greece), Lucas Noguiera (Brazil), Rudy Gobert (France)
No one has any additions? Any thoughts on these second round prospects? Marko Todorovic intrigues me as a Euro-stash prospect, just because of his size and the program he's being brought up in (FC Barcelona). His teammate, Alex Abrines, has me intrigued as well, because not only is he only 19, has decent size for a wing (6'6"), but he also put up respectable numbers for Barcelona this season, playing 10+ mpg at the age of 19 for a premier ACB team. The one thing I don't understand is the disparity between his ACB and Euroleague shooting numbers. I wouldn't mind in the least if my Grizz took him as a Euro-stash at #41 though, nor would I mind if we took his teammate, Todorovic at either #55 or #60.
Abrines was a teammate of Freeland's at Unicaja until Barcelona swooped in to get him (as big clubs can over there). He was certainly presented as "the next big thing" in Spanish Hoops. He's no Rudy-esque athlete: he looks more like a Spanish Belinelli, especially as three-point shooting is his bread and butter. He'd certainly be worth one of our picks. Nedovic is as athletic as Euros get, but he's a bit of a tweener. I'm not sure that he'll turn out to be more than a Sergio Llull type. Dubljevic sounds like a smaller Pekovic: can't jump over a phone book but a real hustler. He sounds worth a pick. Livio Jean-Charles looked awesome in the Nike Hoops Summit, but he's a PF in a SF body. Still, he also seems like a good project, particularly as he's so young, and as the French League seems to have a pretty good record of translating. Raul Neto is like a poor man's Sergio Rodriguez. Fun, but not likely to get minutes. You also forgot this guy, who will probably get drafted (unless he dropped out and I didn't hear).
