This Saturday, in the Madison Square Garden (New York, USA), will be held a new edition of the Jordan Brand Classic. The two rosters for the International Game have been released. Let's take a look to the european prospects we can find in both squads:
-Vasilije Micic ('94, Serbia): the FMP Zeleznik guard will play for the "Home Team". He won the U-16 Tournament of Geneve (Switzerland) last January with Serbia. In the final against Italy scored 17 points. Even he was younger he also played with FMP the NIJT of Belgrade, winning the title. In the final he nailed 14 points with 2/4 behind the arc.
-Marius Grigonis ('94, Lithuania): the forward of Sabonis Academy will also play with "Home Team". He was named the MVP of U-16 Villa de La Orotava Tournament last September in Tenerife (Spain). Wearing Zalgiris jersey he led lithuanians to the title with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists in the final against Real Madrid. In that game he also made 11 turnovers.
-Augustinas Jankaitis ('94, Lithuania): the power-forward of Sarunas Academy will play for "Home Team" also. He played with Zalgiris last NIJT of Rome even he was younger. In four games he averaged 11.5 points and 7.3 rebounds in only 18 minutes.
-Nikola Jankovic ('94, Serbia): the forward will also play for "Home Team". He currently plays with FMP. He was named MVP of last U-16 Turk Telekom Tournament in February. In the U-16 Tournament of Geneve (Switzerland) last January with Serbia he scored 20 points in the final to led Serbia to the title over Italy.
-Francesco Candussi ('94, Italy): the italian power-forward is the last european playing with "Home Team". The 2.09 prospect plays for Aibi Fogliano. Even he was one of the youngest players he averaged 4.0 points and 2.0 rebounds on last Division "A" U-16 European Championship of Kaunas (Lithuania).
-Malik Muller ('94, Germany): the Urspring guard will defend the "Away Team". He had 24 points with 5/6 threes, 5 steals and 3 rebounds leading Germany U-17 against England U-18 in the final of Haris Tournament in Manchester last December.
-Charly Maraux ('94, France): the INSEP point guard -at the pic- will play with the "Away Team". He played last Division "A" U-16 European Championship of Kaunas (Lithuania), finishing with 5.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists. In the U-16 Turk Telekom Tournament of last February he showed what he is capable to do. Against France (with two overtimes) he nailed 18 points, pulling down 14 rebounds and dishing 4 assists.
-Jorge Sánchez ('94, Spain): the guard of Real Madrid will play in the same team as Maraux. Recently he travelled with U-16 spanish team to Ragusa to play a tournament with Italy, Bulgaria and Greece. The guard nailed 9 points against greeks.
-Alexandre Chassang ('94, France): the power-forward of INSEP will be in the "Away Team" with his teammate Maraux. Another example of the Centre Federal factory, sending many players every year to french youth NT.
-Kyprianos Maragkos ('94, Greece): currently playing for Panathianikos he will be the last european player in the "Away Team". Played with Greece the U-16 Turk Telekom Tournament, with great performances, like the 29 points with 12/17 FG in the losing effort against Italy.
Photo: FIBA Europe / Alius Koroliovas
