Nike Hoop Summit collides with Portsmouth…again

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For the second straight year, the Nike Hoop Summit will be conducted at the same exact time as the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.

DraftExpress explores the implications of the Nike Hoop Summit being conducted on the same weekend as the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.

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[Genjuro]

Perhaps the NCAA board is not the proper place to put it, but here's my ideal international team for the upcoming Hoop Summit edition (focusing more on interesting guys rather than competitive players at this point, even if there are a feew of them):

PG: Sergio Rodríguez, Aleksandar Ugrinoski
SG: Uros Tripkovic, Vasily Zavoruev
SF: Nemanja Aleksandrov, Danilo Gallinari, Víctor Claver
PF: Dusan Sakota, Ante Tomic, Alexis Ajinca
C: Yi Jianlian, Roman Gumenyuk

[Jonathan]

That would be an absolutely amazing roster. Rodriguez and Tripkovic we can probably rule out right off the bat because of their commitments to their teams in Europe, no? Tomic I guess too, but the rest are real possibilities. Looking at how they brought in guys like Sergio and Jianlian two years ago, I suppose that there are a bunch of 88 or 89 guys we can look at as candiates too...

[Rodger]

Well in regards to Tomic, I believe his team (Zagreb) is in last place in the Adriatic League so maybe they'd let him play...

[Jonathan]

I looked up their schedule and it seems like they move right into Croatian league action once the Adriatic league is over on April 1st. They have a game on the 8th, and I bet they want to do well there, since he is their starter.

Kristian would probably have a better idea about this.

[KristianH]

They might let him go, you know to get exposure...He is starting games, but also finishing them in first quarter (idiots, they are last in the League and won`t let this kid play). Zagreb`s goal is to sell him for as much money as possible, so appearence at Nike event (a good one), can`t be bad for the club.

Tomic is really not prepared for senior game in my eyes, well almost all Euros are skinny, but this kid is something special, Tomic is so weak that some mediocre players are dominating him in the post(on defensive end).

He is years away from NBA game, or maybe better - pounds away. His skill-set is very impressing for a Center, and you can bet he will be among most fundamentaly sound bigmen wheter in the NBA or Europe.

[PyroCross]

Perhaps the NCAA board is not the proper place to put it, but here's my ideal international team for the upcoming Hoop Summit edition (focusing more on interesting guys rather than competitive players at this point, even if there are a feew of them):

PG: Sergio Rodríguez, Aleksandar Ugrinoski
SG: Uros Tripkovic, Vasily Zavoruev
SF: Nemanja Aleksandrov, Danilo Gallinari, Víctor Claver
PF: Dusan Sakota, Ante Tomic, Alexis Ajinca
C: Yi Jianlian, Roman Gumenyuk

That's a damn nice team, although there's going to have to be 2 Oceanian players in the mix. I assume that one might be Dion Prewster from NZ, dunno much about the Aussie prospects but yeah.

If the majority of that team plays the Summit, it could be an interesting affair. That being said, you never know what the US High Schoolers' effort might be, but a team led by Oden & Wright's going to be something.