Division A. Jonas Valanciunas is MVP of the championship - Aug 25, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
Lithuanian big guy Jonas Valanciunas (209-C-92) is voted as MVP of U16 European Championship 2008. Valanciunas led his team to Gold averaging 14.3 ppg, 11.1 rpg and 2.3 bpg in 8 games. He registered double-double five times. Beside this award, Valanciunas also is the second best rebounder as well as the leading shot blocker of the championship. [read more]
Lithuanian big guy Jonas Valanciunas (209-C-92) is voted as MVP of U16 European Championship 2008. Valanciunas led his team to Gold averaging 14.3 ppg, 11.1 rpg and 2.3 bpg in 8 games. He registered double-double five times. Beside this award, Valanciunas also is the second best rebounder as well as the leading shot blocker of the championship. Valanciunas is together with Leo Westermann (196-G-92) of France, Dmitry Kulagin (194-G-92) of Russia, Milan Ryska (204-C/F-92, agency: PPGroup) of Czech Republic and Enes Kanter (205-C-92) of Turkey named in 'All-Tournament team'.
Enes Kanter of Turkey is the top scorer of the championship with fantastic 22.9 ppg in 8 games. Interesting is that he recorded double-double in every single game. Actually twice he had more than 20-20 double-double. He demonstrated the best performance in the last game against France collecting 28 points and 20 boards. Dmitry Kulagin is the second best scorer with 20.8 ppg in 8 games. Third place belongs to Greek Georgios Mavrogiannis, who nailed 19.8 ppg.
Of course top rebounder of U16 European Championship 2008 is Enes Kanter with impressive 16.5 rpg. Above mentioned Jonas Valanciunas is on the second place grabbing 11.1 rpg. Edmunds Dukulis (201-F/C-92) of Latvia is third with 10.9 rpg.
Leo Westermann dished out 2.1 apg while the same digit had Andris Misters (192-G-92). Third best assistant in Chieti is Anastasios Antonakis (204-C/F-92) with 2 apg. Complete list with stats leaders you can find below
Division B. Championship stats leaders - Aug 25, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
Vitali Liutych (190-G-92) got award for the top scorer of U16 European Championship division B in Sarajevo. Liutych helped his Belarus to reach sixth place averaging 22.1 ppg in 9 games (199 in total). His championship-high happened in fourth game of Preliminary Round when Liutych drained 31 points against Slovakia. He had 28 against Montenegro and 25 vs Estonia.
Haukur Palsson of Iceland is the second on this list. He also played nine games adding 20. [read more]
Vitali Liutych (190-G-92) got award for the top scorer of U16 European Championship division B in Sarajevo. Liutych helped his Belarus to reach sixth place averaging 22.1 ppg in 9 games (199 in total). His championship-high happened in fourth game of Preliminary Round when Liutych drained 31 points against Slovakia. He had 28 against Montenegro and 25 vs Estonia. Haukur Palsson of Iceland is the second on this list. He also played nine games adding 20.1 ppg. He touched 41 against Belgium in Qualifying Round for 9th to 16th place. Sam de Haas of Netherlands is third scorer of the championship with 18.9 ppg.
Award for the top rebounder of this event belongs to Bulgarian Hristo Gospodinov. He participated in nine games grabbing 13 rpg. Haukur Palsson is one another list. Beside the award for the second scorer, he is also second rebounder in Sarajevo with 11.2 rpg. Carlos Novas Mateo of Austria is third one registering 10 rpg for 8 games.
Stefan Petkovic (182-G-92) of Switzerland dished out the most assists on the championship. He had 8 appearances delivering 4.4 apg. Alen Hodzic (192-F-92) of Slovenia and Andrej Pajovic of Montenegro share second place with 3.3 apg each.
Division B. Finals - Aug 25, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
Final
U16 Germany - U16 Montenegro 76-69
Germany captured the gold medal on U16 European Championship division B in Sarajevo. The Germans dominated during the entire event ending it undefeated. Silver medal belongs to Montenegro but it is important to be mentioned that both teams earned promotion to division A, what was their main goal in Sarajevo.
Germany had furious first quarter. After five minutes and a lay-up by Jarelle Reischel (194-F-92), Germany made 17-8. [read more]
Final
U16 Germany - U16 Montenegro 76-69 Germany captured the gold medal on U16 European Championship division B in Sarajevo. The Germans dominated during the entire event ending it undefeated. Silver medal belongs to Montenegro but it is important to be mentioned that both teams earned promotion to division A, what was their main goal in Sarajevo.
Germany had furious first quarter. After five minutes and a lay-up by Jarelle Reischel (194-F-92), Germany made 17-8. Two minutes later the Germans stretched advantage to huge 17 points. Mijanovic netted 3-pointer in the last offense while Fulle made a lay-up for 27-11 after first quarter. Montenegrins were better during the next 10 minutes while they showed even more in third frame. With 57 seconds to go Vulevic tied the score on 52-52 after what Mladen Novakovic (-92) drained a triple for 52-55 for Montenegro. However, third quarter ended 54-55 because of successful jump shot by Heckman. Question about the new champion is resolved in the last two minutes. On 69-69 Philipp Neumann and Jarelle Reischel netted 6 points in the row while Montenegro missed three times leaving the Gold to Germany.
Mathis Monninghoff (192-G-92) was the best scorer for the new division B champion netting 19 points. Kevin Bright (193-F-92) once again demonstrated wonderful performance adding 18 points and 10 rebounds. Philipp Neumann finished the game with 14 points and 11 boards while Jarelle Reischel also had 14 points but with 9 rebounds. Mladen Novakovic again shined in
