Int'l Draft Prospects: First Round Hopefuls

Like last year, the pool of viable international draft prospects is rather shallow. When Jan Vesely and Donatas Motiejunas passed on this year's draft, the field of int'l 1st round candidates dwindled further. Below we take a look at two possible int'l first round prospects, Tibor Pleiss and Kevin Seraphin. Neither player is likely lottery-bound and both European bigs project to be chosen in the late 1st/early 2nd round. And after watching these guys multiple times, we agree Pleiss and Seraphin are correctly pegged as late 1st round material.Tibor PleissBrose Baskets Bamberg(German League/Bundesliga)7-0 Center20 Years OldPleiss just recently wrapped up his 2009-10 season in fine fashion by helping his team to a German League (Bundesliga) title. Brose just recently won the German League title 3-2 over Deutsche Bank and Pleiss was a key contributor to the title run. Tibor had 10 pts, 12 rebs & 2 blks in the deciding Game 5 and averaged 6.6 ppg, 8.8 rpg & 1.4 ...