This article isn?t really NBA draft related, but sometimes players we scout aren?t ready for the NBA when their eligibility expires or when they declare themselves eligible for the draft. They need a few more years to continue to hone their game and work on their weaknesses, and they might still be considered good prospects for the best league in the world a few years later and are therefore worthy of being scouted.

Not all of the best NCAA players always make it to the NBA, sometimes certain prospects slip through the cracks (for various reasons, mostly justifiable ones) and it?s only natural to continue to watch them carry on their careers in Europe and evaluate their progress to see if they have improved on the weaknesses that kept them out of the league in the first place. This helps estimate whether or not they are ready for a first or second shot. With the recent influx of high school players and extremely raw Europeans on to almost every NBA roster, more and more potential NBA players are being pushed aside right from the get go because of a relative lack of upside, and solid NBA veterans are losing their spot on NBA rosters to make way for potential laden players who are being stockpiled for the future. It isn?t ?out of sight, out of mind? for this group of outcasted players as far as NBA scouts are concerned, there are too many good examples of players who were brought into the NBA after a year or a couple of years of seasoning in Europe to ignore them. Some great examples being: Brad Miller, PJ Brown, Stephen Jackson, Udonis Haslem, Carlos Arroyo, Bruce Bowen and others.

This type of scouting is becoming more and more important then ever now. The following players have caught our eyes over the past year and could be considered NBA prospects this summer. None of them are going to be stars right off the bat, if they were, they most likely wouldn?t be in Europe in the first place, so please take what is said here in relative terms, and assume that unless noted these players would be brought in to serve as excellent role players off the bench.