Euroleague regular season is over, and as always, I’ll waste way too much energy trying to analyze what has been happening in the first 10 weeks so far. After all, Top16 is coming fast, and some teams are going to show a completely different nature once the next stage has started this goes. Historically, that goes in particular for the…
Read more →To clarify right at the beginning, after just 8 Euroleague games, oncourt/offcourt-stats should be taken with not just one, but ten thousand grains of salt. The main reason is small sample size. A player that is averaging ten minutes a game hasn’t even played 100 minutes in the whole Euroleague season, and a few decisive runs can already push the…
Read more →While Euroleague and EuroCup have been taking a Christmas/New Year’s break, the winter transfer market has been fairly busy. Especially in Greece, where Olympiacos acquired Scoony Penn, while Aris signed Ivan Paunic at the expense of Juan Dixon, and Dragan Labovic at power forward. Finally, no Jeremiah Massey for them. Meanwhile, Maccabi is on a search for a big man…
Read more →Averaging 18.4 points on 72 percent shooting and 10 rebounds while having Partizan in Top16 contention, Aleksandar Maric has been the star of the first round so far. Unsurprisingly, his play has made him the target of clubs and federations in almost no time: Serbia would like the Australian/Serbian to play for their national team, and lately there have been…
Read more →Here’s the new European basketball rookie ranking, which I will update about four or five times each season. Strictly speaking, this isn’t a rookie ranking, instead every player born 1988 or later is qualified to appear on this list. European basketball and rookies … you know the difficulties with that term. The ranking is of course a very subjective thing…
Read more →Hello readers, I’m currently updating [it will take a few days] Euroleague player profiles, adding advanced statistics to the pages. These statistics examine play-by-play data, not just the usual boxscore data. In case you are not used to these stats, read my short guide later in this post.
This is clearly inspired by 82games.com and other excellent NBA-related statistics sites, and…
Read more →A quite hot Euroleague week is coming to an end, highlighted by yet another outstanding performance by Partizan’s Aleksandar Maric. Maric had 34 points and 16 rebounds and is now averaging 18.1 points and 9.9 rebounds a game, better than a certain Nikola Pekovic two seasons back. At the same time he is shooting a sizzling 70.1 percent from the…
Read more →Whenever I watch an ACB game, I am under the impression that players are allowed to let it fly quicker and more frequently from the perimeter than in other European leagues. There are a whole lot of three point specialists that have made a name for themselves in the league over the years, from combo- and shooting guards such as…
Read more →According to the website of weekly German news magazine “Der Spiegel” [translated: "The Mirror", one of the most respected news magazines in Europe], the investigations by German authorities regarding the international betting scandal not only concentrate on football, but also on a Tennis women double game in Morocco, and on a German BBL Playoff game from June 2009. The exact…
Read more →This week’s feature statistic: Rebounding percentage. Rebounding percentage, a common tool in the United States to determine a player’s production on the boards, is a minute- and pace-adjusted estimate of offensive, defensive and total rebounding. Or, in other words, the rebounds a player picks up are set into context with the number of shots that are missed [available rebounds for…
Read more →EUROLEAGUE’S RISING STAR
Martynas Gecevicius is a quite common name for those who regularly follow the international youth basketball tournaments. The 1988 born Lithuanian made the U18 Eurobasket all tournament first team in 2006, alongside tournament MVP Nicolas Batum, Miroslav Raduljica – a member of the Eurobasket 2009 Serbian senior squad – , Valencia’s Victor Claver, and a countryman of Gecevicius,…
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