Partizan has again proven most of us wrong. Looking at the roster before the start of the season, there was no way this low-budget-team was going to repeat the successes of earlier seasons. Partizan had just lost its core – Novica Velickovic, Milenko Tepic, Uros Tripkovic and Stephane Lasme – and hadn’t exactly made jaw-dropping splashes on the transfer market:…
Read more →Subject of my fifth in-depth analysis of Euroleague quarter finalists is Isreaeli basketball powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv, who recently qualified via an emphatic 97:82-home victory over Montepaschi Siena and Real Madrid’s parallel victory in Istanbul over Efes Pilsen.
Maccabi hadn’t exactly been a favourite for quarter final participation after a less-than-encouraging three losses in four games at the end of the…
Read more →It has been a far from easy transition for Ettore Messina from Russia to Spain. Real Madrid has lost five games in ACB and four in the Euroleague. They’re 29 – 9 overall in both competitions, as players seem to find it hard to understand what coach exactly asks them to do. There’s quite a clash of cultures, as a…
Read more →It has been an up and down season for Evgeny Pashutin and CSKA Moscow. Its difficult nature is not really reflected in the win-loss-column, where only five losses (Zalgiris in the VTB League, Unics Kazan in the Superleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Lottomatica Roma and Asseco Prokom in the Euroleague) rather indicate a pretty solid season for the club. Truth is,…
Read more →It has been a dream season for Regal FC Barcelona so far. The Catalonians have been playing magnificent basketball in both ACB and Euroleague with only three losses the whole season – all by two points or less – , they’ve been free of major injuries (except for the season-ending injury of Lubos Barton) and they most recently won the…
Read more →Starting the Playoff/Final Four preview this year is an analysis of the new Hellenic Cup winner Olympiacos. The red-whites are almost sure to advance to the next round, leading Euroleague Top16 Group H with four wins in four games, while being in great position for potential but improbable tie-breakers with Caja Laboral and Khimki.
I will skip the formalities. Panagiotis Giannakis…
Read more →It is common knowledge that the rosters of elite European basketball teams are ususally overloaded with talent, minutes are shared, as are shot attempts. I am trying to visualize this matter via google charts, with usage rate per team possession (pace adjusted but not minute adjusted, since I think it is a sign of reliance on a player if that…
Read more →1 (1) RICKY RUBIO (Regal FC Barcelona); Point Guard; 1990
Ricky stepped it up a gear since the last rookie rankings, particularly impressing in a blowout win in Madrid, where he had a season-high 18 points. He is never just about numbers, but his three point ratio (31/77 including both ACB and Euroleague) is noteworthy. Rubio seemed eager to prove he…
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 →| OREB% | ALL PLAYERS | DREB% | ALL PLAYERS | ||||
| NAME | TEAM | OR% | NAME | TEAM | DR% | ||
| Kasun | Efes Pilsen | 19,09 | Reyes | Real | 31,05 | ||
| Watson | Zalgiris | 18,06 | Watson | Zalgiris | 28,58 | ||
| Golubovic | Olimpija | 14,73 | Vaty | Orléans | 27,59 | ||
| Mozgov | Khimki | 14,54 | Maric | Partizan | 27,37 | ||
| Maric | Partizan | 14,10 | Bouroussis | Olympiacos | 26,83 | ||
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| POS/G | ALL PLAYERS | P/POS | ALL PLAYERS | ||||
| NAME | TEAM | POS/G | NAME | TEAM | P/POS | ||
| Woods | Prokom | 16,54 | Morris | Barcelona | 1,52 | ||
| Logan | Prokom | 14,96 | Siskauskas | CSKA | 1,42 | ||
| Becirovic | Olimpija | 14,45 | Halperin | Olympiacos | 1,41 | ||
| Kleiza | Olympiacos | 14,37 | Mickeal | Barcelona | 1,38 | ||
| Walsh | Olimpija | 14,36 | Langdon | CSKA | 1,37 | ||
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| OFF RAT. - ALL TEAMS | DEF RAT. - ALL TEAMS | ||||
| TEAM | OFF RAT. | TEAM | DEF RAT. | ||
| Olympiacos Piraeus | 117,0 | Regal FC Barcelona | 91,9 | ||
| Regal FC Barcelona | 116,4 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 98,6 | ||
| Montepaschi Siena | 116,1 | Real Madrid | 100,5 | ||
| Real Madrid | 112,4 | Panathinaikos Athens | 100,5 | ||
| Caja Laboral | 110,8 | Montepaschi Siena | 100,8 | ||
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| PACE - ALL TEAMS | eFG% - ALL TEAMS | ||||
| TEAM | PACE | TEAM | DEF RAT. | ||
| Asseco Prokom | 74,87 | Olympiacos Piraeus | 0,594 | ||
| Olympiacos Piraeus | 74,00 | CSKA Moscow | 0,578 | ||
| Unicaja Malaga | 73,79 | Regal FC Barcelona | 0,566 | ||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 73,73 | Real Madrid | 0,565 | ||
| EWE Baskets | 72,74 | Caja Laboral | 0,559 | ||
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| OREB% - ALL TEAMS | DREB% - ALL TEAMS | ||||
| TEAM | OR% | TEAM | DR% | ||
| Partizan Belgrade | 0,367 | Lottomatica Roma | 0,780 | ||
| Olympiacos Piraeus | 0,335 | BC Khimki Moscow | 0,765 | ||
| BC Khimki Moscow | 0,326 | Partizan Belgrade | 0,752 | ||
| Lietuvos Rytas | 0,320 | Regal FC Barcelona | 0,746 | ||
| Zalgiris Kaunas | 0,310 | Real Madrid | 0,733 |
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