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Stat of the week: Top Euroleague rebounders

Stat of the week: Top Euroleague rebounders

Posted 19 November 2009 | By J. | Categories: Efes, Euroleague, Olympiacos, Unicaja, notes, statistics | View Comments

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…

Euroleague Week #2 Notes

Euroleague Week #2 Notes

Posted 30 October 2009 | By J. | Categories: CSKA, Euroleague, Maroussi, Olympiacos, Rytas, Unicaja, notes | View Comments

Another busy Euroleague week with twelve matches. Six of those were won by eighteen points or more. Rytas had a huge win in Orléans that has them now on top of their group at 2:0, while a big Final Four cadidate tumbled in Andalusia, and another European giant lost at home.

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

Posted 27 August 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ALBA, ASVEL, Aris, Barcelona, Benetton, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Charleroi, Cibona, Efes, Euroleague, Fenerbahce Ulker, Khimki, Le Mans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maroussi, Montepaschi, Oldenburg, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, Rytas, Unicaja, Union Olimpija, Zalgiris | View Comments

The European basketball transfer summer started slowly, but by the end of August, a large majority of the Euroleague rosters are already complete. Wasn’t it supposed to take a little bit longer? One of the two big remaining questions are A) the future whereabouts of Ricky Rubio, B) what surprise Olympiacos is going…

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

Posted 16 July 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ASVEL, Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Efes, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Montepaschi, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Real Madrid, Unicaja, Zalgiris | View Comments

It would be wrong to draw early conclusions from the 2009 offseason in Euroleague basketball with more than two months to go before most domestic leagues start. Which is exactly why I’ll do it.

There is usually a topic, a tag which you can assign to a summer of basketball transfers.…

Euroleague Gameday 7: Unicaja vs. Olympiacos

Posted 12 December 2008 | By J. | Categories: Olympiacos, Unicaja, game reports | View Comments
Unicaja is incredibly tough to beat at home, and it showed once more on Wednesday, when Olympiacos, despite leading in double digits midway through the second quarter, eventually went down 60-56 to the hosts in an intense and entertaining Euroleague game.
Printezis and Schortsanitis making their mark in