After a breathtaking first quarter final day, where Serbia fought off Spain in an instant epic via 15 of 30 shooting from beyond the arc, including Milos Teodosic’s gamewinner from deep, as well as Turkey blowing past Slovenia, Russia will face USA before Lithuania and Argentina clash in the evening hours. Go ahead…
The first knockout round is over. We’ve been treated to some fairly boring blow out games, but also two absolute nailbiters played on an incredibly high level that deserved to be semifinal games. And now begins the real stuff. We have three very balanced quarter finals coming up, only one (USA vs. Russia)…
Since the provided play-by-play data is insufficient to generate plus/minus data for every player (the reason being that the action of subbing a player during the break between quarters is not registered in play-by-play), I calculated plus/minus for some of the key players in this tournament manually. Five group games is hardly enough…
So we’re off and going. After three eventful days at the World Championships, let’s have a look at some selected individual stats I’ve come up with. You’ll be familiar with them if you’ve been around on this site or one of the many American sites working with statistics, but it’s not like you…
Few domestic leagues in Europe are offering plus/minus-statistics. Two of them are Italian Lega A and German BBL. Even though they only have them in boxscores and not as accumulated stats in player/team profile, it is better than nothing. Out of interest I had a look at oncourt/offcourt plus/minus of selected players from…
Been short of time lately. Here’s a short post about average pace in European basketball leagues. I wrote a similar post about a year ago, which led to the conclusion that indeed the Balkan leagues (Adriatic League, Greek A1) which are said to be halfcourt-dominated leagues, are exactly that. At the same time,…
I’ve finally found the time to complete the (unadjusted) plus/minus calculations for the running 09/10 Euroleague season. You find the complete sortable list here. The most glaring weakness of plus/minus in the Euroleague is obvious: With the regular season lasting only ten games (eight teams are eliminated after the regular season), Top16 lasting…
Partizan Belgrade has been the story of this Euroleague season so far, reaching the Final Four with an estimated overall budget of ca. three million Euros and reminding all of us that it is very well possible to compete against the very elite of European basketball clubs, even in this league that has…
On a historic night for European basketball, Partizan edged Maccabi Tel Aviv 76:67 in Belgrade to advance to the Final Four, CSKA secured its eigth straight partiipation, Barcelona rolled over Real in Vistalegre, and Olympiacos was all business in Gdynia this time, 86:70 after 40 minutes. All four series already decided after four…
What more could you possibly ask for: All four series still alive going into Game 4 on Thursday, and only one team, Partizan, has the chance to close the quarter finals at home. More than twenty thousand spectators witnessed a far too easy home victory in Belgrade, while Caja Laboral bounced back from…
From Mickeal’s fourth quarter heroics and Tomic’s breakout performance in Barcelona via Kecman raining threes in Tel Aviv and CSKA rolling over an irritating Caja Laboral, to Olympiacos’ lackadaisical display in Piraeus – it has been an eventful first playoff week in the Euroleague, setting up an eventful second week that will see…
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