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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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’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 – ,…
CSKA: Evgeny Pashutin’s team is 1:2 now, and they could easily stand at 0:3 had it not been for Victor Khryapa’s difficult buzzer beater in Athens. I don’t believe this is about neither the hole on the 4/5, nor about the stars’ alleged decline. Trajan Langdon is more agile than ever, Ramunas Siskauskas…
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