A Navarro-led Regal FC Barcelona is the new Euroleague champion after turning the championship game into an offensive and defensive clinic in the first half and going 12 for 28 on three point shots while blocking 8 shots throughout 40 minutes of play. Here’s my take on Sunday’s championship game in Paris.…
After an ugly first half between Barcelona and CSKA, the first semifinal caught pace in the second half on Friday, before Olympiacos and Partizan had an epic battle for the second finals spot. Now it’s the well expected Barcelona versus Olympiacos on Sunday. Here’s my attempt at breaking down both semifinals with observations,…
I did extended previews with an emphasis on statistics for each of the Final Four participants (click here for CSKA, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Partizan) some time ago, but still wanted to contribute a semifinal lookahead before CSKA and Barcelona tip things off in the early evening of May 7th in Paris. I am trying…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Russia’s 2007 Eurobasket triumph has to go down as one of the biggest basketball sensations of this decade, even coming close to [but not surpassing] Germany’s 1993 European Championship as one the biggest European basketball upset in the last 25 years. However, two of that year’s triumph’s main catalysts are not going to…
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