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…
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 – ,…
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…
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.…
Things went terribly wrong for FC Barcelona this weekend, when the Catalans lost a sensational quadruple overtime game [boxscore / video] in Manresa. Juan Carlos Navarro was on the court for 46:47 minutes, Roger Grimau played 39:57 minutes, and Fran Vazquez beat everyone by playing 50:59 minutes while finishing with 28 points on 13/14 shooting, and 16 rebounds. All that, just to remind you, 48 hours before Tuesday’s Game 1 clash. Hardly what Xavi Pasqual wished for. The loss against Ricoh Manresa was the first defeat since Barcelona got kicked out of the Copa del Rey semi final by TAU on February the 21st. Results had been solid since, getting some hard-fought victories against lower-level ACB teams and cruising to first spot in the Top16 …
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