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,…
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…
A quite hot Euroleague week is coming to an end, highlighted by yet another outstanding performance by Partizan’s Aleksandar Maric. Maric had 34 points and 16 rebounds and is now averaging 18.1 points and 9.9 rebounds a game, better than a certain Nikola Pekovic two seasons back. At the same time he is…
Whenever I watch an ACB game, I am under the impression that players are allowed to let it fly quicker and more frequently from the perimeter than in other European leagues. There are a whole lot of three point specialists that have made a name for themselves in the league over the years,…
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 – ,…
Spain: Real Madrid kept its ACB win streak alive, improving to 6 and 0 behind a combined 28 points by the power forward tandem of Jorge Garbajosa and Novica Velickovic. A semi-fit Juan Carlos Navarro had 10 points for Barcelona in crunch time to put aside a tough CajaSol side, as Navarro’s outstanding…
Another weekend of basketball in Europe’s domestic leagues is highlighted by the fifth loss of Unicaja Malaga in ACB, yet another win for Montepaschi on top of Lega A, this time in Milan, a narrow Barcelona victory at Estudiantes, and Caja Laboral’s first loss of the ACB season, in Valencia.
Spain:…
The European basketball scene, with its more than a dozen leagues that could be considered as “important”, is too big for all of us to really be experts. Some of us might watch games from many leagues here an then, but those who don’t e.g. get paid for scouting hardly have the chance…
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.…
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