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Stat of the week: Top Euroleague rebounders

Stat of the week: Top Euroleague rebounders

Posted 19 November 2009 | By J. | Categories: Efes, Euroleague, Olympiacos, Unicaja, notes, statistics | View Comments

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 early season review

Euroleague early season review

Posted 14 November 2009 | By J. | Categories: Barcelona, Caja Laboral, Efes, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Montepaschi, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid, Roma, Rytas, notes | View Comments

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 – ,…

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

09/10 Euroleague rosters revisited

Posted 27 August 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ALBA, ASVEL, Aris, Barcelona, Benetton, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Charleroi, Cibona, Efes, Euroleague, Fenerbahce Ulker, Khimki, Le Mans, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maroussi, Montepaschi, Oldenburg, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, Rytas, Unicaja, Union Olimpija, Zalgiris | View Comments

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…

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

A too early evaluation of the 2009 summer transfer movement

Posted 16 July 2009 | By J. | Categories: AJ Milano, ASVEL, Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Efes, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Montepaschi, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Partizan, Real Madrid, Unicaja, Zalgiris | View Comments

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.…

Euroleague Gameday 4: CSKA Moscow vs. Efes Pilsen Istanbul

Posted 14 November 2008 | By J. | Categories: CSKA, Efes, Euroleague, game reports | View Comments
Just a few remarks on last Wednesday’s game between CSKA and Efes Pilsen. As for now, the Russians are definitely favourites number one on winning the trophy in Berlin come May. They are playing almost flawless team basketball. Not the most complicated schemes actually, but headcoach Ettore Messina is a master

Euroleague Gameday 3: Efes vs. Panionios

Posted 08 November 2008 | By J. | Categories: Efes, Euroleague, game reports | View Comments
Efes Pilsen was widely expected to win this one after their gritty performances in the first two games and the guest’s blowout losses to Real and CSKA in the Euroleague and Panathinaikos in the Greek A1. However, Panionios, playing without key players Zoloski, Cvetkovic and Giannoulis, had an impressive allround effort, going at