IN THE GAME

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 – ,…

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…

Again I am summarising league action from all around Europe for you, referring to the most important games and just about everything else I take notice of. The last significant domestic basketball league to tip off its regular season was Greek A1, where the first gameday was highlighted by the appearance of a…

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.…

The lottery was yesterday, draft night is next. On 25th of June, the NBA will assign franchise rights on the next sixty prospects, and among them will be a number of players that have already left an impression in European basketball. The European contribution has certainly been stronger in several drafts before 2009,…

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