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Quarter Finals Game 4 Roundup

Quarter Finals Game 4 Roundup

Posted 02 April 2010 | By J. | Categories: Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, notes, statistics | View Comments

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…

Quarter Finals Game 3 Roundup

Quarter Finals Game 3 Roundup

Posted 01 April 2010 | By J. | Categories: Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, statistics | View Comments

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…

Quarter Finals Game 1 and 2 Roundup

Quarter Finals Game 1 and 2 Roundup

Posted 29 March 2010 | By J. | Categories: Barcelona, CSKA, Caja Laboral, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Partizan, Prokom, Real Madrid, notes, statistics | View Comments

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…

Maccabi Tel Aviv: Back in business after year off

Maccabi Tel Aviv: Back in business after year off

Posted 08 March 2010 | By J. | Categories: 2010 Playoff/F4-Preview, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, statistics | View Comments

Subject of my fifth in-depth analysis of Euroleague quarter finalists is Isreaeli basketball powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv, who recently qualified via an emphatic 97:82-home victory over Montepaschi Siena and Real Madrid’s parallel victory in Istanbul over Efes Pilsen.

Maccabi hadn’t exactly been a favourite for quarter final participation after a less-than-encouraging…

What the adjusted oncourt/offcourt Euroleague stats tell us

What the adjusted oncourt/offcourt Euroleague stats tell us

Posted 05 January 2010 | By J. | Categories: Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Montepaschi, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, notes, statistics | View Comments

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…

Busy midseason transfer market

Busy midseason transfer market

Posted 04 January 2010 | By J. | Categories: ALBA, Aris, Euroleague, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, notes, statistics | View Comments

While Euroleague and EuroCup have been taking a Christmas/New Year’s break, the winter transfer market has been fairly busy. Especially in Greece, where Olympiacos acquired Scoony Penn, while Aris signed Ivan Paunic at the expense of Juan Dixon, and Dragan Labovic at power forward. Finally, no Jeremiah Massey for them. Meanwhile, Maccabi is…

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 – ,…

Early season notes

Early season notes

Posted 17 October 2009 | By J. | Categories: Adrialeague, Euroleague, French League, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maroussi, Real Madrid, Spanish League, notes | View Comments

While they are still debating replacement referees and new traveling rules overseas, the basketball season has already started in several European leagues – ACB, Lega A, Adrialeague and even Euroleague, among others – , and here are some observations I want to share with you: highly subjective, unfiltered, and, as always, more than…

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.…

The NBA Draft from a European perspective

The NBA Draft from a European perspective

Posted 22 May 2009 | By J. | Categories: Barcelona, Fenerbahce Ulker, Maccabi Tel Aviv, NBA, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid, Roma, notes | View Comments

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,…