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 to come up with next. Patrick Beverley came completely out of the blue.

Here’s a collection of known Euroleague rosters, including qualification rounds. Faultlessness cannot be guaranteed, however, it should be okay to 99 percent. Teams not included are Orléans and Ventspils. I’ll try to add them later.

ARMANI JEANS MILANO

	PG Morris Finley	PG Hollis Price	PG/SG Marco Mordente
	SG/SF Alex Acker	SG/PG Luca Vitali	SG/SF Jeffrey Vigiani
	SF Jonas Maciulis	SF/PF Stefano Mancinelli
	PF/SF Mike Hall	PF/C Mason Rocca
	C Marijonas Petravicius	C/PF Maurice Taylor	C Joey Beard

Milano’s latest addition is former Olympiacos and Barcelona swingman Alex Acker, who recently spent a season warming the Detroit Pistons’ and Los Angeles Clippers’ bench. Acker had a promising rookie season with Olympiacos in 06/07, but never managed to fulfill the expectations in Spain. After the signing of Morris Finley from Montepaschi, it is yet undecided whether or not Hollis Price is about to stay. Strong small forwards Jonas Maciulis and Stefano Mancinelli team up at the three spot.

ASSECO PROKOM

	PG Daniel Ewing	PG Tyrone Brazelton	PG Tomasz Swietonski
	SG David Logan	SG/SF P. Zamojski
	SF Qyntel Woods	SF Mateusz Kstrzewski
	PF Ronnie Burrell	SF/PF Piotr Szczotka
	C Adam Hrycaniuk	C Adam Lapeta

Prokom managed to keep nearly all of its roster after reaching the Euroleague Top16 as well as winning the domestic championship. Nobody will ask for their record [2-14] in the Euroleague last season.

ASVEL VILLEURBANNE

	PG Bobby Dixon	PG Aymeric Jeanneau	PG Antoine Eito
	SG Mindaugas Lukauskis	SG Kevin Joss Rauze
	SF/SG Laurent Foirest	SF/SG Ben Dewar
	PF/SF Eric Campbell	PF/SF Kristjan Kangur
	C Curtis Borchardt	C/PF Ali Traore

Amary Sy is a recent significant departure, but ASVEL looks ready to go in the Euroleague after making three big offseason signings in Borchardt, Lukauskis, and Dixon.

BARCELONA

	PG Ricky Rubio [?]	PG Jaka Lakovic	PG Victor Sada
	SG Juan Carlos Navarro	SG/SF Roger Grimau
	SG/SF Gianluca Basile	SF Pete Mickeal	SF Lubos Barton
	PF Terence Morris	C/PF Fran Vazquez	PF Jordi Trias
	C/PF Erazem Lorbek	C Boniface N’Dong

Will he come or won’t he? Currently all the talk is about Ricky Rubio’s reported six year contract with the Catalans. If Rubio arrived, would Sada get the boot? Anyway, Barcelona once again buys a key player from CSKA, this time David Anderesen’s successor, Erazem Lorbek, who makes the frontcourt worlds stronger.

CAJA LABORAL

	PG Marcelinho Huertas	PG/SG Pau Ribas
	SG Carl English	SG Brad Oleson
	SF Walter Herrmann	SF/SG Fernando San Emeterio
	PF Mirza Teletovic	PF Lior Eliyahu
	C Tiago Splitter	C/PF Stanko Barac

Nothing is like it has been before at Caja Laboral, former TAU. With the departure of Pablo Prigioni to Real goes TAU’s heart and soul, even if this roster figures to be among the top four in ACB once again. The ACB debut of Lior Eliyahu is going to be interesting, as well as the high scoring combination of English and Oleson on the two spot. Tiago Splitter, without Prigioni, will have to work hard for every single bucket.

CSKA MOSCOW

	PG JR Holden	PG/SG Anton Ponkrashov
	SG Trajan Langdon	PG/SG Zoran Planinic	SG/PG Alexey Shved
	SF Ramunas Siskauskas	SG/SF Victor Keyru	SF/PF Nikita Kurbanov
	PF Matjaz Smodis	PF/SF Victor Khryapa	SF/PF A.Vorontsevich
	PF/C Aleksandar Kaun	C Dimtriy Sokolov

CSKA looks extremely weak on the center position, but pure class on the one to four starting slots should be more than enough to make this team a Euroleague quarter finalist. But more? We will see.

CIBONA

	PG/SG Jamont Gordon	PG/SG Vedran Princ
	SG/PG Antonio Graves	SG Goran Vrbanc	SG Robert Troha
	SF Marin Rozic	SF Bojan Bogdanovic	SF Toni Brnas
	PF Vedran Vukusic	PF Tomislav Zubcic
	C Dalibor Bagaric	PF/C Luksa Andric	PF/C Leon Radosevic

EFES PILSEN

	PG Kerem Tunceri	PG/SG Ender Arslan
	SG Igor Rakocevic	SG Charles Smith	SG Sinan Guler
	SG/SF Bootsy Thornton	SF Preston Shumpert
	PF/SF Bostjan Nachbar	PF/C Kerem Gonlum
	PF/C Kaya Peker	C Mario Kasun

Efes made big splashes this offseason, signing Rakocevic and Nachbar. However, both are rather defense-intolerant, and one must wonder whether or not chemistry is going to be an issue.

EWE BASKETS OLDENBURG

	PG Jason Gardner	PG/SG Daniel Hain
	SG/PG Je’Kel Foster	SG Marko Buljevic	SG Acha Njei
	SF/SG Rickey Paulding	SF Josh Carter
	PF Milan Majstorovic	PF Jasmin Perkovic	PF Daniel Strauch
	C Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje	C/PF Marko Scekic

Germany’s champion is a Euroleague newcomer, and they’re trying to succeed with basically last season’s championship roster, which is led by playmaker Jason Gardner and volume-scoring swingman Rickey Paulding.

FENERBAHCE

	PG Will Solomon	PG/SG Lynn Greer	PG Hakan Demirel
	SG Tarence Kinsey	SG Omer Onan	SG/PG Damir Mrsic
	SF/SG Gordan Giricek	SF/PF Emir Preldzic
	PF Mirsad Turkcan	PF/SF Rasim Basak
	C Oguz Savas	C Omer Asik	C Semih Erden

Another headline-maker this offseason, as it seems the 2010 World Championship has something to do with it. Lynn Greer joins from Olympiacos to form a high-scoring backcourt alongside Solomon, Kinsey, Mrsic and workhorse Onan. Center position is deep again, but with Turkcan, Solomon, Greer and Giricek on one team, will they be able to build chemistry?

KHIMKI MOSCOW

	PG Carlos Cabezas	PG Raul Lopez
	SG Keith Langford	SG Vitaly Fridzon
	SF Kelly McCarty	SF Sergey Toporov
	PF Paulius Jankunas	PF Fedor Dimitriev	PF/C Petr Gubanov
	C Robertas Javtokas	C Timofey Mozgov

Sergio Scariolo brought in Lopez and Cabezas, who he promptly appointed to the Spanish national team. Sergey Toporov is the latest signing to complete the roster. Paulius Jankunas will be expected to do a lot on the power forward position, and a lot will depend on whether or not he will be able to deliver. An interesting team without a real volume scorer, but with several important pieces.

LIETUVOS RYTAS

	PG Bojan Popovic	PG Marius Prekevicius	PG Evaldas Dainys [?]
	SG Steponas Babrauskas	SG Martynas Gecevicius
	SF Arturas Jomantas	SF Justinas Sinica
	PF/SF Donatas Zavackas	PF Dejan Borovnjak
	PF/C Milko Bjelica	C Aron Baynes	C Michailas Anisimovas

Rytas is going through tough times financially, so quite naturally this Euroleague season is going to be a hard one for them.

MACCABI TEL AVIV

	PG Andrew Wisniewski	PG/SG Raviv Limonad
	SF/SG Alan Anderson	SG/PG Derrick Sharp
	SF Chuck Eidson	SF Guy Pnini
	C/PF Stephane Lasme	SF/PF David Bluthenthal
	C D’Or Fischer	C/PF Maciej Lampe	C/PF Yaniv Green

Maccabi wants to rejoin Europe’s elite with a revamped roster that features EuroCup-MVP Chuck Eidson, Croatian league MVP Alan Anderson, and Partizan’s shotblocking sensation Stephane Lasme. However, starting point guard Andrew Wisniewski is hardly a Final Four calibre playmaker. What was Pini thinking?

MONTEPASCHI SIENA

	PG Terrell McIntyre	PG/SG Nikolaos Zisis
	SF/SG David Hawkins	SG Henry Domercant	SG/SF Marco Carraretto
	SF/SG Romain Sato	SF/SG David Moss
	PF Shaun Stonerook	PF/C Tomas Ress
	C Benjamin Eze	C/PF Ksystof Lavrinovic	C Luca Lechtaler

Once again, against all expectations, Siena was able to keep all key players except Rimantas Kaukenas [to Real Madrid], while adding Milano’s one-on-one talent David Hawkins, who will add more scoring power to the roster. Siena is to be calculated with.

OLYMPIACOS

	PG Theodoros Papaloukas	PG Milos Teodosic	PG Patrick Beverley
	SG/SF Von Wafer	SG/PG Yotam Halperin
	SF Josh Childress	SF Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
	SF/PF Linas Kleiza	PF Zoran Erceg [?]	C/PF Loukas Mavrokefalidis
	C Ioannis Bouroussis	C Nikola Vujcic	C Sofoklis Schortsanitis

Olympiacos made a lot of noise in the offseason, once again going on shopping tour on the NBA market and coming home with shooter Von Wafer and Lithuanian comboforward Linas Kleiza, who figures to start at the four. If Zoran Erceg gets indeed loaned to another team, the reds are without a pure power forward. However, highlight of the offseason was the signing of relatively unknown American point guard Patrick Beverley, who played in the Ukrainian B-league last season. Is he the reason why they boxed the 3+3 rule through the instances?

PANATHINAIKOS

	PG/SG Dimitris Diamantidis	PG Sarunas Jasikevicius	PG Nick Calathes
	PG/SG Vassilis Spanoulis	SG Drew Nicholas
	SF Stratos Perperoglou	SF/SG Milenko Tepic
	PF Antonis Fotsis	PF/C Kostas Tsartsaris
	C Nikola Pekovic	C/PF Mike Batiste	C Giorgi Shermadini

Panathinaikos added young Greek-American point guard Nick Calathes as well as Serbian point forward Milenko Tepic, while Dusan Kecman and Nikos Chatzivrettas had to leave. A nearly unchanged roster for the Euroleague champion.

PARTIZAN

	PG/SG Aleksandar Rasic	PG Vukasin Akelsic
		SG Petar Bozic	SG Stefan Sinovec
	SF/PF Jan Vesely	SF/PF S. Milosevic	SF Aleksandar Mitrovic
	PF Dejan Milojevic	PF/C Zarko Rakocevic	PF Sava Lesic
	C Aleks Maric	C Slavko Vranes

Partizan is still looking for a high volume scorer on the two spot, probably American, while Jan Vesely will try to adjust to a bigger role on the team. Center Aleks Maric will start as well as Dejan Milojevic, who is expected to lead this team into Top16.

REAL MADRID

	PG Pablo Prigioni	PG/SG Sergio Llull
	SG Louis Bullock	SG Rimantas Kaukenas
	SG/SF Travis Hansen	SG/SF Sergi Vidal	SF/PF Vladimir Dasic
	PF Jorge Garbajosa	PF Novica Velickovic
	PF/C Felipe Reyes	C Darius Lavrinovic	C T. Van den Spiegel

This depth chart is incomplete, as tecnically, Jeremiah Massey, Marko Tomas, Axel Hervelle and Lazaros Papadopoulos are all still on the roster. However, none of the four is expected to remain with Ettore Messina’s new team. Oh well. Anyway, the signings of Prigioni and Vidal leads this team on a new level, and the duel with Barca will definitely be worth watching.

UNICAJA MALAGA

	PG Omar Cook	PG Joseph Gomis
	SG Taquan Dean	SG Saul Blanco	SG Berni Rodriguez
	SF/SG Jiri Welsch	SF/PF Carlos Jimenez
	PF Giorgios Printezis	PF Guillem Rubio
	C Robert Archibald	PF/C Joel Freeland

Unicaja has to do without Thomas Kelati and Marcus Haislip, the team’s two best scorers last season, as well as local hero Carlos Cabezas.

UNION OLIMPIJA

	PG Vlado Ilievski	PG Dusan Djordjevic
	SG Saso Ozbolt	SG Jaka Klobucar
	SF/SG Matt Walsh	SG/SF Pawel Kikowski
		SF/PF Edin Bavcic
	C Vladimir Golubovic

Olimpija, having to do with a heavily reduced budget, already made a big offseason signing in Belgian league MVP Matt Walsh, as they are trying to cope with the key departures of Jasmin Hukic [Benetton] and Mirza Begic [Zalgiris].

VIRTUS ROMA

	PG/SG Ibrahim Jaaber	PG Jacopo Giachetti
	SG/SF Kennedy Winston
	SF Luigi Datome	SG/SF Ricky Minard
	PF Andre Hutson	PF Hervé Touré	PF/SF Alesandro Tonolli
	PF/C Angelo Gigli	C Andrea Crosariol

The Slovenian star duo Sani Becirovic and Primosz Brezec has left the team. Coming in to fill the void at shooting guard is former Panathinaikos, Turk Telekom and Real Madrid player Kennedy Winston while the club will try to bounce back from a truly disastrous 08/09 season that burned many bridges.

ZALGIRIS

	PG Mantas Kalnietis	PG Zygimatas Janavicius	PG Sarunas Vasiliauskas
	SG Marcus Brown	SG Arturas Milaknis	SG Martynas Pocius
	SF/SG Dainius Salenga
	PF Travis Watson	PF Tadas Klimavicius	PF Povilas Butkevicius
	C Mirza Begic	C Pavelas Cukinas

Under new ownership, Zalgiris has been very active in August, getting back Marcus Brown and Mantas Kalnietis as well as signing power forward Travis Watson and center Mirza Begic. Top16 suddenly doesn’t look out of reach anymore.

Qualification Round: [Missing: Orléans and Ventspils]

ALBA BERLIN

	PG Steffen Hamann	PG/SG Rashad Wright
	SG/SF Immanuell McElroy	SG Julius Jenkins	SG Oskar Fassler
	SF/SG Lee Cummard	SF/PF Philip Zwiener
	PF Kenan Bajramovic	PF Dragan Dojcin
	C Adam Chubb	C/PF Blagota Sekulic

ALBA did not re-sign Casey Jacobsen but went for the cheaper but also more risky Lee Cummard instead, who is coming straight out of college. While Wright, Sekulic and Dojcin all got contract extensions, the acquisition of do-it-all power forward Kenan Bajramovic is by far the BBL’s most spectacular offseason move.

ARIS

	PG Keydren Clark	PG Curtis Stinson	PG Nikos Argyropoulos
	SG/SF Nikos Chatzivrettas	SG/PG Spyros Mourtos
	SF/SG Jeremy Richardson	SF Kostas Papanikolaou	SF/PF L.Chrysikopoulos
	PF/SF Michalis Kakiouzis	PF/SF Nikos Barlos
	PF/C Dimos Dikoudis	C Andrew Betts	C Gaios Skordilis

Notes: Released SF/PF Ira Newble in August; Signed PF/SF Michalis Kakiouzis as a replacement

Aris added a lot of experience in Chatzivrettas, Dikoudis, and most recently, Kakiouzis. One of the remaining questions is the future of talented small forward Kostas Papanikolaou, who is reportedly chased after by Olympiacos, and, consequently, Panathinaikos.

BENETTON TREVISO

	SG/PG Davor Kus	PG Steven Markovic	PG/SG Roberto Rullo
	SG Gary Neal	SG Daniel Hackett
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	PF/SF Jasmin Hukic	PF CJ Wallace
	C Sandro Nicevic	PF/C Donatas Motiejunas

Davor Kus is hardly a pure playmaker, so one has to see how the backcourt combination with volume scorer Gary Neal is going to work. The most remarkable signing is clearly the addition of Lithuania’s forward/center hope Donatas Motiejunas, one of the big European basketball talents.

LE MANS

	PG Zach Wright	PG Antoine Diot
	SG Dewarick Spencer
	SF/SG Maleye N’Doye	SG/SF C.Lombahé-Kahudi
	PF/SF Marc Salyers	PF/C Thierry Rupert	PF/SF Antoine Gomis
	C JP Batista	C Guillaume Yango	C Negueba Samake

Le Mans is looking to have success with Roanne’s former championship-winning duo of Dewarick Spencer and Marc Salyers, in combination with the wild but talented playmaker Zach Wright.

MAROUSSI

	PG Billy Keys	PG Fanis Koumbouras	PG/SG Marios Batis
	PG/SG Jamon Gordon	SG Giorgios Diamantopoulos
	SF/SG Michalis Pelekanos	SF/PF Pat Calathes
	PF/SF Kosta Kaimakoglou	PF Dimitris Mavroeidis
	PF/C Jared Homan	C Levon Kendall

Maroussi lost the scary center tandem Glyniadakis – Mavrofekalidis to Olympiacos, but got Michalis Pelekanos on loan in return instead. While the successful power forward combo of Kaimakoglou and Mavroeidis is staying, the center duo of Homan and Kendall is sericeable but hardly game-changing, and Jamon Gordon simply isn’t good enough for Euroleague level.

SPIROU CHARLEROI

	PG Jerry Johnson	PG Jonathan Tabu	PG/SG Gerrit Major
	SG Justin Hamilton	SG/PG Chris Hill
	SF/SG Dwayne Broyles	SG/SF Nick Jacobson
	PF Wes Wilkinson	PF/C Len Matela	PF Sascha Massot
	C Jure Lalic	C Andre Riddick

Charleroi kept most of its championship-winning roster and is not going to back down in the Euroleague qualification. A nicely balanced team that should benefit off of having played together for a long time, especially this early in the season. Problematic: There’s a new coach. And: Is Nick Jacobson a worthy successor for Matt Walsh?