The ULEB Euroleague thread

[velik_m]

site: http://www.euroleague.net

Efes Pilsen - Prokom 71 - 67
Le Mans - Climamio Bologna 82 - 71
Olympiacos - Tau Ceramica 97 - 78 (Scola 7pts 3rebs in 21min (http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=3))
Dynamo Moscow - RheinEnergie 75 - 68
Lottomatica Roma - Partizan 65 - 60
Maccabi Elite - Unicaja 106 - 101
DKV Joventut - Panathinaikos 79 - 82 (Javtokas 1reb in 4min (http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=7))
Eldo Basket Napoli - CSKA Moscow 64 - 74
Aris TT Bank - Fenerbahce Ulker 66 - 58
Pau-Orthez - Winterthur FC Barcelona 66 - 72 (Mahinmi 9pts 5rebs in 17min (http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=11))
Benetton Treviso - Zalgiris 95 - 82
Cibona - Union Olimpija 77 - 61

i just thought this competition deserves its own thread.

[velik_m]

Mahoric, the coach of Olimpija has resigned.

[angel_luv]

Are any of the Slovenian national team members a part of any of those teams?

[TDMVPDPOY]

javtokas and scola :(:( they have gone on the downhill since WC :(:(

[velik_m]

Are any of the Slovenian national team members a part of any of those teams?

yes.

Smodis (CSKA)
Lakovic (Barcelona)
Becirovic (Panathinaikos)
E. Lorbek (Unicaja)

and Olimpija (Milic, Ozbolt, D. Lorbek) is a slovenian team.

[Texas_Ranger]

Olimpija sucks big. What problems do their organization`s got, it is just a big disaster.

[velik_m]

Tau Ceramica - Dynamo Moscow 77 - 61 (Scola 12pts 8rebs 5 asts in 29 min)
Climamio Bologna - Olympiacos 86 - 93
Union Olimpija - Lottomatica Roma 83 - 72
Panathinaikos - Cibona 86 - 69 (Javtokas 5pts 1 reb in 18 min)
Unicaja - DKV Joventut 66 - 68
Partizan - Maccabi Elite 103 - 91
Zalgiris - Eldo Basket Napoli 83 - 65
Fenerbahce Ulker - Pau-Orthez 66 - 68 (Mahinmi 2pts 1 reb in 5 min)
CSKA Moscow - Aris TT Bank 83 - 68
RheinEnergie - Efes Pilsen 68 - 82
Prokom - Le Mans 69 - 67
Winterthur FC Barcelona - Benetton Treviso 82 - 69

[Texas_Ranger]

Superb. Olimpija finally won.

[angel_luv]

Superb. Olimpija finally won.


:clap :)

[themvp]

Superb. Olimpija finally won.


I like the new coach. He's got some authority and that all those bunch of players need.

Hope they'll win some more Euroleague games.

[velik_m]

Fuck Olimpija. The players were just happy they actually got some money. I'm glad they've beaten Italians though.

[angel_luv]

Olimpija won again, didn't they?

[Bruno]

Olimpija won again, didn't they?

They play tomorrow agaisnt a greek team (Javtokas' team).

[Bruno]

Game 3 :

RheinEnergie - Tau Ceramica : 70-102 (Scola 21 points and 4 rebounds in 23 min)
DKV Joventut - Partizan : 82-51
Olimpija - Panathinaikos : 65-86 (Javtokas 5 points and 4 rebounds in 11 min)
Eldo Napoli - Aris TT Bank : 71-69
Pau-Orthez - CSKA Moscow : 73-67 (Mahinmi 4 points and 6 rebounds in 13 min)
Benetton - Fenerbahce Ulker : 93-83

[TDMVPDPOY]

what are the standings atm?

[velik_m]

Great win for Pau, CSKA is a good team. Scola is in good shape - he had a good game against Barcelona in spanish league too.

standings: http://www.euroleague.net/main/standings (it's early days though, don't read too much into it)

[Texas_Ranger]

Too bad that Olimpija lost again. thay played great three quarters.

[themvp]

Too bad that Olimpija lost again. thay played great three quarters.

:lol

They have to play great for 40 minutes, but winning Panathinaikos is unreal for Union Olimpija with roster they have right now. Only bright spot yesterday was Marko Milic, 19pts and 13reb :king

[angel_luv]

Too bad that Olimpija lost again. thay played great three quarters.


Aw man! I was rooting for them too! Next game they win. :)

[velik_m]

Still day 3:

Olympiacos - Prokom 97 - 74
Efes Pilsen - Le Mans 53 - 64
Dynamo Moscow - Climamio Bologna 78 - 73
Cibona - Unicaja 87 - 83
(this was a crazy game, Cibona was leading for 20 pts at one point in the 3rd qtr, but Unicaja had an incredible last qtr (20-5) and forced the OT and then lost...)
Zalgiris - Winterthur FCB 86 - 92
Maccabi Elite - Lottomatica Roma 78 - 65

[velik_m]

Tau Ceramica - Efes Pilsen 68 - 65 (Scola 17pts 5rebs 1ast in 25min)
Climamio Bologna - RheinEnergie 86 - 90
Prokom - Dynamo Moscow 60 - 49
Panathinaikos - Lottomatica Roma 87 - 71 (Javtokas 1blk in 3min)
Partizan - Cibona 101 - 92
Winterthur FCB - Eldo Napoli 91 - 71
Fenerbahce Ulker - Zalgiris 84 - 75
CSKA Moscow - Benetton Treviso 83 - 67
Aris TT Bank - Pau-Orthez 74 - 72 (Mahinmi 4pts 3rebs 1blk in 10min)
Le Mans - Olympiacos 81 - 88
Unicaja - Union Olimpija 62 - 55
Maccabi Elite - DKV Joventut 92 - 75

[TDMVPDPOY]

wtf is wrong with javtokas? his been doin shit since his move to the greek club....

pau with another loss, they seem to lose there games by 2-4 pts....

[Pistons < Spurs]

Le Mans - Olympiacos 81 - 88



Alex Acker!!!!!!!

[Bruno]

wtf is wrong with javtokas? his been doin shit since his move to the greek club....

He needs to learn how to play with this new team because Pana's coach (Obradovic) plays team basketball.



pau with another loss, they seem to lose there games by 2-4 pts....

Pau has made a very good start (2-2) given that their schedule was really difficult and that their goal is to finish the first step at 6-8 to rech the second step (top 16).

[Bruno]

Alex Acker!!!!!!!

Acker has been really impressive so far in europe. If he continues like that, he will be back soon in nba.

[angel_luv]

Hey, didn't Saso re- injure his knee? Any update on how he is?

[velik_m]

Hey, didn't Saso re- injure his knee? Any update on how he is?

Saso is out for the season. He came back too soon and reinjured himself. I was sceptical of his fast recovery and sadly i was right. :(

[angel_luv]

Poor Saso. :(

[velik_m]

Efes Pilsen - Olympiacos 95 - 77
Dynamo Moscow - Le Mans 74 - 57
RheinEnergie - Prokom 84 - 80
Tau Ceramica - Climamio Bologna 90 - 80 (Scola on fire: 26pts 2 rebs 2 asts 2stl in 25min)
Cibona - Maccabi Elite 87 - 82 (not as close as it looks)
Panathinaikos - Unicaja 87 - 72 (Javtokas 2pts 3 rebs in 7min)
Eldo Napoli - Pau-Orthez 84 - 96 (Ian 2pts 2 rebs in 8 min)
Zalgiris - CSKA Moscow 59 - 78
Lottomatica Roma - DKV Joventut 71 - 69
Union Olimpija - Partizan 70 - 71
Benetton Treviso - Aris TT Bank 64 - 42 (wtf?)
Winterthur FCB - Fenerbahce Ulker 84 - 70

Olimpija players will go on strike, if they don't get payed by December 1st. :lol

[velik_m]

GROUP A

Efes Pilsen - Climamio 72-74
Prokom - Tau Ceramica 70-75 (Scola 15pts 10 rebs 2ast 1stl 4to in 28min)
RheinEnergie - Le Mans 73-79
Olympiacos - Dynamo M. 86-73

GROUP B

Maccabi Elite - U. Olimpija 110-87
DKV Joventut - Cibona 83-73
Lottomatica - Unicaja 65-71
Partizan - Panathinaikos 65-73 (Javtokas 2pts 1 stl in 3mins)

GROUP C

CSKA M. - Winterthur FCB 76-57
Eldo Napoli - Fenerbahce 78-83
Aris TT Bank - Zalgiris 73-66
Pau-Orthez - Benetton 73-86 (Mahinmi 4pts 2rebs in 10 mins)

*******
CSKA, Panathinaikos and Tau look like the best teams out there and will probably fight for the title in the end.

also CSKA has the best looking cheerleaders of any team in any sport. :tu

[boutons_]

How is Planninic doing back in Europe?

Do you Euros think he can or wants to come back later to NBA?

[Bruno]

How is Planninic doing back in Europe?

12 pts, 5 asssists in one of the best team in europe (TAU).



Do you Euros think he can or wants to come back later to NBA?

Don't know. He is maybe bot athletic enough to play in nba.
The player who should be back in nba soon is Alex Acker. He is playing great in euroleague (16 pts/8rbds/3as), it's very impressive for a euro rookie.

[Bruno]

Results of game 7 :

Cibona - Lottomatica Roma 91 - 84
Zalgiris -Pau-Orthez 106 - 110 : great game, double OT, Mahinmi (2pts, 4rbds, 3TO, 2PF, 3 fouls against in 9 min)
Dynamo Moscow - Efes Pilsen 90 - 83
RheinEnergie - Olympiacos 81 - 88
Le Mans - Tau Ceramica 76 - 79 : Scola (17pts, 9rbds, 2ast, 1TO, 2PF, 6 fouls against in 25 min)
Climamio Bologna - Prokom 77 - 91
Union Olimpija - DKV Joventut 67 - 69
Panathinaikos - Maccabi Elite 90 - 88 : Javtokas (2 pts, 1st, 1 TO, 1 foul against in 4 min)
Unicaja - Partizan 66 - 58
Benetton Treviso - Eldo Napoli 64 - 70
Winterthur FCB - Aris TT Bank 86 - 83
Fenerbahce Ulker - CSKA Moscow 64 - 74


It's the half of Euroleague's first stage.
Standings :

Group A
Olympiacos 6-1
Tau Ceramica 6-1
Dynamo Moscow 4-3
Efes Pilsen 3-4
Le Mans 3-4
Prokom 3-4
RheinEnergie 2-5
Climamio Bologna 1-6

Group B
Panathinaikos 7-0
Maccabi Elite 4-3
DKV Joventut 4-3
Cibona 4-3
Unicaja 3-4
Partizan 3-4
Lottomatica Roma 2-5
Union Olimpija 1-6

Group C
CSKA Moscow 6-1
Winterthur FCB 6-1
Benetton Treviso 4-3
Pau-Orthez 4-3
Aris TT Bank 3-4
Fenerbahce Ulker 2-5
Eldo Napoli 2-5
Zalgiris 1-6

First 5 teams of each group and the best 6th are qualified for the next round (top16).
TAU (Scola) and Panathinakos (Javtokas) will easily be qualified for the next step, Pau-Orthez(Mahinmi) has good chances too to rech the top16.


Scola (16 pts, 6rbds in 25 min) come back well from his PF injury. He is still one of the best player in Europe. It will be interesting to see what he will do in few month when he will be back at 100%.

Mahinmi (4 pts, 3 rbds in 10 min) has had a bad start of the season. Even if stats don't show it for the moment, he is playing better for few weeks. He should likely have better stats in the following weeks even if Mahinmi will have some difficulties to get a lot of PT because Pau is stacked at PF/C.

Javtokas (2 pts, 1rbds in 7min) doesn't get a lot of playtime with one of the best team in europe. From what I've heard, his coach don't like his lack of BB skills/fundamentals/IQ. He will maybe have more playtime when he will know better Panathinaikos' system.

[velik_m]

Scola plays better this year than last year, there seems to be much more "fire" in his game. I haven't seen Javtokas or Mahinmi yet this year.

Milic is playing stellar this year, too bad his talent is wasted on a crapy team like Olimpija. Smodis (CSKA), Becirovic (Panathinaikos) and Lakovic (FC Barcelona) are having a good year too. E. Lorbek is also playing well, but he's buried to deep in Unicaja rotation.

Teams will need about 6 wins to qualify for top16. (based on previous years)

Pau has a good group, the quality is pretty even (with the exeption of CSKA and FCB). I think they should make the top 16.

[themvp]

Milic is playing stellar this year, too bad his talent is wasted on a crapy team like Olimpija.


12 pts,8 reb in first 8 minutes wow, but he's got no help from teammates

Props to Milic.

[Bruno]

Mahinmi has a thigh injury and is out for 3 weeks.

[angel_luv]

Milic is playing stellar this year, too bad his talent is wasted on a crapy team like Olimpija. Smodis (CSKA), Becirovic (Panathinaikos) and Lakovic (FC Barcelona) are having a good year too. E. Lorbek is also playing well, but he's buried to deep in Unicaja rotation.



It's good to hear they are doing well. I wish I could see their games.

[velik_m]

RheinEnergie - Dynamo Moscow 82 - 96
Union Olimpija - Cibona 92 - 88 (whoever said white man can't jump, obviously never saw Milic)
Prokom - Efes Pilsen 74 - 81
Climamio Bologna - Le Mans 83 - 71
Tau Ceramica - Olympiacos 89 - 74 (Scola 11pts (mostly fts) 2reb 1ast 1stl in 21 min)
Partizan - Lottomatica Roma 73 - 63
Unicaja - Maccabi Elite 67 - 83
Panathinaikos - DKV Joventut 83 - 73 (Javtokas 1pt in 6min)
CSKA Moscow - Eldo Napoli 82 - 72
Fenerbahce Ulker - Aris TT Bank 80 - 86
Winterthur FCB - Pau-Orthez 93 - 75 (Ian DNP - see http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1326040&postcount=36)
Zalgiris - Benetton Treviso 76 - 86

You can get video review of previus week(s) here: http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/4862/180/regular-season-game-7-video-review

(top 10 actions, highlights of week's MVP)

[ata]

Union Olimpija - Cibona 92 - 88 (whoever said white man can't jump, obviously never saw Milic)

Davor Kus (Cibona) matched a Euroleague record by going 17-for-17 from the free-throw line (obviously no Spurs material :spin )

[velik_m]

Efes Pilsen - RheinEnergie 91 - 76
Eldo Napoli - Zalgiris 92 - 87
Pau-Orthez - Fenerbahce Ulker 89 - 67 (Mahinmi DNP)
Dynamo Moscow - Tau Ceramica 78 - 82 (Scola 24pts 7reb 2ast 1bl in 36min)
Olympiacos - Climamio Bologna 94 - 67
Le Mans - Prokom 73 - 84
Lottomatica Roma - Union Olimpija 84 - 74
Cibona - Panathinaikos 75 - 78 (Javtokas DNP)
DKV Joventut - Unicaja 105 - 52 :wow
Maccabi Elite - Partizan 85 - 83
Benetton Treviso - Winterthur FCB 68 - 67
Aris TT Bank - CSKA Moscow 62 - 65

[TDMVPDPOY]

seriously whats the point of havin mahinmi on the team if they are not goin to give him minutes......this is as worst than milicic stuck on the bench with the pistons at least he got to trained with the pistons and shown whats he learnt given the playing time on the magic.

we need to bring him over now.

[ChumpDumper]

Well, not now. I don't think I could stand three string bean centers in Austin. I also don't know if he's any better than Anthony Fuqua right now.

But yes, he needs to be somewhere where he's getting good PT.

[Bruno]

seriously whats the point of havin mahinmi on the team if they are not goin to give him minutes.......

First, He is injured.
Second, if you had to blame somebody fo Mahinmi lack of PT, it's Mahinmi. He was the starting center at the start of the season but he has not been good enough. Now he is the backup and play 10mpg.
10 mpg isn't a lot but I rather have Mahinmi playing 10mpg against good players than 20mpg (he can't really play more because of foul trouble) against scrubs.

[velik_m]

Aris TT Bank - Eldo Napoli 80 - 72
Lottomatica Roma - Maccabi Elite 88 - 81
Unicaja - Cibona 73 - 67
Le Mans - Efes Pilsen 67 - 71
Climamio Bologna - Dynamo Moscow 80 - 101
Partizan - DKV Joventut 74 - 83
Panathinaikos - Union Olimpija 83 - 74 (Javtokas 2pts 1reb 1as 1st in 9 min)
CSKA Moscow - Pau-Orthez 78 - 58 (Mahinmi 6pts 2reb 1stl in 16 min)
Winterthur FCB - Zalgiris 84 - 67
Prokom - Olympiacos 64 - 73
Tau Ceramica - RheinEnergie 97 - 68 (Scola 17pts 5reb 1as 2stl in 26 min)
Fenerbahce Ulker - Benetton Treviso 70 - 58

[Bruno]

Pau-Orthez has signed Melvin Sanders. He will only play for the euroleague (he can't play in the french league because there are a limited number of american player per team).

Mike Bauer (an american PF) will leave the team before the end of the month, it should open some playtime for Mahinmi even if he has a lot of difficulties for the moment.

Pau looks like more and more like Spurs european DLeague team : Britton Johnsen, Melvin Sanders, Mahinmi, a Spurs' physical trainer and a coach who works for Spurs during summers.

[angel_luv]

I am glad Melvin found a team to play for. :)

[velik_m]

Efes Pilsen - Tau Ceramica 78 - 84 (Scola 17pts 4rebs 3as in 25min)
RheinEnergie - Climamio Bologna 78 - 90
Olympiacos - Le Mans 80 - 76
Lottomatica Roma - Panathinaikos 69 - 79 (Javtokas 5pts 4rebs in 9min)
Union Olimpija - Unicaja 87 - 59
DKV Joventut - Maccabi Elite 98 - 92
Eldo Napoli - Winterthur FCB 66 - 64
Dynamo Moscow - Prokom 95 - 74
Cibona - Partizan 89 - 72
Zalgiris - Fenerbahce Ulker 70 - 83
Benetton Treviso - CSKA Moscow 60 - 68
Pau-Orthez - Aris TT Bank 77 - 62 (Mahinmi 8pts 5rebs in 12min)

standings:
A
Tau Ceramica 10 1 921 817 104
Olympiacos 9 2 947 864 83
Dynamo Moscow 7 4 870 822 48
Efes Pilsen 6 5 842 809 33
Prokom 4 7 807 842 -35
Le Mans 3 8 793 825 -32
Climamio Bologna 3 8 867 940 -73
RheinEnergie 2 9 838 966 -128

B
Panathinaikos 11 0 914 800 114
DKV Joventut 7 4 884 803 81
Maccabi Elite 6 5 988 944 44
Cibona 5 6 895 895 0
Partizan 4 7 811 859 -48
Lottomatica Roma 4 7 797 846 -49
Unicaja 4 7 772 868 -96
Union Olimpija 3 8 815 861 -46

C
CSKA Moscow 10 1 828 704 124
Winterthur FCB 8 3 872 797 75
Benetton Treviso 6 5 810 796 14
Pau-Orthez 6 5 857 855 2
Aris TT Bank 5 6 765 794 -29
Fenerbahce Ulker 4 7 808 841 -33
Eldo Napoli 4 7 805 873 -68
Zalgiris 1 10 857 942 -85

top5 from each group and top 6th placed team go through to final16.
there are 3 more games to be played.

[velik_m]

DKV Joventut - Lottomatica Roma 72 - 83
Aris TT Bank - Benetton Treviso 65 - 60
Olympiacos - Efes Pilsen 72 - 91
Le Mans - Dynamo Moscow 69 - 70
Prokom - RheinEnergie 72 - 61
Climamio Bologna - Tau Ceramica 90 - 82 (Scola 18pts 5rebs 3as in 33min)
Maccabi Elite - Cibona 91 - 83
Partizan - Union Olimpija 106 - 60 :loser
Unicaja - Panathinaikos 67 - 61 (Javtokas 2pts in 6min)
Pau-Orthez - Eldo Napoli 68 - 72 (Ian 2pts 2rebs in 10min)
CSKA Moscow - Zalgiris 88 - 72
Fenerbahce Ulker - Winterthur FCB 82 - 69

Milic (Olimpija) was "loaned" to Real Madrid (plays in ULEB cup) till the end of season.
Smodis injured himself (back)

[velik_m]

Winterthur FCB - CSKA Moscow 70 - 78
Tau Ceramica - Prokom 76 - 64
Cibona - DKV Joventut 77 - 74
Dynamo Moscow - Olympiacos 84 - 69
Climamio Bologna - Efes Pilsen 74 - 76
Le Mans - RheinEnergie 69 - 60
Union Olimpija - Maccabi Elite 77 - 75
Unicaja - Lottomatica Roma 68 - 66
Panathinaikos - Partizan 80 - 93
Benetton Treviso - Pau-Orthez 87 - 66
Fenerbahce Ulker - Eldo Napoli 88 - 93
Zalgiris - Aris TT Bank 77 - 66

standings:
A
Tau Ceramica 11 2
Dynamo Moscow 9 4
Olympiacos 9 4
Efes Pilsen 8 5
Prokom 5 8
Climamio Bologna 4 9
Le Mans 4 9
RheinEnergie 2 11

B
Panathinaikos 11 2
Maccabi Elite 7 6
DKV Joventut 7 6
Partizan 6 7
Cibona 6 7
Unicaja 6 7
Lottomatica Roma 5 8
Union Olimpija 4 9

C
CSKA Moscow 12 1
Winterthur FCB 8 5
Benetton Treviso 7 6
Pau-Orthez 6 7
Aris TT Bank 6 7
Eldo Napoli 6 7
Fenerbahce Ulker 5 8
Zalgiris 2 11

bolded teams are already through.
last round next week.

[ArgSpursFan]

Scola is the best Euroleague player by farrrr
to bad the spurs don´t think the same.

[TDMVPDPOY]

at best i think scola>oberto, wtf gives a shit if he has no hops, at least we can use him like the lakers did with malone, slap slap defense :D