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1. You are idiot
2. Last year PAO play Euroleague without their centers and have 6-8 center and 6-5 power forward. I guess for you this never happen.
3. Planinic and Lorbek is better players I think than Siska and maybe Morris also. Zizic? No. He is more talent maybe then any player in CSKA but he is big failure even eyes of Greeks. He is one of major disappointment in all Europe.
4. CSKA is still maybe #3 or #4 team in Euroleague still but Olympiacos should be better then them this year and so should PAO. And I never say Olympiacos was better team then them last year.
5. Yes I am talk about talents of teams and "on papers" abilities.
Olympiacos have some great players like Bourousis, Childress, Vasilopoulos, and Pelekanos. Printezis also is player with good potential but still role player. Then they have the champion level role players like Greer, Papaloukas, Halperin, Vujcic and even some other ones can help like Sofo, Erceg and such. Childress, Vasilo and Bourousis is in premiere group of players in all Europe - I assume for Childress but we still have to see.
PG Papaloukas/Greer/Milosevic
SG Pelekanos/Halperin/Teodosic
SF Childress/Printezis
PF Vasilopoulos/Erceg/Vouyoukas
C Bourousis/Vujcic/Sofo
These is rotation that should be able handle CSKA I believe. Even if Papaloukas is still decline Greer is ok to bring ball up court with such scorers around him. Olympiacos team is much more athletic team with also they have much better depth with big players then CSKA.
CSKA is very good team still. Lorbek is better then Andersen who leave and Planinic is now better then Papaloukas and they replace these players. Also Morris is better then Goree and he replace him. CSKA also have some young players that is keep get better and is NBA players in future probably and they add player like Keyru and he is solid. Khyrapa keep get better also. Siska, Holden, Langdon, Smodis these key players is in prime of career. Zisis is maybe most talent player on team but he is huge disappointment. In Greece he is joke. Such talent and so great at such young age and every year he get worse ever since Varejao break his face bones. Maybe he will come back but I doubt this. He is still very good backup player though and would be starter in even most of best teams in Europe. Savraksenko also good backup.
PG Holden/Zisis/Shved
SG Langdon/Planinic
SF Siskauskas/Khryapa/Keyru
PF Smodis/Morris/Vorontsevich
C Lorbek/Savrasenko/Kaun
This is even better team then from before the team that make 3 straigh Euroleague finals and win 2 of them. But even though is better team new Olympiacos team look better to me. Much more athletic team and more players can create own shot and also they have more players with size for ever role needed. Both teams has excellent coaches. Just seem similar teams and very good and among best ever but Oly is much better in athlete aspects. Also Oly have some much better one verse one defenders with players like Vasilo and Childress and Pelekanos. CSKA has no defenders as good as they is.
For compare PAO to CSKA I do not think will be close this time. Last year PAO lose both centers in Euroleague because of injury and this why team was eliminate. If team stay healthy plus with current roster is by far best team in Euroleague. Much better then CSKA. Even CSKA is better then last year which they is in talent it not matter. Real is also very very strong this year we will see how they do.
Best team should be PAO. This time I not think Obradovic will make mistake of have Saras be key player. he learn about this mistake already. Now he will be in role he should be. Players like him and Diamantidis is role players not players who should be key stars. I think Obradovic understand this by now. Also last season our two centers were injure and not play in Euroleague and this is why we lost. So if we not have injuries it will be fine. We add Nicholas and Pekovic and Fotsis and Verginis. We just need stay healthy and everything will be fine for us. Greek Cup and Euroleague will be hard to win but Greek championship is no issue. Olympiacos I do not think can win us in 5 game series, one game yes but in 5 I do not believe they can beat us. And even in Cup and Euroleague we should be favored team.
PG Diamantidis/Jasikevicius/Tatarounis
SG Spanoulis/Nicholas/Verginis
SF Perperoglou/Hatzivrettas/Kecman
PF Fotsis/Tsartsaris/Sakota/Alvertis
C Batiste/Pekovic
So PAO have superstar player for Euroleague level with Spanoulis and then ones that is top stars for this level like Pekovic, Batiste. Fotsis and then ones that is not in that level but is still players would be franchise player in most Euroleague teams like Nicholas, Diamantidis, Jasikevicius and even champion type role players like Hatzivrettas and Tsartsaris. And then PAO have Perperoglou which is young player and inexperience and will start at SF. Can be see as only weakness of PAO. But Perperoglou is one of very most talent players in all Europe and one of most talent Greek players ever. So "weakness" of team may become very best part along with Spanoulis.
Other teams will be very strong like Real, TAU, Barcelona, Siena, Maccabi and I think Real and Siena should be much in same class as CSKA, Oly, PAO this year as favorites for final four.
