Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 1:44 pm  |  9 responses

Euroleague Weekly Review

Prokom gets a very important win.

by Erildas Budraitis

The Euroleague will have a new champion. It became clear after last year‘s champions, Panathinaikos Athens, lost in match against Regal Barcelona — its fourth loss in a row. In two weeks, we will know which eight teams will compete in the playoffs.

In the other Group E game, Partizan Belgrade topped Maroussi Athens (79-76) and tied Regal Barcelona with three wins. Maroussi is still close with two wins, so it‘s too early to relax. One thing in Group E is clear – Panathinaikos (0-4) is eliminated.

The most difficult situation is in Group F. Real Madrid and Efes Pilsen Istambul won very important home games, and now all four teams have the same record (2-2). In Group G CSKA Moscow and Asseco Prokom Gdynia hang ahead of the rest. Nonetheless, Zalgiris Kaunas survived in a game with Unicaja Malaga (89-84), so these two teams still have chance to fight for a place in the playoffs.

It looks like Group H leader Olympiakos Piraeus, which won all four Top 16 games, can feel safe and there will be battling for the second place in group. Caja Laboral Vitoria and Khimki Moscow Region, both of them have two wins and everything depends on last two Euroleague tours.

GAME OF THE WEEK

This week we will review the biggest Euroleague surprise – Asseco Prokom Gdynia, which won its third game in the Top 16. This time Asseco Prokom was able to defeat Qyntel Woodsone of Europe’s top teams, CSKA Moscow – 88-81.

The Poles started the game slowly and after first 6 minutes Russians were leading by 10 points (17-7). Despite bad start, Asseco Prokom took charge in the second quarter. After the first half Gdynia team had a 5-point advantage (48-43). In the second half CSKA regained the lead but Asseco Prokom had enough power to grab a victory.

“We won our third game in the group, but we have to remember that the road to advance is still long. I’m happy that we are closer, but we still have to be focused and ready to fight until the last game. I want to congratulate all my players because they were very ambitious tonight,” Tomas Pacesas, the head coach of Asseco Prokom, said. Yes, this season Poles are very ambitious, and we can guess what they are capable of – maybe advance to the Final four?

Former University of Indianapolis star David Logan led Asseco Prokom with 22 points and 4 assists. Qyntel Woods, former New York Knick, scored 19, Jan-Hendrick Jagla 18.

For CSKA, Trajan Langdon finished the game with 20 points and 6 rebounds, Ramunas Siskauskas scored 19 points and dished out 5 assists.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

This week’s MVP award goes to Cibona Zagreb’s guard JamontJamont Gordon Gordon. The playmaker scored season-high 32 points against Olympiakos Piraeus, grabbed 5 rebounds and dished out 4 assists (40 index ranking).

The second in this week’s ranking is Keith Langford from Khimki Moscow Region. Langford played excellent game against Caja Laboral Vitoria – 27 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists (27 index ranking). The third is CSKA Moscow’s guard Trajan Langon with 26 index ranking points.

Next week we should know team which teams will reserve places in the playoffs. Who will survive and who will be out?

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  • d.j. Posted: Feb.26 at 10:40 pm
    hahaha i wish they would have the toss up for the PTI guys to debate just once… ” toss up bigger surprise in the top 16 euroleague this year, Asseco or Partizan / “

  • d.j. Posted: Feb.26 at 10:42 pm
    bomccalebbisabeast.com Log In !!

  • d.j. Posted: Feb.26 at 10:43 pm
    Chuck Norris can kill a man in 20 diff ways, but Dusko Vujosevic can get a technical foul in 40…

  • DIMITRIS DIAMANTIDIS(click on my name) Posted: Feb.27 at 10:09 am
    Not much time so we’ll make it like SLAM NOYZ..:….who ever is not accustomed with European/Euroleague politics and how they can directly determine (not influence) game results better get a video copy of the Partizan-Marousi game….VUJOSEVIC is a great coach(are there serious doubts on this??)….Pelekanos is playing so good that will propably get back with our team(Olympiakos) next year(he is playing for Marousi on a loan).I am not that happy….it is one of the very few times (not to say the first) in the Obradovic era when PAO is playing better for a whole match than its opponent, has the control of the game till the end and finally is giving away the win.Inexplicable…..with PAO out of the way that means that we have a serious chance of REAL and BARCA making it both to Paris,which means they will definitely meet in the semis, which means they will be drained (mentally) for the final(always happens when 2 teams of the same country meet in the semis, only PANATHINAIKOS has ever managed to get the trophy under this scenario), which means that Olympiakos (after getting past CSKA in the other semi-final) will have a better chance against Barca OR definitelly win against Real. I bet on the first senario: Olympiakos – Barca in a final going down to the last play.
    PLAY OF THE WEEK: The refs had to help,of course, a little bit for Barcelona to win in Athens, but they no-way had the blatant/provocative impact one the game that the ones in Belgrade had (Partizan-Marousi). In this play Haislip is making a dunk that there are less than 10 people in the world(none in Europe) at the moment who can perform it: jumping on both legs( one foot out of the lane) he gets over Lorbek (6-11 best big man of Barca) and dunks with both hands !!! He is miracously called for a fault!!! I’ll give them (refs) the fact that they’ve never seen something like this in Europe so they coudn’t quickly understand what happened…the link follows:

  • DIMITRIS DIAMANTIDIS(click on my name) Posted: Feb.27 at 10:11 am
    HAISLIP OVER THE REFS!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFPZuJdOqD4

  • DIMITRIS DIAMANTIDIS(click on my name) Posted: Feb.27 at 10:12 am
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFPZuJdOqD4

  • zwerko Posted: Feb.27 at 12:42 pm
    @DIMITRIS DIAMANTIDIS: Crying about the refs, pathetic. His feet are set there is no hip movement and the hands are not forward… Go read the rulebook.

  • DIMITRIS DIAMANTIDIS(click on my name) Posted: Feb.27 at 7:46 pm
    @zwerko….:are you Serb or just pretend to be…? LORBEK is standing INSIDE the f…ng CIRCLE !!!(no fault can be called according to the rules)

  • kibic Posted: Feb.28 at 5:20 am
    Greeks are The best BB players on earth. We all know this. Ban DD while it is still time!

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