The Euroleague thread

[ChApU#5]

Originally Posted by Linas

And yeah, impressive shooting by Casey. Its both quantity and quality for Tau. Keeping in mind that Vitoria has more players that can step up and hit some big threes, you may assuredly say its the team with one of the best 3-point shooting in Euroleague now. Add David with Scola, and its almost certain they will be in the top4.

Yeah, Casey's game is really impressive...last games in Euroleague he's playing very well, last game against AEK he scored 20 if I'm not wrong.But he needs to be more regular...sometimes he don't score to much but he can defend very well!
True that we have 3 of the 4 SG or F that can shot very good, Travis Hansen (who is injuried right now, but probably will play in the next game), Serkan Erdogan and Jacobsen....and except Erdogan I think that with Hansen and Jacobsen + Vidal we have a very good defense too.

The rest of the team, is very good, there's no doubt about that but I have to say that I don't have to much confiance in this team this year, I see very dificult to repeat what we did last year.I don't see the team like the last years we saw.

I hope I'm wrong and we'll be in the Final4 but sincerily...I don't think so.

[eisho]

Edska:
Do you have any idea what's happening with Stelmahers ? I saw he didn't play the game against Efes Pilsen, is he injured ? Will he play against Maccabi ?

Thanks :)

[Petar Schling]

Originally Posted by ChApU#5

The rest of the team, is very good, there's no doubt about that but I have to say that I don't have to much confiance in this team this year, I see very dificult to repeat what we did last year.I don't see the team like the last years we saw.

I hope I'm wrong and we'll be in the Final4 but sincerily...I don't think so.

With Splitter stepping up know you have the best Frontline in the Euroleague. Erdogan is not stable, but one of the best shooters in the tournament. an wiht Hansen back you`'ll be not much weaker than last year. Tau is one of the big favorites for the tournament, along with Panathinaikos, CSKA, Maccabi and maybe Malaga.

[Edska]

Originally Posted by eisho

Edska:
Do you have any idea what's happening with Stelmahers ? I saw he didn't play the game against Efes Pilsen, is he injured ? Will he play against Maccabi ?

Thanks :)

Man, he's out until the Top-16, that really hurts, so our newcomer point guard Maurice Baker needs to step it up.. It will be really hard against maccabi next week, but we'll try to fight till the end.. By the way, Popovic just killed us last week. I think it was some extra motivation for him to play against a team that is being coached by Neven Spahija, who was the head coach of the Croatian team in Eurobasket 2005..

[lektrik]

arlubas said:

Btw I was watching the Maccabi game earlier where Maccabi defeated Efes Pilsen and now I'm watching my own team's (Panathinaikos) game against Partizan.


isnt Efes Pilsen a Turkish beer?

[Linas]

^^^
Not that I'm arlubas if you ask him, but yeah that's right Efes Pilsener is a Turkish beer ;)

[eisho]

Linas:
And what about Lukauskis, is he injured too ?

Thanks :)

[Linas]

No I don't think so. But yeah I also don't remember much of Lukauskis in the match against Efes. Although coach Neven could still let him play more, it was obvious it wasn't Mindaugas' best day. However, I think overall our coach should rely more on him, Lukas has been playing pretty well and I strongly believe that that playing time he was given wasn't enough for him. I think Spahija misses some knowledge about some guys, his confidence sometimes differes from what I think is a real some players' potential..

[ChApU#5]

I'm really impressed with some things of this week in Euroleague.
Sasha visiting Barcelona again and Bulleri's 27 points won Barcelona after in the other week they won Maccabi! And this week Maccabi lost again, this time against L.Rytas!

My team won with some difficulties at Bamberg's home court.We probably will get the 1st position in our group if we win against Strasbourg next week.

Btw, Congratz to your team Linas.

[eisho]

Maccabi is not playing its best basketball right now, but I'm pretty sure that no team wants to get them in the top 16.... :)