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Oh, I already thought that Baskonia can win this game and not end series 3:0. But Real is Real, similar like in football. It was enough for them to play 1.5 good quarters to win game and reach Final 4 in shortest possible way.

Quote from: CLS63 on May 01, 2024, 03:17:00 PM

We did it!

We managed to win home in Game 3 to lead the series by 2-1. As we are the seeded team we have a valuable advantage in our hands from now on. Even if this series extends to Game 5 I believe in my team to defeat Monaco to reach Final Four stage.

Congrats! Even tough 78 points doesn't looks something special, this game was about defense. It's one of lowest scoring games for Monaco this season. When Monaco made a run in 4th quarter, Fenerbahche managed to respond. And finally, at least one game without any contraversies, unlike yesterday

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We did it!

We managed to win home in Game 3 to lead the series by 2-1. As we are the seeded team we have a valuable advantage in our hands from now on. Even if this series extends to Game 5 I believe in my team to defeat Monaco to reach Final Four stage.

By the way I must say that I'm surprised with Maccabi Tel Aviv's performance so far. Despite Panathinaikos' much better regular season performance we can't see the same impact in this series. Maccabi Tel Aviv are only 1 win away from winning the series.

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In the first two games of the series, Fenerbahce Beko executed the strategy they wanted and took the court advantage. In fact, if they had paid attention to small details in the last period of the second game, they would have won the second game as well. With two games in a row at home, Fenerbahce is close to reaching the Final-Four.
Fenerbahce can use Motley, who didn't play in the first two games, in these games with the home court and crowd advantage, but his status will be known at game time. In Game 2, Monaco's John Brown suffered an injury and his status will be clarified at game time. Fenerbahce has let its opponents off the hook with its effective defense in many games at home this season and this time, unlike the first two games, I think it will be the team that will win with a good start. The team in yellow and blue is the team that is close to the Final-Four.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on April 30, 2024, 03:38:12 PM

Euroleague playoffs is back to action with 3rd games of series. Maccabi continue to play without Baldwin, but so far it wasn't big problem. It was another great game, it looked that Maccabi can win easier as they were leadingalmost whole game, but in the end PAO made comeback. Despite it, Maccabi survived and lead series 2:1
Didn't saw much from Olympiacos - Barcelona game as my attention was on UCL semifinal. It was another very close game. It's incredible how Barca survived in 4th quarter after Olympiacos run, mainly with Abrines 3-pointers. And then in overtime Oly lost game in most stupid possible way - foul on last second. I think it may be crucial game in series.

Yeah these 2 games were wild.
Maccabi was up big midway through the 3rd quarter and when I checked again some minutes later is was suddenly a 6 or 8 point game. Anyway, they managed to win so now they really have it in their own hands. Wouldn't be surprised though if Pana would have a strong response in game 4.

About Olympiacos vs Barcelona, I was surprised Oly was favored this much. Sure they have a stacked roster this season but still, Barcelona shouldn't be underestimated as well. And we have seen why.
So both Greek teams are down 2:1 now, it's gonna need a lot of fight to turn these series around.

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Euroleague playoffs is back to action with 3rd games of series. Maccabi continue to play without Baldwin, but so far it wasn't big problem. It was another great game, it looked that Maccabi can win easier as they were leadingalmost whole game, but in the end PAO made comeback. Despite it, Maccabi survived and lead series 2:1
Didn't saw much from Olympiacos - Barcelona game as my attention was on UCL semifinal. It was another very close game. It's incredible how Barca survived in 4th quarter after Olympiacos run, mainly with Abrines 3-pointers. And then in overtime Oly lost game in most stupid possible way - foul on last second. I think it may be crucial game in series.

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on April 26, 2024, 10:05:22 PM

Well the final four location is decided before the season even starts, at least that's what I think.

The last 2 years the final 4 was hosted in Spain ( Bilbao and Malaga ) so it's obvious they can't bring it back to Spain for the 3rd year in a row. Cheesy

Anyway, just watched the recaps of the games and to be honest, they were not too exciting, haha. Both the favourites won so, that's what it is. We will see a battle of the Spanish "best of the rest" in this one.

Nope, it was actually decided just about month ago, so, such location is even more strange:
https://www.eurohoops.net/en/fiba-champions-league/1647806/basketball-champions-league-final-four-2024-belgrade-serbia/
Back to the basketball, it's getting boring that this tournament is dominated by mediacore (with all respect) Spanish teams. In the final I will support Unicaja, it would be their 1st trophy. On the other hand, you can't not love Marcelinho Huertas who being 40 years old become MVP of whole tournament.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on April 26, 2024, 06:30:54 PM

Does anyone follow BCL Final 4? Both semifinals were great, but favorites Tenerife and Unicaja won. But for me it doesn't makes sense, why they make Final 4 in Belgrade when there is 3 Spanish and 1 Greek teams is playing and nothing what could be interesting for locals.

Well the final four location is decided before the season even starts, at least that's what I think.

The last 2 years the final 4 was hosted in Spain ( Bilbao and Malaga ) so it's obvious they can't bring it back to Spain for the 3rd year in a row. Cheesy

Anyway, just watched the recaps of the games and to be honest, they were not too exciting, haha. Both the favourites won so, that's what it is. We will see a battle of the Spanish "best of the rest" in this one.

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Barcelona - Olympiacos and Monaco - Fenerbahche both series is tied 1:1. You couldn't ask anything better from playoffs.
After halftime it looked that Monaco have no chance to win, their 3rd quarter was so poor, but 4th quarter was already complete opposite. Would be very surprised if this series will end before game 5 because we see fight of same level teams.
Barcelona - Olympiacos, today we already saw different kind of energy and intensity from Barca than in Game 1. They showed some elite defence tonight.

Does anyone follow BCL Final 4? Both semifinals were great, but favorites Tenerife and Unicaja won. But for me it doesn't makes sense, why they make Final 4 in Belgrade when there is 3 Spanish and 1 Greek teams is playing and nothing what could be interesting for locals.

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on April 19, 2024, 07:05:13 PM

Monaco vs Fener surely is the closest game in the 1st round but for some reason I don't see Monaco beating Fenerbahce. In recent months Fener got really strong again so I also have them on the radar for the final.

It was really close from the first leg already.

I didn't like our performance against Monaco in the first half but especially thanks to our third quarter performance we managed to come back and even win by OT. Starting by a win without court advantage is really valuable for us. However the second game is tomorrow and I have a bad feeling about it that we will lose this time. Tongue

Monaco had a better regular season period than us. So it would still be a nice start even if it comes to 1-1 before the court advantage passes to us.

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Panathinaikos tied series with Maccabi and now it goes to Belgrade. 1st half was some ups and downs, Maccabi dominating in 1st quarter and then PAO respondin in 2nd. In general, Panathinaikos looked better, but in 4th quarter there was moment when it looked that they can collapse. But it didn't happened. Career night of Sloukas and Papapetrou becoming unexpected X factor.
Baskonia tried their best, they were close to Real significant part of game, but eventually Real run away. Simply different level.

Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on April 25, 2024, 03:32:08 AM

I created this thread for lovers of European basketball and I really would like to keep this thread free from useless posts that are only signature campaign spam.

Too bad that you didn't made this as self-moderated topic, but I guess that if such posts aren't often, it's not big issue.

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I lost my bet on Monaco. I think Fenerbahce got a surprising win. I tried to watch the first games of the play-offs as much as possible and the first thing I see is that something is missing. At this time of the year there would be an atmosphere where the teams were playing chess with each other. But as of the first games we could only see the coach's signature reflected on the court in the Monaco - Fenerbahce game with Saras playing without the number 5 as a solution to the narrowed rotation and the shortage of big men. Maybe the fact that the old school coaches are out of the play-offs this time may have something to do with it. Neither Obradovic, nor Messina, nor Pablo Laso are in the last eight. It was also interesting that the away teams stole games in three of the four series.

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Quote from: karabiber on April 25, 2024, 02:18:06 AM

Panathinaikos couldn't stop their opponent's streak in the last period and Maccabi won the first game of the series. Maccabi managed to beat Panathinaikos twice in the regular season and started the quarterfinal round with a win. In the first game, Panathinaikos paid the price for simple mistakes due to overconfidence and especially for being weak on defense. However, I can say that in this game we will see a much more determined Panathinaikos with a much tougher defense.

Coach Ataman promised to lead his team to the Final Four. Otherwise, coach Ataman said that he won't be at Pana next season. Therefore, they have no choice but to win on their way to the Final-Four. Maccabi is a dangerous team and if Pana takes this game seriously, they will be close to winning at home.

If you really have to spam our thread with your nonsense game recaps, at least do it for recent games.
The game you are writing about was has ended like 36 hours ago. Last night's game were Monaco vs Fenerbahce and Barcelona vs Olympiacos.

I created this thread for lovers of European basketball and I really would like to keep this thread free from useless posts that are only signature campaign spam.

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Panathinaikos couldn't stop their opponent's streak in the last period and Maccabi won the first game of the series. Maccabi managed to beat Panathinaikos twice in the regular season and started the quarterfinal round with a win. In the first game, Panathinaikos paid the price for simple mistakes due to overconfidence and especially for being weak on defense. However, I can say that in this game we will see a much more determined Panathinaikos with a much tougher defense.

Coach Ataman promised to lead his team to the Final Four. Otherwise, coach Ataman said that he won't be at Pana next season. Therefore, they have no choice but to win on their way to the Final-Four. Maccabi is a dangerous team and if Pana takes this game seriously, they will be close to winning at home.

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Going a bit down in European cup basketball, Germany's Chemitz NINERS won the FIBA Europe cup last night with a nice overtime win at Bahcesehir College.

They had it all going for them after winning the home game by 11 and were down by 2 with 4min to go but then the home tem made a final push and seconds before the end tied the game and sent it into overtime.

OT also was a thriller with Chemnitz coming back from some points behind.

They are really a big success story from Germany right now. All season long they have been in the top 3 of the league challenging the rich monsters of ALBA and Bayern Munich. SO proud of them and hopefully they continue going this path. Some years ago they were still in the 2nd tier league in Germany and see where they are now.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on April 23, 2024, 03:22:46 PM

Euroleague playoffs started with a bit unexpected Maccabi win at OAKA arena against Panathinaikos. It looked that PAO controls the game, but not sure what happened to them in 4th quarter where Maccabi made a comeback. Unfortunately, saw 4th quarter only partially because of problems with internet... Now main question is Baldwin injury, how serious it is.
Real dominating against Baskonia, whole 4th quarter is remainining, but difficult to expect comeback here.
Monaco - Fenerbahche and Barcelona - Olympiacos starts tomorrow.

Panathinaikos's result was indeed unexpected. They lost to maccabi twice this year before. This was the third time. Somehow maccabi has become pana's nemesis. And the interesting thing is that they always lose in the last periods. Last game was the same, it ended 17-28. But Ergin Ataman made a comment interestingly, saying he promises they will be in Final Four this year, otherwise he will not be coaching PAO next year. I think he made a bluff to wake up the team, which means he took a big risk. Either the players will make a real difference and somehow make it to the final four or their adventure with Ataman will end.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on April 23, 2024, 03:22:46 PM

Euroleague playoffs started with a bit unexpected Maccabi win at OAKA arena against Panathinaikos. It looked that PAO controls the game, but not sure what happened to them in 4th quarter where Maccabi made a comeback. Unfortunately, saw 4th quarter only partially because of problems with internet... Now main question is Baldwin injury, how serious it is.
Real dominating against Baskonia, whole 4th quarter is remainining, but difficult to expect comeback here.
Monaco - Fenerbahche and Barcelona - Olympiacos starts tomorrow.

Really a weak finish to the game by Pana, quite disappointing I must admit, and unexpected.
Real beating up Baskonia on the other hand was not the biggest of surprises.

By the way, I totally missed that in Germany, Bayern lost at super weak team Heidelberg last weekend, it's hilarious. This self proclaimed best team in Germany losing against a team of this caliber is just such a joke. I read yesterday they will try to make a noe contract with Serge Ibaka (for whatever reasons) but apparently many top teams in Europe, recently Partizan also entered the teams pursuing him, are trying to get him under contract as well.

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Euroleague playoffs started with a bit unexpected Maccabi win at OAKA arena against Panathinaikos. It looked that PAO controls the game, but not sure what happened to them in 4th quarter where Maccabi made a comeback. Unfortunately, saw 4th quarter only partially because of problems with internet... Now main question is Baldwin injury, how serious it is.
Real dominating against Baskonia, whole 4th quarter is remainining, but difficult to expect comeback here.
Monaco - Fenerbahche and Barcelona - Olympiacos starts tomorrow.

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on April 19, 2024, 07:05:13 PM

I pretty much see it the same way as you.
There are big favourites to survive this round and honestly I don't see any of the underdogs to beat one of them in a best of 5 series.
Monaco vs Fener surely is the closest game in the 1st round but for some reason I don't see Monaco beating Fenerbahce. In recent months Fener got really strong again so I also have them on the radar for the final.

I agree with @CLS63 predictions, but I see playoff series a bit differentely. For me only Real is favorite which don't give any doubts, but still, I expect Baskonia to win at least one game. While other series, I wouldn't be surprised if all 5 games will be needed. Fenerbahche recently didn't looked so confident with some defeats both in Euroleague and Turkish league, it increase Monaco chances. Panathinaikos - Maccabi should be quite epic, and I don't even call PAO as favorite, it's 50/50 for me. I just remind that Maccabi won both games in regular season.
I also see Real becoming champions, only thing that can stop them is nature of Final 4 format and potentially one bad game there.

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Quote from: CLS63 on April 19, 2024, 04:14:36 PM

Baskonia managed to be the last team to qualify for play-offs by defeating Virtus. What are your predictions about the play-off matchups?

My predictions were like above. I'm not objective because of being a Fenerbahçe fan. I think that Real Madrid are going to be the champions again this year. I think that the winner of the Monaco-Fenerbahçe matchup is going to reach the finale.

I pretty much see it the same way as you.
There are big favourites to survive this round and honestly I don't see any of the underdogs to beat one of them in a best of 5 series.
Monaco vs Fener surely is the closest game in the 1st round but for some reason I don't see Monaco beating Fenerbahce. In recent months Fener got really strong again so I also have them on the radar for the final.

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Baskonia managed to be the last team to qualify for play-offs by defeating Virtus. What are your predictions about the play-off matchups?

My predictions were like above. I'm not objective because of being a Fenerbahçe fan. I think that Real Madrid are going to be the champions again this year. I think that the winner of the Monaco-Fenerbahçe matchup is going to reach the finale.

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