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REAL MADRID

The squad that is playing like this has not been seen on European grounds for a long time. Real has returned his faith in European basketball for the past two seasons. They play for a point more, for the move and what's best they win in almost all games. Their percentage of shots are in the right sense madness of the brain. In the Spanish championship Real is without a defeat in the 12 games played. They throw almost 90 points per game with unreal 43% of the hit points for three points (in which they hit 10 trophies per game !!?) They shoot 56% team for two points and about 77% free throw.

In Euroleague, Real took a couple of free days. After a tour of the USA, they were tormented by Panathinaikos, with Draper being rescued by four stolen balls in a row in the third quarter. They lost 20 hits from Khimki and followed the return and defeated the point of difference. The match against Kantau was interrupted, and Rudy missed the match which Pablo Laso kept for the derby against Estudiantes. The worst Real match this season in all competitions was seen in Athens against Panathinaikos where they scored 68 points and where Rudy played the worst match of the season (3 points, 1-7 shot from the game).

Jaycee Carroll is by far the best shooter in Europe in the last two years, and Pablo Laso is perfectly used by him. Troy continually is still hit by Rudy, Lull, Mirotic, Rodriguez, Pocius, Suarez and Draper, eight of the 12 players can throw you between three and five triples in the match if they have enough space .... not to forget ... and Felipe Reyes for some reason started hitting three-point shots, and just came the center of Rafa Hettsheimeir It can also pack an open shot from that distance. It's worth mentioning the trans in which Sergio Rodriguez is currently playing.

It's hard to find players with better ball control and a better overview of the game in European basketball. As a teenager, Sergio had the best alley-oop dog from all European bears, and he and Rudy played this action when she was a thought noun for the rest of the old continent (Spaniards called the helicopter, the Americans Spanish Inquisition while the two played in Portland).

In NBA Sergio did not manage, but since last season's playoff in Spain he plays maestro. Trophies from dribbling, dragging the ball through the legs to defending players, rolls, dribbling behind the back and assisting through the opponent's ears. One of the rare players in Euroleague who can humiliate you with a move on the field.

It would be unfair to neglect Sergio Lulla. From the angry Indian who plays out of every control, Lull has grown into the leader of this team. It still has a few minutes of eclipse of the mind when throwing the ball into the fifth row of spectators and making fouls in the attack, but its players in the game now greatly exceed the minuses. Lull keeps the most dangerous opponent in each game, hunts the shooters through the blocks and again comes to dictate the pervasive pace in which Real plays perfectly balances between looking for his points and scouting the team.

The Mana all point out for Real this season is the center position. Laso tried to solve this by engaging strong Brazilian Rafa Hettsheimeir, who is still recovering from his knee surgery and looking for last-season form. In the season where there is no clear favorite, Real is closest to that category. The title of Europe's champion would not be a surprise, but the surprise would not be a farewell to the quarter-finals.

MONTEPASCHI SIENA

Poor Luca Banchi is only 15 years old in the first phase of the Euroleague. This team should be led. Psychiatry champions this season come from Siena. After the years of the "system" and the rule of Simone Piangiani, Siena's financial structure almost collapsed before the beginning of this season, and most of the game's leading players with the coach were looking for places where she had money.

Banchi, who has been wearing Pianigiani's board for the past six years, has decided to risk and try to do something where the chances of success are really very small. Siena had gone all the way to Italy in the previous years, and everybody played F4 Euroleague so that from this season I can only down there, but they are so fun to watch while tone. Banchi is here somewhere between trying to hug and kiss Bobby Browne or to smash him. They started with a series of defeats of Alba, Maccabi and Unica, where the last two lost with two points of difference, and there were also some leagues against Varese and Armani Jeans.

Then the canonade of the wildest team in Euroleague started. Led by a man in the first season of the season, he decided five games for Albu and Bosnia in the ULEB Cup at the ULEB Cup in a game with five extras, 44 points, then won the NBA engagement, and after returning to Europe, he so distraughtly coached the coach and coaches in Prokom that they were openly sabotaged , Siena started hitting the bus.

That and such Brown, equally silly as his R'N'B spinner led the shooters that after 129 games played, they scored 129 hit trophies (over 12 per game !?) with 43% of team performance and an average of 88 points per game. Siena can lose everything with a total of 103 points (Chalon), to break 30 points advantage and match (Prokom), to destroy pr(again Prokom), that Brown himself defeated the opponent (Chalon), and almost twice scalped the best team in his group, Maccabi (defeat in two disparities in Tel Aviv after which Luca Banchi was completely abandoned for a whole minute of watching one point and a two-match home victory in which the David Blatt team could not defend any attack). MVP of the regular part of the season is without dilemma Bobby Brown.

Carries the ball for all the money, picks 10 meters over four hands as if he was on the set, the scourge 300 per hour is often out of control, but this team means absolutely all 19.5 points ... 6 assists 38% for three, 86 % free throws and only 1.9 lost points per game (this is a fascinating fact taking Brown to play 31 minutes per game and that the ball in Bobby's hands is so long that he already recognizes his touch.

Again, only 1.9 lost per match ... comparisons for Leo Westermann in the ABA League still have more lost balls than assisting)
F4 CANDIDATES

OLYMPIACOS

In one of the previous columns, I have already written Giulio Bartzoxas, but the miracles ... like last season, Oly brought one player and now F4 is a real destination. Joey Dorsey was the key to Olympiacos's resurgence last year, Josh Powell seems to be doing the same thing this season. Josh played a couple of great seasons in Italy and then an episode in four NBA teams to win two NBA titles in Lakers ''09 and 10' about 10 minutes after Phill Jackson's rotation.

If we exclude the coach (Duda is a really much better coach than Bartzokas), the European champion has increased the toy in comparison to the last season: Perperoglu instead of Cheshel, Mavroeids instead of Papadopoulos and Powell instead of Dorsey.

Everything else is the same. When dense Spanulis feels no fear, and Printezis has already proven to hit the pressure (His shot for the title of the champion of Europe is one of the hardest to guess in basketball, all that you are in the hall itself).

ЖАЛГИРИС

They are able to play every style of basketball. The coach is very good and knows how to win (Joan Plaza). They won the European title in '99, playing unreally beautifully and efficiently and with a rotation of at least 10 players.

They look similarly after the regular part of the Euroleague this season. Jonas Kazlauskas had Edney, Bowie, Zideek, Timinskas, Strombergas, Adomaitis and two Zukauskas in Munich in 1994, so that breaking Olympiacos and Kinder from this perception is not a big surprise.

Plaza this season has Jaabera, Dardena, Lafayetta, Kaukenas, Popovic, Jankunas, Javtokas and two Lavrinovic ... just say ....

CSKA

If none of Messina has improved the styling of the professional staff by engaging Quinn Snyder from Lakers. Former Dookie dominates the bench with Michael Douglas's hairstyle and suits of $ 5,000. The title of the cover of the magazine disables only the drawing board for the actions it must hold. How to Replace Kirilenko's Departure? No way.

If there is a team whose results are far ahead of the game then it is CSKA. They hung as a chandelier against Lietuvos, Partizan and Bamberga, Barca humiliated them home but seemed to improve in the last three rounds. Messina even used Krstic for the position of the wing center at some moments. It did not look bad.

They drove off Nicholas, who could not guess the "Stables Gate" (an expression from cowboy films) and brought the player to whom the shot from the theater was resonant, I'm talking about Dionette Christmas. Who will take the responsibility when it becomes thick Weems? Teodosic? Jackson? too many questionnaires .... but have only one defeat so far !?

BARCELONA

One game you think this is the best and cleanest defense in European basketball ever, and then losing from Valladolid home. Then they humiliate CSKA Moscow and leave Zaragoza and Manresa on a combined 97 points and get them Gran Canaria.

In the first round of the Euroleague, only Partizan did not get 20 differences, but in the national championship there were already five defeats. The impression is that something is missing. Navarro is visibly tired, every bit injured and can not fit two good sides, Lorbek is still not in the right shape, Mickael is old. Shuttle from the distance has been disputed since the beginning of the season ... 34% in Spain with a small number of hits, 33% in the Euroleague with also a small number of hits.

Barca currently has four outside players who threw the triples under 20% .... wondering why I put them among the F4 candidates? so they have only one defeat for now, and the choice is really scarce ...

MACCABI

If they really bring Aaron Baynes, then I raise my hands. The Baynes team can not be on F4, I really think so. Blatt again jumps a team that plays high-quality basketball and is dangerous against everyone. The most striking story of the first part of the competition is certainly Ricky Hickman. The guy from the NC Greensboro University started a European odyssey in Hungary, then moved to Romania and then turned to Germany, in the regional league !! ??

Then he packed his suitcases and the line Lahti, Finland. Just as Mati Nikenen taught him the technique of ski jumping, he received a call from the Italian second league ... the rest is history. He broke everything in the Scavolini jersey last season,and just debut in the Euroleague. Some numbers say .... 13 points on average, 51% for 2, 35% for three, 88% free throws, 3.5 assists, 2.3 stolen balls (1st in EL) is not bad for someone who drank tea with Ari Pekom Nikola ....

Maccabi also trips this season, after all, such as the Maccabi without a three point lead, and the revitalized Logan, Devin Smith, Ohayon and Landesberg. A couple of ranks deserve this season's monstrous Shawn James, who shoots 70% of the game, and 81% of the free throw line (this is something last seen by Kevin Mhelle 60% from the game, 80% throw) ....
COVER YOU A TRUDE OF SOLDIERS

ANADOLU EFES

Usually they say "how much money, so much music", only the creators of that coin did not watch Efes. The Istanbul team pay New York Philharmonic every year and gets drunk street musicians playing. Farmar, Vujacic, Savanovic, Lucas, Shipp, Erden, Tunceri, Gonlum, Batista, Barac ... "And nothing!"

If these are not names for the F4 Euroleague then no one is .... and it seems they are not. Efes in the first phase with this team lost the PET MATCH, YES FIVE MATCH!

The bigger disappointment is only Armani Jeans, but your columnist does not account for the clubs led by Sergio Scariolo (Spain's representation is something else, with my colleague Mladen Končarević going to the quarter-finals.) Still, no.)

FENERBAHCE ULKER

For retired players, coaches prefer to say that they are "reheated food", there is another term, but it is not appropriate even for this column. Fener has Batiste, Sat, Baker, Andersen, Bremer (although there are no more), Onana, etc.

If 2007 were said to be "uh, what kind of team" ... to their sadness is not 2007 plus it seems that Bo is injured. Fener has beaten over 10 million euros this season and is hard to see the quarter-finals.

UNICAJA

If there is such a team in the Balkans, all of its fans would develop heart problems, high blood pressure and various forms of diabetes. This is how Malaga is at sea, it has about 300 sunny days a year and frustrated season tickets owners can always say "Come on, go to the beach" or "We want to see Marble see what's there?"

To play the seventh NBA Finals match against Miami Heat Unicaja would somehow be missing out on winning, and also in a co-host of a happy family home selection you can calmly put money on these others. A team that amplitudes frustrate itself, opponents, fans, coaches, from season to season, from car to circuit ....
OTKUD VI?

BAMBERG & BEŠIKTAŠ

Someone had to go on. They have always taught us that the Germans play to the end, that they have full faith in their capabilities and never surrender. It looks only for football, because what to say about Bamberg and their collective sweating of the palms and shaking their hands in the match against Partizan. The move of the maestro who makes a 40-meter-throw from his basket, throwing a ball will enter the basketball nonsense anals (The Bamberg players have 32, 30, 32, 30, 31 and 28 years).

Partizan did not know or could take the offer, and Bamberg finally opened the door and entered the TOP 16 after two years of shooting on the same level.


This season, Besiktas is a little masterpiece by Erman Kunter who has squeezed gold from the stone. Kunter always knew that he had to play US players, and with this very limited and much cheaper composition of the Besiktas, than last year did a great job.

They brought Daniel Ewing cleanly so that Kunter can take Curtis Jerells when this one in his rhythm "I do not care if I play defense" or "I'm wearing a protective tire to say something to Markoti while the opponent's backseat strikes me like I'm stuck" what happens in 90 % of cases. Ewing is a great player in the hands of a good coach. Patrick Cristopher has great potential, but there are no traces of consistency.

There are also lesser-known Brother Guler, Tutk Acik, Serhat Cetin, Hersek, Ozer and Camal Nalga !? What is best in the group with them is Fenerbahce and it is very possible that Kunter scalps them in the city derby. For more than that they do not have quality.