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France - NM1 Round 21: Change at the top of the standings
February 2012
Sebastien
Cherasse
| The fans could enjoy quite many interesting games in the last round. The round ended with change at the leadership position and favorites losing the games.
NM1 round 21 caused change at the leadership position. Fifth defeat of league's leader Saint-Quentin (16-5) against ninth ranked Vendee Challans (12-9) 69-68 was the most important game of the last round. It ended at the same time the six-game winning streak of Saint-Quentin |
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Slovenia - Maric number one in Slovenia for round 16
February 2012
Igor Maric | Croatian forward Igor Maric (196-F-85, agency: PEPI SPORT) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Sentjur, receiving a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 16.
The 26-year old player was the main contributor (21 points, seven rebounds) to his team's victory, helping them to beat LTHcast Mercator (#9, 1-15) 84-73. |
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Hungary - A Division Round 18: Kormend loses #1 position
February 2012
Lorenzo
Williams
| Round 18 in A Division means a new league leader. The biggest surprise took place in Paks where host Atomeromu (11-7) crushed league's leader Kormend (15-3) 85-64 on Saturday evening. It ended at the same time the five-game winning streak of Kormend. The game without a history. Atomeromu led from the first minutes and controlled entire game increasing their lead in each quarter |
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Euroleague - Euroleague Week 4: Our thoughts..
February 2012
Lorenzo
Williams
| Let's take a look from what we saw this week at Euroleague's most important games..
Small ball
-There were a lot of people who believed that Unics wouldnt manage to respond at the first 'real difficult on the road-game' of top-16. Let me tell it clearly. The first on the road game with r-e-a-l pressure to win. At OAKA the game was one of those that coaches are calling 'easy',because you simply dont have any pressure to win. Those people vindicated by the result at the empty Mediolanum |
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Baltic League - Round 15 of Regular Season
February 2012
Lorenzo
Williams
| Fifth ranked Lithuanian Rudupis won a double-overtime thriller against 3rd placed Russian Triumph Lyubertsy by five points 112-107 on Thursday night. It ended at the same time the four-game winning streak of Triumph Lyubertsy. The best player for the winners was Adas Juskevicius who scored 30 points. Triumph Lyubertsy's coach tried various players' combinations and tested in total eleven players in this game, but that didn't help. Rudupis maintains fifth place in 1 with 10-5 record |
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Turkey - Gaziantepspor Buyuksehir Belediye lands Snow
February 2012
Lorenzo
Williams
| Gaziantepspor Buyuksehir Belediye (TB2L) strengthened their roster with addition of 31-year old American guardAlvin Snow (188-G-81, college: E.Washington). In his first game he didn''t score any points. However his new team lost to Optimum TED 62-66. Snow played most recently at Kryvbasbasket-Lux Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine). |
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Turkey - Fenerbahce Ulker far from the quarterfinal playoffs after 72-62 defeat against Panathinaikos
February 2012
Lorenzo
Williams
| After a 72-62 defeat in Greece against Panathinaikos, Fenerbahce Ulker dropped to the last place in group G of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague, and will need a miracle to make it to the quarterfinal playoffs. Panathinaikos led from start to finish, using tough defense to hold Ulker to 27 points in the first half and force many of Fenerbahces 21 turnovers. Bojan Bogdanovic led FB Ulker with 15 points, Roko Ukic added 13 and Curtis Jerrells 11. Mirsad Turkcan notched a game-high 13 rebounds |
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Russia - Triumph loses two-overtime thriller
February 2012
Gintaras
Kadziulis
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Rudupis - Triumph 112-107 2OT
Triumph loses two-overtime thriller in Baltic League. Lithuanian Rudupis beat Russian Triumph Lyubertsy by five points 112-107 on Thursday night.
It ended at the same time the four-game winning streak of Triumph Lyubertsy. The hosts trailed by 9 points after first quarter, but they rallied back to get the 3-point lead at the halftime then Triumph Lyubertsy managed to tie the game at the end of regular time |
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Serbia - A League Round 19: BKK Radnicki edges OKK Beograd by one point
February 2012
Slobodan
Lalic
| The round was rather attractive and full of interesting results. The round ended with derby games and favorites losing the games.
The most exciting game of round 19 in the A League took place in Beograd. This derby game ended with only one-point home defeat of 8th ranked OKK Beograd (10-9) to second ranked BKK Radnicki (14-5) 69-68 on Friday evening. Guest team only slightly avoided a big embarassment |
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Serbia - Ljubojevic is back at Vujic Metalac Valjevo
February 2012
Marko
Ljubojevic
| Vujic Metalac Valjevo signed 28-year old Serbian swingman Marko Ljubojevic (202-F/G-84). It's actually Ljubojevic's comeback to Metalac as he played here before. In his first game he scored 2 points and grabbed 4 rebounds helping his new team beat Borac 77-65. Ljubojevic played most recently at CS Municipal Bucuresti (Romania). While playing 16 games for CSM Bucuresti this season he averaged 7.3ppg and 2.4rpg. Ljubojevic is a very experienced player |
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