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Euroleague - Euroleague Week 4: Our thoughts..
February 2012
| 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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Greece - Mitrovic and Jovovic ready to make their debut with Peristeri
February 2012
Bosko
Jovovic
| Aleksandar Mitrovic (202-F-90) and Bosko Jovovic (205-F/C-83) passed their medicals and they are ready to play with DASH Peristeri GS Athens against Kavala. The two Serbs agreed terms with the club from Athens during the week and after their medical examination, they are officially new players of Peristeri.
The truth is that only one of them, Aleksandar Mitrovic, was to join the club during the week alongside the American forward Mike Singletary (198-F-88, college: Texas Tech) |
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Baltic League - Round 15 of Regular Season
February 2012
Bosko
Jovovic
| 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
Bosko
Jovovic
| 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
Bosko
Jovovic
| 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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Poland - Brandon Hazzard officially signed with Polpharma
February 2012
Brandon
Hazzard
| After successful tryout period, Brandon Hazzard (188-G-87, college: Troy) signed a deal with SKS Polpharma-Pakmet Starogard Gd.. The 24 years old American guard spent his university career with Troy Trojans averaging 10.3 points and 1.2 assists in 21 minutes on the floor. This is his first trip to play in Europe. SKS Polpharma-Pakmet Starogard Gd. will keep him until the end of 2012/13 season. Brandon Hazzard will have his debut on the road against PGE Turow Zgorzelec |
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Lithuania - NKL Round 4: Leader LKKA-Atletas lose to Nafta Universitetas
February 2012
Arturas
Gudaitis
| The Second Stage in NKL just ended. There were many interesting games last round. The round ended with defeat of the leader, favorites losing the games and games ending by tiny margin.
Top ranked LKKA-Atletas (22-12) recorded its twelfth loss in Kaunas on Saturday night. Hosts were defeated by third ranked Nafta Universitetas (22-12) 89-79. It may be a crucial game in the contest for the top position in |
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Germany - Regionalliga stars: Tyrone Lewis
February 2012
Tyrone Lewis | Playing in the 1. Regionalliga does not necessarily mean that you are not good enough to make an impact in the 2. Bundesliga or even in the BBL. Far from it! Oftentimes those players who shine at the regional level just go under the radar, while nationwide attention would be appropriate |
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Germany - Dane Watts (ratiopharmUlm) Pregame Thoughts To Brose Baskets Bamberg Game February 11th
February 2012
Dane Watts | Dane Watts(203-F-86, agency: Pro One Sports) is a 25 year old 203cm forward from Warrensburg, Missouri. He is playing his first season for ratiopharm Ulm. He played at Creighton (NCAA) from 2004-2008 with NBA player Anthony Tolliver. In his senior year, he played 33 games: 11.3ppg, 6.4rpg, 1.0apg, FGP: 53.4%, 3Pts: 42.5%, FT: 71.8%. In 2008, he came to Germany and started his professional basketball career with EnBW Ludwigsburg (Germany-1.Bundesliga, starting five): 32 games: 8 |
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Slovenia - Rogaska fire coach Tabak
February 2012
Matej Baksic | Rogaska Crystal parted ways with interim coach Tihomir Tabak , who went 4-3 after Matej Baksic stepped down in mid December. Baksic had a 4-5 record. Tabak was replaced by assistant coach Peter Markovinovic for the remainder season.
Rogaska agreed terms with former U-20 national team coach Radomir Mijanovic in mid-week for a season and half, but he withdrew an arrangement. Accordin some rumors he will join Mehmet Becirovic as assistant coach of Iran national team. |
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Ukraine - Willie Deane leaves BC Odessa
February 2012
Willie Deane | Willie Deane (188-PG-80, agency: Higher Vision Sports, college: Purdue) has decided to leave BC Odessa. The teams official site cites personal issues as the main reason for the decision. Willie Deane joined the team at the start of the season. He tallied 18.4 points, 5.8 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in Superleague. Last season Willie Deane started with Lukoil Academik. The guard later moved to Nancy. He averaged 10.6 points, 4.3 assists, 2 |
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Switzerland - Boylan's double-double lands him Player of the Week award
February 2012
Ian Boylan | 28-year old swingman Ian Boylan (197-G/F-83) put on an amazing game in the last round for Monthey and receives a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 19.
He got a double-double of 13 points and 11 assists, while his team beat Boncourt (#7, 4-13) 83-74. Monthey maintains the 4th position in Swiss league. They would have been even better if they hadn't lost a few games earlier this season. Monthey will need more victories to improve their 12-5 record |
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