The 2008 National Champions

June 25, 2008

BallinEurope has established a list of all National Champions in the various European leagues as they are known so far. If you have results to add or know who was named Final MVPs in a European league, feel free to add this in the comments so that we can update the list.

Written by Christophe · Filed Under Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, center | 3 Comments

The BallinEurope playoff roundup

May 22, 2008

We continue with our roundup of playoff action in various countries of the European continent. We come back to a short intermediate job of an ex-NBA player in Austria this time and give you of course the newest stories from the top leagues.

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Basketball headbutt loses Austrian game

May 17, 2008

Ivanhoe from Austria emails:

…as I live in Austria, I follow the Austrian League very closely. Last week, game 5 took place between Basket Swans Gmunden (the ULEB Cup Team who lost against Juventut, as you know) and Fürstenfeld.

In a crucial game 5, something strange happened. Fürstenfeld had posession up 1 and about 3-1/2 minutes to play in the fourth quarter. They lost the ball. Peter Hütter of Gmunden came up with the ball and headed for a fastbreak, no one near him for an uncontested dunk, but as he dunked the ball hard, the ball went through the hoop, bounced off his head and went out again. The ball never went through the net completly. Fürstenfeld gained control and hit a 3 pointer. Ball game. That’s not something that happens everyday.

Here is the video:

Let’s look up the FIBA definition for a made basket: A player scores when he manages to put the ball into the basket from above. To me, it looks like the player did exactly that. Now Ivanhoe says that the ball has to go through the net? All we know is that Furstenfeld went to the next round of the playoffs and Gmunden is out.

Written by Tobias · Filed Under Austria, Basketball video, Scandal, ULEB cup, center, funny notes | 2 Comments

New head coach for the Austrian National Team

April 7, 2008

It may not be the biggest news in the European Basketball scene, but we try to cover also the lower level leagues or National teams here at Ball in Europe. And the reason why we speak about the Austrian National Team is the name of their new head coach.

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