European Club competitions will change in 2008/2009
July 2, 2008
ULEB and FIBA Europe today announced the new format for European club competitions: Nothing really new here, though, as FIBA Europe had already published the main parts of this reform in March.
Today the last chance for Euphony Bree
July 2, 2008
Euphony Bree, Belgium’s regular-season champion, has until tonight to fulfill the conditions of the Belgian Ethias League and remain among the 10 teams at the highest Belgian basketball level.
Attendance figures for European competitions
June 26, 2008
After we have talked already about attendance of the different leagues, we take a closer look at the three main European competitions and their attendance figures.
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.
Marcus Sloan: Almost There
April 17, 2008
Before I begin, I just want to again thank my basketball coaches at TCU. Their contracts were not renewed for next season, and they will no longer be coaching at TCU. Read more
Pini Gershon gets a new job in Russia
April 17, 2008
As the Russian webiste championat.ru just tells us (thank you Ilya) Dynamo Moscow just agreed on a pre contract with Pini Gershon, who earlier this year left Olympiakos.
Dynamo Moscow itself just fired their coach, Svetislav Pesic, because of the bad performance of Dynamo Moscow at the Uleb cup Final eight in Torino.
ULEB Cup Final 8: Joventut 14 years later
April 14, 2008
DKV Joventut Badalona won the ULEB Cup yesterday with a win over the Spanish competitors of Akasvayu Girona. In front of disapointing (official) 5060 spectators in Torino, the squad of legendary coach Aito finished the game of in an excellent second half to win it 79-54.
Uleb cup Final Eight: Final Four
April 12, 2008
Final Four seems to be the word these days, right? NCAA, women Euroelague, Ulebcup, Euroelague men - did I forget anything? Anyway the Uleb cup “thing” isn’t called final four but Final eight, but somehow today we have four teams that are trying to reach the final: Galatasaray, Joventut, Dynamo Moscow (Moscow, a word you hear in combination with Final Four all the time: Spartak (women), Dynamo (ULEB), CSKA (men) .. any NCAA suggestions?) and Girona.
Another nice thing - just as the women’s final four in Brno, you can watch a legal live stream from Eurosport and follow both final eight semifinals LIVE.
Joventut will play against Galatasaray at 18.30 while Moscow and Girona meet at 21.00 today in Torino, Italy. Looks like we will get our desired final of Joventut and Dynamo? We will see.
ULEB Cup and Euroleague LIVE today
April 10, 2008
Yes, it is time again for some Live Blogging. Tonight we will cover not lest than three games as the ULEB has gratified us with this schedule. So be prepared to join us from 18h15 CET.
ULEB Cup Final 8 Preview (Part 2)
April 10, 2008
After we have previewed already the Thursday match-ups here is our look at the Friday games. It has to be remembered that the winner of the competition will earn a spot in the 2008-2009 season of the Euroleague, so there is a big goal at stake.
