A moment, please, for those who didn’t see the CSKA Moscow-Unicaja Malaga Euroleague game, to admire Andrei Kirilenko’s completely bizarre, un-NBA stats from the Red Army’s 77-66 win tonight:
Minutes played – 34:59
Points scored – 17
2-pt FG shooting – 1-of-2
3-pt FG shooting – 1-of-1
FT shooting – 12-of-13
Offensive rebounds – 2
Defensive rebounds – 7
Total rebounds – 9
Assists – 2
Steals – 6
Turnovers – 1
Blocks – 3
Performance index rating (ready for this?) – 39
(Incidentally, Milos Teodosic was also pretty awesome, going 8-of-13 from the floor for 19 points to go with four assists. Not to mention the statistically intangible way he helped frustrate the Unicaja backcourt throughout.)
Would you believe a Euroleague Player of the Week with 2-of-3 overall shooting? BiE would; wait ‘til you see the highlights. “No Basketball Anymore,” indeed…
Tags: Andrei Kirilenko, CSKA Moscow, Euroleague, Euroleague 2011-12, Milos Teodosic, Unicaja Malaga
Where is the article for Jankunas?
Look at his box score:
http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=53
Notice how awful the NBA players Weems and Lawson played in the same game?
Is this entire site going to be strictly about marketing and promorting NBA players in Europe during the lockout? Or is there going to be some actual normal and objective analysis of European ball here this season?
Let’s also mention that Jankunas lost that game and his team went to 1-4 while Kirilenko won his game to help his team go to 5-0.
MLS>English Premier League
Well if people can claim Euroleague is better than the NBA than I can claim that. Or how about:
CBA>Euroleague
btw Wake me up when a non NBA player wins players of the week or month award in Euroleague.
[...] said he’d post CSKA Moscow vs. Unicaja Malaga highlights in order to inspect Kirilenko’s statistically odd game a bit more thoroughly, but free throws make a terrible [...]
Any poster .> Gabe
I just saw this week, Gallinari lead his team to the biggest collapse in Euroleague history.
Weems and Lawson play like complete scrubs and are now almost eliminated from the tournament.
I saw Law shoot 2/13 from the field.
I saw Michalis Pelekanos DOMINATE Nicolas Batum.
I saw Demond Mallet DOMINATE Jordan Farmar.
I saw Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Darius Songaila, etc. continue to cement their places in Euroleague as SCRUBS……………
The list goes on and on.
If this is “domination by NBA players” then it must be an alternate universe that this Gabe is living in. Gabe, please stay off this site if you can’t even deal with reality and truth.
That’s funny, Farmer’s team won that game, it’s hard to be dominated in a game your team won. Farmer’s team is in first place in their group and is tied for the 3rd best record in Euroleague and he is leading the team in points, assists and rebounds. Kirilenko and Batum are still rated #1 and #2 in Euroleague rankings with Kirilenko leading the league in rebounding on one of only two undefeated teams left which he is leading in points, rebounds, blocks and steals and Batum is the only player in Euroleague in the top five in points and assists. .
Again wake me up when someone who is a not and NBA player wins a Euroleague award.
And if NBA back-ups and role players like Kirilenko, Farmer and Batum could so dominate Euroleague imagine if NBA stars like James, Kobe, Dirk, D-Wade, Durant, D-Rose, etc…came over. It would be men against boys!
*I also left out that Kirilenko is leading Euroleague in blocks as well as rebounds and tied for 3rd in steals and Batum is tied for 4th in rebounds so is in the top five in points, rebounds and assists! Wow! They’re like the Lebron James’ of Euroleague!
I think Euroleague > NBA missed the point of the post. The point is that he had such a great line despite shooting only 2/3 – a very “non-NBA” stat line.
And Gabe, don’t feed the trolls. Before you know it, they’ll start posting under sock puppet accounts and it’ll never end
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