Comments on: Euroleague attendance figures mostly dismal through four weeks

By: Данило

Данило — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:32:46 +0000

Hi all, I am a Partizan fan and would only comment on the attendance figures for it. Pionir arena has a capacity of 7000 seats, but Partizan played a few Top16/Top8 games in Belgrade Arena hall seating 22000 last year. So, if you take those games out of the equation, I am sure you wouldn’t be seeing a drop in attendance in Pionir this year (and especially not a drop of 34% with 80% of full capacity used anyway .

I am sure Partizan could fill the Arena again, but I think that was the main reason for lucklustre performance against CSKA last year in quarter finals so I’d rather if they kept the home advantage by using the familiar court.

And woohoo, we are through to Top16 again!

By: zakis

zakis — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:18:42 +0000

kinski hi – excellent post. I’m involved with a team in the greek A2 and I have been arguing for some time now that the sport has become a masonic occupation ie it is not accessible to the average fan. Coaches now dominate the game with the connivance of owners, who are only interested in their own teams and the administrators of the sport, who are not interested in anything at all to do with basketball other than as a political expression.

the sport needs new rules, so that the likes of Obradovic can be marginalised and stop infecting the game with their negativity and new administrators, who are committed to growing the popularity of the game.

why don’t we start a chat on how to improve the woeful condition of the sport in Europe? How about starting with the validity of current european competitions?

By: kinski

kinski — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:50:17 +0000

outside of big soccer cities, basketball is clearly no 1: siena, malaga, vitoria, lithuania, belgrade, tel aviv…most of the times venues in these cities are sold out. unfortunately, bologna and solonica seem to be lost for euroleague, as well as berlin (what a shame, they should have been given a wild card by some means). alba berlin sells out 02 even in eurocup (10.000+ in this competition). very pleasant surprise are good numbers in france and big rise in popularity over there.
but, high attendance figures in france and spain are no surprise. they play very fast and pretty basketball, with lots of fastbreaks, dunks, alley oops etc. who wants to see destructive cska or panathinaikos style of basketball, perfected by obradovic? i love tough defense and tough it should stay, but EL promptly needs to change the rules to allow more flow, ball movement, faster pace and most importantly, more points scored on average. who wants to see a 62:59 result, except us, basketball freaks?
the play should be pushed towards and favour the style of play of barcelona, olympiacos, caja laboral, maccabi…allow contact (I hate NBA these days for not allowing contact like in the 90s), but….euroleague desperately needs REAL STARS, like gallis, sabonis used to be and let’s admit, THE ONLY REAL STARS OF EUROLEAGUE ARE ITS COACHES, Obradovic, Messina and alike..people dont want to come and see Obradovic’s tactical and preparatory mastery, they wanna see spectacular moves by spectacular and athletic players…euroleague is full of them these days, finally…allow these players to showcase their true potential!

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By: Morzikei

Morzikei — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:34:26 +0000

that 8500 against Partizan seems quite right, even with warning of swine flu the only empty sectors were at the back of the court (roughly 2000-3000 empty seats)… I think, thanks to some really cheap tickets, Linas Kleiza, and perhaps (should he join Rytas) the chance of seeing Macijauskas settle things with the greeks, there should be a capacity crowd against Olympiakos

as for the CIbona-Žalgiris match – everyone probably thought the croats would get it handed to them… everything seemed good at half-time, so the fans probably came to the conclusion that them being there would help Cibona grab the vital win