Comments on: Cabezas the savior and Childress homesick (or not?)

By: safetis

safetis — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:03:04 +0000

just relaxe people. some bottles were thrown so what? was anybody hurt? aren`t there more serious probles to discuss than this shit? that s greece baby. our blood is too hot for ya

By: robbe

robbe — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:49:05 +0000

@Christophe: Well, IF the official criteria of 60-30-10 play are indeed the [only] criteria, security shouldn’t play a role. But who knows …

By: Belov

Belov — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:19:54 +0000

They can’t because there is no Euroleague without CSKA, Maccabi and Panathinaikos.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:50 +0000

@Robbe
they may not have the right but they gave them an A-License. Nobody obliges them to do so, stadium security may be a criteria in distributing these licenses too.

By: Playoffrauschen #10 « Grübelei – Ansichten eines Basketballfans

Playoffrauschen #10 « Grübelei – Ansichten eines Basketballfans — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:59:05 +0000

[...] Ballineurope berichtet über die Ausschreitungen beim ersten Finalspiel zwischen Olympiakos Piräus und Panathinaikos Athen. Blieb die Rivalität in Berlin beim Final Four dank massivem Sicherheitsaufgebot ruhig und wurde nur mit beeindruckenden Gesängen zelebriert. So hat es jetzt gekracht. Ich schließe mich der Forderung von Ballineurope an: You need to act against this kind of violence: Ban these idiots forever from every arena in the world. Both teams showed in Berlin that they can meet without this kind of incident, but it seems impossible in Greece. [...]

By: robbe

robbe — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:04:27 +0000

@Os: I doubt Euroleague has the right to just do that as the game where the incident took place was not part of the Euroleague competition. It was a Greek league game. I’m sure they cannot punish teams for incidents that didn’t take place on their territorry.

By: Os Davis

Os Davis — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:00 +0000

@Robbe: Sure, Euroleague can do something about it. Ban the team from Euroleague play! Or penalize them some points in the standings in pool play; start them with minus-five in the points column.

@Christophe: Damn, the Era of Misquote is truly upon us. How do SI and ESPN both report a manufactured quote from Josh F. Childress?????????

@Ron Burg: Yeah, i keep wondering what the hell those American city boys were thinking while that football hooligan stuff was going on. I mean, in the ‘States, we save the rioting for AFTER the game. Unless Ron Artest is involved.

@everyone: Damn, that “pao vs osfp” YouTube clip referenced above may be insidious in intent, but technical it’s really really good. Seriously, this is maybe the best 1.5-minute clips i’ve seen this year.

By: robbe

robbe — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:12:51 +0000

Euroleague can do nothing about this, as this incident happened in Game 1 of the A1 finals. Greek league may take actions, but I doubt it will be enough to prevent anyone from doing it again.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:53:08 +0000

@Josh Childress quotes from his Twitter account
Not sure where this rumor and these quotes on si.com and espn.com came from. I never said any of that stuff!

By: Ron Burg

Ron Burg — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:01:17 +0000

Stay classy, Euro-league. If it wants to be considered top-level basketball, it is going to have to clean this stuff up. The NBA players will take their “American pay cut” and end up going back…