This might be a tough tournament to realize but with the help of the BallinEurope readers it should be a cool competition. The rules are easy: We will give you 32 players of the Top16 teams who will “play” each other 1-on-1. How do we know who wins? You will tell us. Just post the winners of each 1-on-1 in the comments.
After the Top16 round there will of course be a Top8 and the Final Four. As a special thing, we will make a “winner vs. our BallinEurope guy” shirt that we will send out to some people – like the actual winner of the 1-on-1 competition – yes the real player. I guess this should be fun.
I can already hear the people saying – Why did you pick those two players of this team – well we just did – after that you can decide everything.
Here are the teams with each two players:
Olympiakos: Lynn Greer, Marc Jackson
Panathinaikos: Michael Batiste, Dimitris Diamantidis
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Terence Morris, Esteban Batista
Fenerbahce: Willie Solomon, Omer Asik
Partizan Igokea: Nikola Pekovic, Milt Palacio
Aris TT Bank: Bracey Wright, Jeremiah Massey
Real Madrid: Felipe Reyes, Louis Bullock
Tau Ceramica: Zoran Planinic, Tiago Spliter
CSKA Moscow: Theodoros Papaloukas, Ramunas Siskauskas
Efes Pilsen: Andre Hutson, Kerem Gonlum
Lietuvos Rytas: Kenan Bayramovic, Hollis Price
Montepaschi Siena: Ksistof Lavrinovic, Romain Sato
Zalgiris Kaunas: DeJuan Collins, Mamadou N’Diaye
Lottomatica Roma: Erazem Lorbek, Ibrahim Jaaber
FC Barcelona: Jaka Lakovic, Jordi Trias
Unicaja Malaga: Daniel Santiago, Marcus Haislip
Finally – here is the frist round of 1-on-1 tournament match ups:
Lynn Greer vs.Theodors Papaloukas
Marc Jackson vs. Daniel Santiago
Michael Batiste vs. Jordi Trias
Dimitris Diamantidis vs. Jaka Lakovic
Louis Bullock vs. Ibrahim Jaaber
Esteban Batista vs. Erazem Lorbek
Willie Solomon vs. DeJuan Collins
Omer Asik vs. Mamadou N’Diaye
Nikola Pekovic vs. Ksistof Lavrinovic
Milt Palacio vs. Romain Sato
Bracey Wright vs. Hollis Price
Jeremiah Massey vs. Kenan Bayramovic
Felipe Reyes vs. Kerem Gonlum
Terence Morris vs. Andre Hutson
Zoran Planinic vs. Ramunas Siskauskas
Tiago Spliter vs. Marcus Haislip
From here it is all your choice!
