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IN BILBAO, EVERY DAY COUNTS
Emmet Ryan reflects on the week in Bilbao for Group C of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the challenge of telling the combined story of the city and the games. Depression is a bastard but not always in the way you would think. The prospect of 17 days in the company of complete […]
THE HUNT FOR WORLD CUP FEVER IN BILBAO
Emmet Ryan thought his search for World Cup fever in Bilbao was fruitless, the city found redemption in the same source that has rocked Barakaldo since Saturday night. The warnings were there. At the media welcome on Friday, the Spanish press had said the nation hadn’t warmed up to the 2014 FIBA World Cup. Only […]
Podcast: Featuring Team India coach Scott Flemming on FIBA rule changes, upcoming Asia tournament and "India's Yao Ming" Satnam Singh Bhamara
Episode #41 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced weekly podcast Taking the Charge is now online and available for download via iTunes. With little left say for club basketball in the 2012-13 season except offer sympathy for the San Antonio Spurs and possibly Maccabi Tel Aviv, the emphasis this week is on India – just in case […]
Podcast: Interview with Team Poland/Lietuvos Rytas coach Dirk Bauermann
Episode #39 of the weekly “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online. Co-host David Hein and BiE have kept this one mercifully (relatively) short. Recorded directly after game three of the San Antonio Spurs-Miami Heat NBA championship – not to mention directly thereafter game two of the Liga Endesa finals, game two of […]
Podcast: Interview with Team Spain U19s head coach Luis Guil; review of The Last Boy Scout; gobs of basketball talk
Episode #36 of the weekly “Taking the Charge” podcast series is now available online and, if you think the end of the Euroleague season means a paucity of subjects to discuss, well, you don’t know BallinEurope and heinnews once we get started… At center is an interview with current Team Spain U19s/former Murcia head coach […]
Vassilis Spanoulis’ Euroleague interview, photo: What’s the message?
Is Vassilis Spanoulis throwing down a gauntlet? As the Euroleague official website leads its interview with The Captain by describing him as having “taken his place among the all-time greats of basketball by leading Olympiacos Piraeus to just the second Euroleague repeat title in the last two decades,” the below picture appears on the site’s […]
Podcast: Interview with Ricky Rubio; wrapping the 2012-13 Euroleague season, NIJT; reviewing The Wrestler
Episode #35 of the BallinEurope/heinnews co-produced “Talking the Charge” podcast series is now available online and is downloadable from iTunes – and o boy, it’s a good one. Days after Olympiacos made European basketball history, we’re still amazed by another incredible run by the Reds and so discuss the context of this back-to-back title victory. […]
Georgios Bartzokas: “We have to forget the CSKA Moscow game immediately”
Below runs the official EL interview with Olympiacos head coach Georgios Bartzokas going into his team’s championship game against Real Madrid. Certainly a candidate for 2013 Euroleague Coach of the Year honors, Bartzokas had never taken a team past the Top 16 round previous to this season – but one couldn’t discern this from either […]
Jaycee Carroll: “We’ve got to match Olympiacos’ aggressiveness”
The attention Jaycee Carroll got on Saturday’s open media time was well out of proportion to his playing time on Friday night. In about 22 minutes (much of it in garbage time; then again, much of the game was garbage time, ultimately), Carroll contributed just two points – well done from his double-figure scoring averages […]
Marcus Slaughter: “This is the biggest game of my career”
Real Madrid’s Marcus Slaughter feels good despite facing the pressure of what he calls – and what unquestionably is – the biggest game of his seven-year professional career. Olympiacos might want to take note, as the defending champs could well have matchup problems in facing up against this athletic big man … particularly if, as […]
Quote of Euroleague Final Four tournament: “I think I did a great job of being Sonny Weems this season”
The eminently quotable Sonny Weems was in fine form before his club’s matchup with Olympiacos in Euroleague Final Four play. See below for his talk with media members in which he downplays the revenge factor going into tonight’s game (of course, Sonny was not one of the half-dozen players who ended up on the wrong […]
Kostas Papanikolaou on confidence and/ or pressure of Euroleague title defense
So does a status as titleholder tend to give a defending champion extra confidence or put extra pressure on the team? Here’s an answer from Kostas Papanikolaou of 2012 Euroleague champs Olympiacos…