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Pinar Karsiyaka take Turkish title with 4-1 series win over Efes
Pinar Karsiyaka completed an amazing post-season with a 71-85 win over Anadolu Efes to take the Turkish Finals 4-1. Emmet Ryan reports on how Cinderella came to Istanbul with a sledgehammer A series format is supposed to prevent small clubs from killing off giants. A series is meant to be where the power clubs of […]
Maccabi lead list of stunning post-season upsets
It’s been a rocky playoffs season for some of the biggest clubs in European basketball. Emmet Ryan takes you through a brief list of the carnage Wednesday night saw the biggest upset by far of the post-season in national and regional leagues across Europe as Hapoel Eilat beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 79-76 to take the […]
Comeback kings Karsiyaka beat Efes to take 3-1 lead in Turkish finals
Never count out Pinar Karsiyaka, that was the lesson on Tuesday night as an epic comeback from 15 points down saw them beat Anadolu Efes 91-88 in overtime to take a 3-1 lead in the Turkish Finals After 70 minutes of looking ordinary in the last two games, it only took 15 more to be […]
DJ Strawberry carries Karsiyaka to 2-1 series lead in Turkish Finals
A fantastic individual display from DJ Strawberry was critical for Pinar Karsiyaka as they took Game 3 of the TBL Finals 71-65 to take a 2-1 series lead over Anadolu Efes Efes had a plan for the road trip to Karsiyaka and it radically changed the expected tempo of this game. Outright stopping Bobby Dixon […]
You need to watch the Turkish Basketball Finals
If you like explosive fun basketball with ludicrous endings and all the drama then do yourself a favour and watch the best series in Europe right now, writes Emmet Ryan Pinar Karsiyaka have been threatening this since laying the smackdown on Banvit in the decisive third game of their quarter final series. Anadolu Efes have […]
Kardiac Kids Karsiyaka Kan’t be Kontrolled
Anadolu Efes and Pinar Karsiyaka served up another absolute epic in Istanbul on Thursday evening and it was the visitors who pulled it out in ridiculously dramatic style 85-86 to tie it up at 1-1 as the series moves to Karsiyaka on Sunday Efes have proven without doubt that they are not as foolish as […]
Efes and Karsiyaka played a classic, can we have 6 more?
Anadolu Efes needed overtime to take down Pinar Karsiyaka 95-92 in Game 1 of the Turkish League finals and Emmet Ryan says if the rest of the series is half this fun it’ll be a wild one There’s no keeping Bobby Dixon down. Another game, another ridiculously confident performance by the American point guard backed […]
Fearless Predictions: BallinEurope’s Euroleague Playoff Picks
It’s playoff time with two fantastic match-ups, one we are a little shaky on, and a fourth we are worried will be a blow-out. The Euroleague playoffs tip-off tomorrow, following a thrilling end to the Top 16 despite not one team changing positions in the playoff rankings in the final round of games. There was […]
Group E: The knowns and the unknowns
The slate is clean for the Top 16. Today and tomorrow we’ll break down what we know about each team in the second phase, what we want to know, and what we think we still won’t know sfter 14 rounds of action. We start with the eight participants. Fenerbahce Ulker What we know: This is […]
Euroleague thrillers see wins for Lietuvos Rytas and Lokomotiv Kuban
There was high drama in Group D on Thursday night while Anadolu Efes continued a fine start for the Turkish contingent in Euroleague. A dramatic finish saw Lietuvos Rytas scrape past Panathinaikos 84 – 83 thanks to Renaldas Seibutis sinking a jumper with 5.5 seconds remaining in overtime in the Eurolague Game of the Week. […]
Podcast: Talking 2013 Nike Hoop Summit, NBA flopping with SI’s Ben Golliver; Euroleague quarterfinals analysis; reviewing They Live
Episode #30 of the BallinEurope/heinnews weekly podcast Taking The Charge is now available online and on iTunes. David Hein and BiE are joined this week by Ben Golliver of SI.com and Blazers Edge; based in Portland, Ben was lucky enough to have attending the 2013 Nike Hoop Summit live and so much time is spent […]
Euroleague Bracketology: According to Twitter, the 2013 Euroleague champion will be…
Now that BallinEurope has posted this website’s Official Euroleague Bracket as well as the only truly unassailable set of predictions, BiE takes stock of a little EL Bracketology from good ol’ Twitter. What sort of conclusions may be drawn from a sample size of 30 tweets (well, 29 plus Sannti’s) hashtagged with #ELbracket? Well… The […]