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Monday videos: Barcelona beaten, Cook cookin', remembering Moses and more
Welcome to the week, BallinEurope readers. We’ll get Monday started with a few video clips, stories, links, and some apocalyptic thinking about FC Barcelona. • Now here’s some motivation for Ricky Rubio to, you know, give that Minnesota Timberwolves thing a try: The decent possibility that Barcelona will not recapture the ACB championship title and, […]
Euroleague Playoffs: Games four highlights
And suddenly, the Spanish influence on the Euroleague has been reduced to just one team in the final four – exactly as many squads as Greece, Israel and Italy’ll have. Caja Laboral in the end just didn’t have enough answers for Maccabi Tel Aviv’s depth and star power, while Panathinaikos displayed the blueprint for taking […]
Remember this name, NBA Draftniks: Nikola Mirotic
Despite his impressive performance at the FIBA U20 European Championship and a nice 14-point seven-rebound performance in the 2010 Nike Hoop Summit game, Nikola Mirotic hasn’t fully captured the imagination of international basketball media types until just about three months ago with Real Madrid. In was in week 13 of the ACB when then coach-Ettore […]
Euroleague Playoffs: Games One highlights
For your convenience, BallinEurope brings you a quick collection of highlight clips from Euroleague Playoffs games one last night. Below the break, relive (or don’t, if you’re a Montepaschi Siena fan) the posterable moments from four games’ worth of home-team victories. Enjoy!
Euroleague playoffs: Notes, videos and Fearless Predictions™
Here it comes: a full slate of four games to tip off the Euroleague Playoff Round tonight. And how could BallinEurope miss another chance to post more Fearless Predictions™? Below, a brief take on each game plus videos and those ever-popular prognostications. Enjoy the games! • Caja Laboral Baskonia vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv – BiE’s […]
Euroleague MVP for April: Juan Carlos Navarro, of course
To the surprise of few, Juan Carlos Navarro of FC Barcelona was named Euroleague MVP for April; after all, “La Bomba” was The Bomb in March for the Blaugrana. The award was essentially based on a pair of games put in by the one-time Memphis Grizzly against Barça’s no. 1 rivals this season, Real Madrid. […]
Euroleague games four highlight clips, starring Rubio, Belgrade fans and a buncha Reds
You want YouTube highlight clips? We’ve got your YouTube highlight clips right here. In recapping last night’s Euroleague action action action (BallinEurope is applying the Spike Lee recite-dialogue-thrice method to denote the excitement), who better to start things than The Human YouTube Clip himself, Ricky Rubio? This first clip is entitled “Sergio Llull vs. Ricky […]
David Blutenthal’s 13-word “solution” to Partizan
Israel-based (and Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball-crazy) Haaretz is running a brief story today on David Blutenthal of the home team there. Bluthenthal is apparently as cool as the pool is which the story has him about to dip, which in turn is as bracing as the Pionir crowd. Says Bluthenthal simply: “If we lead from […]
Simply put, Barcelona cruises, 84-73
Guess that game two loss was little more than a speed bump, eh? Anyone who supposed that FC Barcelona was vulnerable after getting taken down by Real Madrid last week (ahem) can again repress doubts about Xavi Pascual’s team after last night’s dominating performance against their ACB “rivals.” That’s right, that “rivals” is in quotes; […]
SportingBet on Euroleague playoffs, game two [advertorial]
With things going 75% as planned in the Euroleague playoff games one (just don’t tell the surely still shaken Maccabi crowd, victims of the surprising quarter), the wisdom of the sportsbook reckons most game two matchups to be more of the same – well, except maybe Baskonia won’t be *so* blown out in Moscow. Three […]