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Euroleague Top 16 highlights: Day one

January 20, 2011

It wasn’t exactly the most inspiring set of Euroleague basketball games last night, with all four losing sides “held” under 60 points and nearly all blown out. (The operative verb gets quotation marks because the three crushed teams all shot under 40% overall with incredibly abysmal numbers from beyond the arc, to some extent helping the opposition onto victories.)

In any case, highlight clips are still fun. So from the ever-reliable In Case You Missed It Department, official videos from the first quartet of Euroleague Top 16 matches follow.

Efes Pilsen 60, Montepaschi Siena 58. Despite the Bo-less offense, Montepaschi gave Efes Pilsen quite a scare on its homecourt; the Turkish side couldn’t hold a seven-point lead going into the fourth quarter, even giving the Italians successive chances at the basket – almost enough to win. Kudos to Siena for adapting their game enough to play a competent game even without their offensive driver.

Power Electronics Valencia 73, Žalgiris Kaunas 59. After proclaiming that Žalgiris would surprise PE Valencia in Spain over at The Lithuanian Perspective yesterday (that “wise” title will surely evaporate any day now), BiE went and simultaneously trashed the Greens in the official EL power rankings. So at least BiE was covered either way on this one. Who’s not covered is coach Ilias Zouros, now apparently with only three more losses allowable before his dismissal under the Romanov Rules.

Real Madrid 78, Partizan Belgrade 58. Nobody’d better be sleeping on Real; these guys flustered and dominated poor Partizan in raucous Madrid – and still no Mirza Begic. Ettore Messina’s boys are seriously resembling a Final Four team right about now…

Panathinaikos 80, Lietuvos Rytas 59. Did anyone else give up on this one when Martynas Gecevicius went down? Is there really no way to convince Sarunas Jasikevicius to come home and, you know, all is forgiven…?

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  1. G
    14 years ago

    I don’t know if 4 losses are really a limit for Romanov (Grigas was after all temporary, and Aco apparently had to go for different reasons).

    The biggest problem is that the real coach seems to be Romanov himself. There is a widely circulated rumour going on in Lithuania (and supported by some observations) that each Zalgiris coach is given a sheet on which it is written when to change which player. Only that could explain why total playing times for each player are so similar in all the matches, or why Marjanovic who yesterday helped Valencia more than Zalgiris was allowed to play for 10 minutes…
    Overall, until Vlad “Pinocchio” Romanov stops poking his long wooden nose into coaches’ business, we won’t have a team that plays based on its potential…

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    • vasiliskg5
      14 years ago

      I think the new head coach had to do some experiments in order to search for his own starting 5 …maybe someone else might start playing better with Zouros on the bench right now,..lets hope Zouros lost this game just for this ,plus i dont think zalgiris could make it to top8 of euroleague.good luck to any team,enjoy bball

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14 years ago 2 Comments EuroLeague, MoreBo McCalebb, Efes Pilsen, Ettore Messina, EuroLeague, Ilias Zouros, Lietuvos Rytas, Martynas Gecevicius, Mirza Begic, Montepaschi Siena, Panathinaikos, Partizan Belgrade, Power Electronics Valencia, Real Madrid, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Vladimir Romanov, Zalgiris Kaunas
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