[GFB]

29/2
UNICS - Panathinaikos
EA7 Milano - Fenerbahçe
Zalgiris - Cantu
Barcelona - Maccabi

1/3
Efes - CSKA
Olympiakos - Galatasaray
Unicaja - Gescrap BB
M.Siena - Real Madrid

[TeoTheGreek13]

29/2
UNICS - Panathinaikos
EA7 Milano - Fenerbahçe 50-50
Zalgiris - Cantu
Barcelona - Maccabi

1/3
Efes - CSKA
Olympiakos - Galatasaray 55-45
Unicaja - Gescrap BB
M.Siena - Real Madrid 50-50

[Roy M]

The big game is in kazan.
If they'll win, the game in Milano is not important any more.

About the game in Siena: it is a big game, but all dependes in Bilbao's game in Malaga.

[Black Urum]

Roy M, on 28 February 2012 - 06:59 PM, said:

About the game in Siena: it is a big game, but all dependes in Bilbao's game in Malaga.

I disagree. Siena will beat Real Madrid and Malaga-Bilbao game won't matter.

[stefans]

29/2
UNICS - Panathinaikos
EA7 Milano - Fenerbahçe
Zalgiris - Cantu...It's time for first victory.
Barcelona - Maccabi

1/3
Efes - CSKA
Olympiakos - Galatasaray...50%-50%
Unicaja - Bilbao
Siena - Real Madrid...50%-50%

[smooth criminal]

GFB, on 27 February 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:

29/2
UNICS - Panathinaikos
EA7 Milano - Fenerbahçe
Zalgiris - Cantu
Barcelona - Maccabi

1/3
Efes - CSKA
Olympiakos - Galatasaray
Unicaja - Gescrap BB
M.Siena - Real Madrid

Fener will have difficult time in milano..at kazan it will be a close one.. Can you tell some turkish popular basketball sites or forums?

[TeoTheGreek13]

Very important win for us with bad basketball though.
Now, we hope for a dramatic change in our game like last year!!!
In Zots we trust!

So, here we go against Maccabi!
It will be a great series, without a doubt, between the two most dominant Euroleague teams of the last decade!
I hope we will take advantage of our home court and qualify to the F4. If we lose a game in OAKA it will be very difficult to win in Israel.
It's not impossible though, as we saw last year(Barca-PAO) or in 2009(Siena-PAO... Siena was undefeated for over a year in their home court and we won them twice, back to back with 20+ and 11 point victories!!!)!

[GFB]

smooth criminal, on 29 February 2012 - 02:06 PM, said:

Fener will have difficult time in milano..at kazan it will be a close one.. Can you tell some turkish popular basketball sites or forums?

forum.fenerbasket.com

Fenerbahçe fans' basketball forum.. But Turkish..

[MaccabiTA]

Pao-Maccabi.. damn! That one's gonna be a classic. if I go with the brain and not the heart then Pao are clearly the favorites to win, probably 3-1 or 3-2, the key would be the first two games, if we win one everything's possible, if we don't.. we're probably done for the season. 2 great clubs, 2 great crowds, 2 great coaches and DD vs Papaloukas. it doesn't get any better than that.. gonna be huge regardless of the outcome.

[stefans]

Fener loses Milano clinch third victory in row. Only Galatasaray left for TOP 8. Waste of money for Fener and EFES.

[Black Urum]

Thursday, March 1

Anadolu Efes - CSKA Moscow
Olympiacos - Galatasaray
Montepaschi Siena - Real Madrid
Unicaja Malaga - Bilbao

[i dont mind]

stefans, on 01 March 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:

Fener loses Milano clinch third victory in row. Only Galatasaray left for TOP 8. Waste of money for Fener and EFES.

i don't wanna kill your joy but fener didn't waste too much money this year. we didn't buy big names instead we got a new arena built by our sponsor.

efes sure did. and i don't think they spend any more than the teams reach to final 8.

[Black Urum]

I actually agree. Fenerbahce didn't spend that much money, because simply they don't have any of them. In fact some payments have been late to the players and there was a conflict with their main sponsor Ulker over the name of the arena.

Still such a new arena is worth more than a mediocre season, it will be an investment for the future and I'm sure Fenerbahce will stay around for a long time. I wish Panathinaikos could have built something in all these years.

[i dont mind]

We all prefer and support teams that build their rooster from youth system but what is wrong with spending money on players? i am not talking about bringing nba players into the game and spending millions for a couple of months. that is insane.

if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

its not all about money because basketball is a game of spirit. but still you need to spend money to create a final 4 team.

nevertheless, congrats to unics kazan and bilbao basket. they are the real winners of this season.

[stefans]

PAO has money before crisis,but again they play in almost full "OAKA".So it's no necessary like Olympiacos who really needs new arena.

[stefans]

i dont mind, on 02 March 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

We all prefer and support teams that build their rooster from youth system but what is wrong with spending money on players? i am not talking about bringing nba players into the game and spending millions for a couple of months. that is insane.

if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

its not all about money because basketball is a game of spirit. but still you need to spend money to create a final 4 team.

nevertheless, congrats to unics kazan and bilbao basket. they are the real winners of this season.

I'm not saying that they just throw money through window.But i didn't saw any young Turkish prospect in Fener like Galatasaray have Furkan.

[i dont mind]

stefans, on 02 March 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

I'm not saying that they just throw money through window.But i didn't saw any young Turkish prospect in Fener like Galatasaray have Furkan.

because we lost them all to nba
semih erden, ömer aşık, enes kanter.

[smooth criminal]

http://hoopfellas.bl...sh-version.html

nice mahmudi pictures!

[ZEUS]

Uber impressive win for Olybiakos this week, they've come a real long way of looking like newbies at the start of the season, with a monstrous center that Dorsey is, definitely Oly's best signing this season. Spanoulis and Prindezis absolutely destroyed Galata. I'm impressed definitely with Prindezis, he's been working extremely hard and is a reborn player with high accuracy shots from all over the court with very low chances of a turnover, good on him Young guys Sloukas and Mantzaris did a real impressive job at this level, and of course Papanikolaou is playing like a veteran even though he's just become 20 or so

One of the biggest embarassments to watch was Luksa Andric, he definitely isn't for Euroleague-level matches, more like local league instead. How can you get blocked by 3 different players in one match and stand at 210 cm???? Even tho he was top scorer for his team, his 'performance' on the court is perhaps the worst ever I've ever seen from a center in professional basketball. Get off the court and become a florist or something.

I don't think we need to say much about Lakovic either, he once more came up short in such an important match, especially after Gordon (Lucas, Jamon or whatever the hell is this man's full name) sprained his ankle in the game. Galatasaray was never equal to Oly's quality this season,