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Originally posted by MrMojoRisin View PostYou're kidding right? I doubt if I see them even as a serious contenders for TOP 16.
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Efes Pilsen, Partizan (sorry, I like your team but EL isn't a youth competition), Olimpija, Prokom, Cedevita, Besiktas, Zalgiris, Lietuvos Rytas (well, they are doing better internationally than Zalgiris and has some young perspective players but I think that it is not enough for EL), Chalon (yes, they are champs but there are better French teams), maybe Unicaja and Alba (if we're for some justice in our bball) to EuroCup. Instead of them upgrading to EL UNICS, Spartak SPb, maybe Lokomotiv Kuban, Valencia, Bilbao, maybe some other Spanish teams like Cajasol or even Joventut, Cantu, maybe Virtus Bologna or old names like Roma and Benetton Treviso (roster-wise they were still very good last season but I heard about big financial crisis in both teams which is a very sad thing considering these teams history and fame) and maybe some good team from Germany or France or even some new face like Nymburk or Donetsk who have solid rosters. That will be much more competitive and interesting but I guess that ULEB officials only interested in bribes and not in the development of European bball.2013/2014 IBN Euroleague Prediction Game Winner
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Well, I'm all against A licences and the way Uleb is treating various clubs, including the philosophy that has left Russian basketball on one club only for a whole decade... yet, euroleague with teams from only 6-7 countries, namely Spain, Turkey, Russia, Maccabi, Siena, Pao, Oly? That won't as well as should not happen.Originally posted by Jon_KoncakThat's funny shit.I cant believe there are sports fans thinking like it.It's like Federer losing to random Japanese player in round 1 of French Open but tournament director stepping in and saying "hey it was a fluke win who wants to watch a random Japanese guy in next round,Federer qualifies"
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Originally posted by Terrorizer View PostEfes Pilsen, Partizan (sorry, I like your team but EL isn't a youth competition), Olimpija, Prokom, Cedevita, Besiktas, Zalgiris, Lietuvos Rytas (well, they are doing better internationally than Zalgiris and has some young perspective players but I think that it is not enough for EL), Chalon (yes, they are champs but there are better French teams), maybe Unicaja and Alba (if we're for some justice in our bball) to EuroCup. Instead of them upgrading to EL UNICS, Spartak SPb, maybe Lokomotiv Kuban, Valencia, Bilbao, maybe some other Spanish teams like Cajasol or even Joventut, Cantu, maybe Virtus Bologna or old names like Roma and Benetton Treviso (roster-wise they were still very good last season but I heard about big financial crisis in both teams which is a very sad thing considering these teams history and fame) and maybe some good team from Germany or France or even some new face like Nymburk or Donetsk who have solid rosters. That will be much more competitive and interesting but I guess that ULEB officials only interested in bribes and not in the development of European bball.
nyburk actually played in adriatic league....finished something like 6-7thJordi Bertomeu sucks!
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Originally posted by Joško Poljak Fan View PostWell, I'm all against A licences and the way Uleb is treating various clubs, including the philosophy that has left Russian basketball on one club only for a whole decade... yet, euroleague with teams from only 6-7 countries, namely Spain, Turkey, Russia, Maccabi, Siena, Pao, Oly? That won't as well as should not happen.
pohani, about Partizan - yes, I have my doubts about them as they are not some kind of Prokom and have really decent results in the recent past but I'm talking about current situation. The last season they were weaker than always: only Macvan played like an elite player on that team with Pekovic coming back to NBA too soon and Acie Law being disappointment. Not only they didn't make it to Top 16 (they were competitive but still lost their place to hugely underperforming Milano) but Partizan didn't even reach Adriatic League finals and it's a tourney which Partizan was keeping on winning for five years in a row. In 2010/2011 they made it to Top 16 but on that stage weren't impressive with 1-5 record. They were a decent but undistinguished team that season which is illustrated by their roster with leaders like Jawai, Gist, Jerrells, Vesely and Lafayette - decent players but nothing really impressive except maybe Jawai if he is in his top form (which happens disappointingly rare). 2009/2010 was a real success and one of the most striking Cinderella stories in European club basketball before this season's Oly but just look what kind of players Partizan had at that moment: that team was led by Bo-Maric-Roberts trio and there aren't any players of that caliber in the current Partizan team (well, Westermann has a potential to become one but it's too early to decide on him). Previous season for Partizan was also successful but once again they managed to have a decent core of the players that time: Lasme (who is underestimated) - Velickovic - Tepic - Tripkovic - Rasic was a solid squad. And so on.
I don't see present day Partizan's roster comparable to any of those except for the last year's so I would be surprised if they will come up with that sort of performance. But if they actually do I would be happy Still I think that sadly Partizan took a degrading trend in its development - maybe it has something to do with the team's budget, maybe youth development kinda stalled last pair of years, foreign players' scouting definitely has become less successful but Partizan is becoming a weaker team than we get used to think of.2013/2014 IBN Euroleague Prediction Game Winner
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that would be plain stupid to replace Efes Pilsen, Partizan, Olimpija, Prokom, Cedevita, Besiktas, Zalgiris, Lietuvos Rytas with the teams like Unics, Spartak, Lokomotiv Kuban, Valencia or Bilbao. While Unics and Valencia quite deserved to participate in the EL, other teams are a waste, then the last time Spartak or Loko won anything? They cant even win the eurocup with ~15ml € budget. What kind of organisation is that?
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Originally posted by Illegal2k10 View Postthat would be plain stupid to replace Efes Pilsen, Partizan, Olimpija, Prokom, Cedevita, Besiktas, Zalgiris, Lietuvos Rytas with the teams like Unics, Spartak, Lokomotiv Kuban, Valencia or Bilbao. While Unics and Valencia quite deserved to participate in the EL, other teams are a waste, then the last time Spartak or Loko won anything? They cant even win the eurocup with ~15ml € budget. What kind of organisation is that?Jordi Bertomeu sucks!
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Still I think that sadly Partizan took a degrading trend in its development - maybe it has something to do with the team's budget, maybe youth development kinda stalled last pair of years, foreign players' scouting definitely has become less successful but Partizan is becoming a weaker team than we get used to think of.
this roster + 2 leaders they are trying to find will be competitive for sure. It will maybe take them year of bad results, but Partizan did great job in off season
and team is not that young. players should be able to play at age of 23-20 with 2 leaders that they are trying to addJordi Bertomeu sucks!
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Originally posted by Billy Bounce View PostThere are tons of options , but real life situations have the tendency to destroy any carefully crafted ranking system.
Just as in your example : Israel has better ranking then Lithuania , so result-wise Israel should have more ( or at least the same amount) clubs in EL then Lithuania . Both Zalgiris and L. Rytas deserved to be in EL ( Euro-players production, 10k+ arenas, results, fans' support, you name it) . Sport results ranking means giving EL spot to the second Israeli team, for the sake of fairness. The problem there is no such team yet.
The same could be applied to Israeli league and ABA for example: last season Maccabi alone produced more wins then all ABA teams together. Yet, I think that's it's better for EL to have 3 ABA Slovenian/Croatian/Serbian clubs then giving 2 extra EL spots to the clubs that aren't build ( budget, infrastructure - wise) to play EL.
Even if we add budgets & infrastructure to the ranking ( bye-bye sport results ) , still we have financial stability issues . Majority of clubs depend on external sources of money, so one decision of club owner/main sponsor and last year champion won't be able to survive , let alone be competitive next year.
My own conclusion that there is no magic ranking to include all real-world factors. At least not in a present state of matters with European basketball. Maybe in some distant future when majority of clubs will have stable break-even budgets and EL will generate enough money to share it with clubs ( like football Champions ), but not now.
F.e. The example you're describing wouldn't happen at this moment as (correct me if I'm wrong) outside of Nokia arena most teams don't play in a 5k seated venue. Now if they did and could fulfill suitable EL financial fair play demands, enable TV broadcasts of their games etc. I've got absolutely no troubles with Israel getting two teams in euroleague (and neither should Uleb). There is no better thing that'd happen to Israeli bball, apart from raising new Kobe, Lebron of course than 2nd euroleague team.
I do expect FFP to influence on majority of those issues. If it'll include a guarantee for a budget just as in Spain, major sponsor dropping out before the EL season, making the team falling under the demanded f.e. 5 millions budget, they're out of EL, with the system whatever it'll look like anyway, replacing them with another competitive team from same or from other country that fulfills those standards.
I believe such fluid systems, with some help of course, evolve into generating money to the extent that can be shared with the clubs and we shouldn't be waiting as money generation would just come out of the blue as Uleb obviously believed to, for the past decade, it would as long as they keep the biggest towns in euroleague - that alone is not enough. In case AEK, Aris, Paok don't stand even a slight chance to qualify it's imo illusionary to expect PAO and Oly's TV rights would regulary increase on yearly basis as it mostlikely excludes sth. like 50% (just as example, could be more, might be less) of Greek bball fans only, fans that'd basicaly be hyped just by a chance to qualify there to the extent they would make a seriously big deal out of it, which Pao and Oly fans don't, at least not anymore as participating in euroleague is becoming a habbit instead of a thrill and ultimate desire for them.
@Terrorizer, I agree on majority of your post, all the way from 32 teams on... just that, I don't have troubles with a system where Partizan would lose a place in euroleague (in a fair competitive way; they'd get back pretty fast anyway) yet, I believe we both agree on this one, it has to have a chance to get back through some wider qualifications or some other way that clearly avoids dealing the el spots behind some desk, rather on court. Also, euroleague needs to open up instead of sticking to the same 10 ountries for the past two decades, there has to be some limit of at least some number of countries participating in EL, luckily Uleb understood that so far...Originally posted by Jon_KoncakThat's funny shit.I cant believe there are sports fans thinking like it.It's like Federer losing to random Japanese player in round 1 of French Open but tournament director stepping in and saying "hey it was a fluke win who wants to watch a random Japanese guy in next round,Federer qualifies"
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European basketball is not strong enough to handle a league based by pure results(we have football for it). Thats why they created some criterias for it, min budget of 5ml€, 10k arena, fan base(attendance). the wider range of countries are participating the better as long as they meet the criterias. league by itself do not need more than 4-5 teams from spain, or 2-3 from russia. the level of competition might increase a bit, but league would lose a wide range of fans and in the long run an intrest in basetball.
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Unfortunately professional basketball in Europe cannot look only on results. Here is the latest example:
BC Donetsk probably will not be able to participate neither in the Euroleague nor in the Eurocup. Different from last season the Ukrainian Champion did not find an agreement with the Donetsk hockey club "Donbass" to share the "Druzhba" arena, which is the only big arena in town. "Donbass" this season additional to their games in the KHL needs the arena for the games of their 2nd team, which plays in the national league. The Arena already is booked out for 80 % (with even more exceptional hockey events and tournaments, too).
http://isport.ua/basketball/ukraine/news/209578.html
President of BC Donetsk in a very desperate open letter announces, that without an agreement, the Donetsk basketball club cannot survive.
I wonder, what Euroleague will do, if Donetsk retires. Look for a replacement according to the ranking? This would be Dutch champion Den Bosch (has even given back their place in the Eurocup) or VEF Riga. Ukrainian sources today announced, that Budivelnik Kiev has received an invitation for the Eurocup …Last edited by Hot Spot; 07-20-2012, 09:30 PM.
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Hi guys , i follow Interbasket for a long time and finally decided to register to the forum.As you know we won 3 titles last year and this year we will play in EL. Today we got only 1 contracted player in the squad who named Can Akın a Turkish PG.We are looking for a sponsor to create a TOP 16 team but we can't find any sponsor yet because of debts.We are looking for the first home match with Partizan another Black-White team.I guess we will finish the group in third.From Beşiktaş - Efes Championship Match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yAI6x_biI
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