Euroleague Group Predictions

[AssAsin]

All Euroleague Teams Rosters are almost complete so we can start group predictions...

Group A:
1. Cska
2. Olympiakos
3. Montepaschi
4. Tau
5. Prokom
6. VidiVici
7. Zalgiris
8. Olimpija

Group B:
1. Unicaja
2. Efes
3. Maccabi
4. Lietuvos
5. Armani
6. Aris (best sixth)
7. Cibona
8. Le Mans

Group C:
1. Panathinaikos
2. Real Madrid
3. Barcelona
4. Lottomatica
5. FenerUlker
6. Partizan
7. Bamberg
8. Roanne

PS:You can also make team analysis and group analysis,it will be nice!!

[Roy M]

Group A:
1. CSKA- the best or second in Europe, far away.
2. Tau-Deep roster, great guards.
3. Olympiacos- Deep roster, but not a good front line.
4. Siena- The best Italian team.
5. Prokom- Doubtful about. good roster, but the qustion is the connection.
6.Zalgiris- good team, but it is the death group.
7. VidiVici- They didn't impress me so far.
8. Ljubliana- every win the'll get, it will be a mircle.

Group B:
1. Efes: Not the best roster, but the best coach.
2. Maccabi- Deep and graet roster, Katash is the missing link here.
3. Malaga- Good team, but unstable.
4. Cibona- Surprise! very good home team and crowd.
5. Ritas- allways play nice in this level.
6. Aris- not so impressive, but try to play in "Alexandron" against them...
7. Milano- The subsidence of the Italian teams, continue.
8. Le-mans- No one knows what R they doing here.

Group C:
1. Pao- Any questions about the best team and one Saras?
2. Real- only couse they host the F4.
3. Roma- I can't see nothing else in the 3rd palce.
4. Barca- An awfull team, Alex Acker, the disaster player in Europe.
5. Partizan- good home team and young tallents.
6. Fener- this group so weak, so even Fener, that made nothing this summer, can success.
7. Bamberg+8. Ruanne: 2 teams that we can live without them.

[snowman30]

Oly's front line with Tsakalidis-2.18,Bourousis 2.12.Printezis 2.08-Mavrokefalidis 2.10-Vasilopoulos 2.08 and the american power forward we are searcing from the Nba (as Roberts will leave) is one of the most powerfull.And don't forget Big-Sofo if he manage to come back.Oly is much more powerfull from Tau.

[jaka13]

Oly's front line with Tsakalidis-2.18,Bourousis 2.12.Printezis 2.08-Mavrokefalidis 2.10-Vasilopoulos 2.08 and the american power forward we are searcing from the Nba (as Roberts will leave) is one of the most powerfull.And don't forget Big-Sofo if he manage to come back.Oly is much more powerfull from Tau.

Much more may isn't, but he surely has a betterfrontline than Tau,now that Luis has left...

[Roy M]

Much more may isn't, but he surely has a betterfrontline than Tau,now that Luis has left...

As a front-lines, despite I'm not objective, I think that Pao (Batist, Dikudis, Tomasevic, Zizic and Tzartzaris) and Maccabi (Vujcic, Moris, fazer, Eliyahu and De-Rosa) are the best in Europe.

[Basket_]

Oly's front line with Tsakalidis-2.18,Bourousis 2.12.Printezis 2.08-Mavrokefalidis 2.10-Vasilopoulos 2.08 and the american power forward we are searcing from the Nba (as Roberts will leave) is one of the most powerfull.And don't forget Big-Sofo if he manage to come back.Oly is much more powerfull from Tau.

Why Roberts will leave?

[Red Inspiration]

Why Roberts will leave?

Pini is not very excited from what roberts demonstrated so far...
He looks like a mediocre player, so they're looking for someone that can make a big difference at the 4 spot.
Not sure if they'll manage to find him tho...

[Turkish Airlines Euroleague]

3. Olympiacos- Deep roster, but not a good front line.

Are you kidding us or something ? Oly has the best front line in Europe imho:
Tsakalidis, Bourousis, Big Sofo, Vasilopoulos, Roberts, Printezis, Mavrokefalidis.

[Red Inspiration]

Euroleague, keep a small basket ( ) we haven't seen them in action yet.
And sofo will most probably stay at the pits for another year.
Try to keep in mind that we are a new team with the addition of 10 new guys.
Don't exaggerate (at least that much ).

[reignman]

Are you kidding us or something ? Oly has the best front line in Europe imho:
Tsakalidis, Bourousis, Big Sofo, Vasilopoulos, Roberts, Printezis, Mavrokefalidis.

nah... they cant be compared to tomarevic and zizic and tsarTSARis

[Turkish Airlines Euroleague]

Euroleague, keep a small basket ( ) we haven't seen them in action yet.
And sofo will most probably stay at the pits for another year.
Try to keep in mind that we are a new team with the addition of 10 new guys.
Don't exaggerate (at least that much ).

Of course it's too early to talk about ( for all the teams, not only Olympiakos ), but I think that ( if you simply look at the roster ) Oly's frontline is the best cause we have huge depth. If someone will be out from an injury ( let's say Bourousis ), another one ( let's say Tsakalidis ) will replace him easily. In other teams like Pao and Maccabi, if one player ( let's say Batiste and Fizer ) will get injured, there is no other player in the same level who can replace him. And of course, I'm keeping a small basket!!!

We're European Champions from now... (j/k)

[Red Inspiration]

@Euroleague

I'm not saying we don't have a strong frontline, but sofo is not there at the moment, and we don't have a star player like vujcic there, so i'm only pointing that we haven't seen them in action yet.
We have one of the best frontlines, but in the papers, not at the court YET.
Lets wait before naming them "best frontline".
Remember, we have pini in charge!

[Straight forward]

Are you kidding us or something ? Oly has the best front line in Europe imho:
Tsakalidis, Bourousis, Big Sofo, Vasilopoulos, Roberts, Printezis, Mavrokefalidis.

those names doesn't say much, but i hope i'm wrong. anyway, imho, there's nothing to compere with CSKA (Anderson, Goree, Smodis) and Pao (Tsarsaris, Tomasevic, Batiste).

[Turkish Airlines Euroleague]

those names doesn't say much, but i hope i'm wrong. anyway, imho, there's nothing to compere with CSKA (Anderson, Goree, Smodis) and Pao (Tsarsaris, Tomasevic, Batiste).

Lol, ok I accept your opinion. If Sofo, Bourousis, Tsakalidis or Vasilopoulos really doesn't say much to you, it's ok from my side...

@Red Inspiration

Of course, our team has a great frontline in the papers at least at the moment. But remember that atm, we can only do paper-talk if you know what I mean. We have to see in action, all the other teams including Pana, CSKA and Tau. From what I see in our friendlies, I think that we have a pretty good frontline. Keeping the small basket, is the best we have to do at this time, as you said before...

[T.W.Is.M.]

@everybody arguing about frontlines(Oly-PAO-Maccabi-CSKA):
european bball is ruled by perimeter players.The key players in the last years were Papaloukas, Diamantidis, Jasikevicius, Siskauskas, Parker, Bodiroga.Not even one PF or C!So what's all the fuss about the frontline?The frontcourt wins titles in the NBA, the backcourt wins them in europe.European bball is often like a 3p contest, so it's more important 2 have a strong backcourt(+SF position)...