EuroLeague 2024-25 preseason games

[janketa]

Tournament stars of Euroleague in Tivoli Sports Hall

Efes - Bayern Munich 82-77
Panathinaikos - Cedevita Olimpija 81-76

[Edgar]

Panathinaikos played without 5 players. Nunn, Lessort, Sloukas, Yurtseven, K.Antetokoumpo. So I didn't expect anything but Lorenzo looked really nice. Also Juancho and Mitoglou as always played great while they are both on the court.

And as I wrote before a month, Nwora might be the best scorer in the EL.

[Edgar]

Really easy win against Efes in the final. It was +23 I think 4 or 5 minutes before the end. No Nunn, Sloukas, Lessort, Yurtseven, Osman, Antetokoumpo. Lorenzo brought what everyone expected. Ball goes really fast. I can't wait to see how it will look with Nunn and Osman waiting for the open shots and with Lessort in the p&r. And then from the bench Sloukas, Grant, Grigonis, Yurtseven... crazy depth, hopefully Ataman will have everything under the control.

[janketa]

It's too early but like I said Efes will be in problem very soon, assistent coach should be ready cos efes isn't capable to bring serious coach. Team without idea,without system, without clue

Every player in this Efes is iso maniac, even Dogus haha Larkin won't help much

[EverGreen]

Highlights from PAO- Cedevita and PAO- Efes games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yzAPtJ-AZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2peIRcyXA

Lorenzo is looking great and already gelled.

PAO already has good chemistry although we are without Nunn, Sloukas, Lessort, Yurseven and now Osman going up by 23 points at 35 mins. Then switched off playing with Moraitis and Samodurov.

[janketa]

I can't remember when Larkin started a season healthy

[janketa]

Not bad win, but still there is a problem in the roster like I assumed

It's not center position like everybody claim. it's pg spot. We are after Calathes without a single true PG. Zagars is still green, but if Saras give him more minutes I expect some improvement. It's worth of risk imo

Biberovic looks better then Colson on the court, Baldwin is leader, Davis the best player.

[saras]

From the first 2 friendly matches looks like PANATHINAIKOS is playing 30% of potential and still can increase the intensity and disappear anytime in game easily. From the new guys
brown: looks like he can adopt in team's game easily, he is perfect to play with both centers
yurtseven: looks like he can grab rebounds easily and can both shoot and play post or pick n roll. Bayern is not a serious test though cause their bigs suck
Osman: he will need time, but when he runs he looks unstoppable.



Tomorrow against maccabi. The team looks like the favorite by far this season. We have to start good, in 14 days we have the greek super cup. Its a funny competition but we must win it. Its a title and the more we win against loserbiakos the more pressure we put on them and mr bean with final goal the repeat of the last time he was fired after being beaten by their own fans at the team's parking space

[EverGreen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrD2DsKynho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDa7D5H5AQ

[Edgar]

I am actually pretty fine with Maccabi kicking our ass today. We need to calm down and stop with the claiming already 8th EL title. Find best rotations, lineups and open shots. Juancho needs to be in the lineup with Nunn and Lorenzo. Mitoglou with Sloukas. Mitoglou needs Sloukas for open shots and Juancho's movement in the offense is MUST with 2 guards that need ball. And this Maccabi is really cursed for PAO. Their style is just one big mismatch for Pao.

[janketa]

Pao without Nunn is more less team that started last season(with some cosmetic changes like Brown for Vildoza and Cedi with new haircut but far away from what he used to be)

Nunn is in this moment by far the best player in EL, something what Larkin was back in 2020. Loss against Maccabi without Nunn is normal thing. Maccabi is the best coached team in EL, I repeate that once more

Fener without Baldwin is headless chicken like last season. Oly used that and won last qt like Pao did in F4 semi.

[paspalj]

with some cosmetic changes like Brown for Vildoza

Brown for Vildoza is not a cosmetic change, come on now

[janketa]

Brown for Vildoza is not a cosmetic change, come on now

From ugly grandma to good looking grandma it's cosmetic Maybe Vildoza will click in Oly who knows

Regarding Brown I still consider him as one of the Kokoskov's boys so I am biased and admit that

[janketa]

As expected, both in power rankings and looking market moves, Oly has more power in hands then Pao. It's just one game and both teams were without some important players, but my impression is that from 2 best teams in EL right now Oly has more power.

On the other side Fener lost with the same margin too, but yet to see if Efes is better. I don't like their system, too many isos, lucky strikes, selfish players
In Fener it's only wilbeclown left who doesn't like sharing the ball,. In fact to be fair he shared one at the end, just there is a little problem because he shared the ball with wrong guy, Beaubois is still Efes's player and wears blue jersey