NLB Adriatic League 2011/2012

[pohani komarac]

now most teams are know. bigest change is of corse maccabi will join league...but also lot "big names" won't be here. Crvena Zvezda, Zadar, Split, Bosna

Slovenia: Krka, Union Olimpija, Helios and Zlatorog

Serbia: Partizan, Hemofarm, Radnički (with free WC) and FMP (with paid WC)...tough there are some rumours Čović owner of FMP will enter in Zvezda

Croatia: Zagreb, Cedevita and Cibona (with paid WC)...quality basketball only in Zagreb in Croatia

BiH: Široki

Montenegro: Budućnost

Israel: Maccabi (good old balcan team)

this should be teams for next season. tough, mornar from motenegro, igokea from bih and feni from maccedonia are hoping to get in infront of one croatian or serbian club, or hopping league will icrese number of club to 16

hope for good season...it will be itresting to see what our clubs can do against 3-5 time more expensive maccabi

[Roy M]

now most teams are know. bigest change is of corse maccabi will join league...but also lot "big names" won't be here. Crvena Zvezda, Zadar, Split, Bosna

Slovenia: Krka, Union Olimpija, Helios and Zlatorog

Serbia: Partizan, Hemofarm, Radnički (with free WC) and FMP (with paid WC)...tough there are some rumours Čović owner of FMP will enter in Zvezda

Croatia: Zagreb, Cedevita and Cibona (with paid WC)...quality basketball only in Zagreb in Croatia

BiH: Široki

Montenegro: Budućnost

Israel: Maccabi (good old balcan team)

this should be teams for next season. tough, mornar from motenegro, igokea from bih and feni from maccedonia are hoping to get in infront of one croatian or serbian club, or hopping league will icrese number of club to 16

hope for good season...it will be itresting to see what our clubs can do against 3-5 time more expensive maccabi

I can count Ljublijana, Krka, all the 3 Croatia teams and Budu as good and competitive teams.

[Joško Poljak Fan]

I am afraid Helios and Laško won't go in some spending spree with their Adriatic league participation. They'll try to establish some talented/semi talented youngsters I assume, with a simmilar or just slightly bigger budget than this season.
Unless some X factors go their way, that's the range of 10th-14th place in AL next season. Too bad, as Krka and Olimpija won't be able to maintain a good win/loss ratio by themselves.

Krka will have a competitive team, as well as Dragič and Murič should blossom sooner or later.

I'll damn sure miss Zadar here... they're one of my all time favourites and I only wish they'd recuperate and return fast to AL.

Maccabi of course is the favourite, but they'll have a tougher job than most people imagine.

Zadar, Bosna, Split, Crvena Zvezda... first time that as many giants will be missing from the league as this time. The league isn't the same without them...

[Billy Bounce]

Are there any league restrictions ( general number of players allowed to be registered for a game, any restrictions on Europeans/American/aliens from outer space ) ?

Kinda ironic that Maccabi bitched and moaned about playing in final fours in BSL instead of series, but doesn't seem to care about playing final fours in EL & Adriatic

[pohani komarac]

Are there any league restrictions ( general number of players allowed to be registered for a game, any restrictions on Europeans/American/aliens from outer space ) ?

Kinda ironic that Maccabi bitched and moaned about playing in final fours in BSL instead of series, but doesn't seem to care about playing final fours in EL & Adriatic

don't know how much players can one team have, but you can have americans as much as you wannt

it's not domestic legue and it is under uleb

[Czarkazem13]

Israel: Maccabi (good old balcan team)

Kinda' like Maccabi being a "good old European team" in the EL...

[kemikal]

Kinda ironic that Maccabi bitched and moaned about playing in final fours in BSL instead of series, but doesn't seem to care about playing final fours in EL & Adriatic

Well it was announced today that Israel gets to be the F4 host
Now you have the answer why they didn't bitch or moan

Source: http://bit.ly/m5AXtx

Single team winning it five years in a row can't be good for business, they needed to do something about that, hell yea! Maybe next year they could try to bring in Miami?

[NidzaPBC]

If Partizan win NLB again, PAO and OLY will join next year and final 4 will be in Athens lol

[Cibos]

If Partizan win NLB again, PAO and OLY will join next year and final 4 will be in Athens lol

Get over yourself. Not everyone is after you.

Grobari and conspiracy theories

[Joško Poljak Fan]

Maccabi is in because of the money, not because of Partizan

AL needs a big sponsor and increasing revenue from TV rights to get from 3 million € somewhere to 5 million +, to start producing money for the top clubs as far as ticket revenues goes, as well as rewards (200.000 € was given to top4 teams in 2008 as far as I remember, but that's barely enough for one rotation players salary...)

For that to happen AL needs competitive Zadar and Zvezda and basketball returning back to Zagreb, Cibona wasn't exactly followed as much as one would expect there + a club from Macedonia

When Partizan, Zvezda, Olimpija, Zagreb/Cibona/Cedevita, Zadar will have decent competitive teams, with the likes of Hemofarm, Bodučnost, Krka, Široki not having the same attendance but being able to compete from now and than the league would become profitable and there would be no need for extra foreign teams.

Attendance rose from 1179.62 in 2007/2008, to 2069,99 in 2008/2009, can't find the stats for 2009-2011, but my guess would be that attendance rose over 3000 this season. New sponsor (NLB is retreating) should apreciate that. And if the trend continues, ex-Yu basketball and it's top teams, would finaly get the place they deserve.

With Maccabi included in the league, that'll surely boost the revenue (for all parties included) and that's why they're in.

[Cibos]

Any news on new main sponsor of the league?

[Billy Bounce]

Well it was announced today that Israel gets to be the F4 host
Now you have the answer why they didn't bitch or moan

Source: http://bit.ly/m5AXtx

Single team winning it five years in a row can't be good for business, they needed to do something about that, hell yea! Maybe next year they could try to bring in Miami?

The problem that IIRC there are only 3 arenas capable of hosting F4 : Belgrade, Zagreb , Ljubljana.

All those 3 hosted the event three consequent times : Belgrad(2009), Zagreb(2010), Ljubljana(2011).

Don't you guys get tired of the the same rotation each freaking year ? Let's try something new like hosting Adriatic F4 in Tel Aviv.

[Cibos]

The problem that IIRC there are only 3 arenas capable of hosting F4 : Belgrade, Zagreb , Ljubljana.

All those 3 hosted the event three consequent times : Belgrad(2009), Zagreb(2010), Ljubljana(2011).

Don't you guys get tired of the the same rotation each freaking year ? Let's try something new like hosting Adriatic F4 in Tel Aviv.

Zadar has great new Arena as well.. but they never qualify for F4.. now they even managed to get relegated



Hopefully they'll bounce back..

Maybe league should try hosting the tournament in neutral cities as well.. Split has great new high capacity arena.. some other cities as well... i'm sure it would be sell out as well there.

When it comes to Arenas only problematic ones are Cedevita's "Sutinska Vrela" and Krka's "Leon Štukelj". They're not bad.. they're just.. small. Minimum capacity for this season will be 3000..

[pohani komarac]

The problem that IIRC there are only 3 arenas capable of hosting F4 : Belgrade, Zagreb , Ljubljana.

All those 3 hosted the event three consequent times : Belgrad(2009), Zagreb(2010), Ljubljana(2011).

Don't you guys get tired of the the same rotation each freaking year ? Let's try something new like hosting Adriatic F4 in Tel Aviv.

Not realy

Spaladium arena Split, for basketball it could acept 13000 fans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KakZ3HL55E&feature=related

Krešo Ćosić arena Zadar, 10000 for basketball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_r4P2KFHA&feature=related

problem is Croatia is to centralized so evrything goes to Zagreb so Split and Zadar are not in league, even tough Split, Zadar along with Sibenik, Dubrovnik, Rijeka and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina and small places around them are where 95% of Croatian basketball players are from

[Cibos]

Ye.. ye.. it was Zagreb's fault that Zadar was paying millions to players who didn't play single minute because Aco got in fight with them..

It was Zagreb's fault that Dino Rađa is incompetent to lead u12 girls team, let alone professional squad. Its always Zagreb's fault.. never theirs.