Fotsis has never been an ELA favorite. With as much talent as he holds in that beard of his, we’d like to see him assert himself for more than a quarter or two at a time, and he certainly should’ve figured out a way to put up more than 6.7 points over the last two seasons. But this year it’s been a slightly different story, and yesterday he partied like it was 2002. With 22 points, 11 boards and a trio of steals to boot, Antonis and his 40 RKG are getting things going at just the right time.
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A minute-by-minute breakdown of the show below. Holler.
0-1: Welcome to the show y’all.
1-9: Antonis Fotsis shoots his way out of the ELA doghouse with an MVP performance.
9-14: Gerald Fitch and Terrell McIntyre fail to step up as Lietuvos Rytas keeps their season alive. But at least Georgios Printezis saw some action.
14- 15: Efes Pilsen looks inebriated at home against Madrid.
15-23: Union Olimpija blows a halftime lead–and their season–against Maccabi as Jeremy Pargo goes ham. More importantly, should Samo Udrih change his name?
23-31: Has Rubio restored the world’s withering faith after leading Barcelona to a comeback against Roma? Or was it just…Roma being Roma?
31-35 Nando de Colo’s bedwetting has Slam seeking therapy after Valencia chokes against the Reds.
36-42: Fenerbahçe Ülker takes Zalgiris to overtime in Kaunas. Can the Turks win without Roko Ukic?
42-46: Jan Vesely dazzles the scouts against Siena and Freaknick goes on the warpath against the word ‘literally’. It’s an awesome segment. Literally.
46-49: Estelle joins us for Stars and Stripes.
49-54: With only two weeks left to make a move, the guys put a little fantasy wager on the line.
54-55: Instant reaction picks! Let’s go! Loud noises!
And that’s all she spoke…
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while we are all waiting for Bo, when in fact will Bo return? Will it be soon? Will they drop Jaric and get Justin Beiber to take his place when he shows his scintillating hoops skills in this weekends All Star game festivities[note- very heavy sarcasm] haha
Seriously, Siena with Bo can win it all.
I love Slam’s laughter! It’s like those videos of people contagiously laughing on youtube… By the way, I saw Yarone in Vilnius – one second he’s chatting with someone and he’s gone the other. Wanted to say hello…
Siena won’t win it all “with McCalebb”. I swear, the NBA fans are comical sometimes. Siena isn’t beating any team like Barca or Olympiacos.
Besides that, McCalebb is really starting to get ridiculously overrated. Look how McIntyre played in the same role. As good or better. Look how Zisis plays now in the same role. Differently, but every bit as effective.
McCalebb is becoming the new Josh Childress of the Euroleague. Insanely overrated just because he is American and all Americans are convinced he is so great. Personally, Siena looks more smooth on offense with Zisis running the team. McCalebb is an undersized shooting guard and not even a better scorer than Kaukenas is to tell the truth, because Kaukenas can actually shoot from distance.
Siena with Bo: 9-1 and 78 PPG. Without: 2-2 and 67 PPG.
Being American has nothing to do with it. I wouldn’t care if McCalebb were Indonesian. He’s a playmaker, and a nearly irreplaceable one at that.
The record speaks for itself And sorry, with Bo Siena could challenge Barca amd Olympiacos
saw that Siena lost to Caserta yesterday in Serie A basket. Hmmmm
This site only rates players if they are American. It is obviously just another NBA promotion site, just like ballineurope.com
Bo McCalebb is a good player and nothing more than that. But this site hypes him up to be the best in Europe, when he is far from that. This site did the same with Childress.
Honestly, I don’t believe the writers of this site even watch Euroleague.
if you think Zisis is better than Bo, than you need to put the crack pipe down
Here we go with the NBA only fan nonsense from this Duncan guy. American basketball fans are such arrogant pricks. McCalebb is a very good player, but this site is just way overboard in hyping him up. They did the same exact thing last year with Childress and Kleiza.
Childress is what I would call a bad player and Kleiza is just above average. Not even remotely close to being the best players on their own team when they were on Olympiacos, yet all last year this site proclaimed them the gods of Euroleague.
Same with Rubio. Finally, this site is not hyping him anymore, since he plays so awful. But for a long time this site hyped Rubio. Rubio flat out sucks.
I admit that McCalebb is a way better player than guys like Childress and Rubio – way better. He is also a bit better than Kleiza is. BUT, enough with all this BS hype about him.
He is not even in the discussion to be the best player in Euroleague. Oh please just stop it. There is no doubt this site has a NBA promotion agenda. NBA players and Americans get endless over hype and overrating here and I also notice that some of the truly elite European players get constantly downgraded from how good they really are.
And as for McCalebb or Zisis………….please enough already. McCalebb is a shooting guard in a point guard body and Zisis is a point guard in a shooting guard body. Different players, with totally different styles.
And to this Duncan…typical NBA only fan that does not know anything about basketball. If McCalebb was so damn good and so damn valuable then how did Siena qualify without him?
I remember the American basketball “experts” here said Siena could not even qualify without McCalebb. Well, without the invincible and mighty McCalebb, they qualified. They didn’t even need him at all.
And since this site is so big to post stats (typical of NBA fans) about how Siena is supposedly so lost without McCalebb,
Siena averages so far 71.4 points per game in the Top 16. And there is no Cholet Basket in the Top 16 to pad stats against.
Against high level competition in the Top 16, they have won 3 in a row and qualified to the playoffs with McCalebb. Oh, and they are averaging 82.5 points per game in the last 2 games. Even their coach said they were adjusting in the first two games to playing without him. Since they adjusted to the new offense………they play better than they ever did with McCalebb to be honest about it.
So, Duncan, seriously, just STFU if you are going to come in here with your arrogant American NBA only fan BS. Most European basketball fans are so freaking sick of that nonsense. The American basketball “experts” here were even arguing with the Europeans that said Siena would qualify without McCalebb.
I mean come on. This arrogance that Americans have about basketball is just ridiculous. Like a team with some of the best European players like Kaukenas, Zisis, and Lavrinovic, along with good role players like Moss, Carraretto, Jaric, Hairston, Rakovic and so forth could not qualify just because mighty McCalebb was gone.
As if he is superman and Siena is a one man team. Oh just stop it already. If he was so damn good and special how the hell did they qualify without him? And about Zisis…don’t knock him. He just saved McCalebb’s ass and led Siena to qualifying. Any true and real McCalebb fan would be kissing Zisis’ rear right now. But of course, that’s how American basketball fans are. They don;t care about teams, or winning, just about the stats and the image and perception of their personal favorite players. It’s pathetic. Leave that crap out of this site please.
An d you act as if Zisis is a nobody here and frankly so does this site’s authors. News flash, Zisis has been considered one of the best players in Europe for years. From being a dominant youth player to being the best player on AEK when they were making Euroleague playoffs, to the best player in Treviso when they were a Top 16 Euroleague team……to being the leading scorer of the European champions in 2005…to being named best European player int he world age 22 and under, etc.
Zisis is a pretty damn good player and it is more proof of the arrogance and ignorance of Americans that act like he is some garbage player here. This guy was considered the best player in all of Europe in his age group. But according to some Americans in this site he’s just some scrub or something.
This site is supposed to be about Euroleague basketball. So it needs to take the American basketball arrogance BS out. That crap may be considered standard practice in the US, but for a European basketball site it is just ridiculous.
Hell, the Lakers could not even beat Barca for crying out loud. Barca was almost even toying with them at one point. Americans are so damn arrogant about everything, even about basketball. I hope McCalebb goes to the NBA next season so I don’t have to read anymore crap about him from these American fan boys.
settle down beavis! No need for name calling, or calling Americans stupid. I have played basketball and know basketball longer than you have been alive. I watched Caserta with Oscar schmidt, Cibona with Petrovic, the great USSR and Jugo teams of the 80′s and 90′s. The point was Bo is better than zisis. that’s a fact. Now, Zisis played a great game today for Siena, and they do have a good team, but without Bo they are not quite as good. Is he the best guard in europe? No, I would still say Teo is. But Siena play at a different level with him. They are now just starting to get better used to playing without him, which I am glad to see.
As for rubio, he was all hype to begin with. The NBA is a different style to Euro ball, so the numbers don’t translate the same, but Ricky needs to work on some things, especially consistency.
Try to chill out Apollo and have decent conversation on here
David Blatt and Ettore Messina are both on record as saying that Niko Zisi is their favorite player and that he is the smartest and steadiest point guard in Europe.
More medals and titles won than any other current player in the world, 11th in all time Euroleague stats in assists and is only 27.
The guy has won everything important in Europe, cups and titles in Greece, Italy, Russia, Euroleague, EuroBasket, junior championships. All he needs is to win cups in Spain to be one of the biggest winners in European basketball.
McCalebb is in his second year of Euroleague and has won nothing. Very good player, but not better than Zisi.
Zisis is a winner and a fine player, but he is not better than Bo. If so, wouldn’t he have been starting over him when they were both healthy? The coach sees them every day in practice, and Piangiani went with Bo.
I like them both on Siena, as each has their strong points and brings something different to the table