Both our brackets are toasted and our Syracuse Orange have been squeezed out thanks to stupid turnovers and a blown call down the stretch. But there is one thing that can cheer us up.
Euroleague playoffs. Let’s get crazy.
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Start – 10:20: Caja Laboral vs. Maccabi Electra
- Does Sofo need a ventilator to keep up with Caja’s feverish pace?
- Who wins the battle between Fernando San Emeterio and Chuck Eidson?
- Can Marcelinho Huertas hold off Macabi’s horses up top, Pargo and Perkins?
10:21 – 15:59: Regal FC Barcelona vs. Panathinaikos
- Can Ricky Rubio and Victor Sada shut down Double D’s?
- Will Aleks Maric rise from the dead to deliver an inspiring performance?
- Can Barcelona afford to get in an early hole against Zeljko Obradovic?
16:00 – 24:43: Real Madrid vs. Valencia
- Is Real Madrid better off without Sergio Rodriguez and/or Clay Tucker?
- Can Valencia win if Nando de Colo hides in his corner?
- Does Dusko Savanovic stand a chance against Madrid’s fearsome frontcourt foursome?
24:44 – 35:05: Olympiacos vs. Montepaschi Siena
- How much of this series relies on the health of Kaukenas and McCalebb?
- Does Siena have the size to disrupt Rasho Nesterovic and his ridiculous 76% shooting?
- Can Olympiacos survive with an ice cold Milos Teodosic?
35:06 – Close: We come up with nifty would-be headlines for all eight teams in the case of their theoretial victories. It’s hard to explain in writing. You’re better off listening. So, just do that. Thanks.
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So much for Duncan’s assertion that McCalebb was the MVP and would somehow magically come back to lead Siena to win. Even when Olympiacos did not have Teodosic and even when McCalebb came back for Siena, Olympiacos still crushed Siena.
McCalebb and his impact have been greatly exaggerated by this website, just like this website greatly exaggerated the impacts of Childress and Kleiza last year. This year’s Olympiacos is FAR BETTER than the team they had last year with Childress and Kleiza on it.
I wonder who will be the new golden boy of this site next year? Rubio, Childress/Kleiza, and McCalebb all had their failed euroleagueadventures.com Golden Boy runs already.
Thanks for the comment, Apollo. I’m still not really sure how Childress and Kleiza were overly exaggerated last season though. They made it to the finals and both got All-Euroleague nods, Kleiza the Ford Trophy to boot. I agree this team might be better overall though, and I think coaching deserves plenty of thanks there.
And blaming a 40-point loss on one guy who’s played 10 minutes through three quarters and taken just one shot? Not sure that’s fair. Zisis is 1-6 with 2 turnovers also, but I’m not going to blame one dude for one of the ugliest basketball games of all time.
You constantly overrate Kleiza and Childress. There you go again. You make it sound like they were thwese great players.
Yeah they beat PROKOM in the playoffs. They went to overtime to beat Partizan, the team with the 2nd lowest budget in Euroleague in the Final Four.
They got blown out by Barca in the Euroleague final.
They got absolutely annihilated in the Greek Finals 3-1, in complete domination by PAO.
The ONLY think Olympiacos did was win the Greek Cup against an injury depleted PAO team and in that game it was Teodosic that won it for them, NOT Kleiza and Childress.
You just can’t help yourself from this biased slant towards overrating the American players and the NBA rotation players. Now you don’t want to admit that Olympiacos is better without Childress and Klieza and just want to put it all on coaching.
Yeah sure, coaching accounts for such things like beating Siena 89-41. Just admit it already, Kleiza and Childress were never half as good as this site keeps claiming and maybe you will start to get some more European fans here, instead of just Americans.
You don’t have to cater everything to Americans in this site. It’s not supposed to be an NBA site. The everything with a biased towards the NBA slant only plays with Americans and only because they never even see the Euroelague, and because most NBA fans from the US are a bunch of racists anyway.
If you want to pick up the site traffic here you need to stop slanting everything with the NBA angle because it does not play to Europeans.
The first thing Ivkovic did when he got hired at Olympiacos was decline to pick up the option on Kleiza’s contract, and he said he would rather have Matt Nielsen because he was actually a team player, would actually try on defense and because he would actually help a team win games, and not just stat pad.
Yet, you keep talking about Kleiza like he was some Euroleague god. So yes, go ahead and count it all as coaching………….coaching as in the coaching decisions to replace guys like Childress and Kleiza to improve the team.
Childress and Kleiza are total losers and choke artists. Spanoulis and Nesterovich have been 10 times the players either of them were for Olympiacos.
gosh Apollo, you must have a really meaningless life with too much time on your hands? We are racist basketball fans now? Move out of your mom’s basement already
People that say things like “move out of your mom’s basement” are almost always racists. Because only those type of people have such an incredibly pathetic mind set.
yep, you got me. racist. Sheeesh. do people throw around the race card pretty easy nowadays.
PLEASE TELL ME ONE PLACE THAT I EVER WROTE ANYTHING RACIST. It usually is the people pulling the race card that are usually racist my friend
I don’t think anyone here’s racist fellas. This site’s supposed to one of the fun ones. All opinions welcome.
Honestly though, we appreciate all the comments. Anybody got predictions for the rest of the playoffs? I’m still reeling from that Siena game. Feels like a strange dream…
Siena will need to win the next game I think, but Olympiacos is too good so I will go with the reds.
Barca should win, as well as Maccabi. But I think real madrid might just get beat.
Just hope to see some good games.