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Tobi Harcum

Posted January 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM

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Duncan

Posted January 17, 2011 at 8:57 PM

They are in a tough group, but like you said, they do have plenty of firepower and a good coaching staff.

Slam- when are the new podcasts going up?

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Os Davis, BallinEurope

Posted January 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM

Good choices, except for my man Bo McCalebb — BallinEurope says his injury could take MPS right out of the race before he even returns…

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Slam

Posted January 20, 2011 at 12:48 AM

Should be a new cast up momentarily with a review of yesterdays action and look into todays.

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BrutalDlx

Posted January 20, 2011 at 3:56 AM

Yeah, good choices, especially the comment about Diamantidis. Mediocre player, let’s just say ‘nah’ and carry on. And where’s Ukic? Nah, let’s just nominate the Lavrinovic bros who surely deserve interplanitary co-MVP honours. How bout Spanoulis and Eidson? Nah, I’d rather nominate Teodosic again, who’s is not even in the MVP race in his own lockeroom. You, sir, ARE Euroleague basketball

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Miguel

Posted January 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Navarro and the Lavrinovic brothers have no business even being in this discussion. Spanoulis is by far the MVP of Olympiacos this year, not Teodosic. McCalebb can’t be a serious candidate when he won’t even play in the Top 16. How could you miss half the season and be the MVP?

The top 5 MVP candidates right now are in any order:

Diamantidis
Spanoulis
San Emeterrio
Eidson
Schortsanitis

The next guy in consideration should be Ukic. Sorry, but the Lavrinovic brothers, Teodosic, and Navarro are not candidates right now. Will they be by the end of the playoffs? Maybe, but not right now.

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Duncan

Posted January 20, 2011 at 9:28 PM

sweeet

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Duncan

Posted January 22, 2011 at 10:04 PM

I don’t like this aspect of Euroball. They should adopt something like they have in soccer in Europe, having a Transfer window and such

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花蓮民宿

Posted January 23, 2011 at 10:12 PM

There are tons of websites that simply make stupid information,but yours are different , I am so happy to read your post,3$

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Duncan

Posted January 24, 2011 at 5:45 PM

nice . Does anyone else think Fran Vasquez looks like Fred Gwynn[Herman Munster and the Judge from My Cousin Vinny]?

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Freaknick

Posted January 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there.

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Duncan

Posted January 26, 2011 at 8:13 PM

I thought so. hahahah I can’t watch Barcelona play now and not see Herman Munster

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Duncan

Posted January 28, 2011 at 8:36 PM

more podcasts please! you guys do some sweeet work

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Freaknick

Posted January 28, 2011 at 9:00 PM

Getting one edited and posted as we type. Check back in about 15-20 minutes.

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Duncan

Posted January 28, 2011 at 10:34 PM

Nice. “Ask and you shall receive” lol

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Patros

Posted January 31, 2011 at 5:00 AM

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why this site has not mentioned anything about the new Mediterranean League that is supposed to start next season? I would think this site would have mentioned something about it, since it is such a huge development in European basketball.

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Freaknick

Posted February 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM

Sorry about that. We’re working on organizing a podcast series where we investigate the state of Euroball as a whole. What needs to go; what changes need to be made; what structures would/wouldn’t work.

But it’s a valid question. It certainly is a big deal, and we just want to make sure we go about it the right way.

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Duncan

Posted February 2, 2011 at 9:45 PM

I don’t like the whole transfer market in Europe. Same with the soccer transfer market, where big teams buy good players and sit them on the bench.

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Vytautas

Posted February 3, 2011 at 2:39 AM

Learn Lithuanian, on of the oldest and most archaic languages in Europe.

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Duncan

Posted February 3, 2011 at 1:56 PM

parla italiano?

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Freaknick

Posted February 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM

As a fellow American, I can relate. I always feel intellectually outclassed when I’m in another country. 80% of the people I met could at least hold a limited conversation with me.

Me? I get stoked when I successfully place an order in Spanish. Rosetta Stone’s up on the wish list.

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Duncan

Posted February 3, 2011 at 8:31 PM

Rosetta stone is pricey, Just have a nanie from Italy that speaks italian lol Nice win for Siena today in a hostile arena. Forza!!!

Any podcast coming this week?

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Dusan

Posted February 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM

How is that any different than what the NBA does?

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Simas

Posted February 5, 2011 at 4:58 AM

Oh guys! Found the time to listen to the podcast only now, but you managed to get that ‘Drunkard Collins’ mention! Did you have any insight into that? Last time he was in Zalgiris he was known to have some drinking problems… Ha ha… Was wondering if Slam favors Rytas or Zalgiris? Do we have some friction in the Lithuanian department between the hosts? Keep on the good work, guys!

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Duncan

Posted February 7, 2011 at 8:12 PM

good luck bro

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Kyriakos Theodosiadis

Posted February 11, 2011 at 3:50 PM

Hey Justin,
big time PAOK fan here, but not the spitting kind. I’m loving your game with our team. Keep focused and keep up the good work.

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Nikos

Posted February 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM

I find it hilarious that Kleiza and Childress were supposedly the best players on Olympiacos last year, when Teodosic was the league MVP. Also how Childress was supposedly the second option on the team when his whole job was to stand still at the 3 point line and never shoot, even though always being left wide open.

I seriously doubt that you watched more than 2-3 games of Olympiacos all last season.

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Freaknick

Posted February 14, 2011 at 2:15 AM

@Nikos: Firstly, thanks for the comment. I understand Teodosic was the MVP, but Kleiza was the more important piece. Kleiza was the league’s leading scorer, but what made him so effective was the creativity with which he’d put up his 20 per night. Inside, outside…and only in fourth quarters would he force the issue outside of the flow of the game.

And as for J-Chil, he did far more than “stand still.” On a pretty immobile team, he made the most out of stagnant possessions (see: Paris vs. Partizan). Offensive boards, crashing the lane and drawing the D. And as bad as they were defensively, it would have been even more disastrous without Josh in there as Oly’s best defender.

Teodosic is great when he’s on, but when his shots aren’t falling Olympiacos has a tough time performing well around him. And I’m pretty sure our boy Rafael watched plenty of games. The dude knows his stuff.

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Duncan

Posted February 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM

Great podcast guys! Good to see Siena keep their slim hopes alive. Kaukenas stepped up, hopefully they can hold out some hopes until Bo comes back

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Freaknick

Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM

Thanks as always, Mr. Duncan. Kaukenas was in mid-2000’s form. They’ll need his leadership going forward.

…but we’re still just ‘Waiting for Bo’

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Duncan

Posted February 18, 2011 at 8:46 PM

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.

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Simas

Posted February 19, 2011 at 6:25 PM

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…

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Apollo

Posted February 20, 2011 at 3:43 PM

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.

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Freaknick

Posted February 20, 2011 at 5:16 PM

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.

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Duncan

Posted February 20, 2011 at 7:45 PM

The record speaks for itself And sorry, with Bo Siena could challenge Barca amd Olympiacos

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Duncan

Posted February 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM

saw that Siena lost to Caserta yesterday in Serie A basket. Hmmmm

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Zoran

Posted February 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM

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.

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Duncan

Posted February 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM

if you think Zisis is better than Bo, than you need to put the crack pipe down

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Duncan

Posted February 23, 2011 at 4:48 PM

Pana lost at home? and guess what, an American was running the point for the Lithuanians.

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Duncan

Posted February 24, 2011 at 4:41 PM

Zisis played very well today, an impressive looking Siena performance

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Apollo

Posted February 24, 2011 at 5:31 PM

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.

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Duncan

Posted February 24, 2011 at 9:01 PM

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

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