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What a week in EuroLeague: The six-time champions threaten to leave the league, their deadly rivals Olympiacos edged past Real Madrid despite 27 points from Luka Doncic and FC Barcelona hired 68-year old Svetislav Pesic to try and rescue their domestic season.

This week’s pod panel is Rob, Austin and a welcome return for ELA’s Visiting Professor Emeritus Sam Meyerkopf. Sam is on his Euro travels again, and he saw Olympiacos blow out Fenerbahçe in Piraeus, PAOK take on PAO in Thessaloniki and gives us his take on those games, Doncic and what could possibly fix Barcelona.

Here’s the roadmap to this week’s pod if that floats your boat:

  • 00:00 - 24:00 - Olympiacos vs Fenerbahce and Real Madrid
  • 24:00 - 34:50 Luka Doncic - is he feeling the fatigue?
  • 34:50 - 52:00 The insanity of Panathinaikos’ week + is Mike James the right addition?
  • 52:00 - 1:00:08 - Barcelona’s struggles and Pesic’s return

As always, thanks for listening and don’t forget you can subscribe on Soundcloud, Apple podcasts or wherever you put that RSS feed. Shoutout to Bologna, forever.

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Rob Scott fell in love with basketball from a town in northern England watching Toni Kukoč on the Chicago Bulls, and saw Pau Gasol and Šarūnas Jasikevičius ball in a south London rec centre. After a diet of NBA and BBL hoops got stale he dived back into the continental game and now writes for ELA within spitting distance of the 2013 Final Four venue. You can follow him on Twitter @robscott33

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    I didn’t just call Pappas’ season, but Calathes’ too.
    Also it’s not that I’m that sold on Pappas, but rather think that James trashed Panathinaikos’ season last year.
    He’s a terrible influence both on and off the court.
    He won’t fit into a role upon his return because the only role he knows is that of superstar.
    That’s why the Suns cut him too. He may have been scoring, but they “felt that the ball stuck in his hands too much” and was hampering the development of the younger players.
    Which is what he did last season for Panathinaikos too. Everybody had PAO ranked higher than Olympiacos at the beginning of last season. (Although not in Greece where consecutive years of having a Greek core automatically gives Olympiacos the edge in the perception of almost everyone)
    Why were they so bad at the end and why are they so good this year? They got rid of Bouroussis’ stlye of play (not his mentality) and James’ EVERYTHING.
    You guys also don’t watch the Greek league games. What you would have seen is that straight after the Fener series, PAO rallied to win the Greek league EASILY. Granted, both Printezis and Spanoulis were visibly tired, but we couldn’t score against them. It’s been the same way this year which is why I’m one of those whiney Olympiacos fans that want Sfairopoulos fired.
    This is the most loaded Olympiacos roster I’ve seen since 2011 and PAO have beaten it 3 times already this season. No match was really close.
    When I was talking about Pappas, the first game of the 3 had already been played.

    Nice to hear you guys talking about the importance of having a local core. Especially “when money doesn’t necessarily get you talent”. This style is of course my preference, and I’d rather see another Zalgiris or Zvezda in the Euroleague than another Efes. But I also think it genuinely brings better results too.
    This is where I agree with Giannakopoulos: The Euroleague doesn’t’ manage the image of the Euroleague very well and they have a problem with his instagram tarnishing its reputation???? 15 years in and the Euroleague is barely covering travel costs for the teams.
    There has been a terrible choice of teams. Aiming at attracting big markets where basketball isn’t popular instead of focusing on markets such as Slovenia and Croatia, Serbia and Lithuania which all have loyal basketball fanbases. This has been a clear strategy (Final 4 in London, Paris and Berlin) and it has been a complete failure. Partizan, Olimpija, Cibona, Rytas, Aris, PAOK, AEK should be preferred over the likes of Efes, Khimki, Unics, Kuban, Galatasaray, Darussafaka, Nizhny, Karsiyaka and all the French teams! Too many Spanish teams too. 3 are enough.

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