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Season just started. Two debuting teams, Hapoel and Dubai debuted with wins. I was afraid Micic would be terrible signing, but frankly, he looked very good, he might still be Euroleague star. Hapoel beat Barcelona.

Dubai beat Partizan, who always look like they have strong roster, but never get going. Carlik Jones is just not Euroleague star a lot anticipate him to be, not yet at least, he is very rounded, but just not a good scorer at Euroleague level. Dubai on the other ahnd has some interesting players, I do not expect Davis Bertans to be strong Euroleague player in 2026, but today he was their leader, 20 points. Petrusev and Musa both looked very good, it was a derby for Petrusev, he is probably Dubais best player I would say, it is him and Musa.

Off topic, but It is crazy to think how awful Slovenian National team is outside Doncic, cause their second best player, Prepelic, making his Euroleague return with Dubai, and man -7 PIR today in 8 minutes, this is Doncic's right hand man in FIBA ball, its freaking crazy.

I will be making more comments after more games, maybe few people even read it, this International board is super ''active'' I see...

Speaking about everyones favorite topic, politics, but hopefully not turning this into ugly debate, do you think Israeli teams should be banned from Europen tournamets, just like Russian teams are? I ask this cause more and more people think that.

UcanUwill wrote:Season just started. Two debuting teams, Hapoel and Dubai debuted with wins. I was afraid Micic would be terrible signing, but frankly, he looked very good, he might still be Euroleague star. Hapoel beat Barcelona.

Dubai beat Partizan, who always look like they have strong roster, but never get going. Carlik Jones is just not Euroleague star a lot anticipate him to be, not yet at least, he is very rounded, but just not a good scorer at Euroleague level. Dubai on the other ahnd has some interesting players, I do not expect Davis Bertans to be strong Euroleague player in 2026, but today he was their leader, 20 points. Petrusev and Musa both looked very good, it was a derby for Petrusev, he is probably Dubais best player I would say, it is him and Musa.

Off topic, but It is crazy to think how awful Slovenian National team is outside Doncic, cause their second best player, Prepelic, making his Euroleague return with Dubai, and man -7 PIR today in 8 minutes, this is Doncic's right hand man in FIBA ball, its freaking crazy.

I will be making more comments after more games, maybe few people even read it, this International board is super ''active'' I see...

Speaking about everyones favorite topic, politics, but hopefully not turning this into ugly debate, do you think Israeli teams should be banned from Europen tournamets, just like Russian teams are? I ask this cause more and more people think that.

Yes they should but they won't.
Euroleague isn't a serious organisation either way but especially on this case they'll do whatever everyone else does. Uefa, Fifa etc etc

Žalgiris opens the season beating both finalists of last year, they survived Wade Baldwin IV who was amazing, 36 points for Baldwin in losing effort.

Hapoel also debut with 2 wins, beating Efes this time, granted with some favor from what I would call ref meltdown in the forth quarter. Bad foul call on Loyd, lots of Efes members disagree, refs handle tech left and right, eject Kokoskov, his assistent, Hapoel gains big lead by just shooting free throws, prevails at the end.

Monaco gets their first win, Mirotic with great game, he will probably end up with round 2 MVP, 32 PIR.

Worth to note that Bayern beat Zvezda, behind 9 three pointers from Obst...

IDK if I'd say Euroleague isn't a serious organization. At least not in the last 3-4 yrs. Expansion and more broad support are great signs for the league. One move I question was moving the finals to the middle east and changing to a 1 and done finals.
Some good match-ups this week for sure.

I think Zalgiris stays undefeated.
Maccabi get an underdog win.
Fenerbache bounces back and blows Dubai out.