Euroleague Super Clubs

Lakers_4_Life · Post #1 » by **Lakers_4_Life** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:09 pm

CSKA Moscow
Panathinaikos Athens
Olympiacos Piraeus
Barcelona

Those are some damn good Euro teams right now. I don't care what anyone says the Euroleague level is much higher than it was just a few years ago. The American NBA fans around here are living in the past with how they view the Euroleague as being "so, so much worse than NBA". The truth is the Euroleague is making some real progress.

These are not next year's rosters just the current ones. Keep in mind these teams are still trying to add top level players and they will improve even these rosters before the season starts. Like Panathinaikos is talking with Carlos Delfino, Olympiacos with Anthony Parker, CSKA trying to get Kirilenko out of his Jazz contract (just like last year), etc.

CSKA Moscow

PG JR Holden/Zoran Planinic/Alexey Shved
SG Trajan Langdon/Nikos Zisis/Viktor Keiru
SF Ramunas Siskauskas/Viktor Khryapa/Andrey Vorontsevich
PF Matjaz Smodis/Terence Morris/Artem Zabelin
C Erazem Lorbek/Aleksey Savrasenko/Sasha Kaun

Barcelona

PG Jaka Lakovic/Roko Ukic
SG Juan Carlos Navarro/Gianluca Basile
SF Ersan Ilyasova/Roger Grimau
PF David Andersen/Jordi Trias/Albert Moncasi
C Mario Kasun/Fran Vazquez

Olympiacos Piraeus

PG Theo Papaloukas/Milos Teodosic/Igor Milosevic
SG Lynn Greer/Yotam Halperin/Arvydas Macijuaskas
SF Panagiotis Vasilopoulos/Michalis Pelekanos
PF Yiannis Bourousis/Giorgos Printezis/Zoran Erceg
C Nikola Vujicic/Sofoklis Schortsanitis/Ian Vouyoukas

Panathinaikos Athens

PG Dimitris Diamantidis/Sarunas Jasikevicius/Aris Tatarounis
SG Vassilis Spanoulis/Drew Nicholas/Nikos Chatzivrettas
SF Stratos Perperoglou/Dusan Kecman/Fragiskos Alvertis
PF Antonis Fotsis/Mike Batiste/Dusan Sakota
C Nikola Pekovic/Kostas Tsartsaris

Rasho Brezec · Post #2 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:34 pm

Maccabi could easily be considered a "Super Club". They make the Euroleague Final Four almost every year. By the way, since when is Lorbek with the CSKA?

Lakers_4_Life · Post #3 » by **Lakers_4_Life** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:55 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:Maccabi could easily be considered a "Super Club". They make the Euroleague Final Four almost every year. By the way, since when is Lorbek with the CSKA?

http://www.siol.net/sportal/kosarka/200 ... al_ne.aspx

News just reported, I knew ahead of time because I have inside sources.

El Turco · Post #4 » by **El Turco** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:23 pm

oh god, they are trying to pry away NBA superstars such as delfino and parker.

planaria · Post #5 » by **planaria** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:53 pm

Tau Ceramica definitly should make part of the clubs considered "super" in Europe. IMO, of this teams, TAU Ceramica only isnt better than CSKA.

Pablo Prigioni/Zoran Planinic
Igor Rakocevic/Sergi Vidal
Pete Mickeal/Simas Jasaitis/Lucho Fernández
Mirza Teletovic/James Singleton/Gabe Muoneke
Tiago Splitter/Will McDonald

Plavigrad · Post #6 » by **Plavigrad** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:08 pm

planaria wrote:Tau Ceramica definitly should make part of the clubs considered "super" in Europe. IMO, of this teams, TAU Ceramica only isnt better than CSKA.

Pablo Prigioni/Zoran Planinic
Igor Rakocevic/Sergi Vidal
Pete Mickeal/Simas Jasaitis/Lucho Fernández
Mirza Teletovic/James Singleton/Gabe Muoneke
Tiago Splitter/Will McDonald

Sorry mate Planinic is gone!

Matiz · Post #7 » by **Matiz** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:41 pm

Lakers_4_Life wrote:
Rasho Brezec wrote:Maccabi could easily be considered a "Super Club". They make the Euroleague Final Four almost every year. By the way, since when is Lorbek with the CSKA?

http://www.siol.net/sportal/kosarka/200 ... al_ne.aspx

News just reported, I knew ahead of time because I have inside sources.

robbe · Post #8 » by **robbe** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 6:24 pm

Matiz ... please give respect where respect is due. :uhoh:

Mumbles · Post #9 » by **Mumbles** » Sat Jul 5, 2008 9:07 pm

Sorry for off topic, but does anyone know where to purchase official Euroleague and National team jerseys? I'm even interested in the smaller leagues because I'd like to have some of my favorite college player's pro european jersey like Ron Lewis in Belgium. thanks!

D-Wags#13 · Post #10 » by **D-Wags#13** » Mon Jul 7, 2008 6:54 pm

Mumbles wrote:Sorry for off topic, but does anyone know where to purchase official Euroleague and National team jerseys? I'm even interested in the smaller leagues because I'd like to have some of my favorite college player's pro european jersey like Ron Lewis in Belgium. thanks!

well, i guess just look at the team's homepages, most of them do have an online shop.

competitor · Post #11 » by **competitor** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:25 pm

Maccabi is a super team in my opinion... they lost Nikola Vujčić due to financial reasons, but the team is still star-studded for Europe, and like Rasho Brezec pointed out, is almost always in the Euroleague Final Four. They are a definate powerhouse of Europe.

They have:

5: Esteban Batista / D'Or Fischer / Yaniv Green
4: Marcus Fizer / Lior Eliyahu / Rodney White
3: Tre Simmons / Omri Cassip / Jason Williams
2: Derrick Sharp / Tal Burstein / Alex Garcia
1: Will Bynum (?) / Dror Hajaj

I think Fizer and Batista is a beastly combination of borderline NBA talents. They will definately hurt from losing Vujčić, but the number one priority they need is an elite point guard. Bynum may or may not be with them anymore, and he wasn't that great to begin with.