First semifinals ended in an 88-81 win for favorite CSKA over Krasnodar. 30 points in 32 minutes on 11-17 shooting for freshly crowned Euroleague MVP Nando de Colo.
The second game will see the one remaining ACB team, Laboral Kutxa Baskonia of Vitoria, go up against the Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce. Possibly the two most exciting European teams at the moment.
Fenerbahce is coached by European legend and renowned hothead Zeljko Obradovic and sending a stacked team to Berlin. Bobby Dixon, future Sun Bogdan Boganovic, Gigi Datome (All-Euroleague second team SF), Jan Vesely, and Ekpe Udoh (All-Euroleague second team C) might just be the best starting five in all of Europe other than CSKA. Vesely went from kinda meh in the NBA to All-Euroleague first team, and convincingly so. He returned from injury just in time.
Vitoria, coached by former Valenia coach and multiple ACB All-Star and scoring champ as a player Velimier Perasovic, is bringing hustle to the table. Their starting five is sporting two young future Spurs guys in Adam Hanga and Davis Bertans, who are lead by the Spur that never was and current best center in all of Europe, Ioannis Bourosis.
It'll be a home game for Fenerbahce in Berlin, expect a great atmosphere in a tighly contested game between two teams that match up extremely well against each other. The winner will meet CSKA on Sunday to crown the Euroleague champion of the 2015-2016 season.
>WHO laboral kutxa baskonia and fenerbahce istanbul
>WHAT second game of the 2016 euroleague final four semi-finals
>WHEN 15 bings
>WHY they qualified for the final four, beating out real madrid and panathinaikos in the process
Jason Bailey
I watched CSKA iirc Kuban did not take the lead once...
I'm p sure Zeliko will win this one... watching seems pointless...
Chase Green
well, CSKA are the runaway favorites to win it all.
fenerbahce should win this one, but man i hope vitoria make it. love those kids.
Sebastian Anderson
fucking Fenerbahce can't miss
Connor Foster
In Greece most ppl think Zeliko will win it all (including Olympiakos fans)
It's obviously hard to say, CSKA is a strong team, but he is a lucky bastard.
Out of curiosity is what the Brazilian says somehow related?
Isaiah Myers
>fenerbahce already up by 10 welp
Liam Johnson
lol man i don't know, firstrow showed the fucking female world bowling championship or something. that brazilian guy is actually a south korean woman. k-pop lied to us.
Nathaniel Walker
>american point guard ruining everything
of course.
Joseph Brooks
hello friends. it is me
Chase Ross
HA HA first vitoria off a high post assist from bertans to a cutting hanga. thus it begins.
Tyler Morales
>american he has turkish passport his name is ali muhammad
Ethan Rogers
i meant darius adams. know him from when he was playing for bremerhaven. unlikeable score-first ball hog.
Brandon Bailey
Anyone know a good stream?
James Young
jesus FUCK bourousis
Asher Reed
in my next life i wanna reborn as a wet ass fuck bourousis turnaround jump shot
Hunter Rodriguez
fucking bourousis
Isaac Lee
Guys, there's real basketball on tonight. Save your energy.
Isaac Williams
vessely is nba material desu
Isaiah Sullivan
the raptors-heat series is anything but real basketball, come on. it's an embarrassment at best.
Henry Evans
i remember him being a disaster on the wizards. crazy how good he's become.
Isaac Price
>That many Turkish fans cheering.
So its true what they say about Berlin.
Carter Morris
He'll probably average some 4ppg if he went to the NBA again. It's not like he's had a tremendous improvement. The level is just a lost higher there.
Adrian Jones
bogdan bogdanovic would be a good investment also
Angel Nelson
gib strim
Kevin Wilson
he did improve, though the level of quality being lower helps too, yeah.
the suns will have a lot of fun with him
i'm happy for satoransky in any case. i think he's ready for the NBA.
Btw this seems like its gonna be a good game. First semi was a boring 3points contest.
If only Laboral had a semi-decent backup center. Idk why these hacks Diop and Planinic are playing in a euroleague team. Even Kuzmic would be a luxury compared to those two.
Sebastian Foster
Wtf just happened?
Parker Hall
fenerbahce has a much higher talent level obviously, but vitoria's not giving up. pretty fun so far.
Hudson Perez
Look at arenavision's agenda. If they have this game its the best quality you're going to find. If not see livetv.sx or rojasirecta for another one.
Robert Myers
>41-40
This was supposed to be a walkover.
Jaxon Reed
>Only Turks watching the game.
Rate my half time meme guys
Luke Reed
i'm a yugo desu
Daniel Roberts
>having only 1 turkish player on rotation fenerbahce is a disgrace for turkish basketball
Cooper Robinson
There were a few Spics last year but now Barca and Real are both out so that leaves us :/
Alexander Lewis
fenerbahce is also not a national team but a privately-run ball club. maybe produce some better talent, u guise?
Jacob Price
they had talents but he's going to Duke because of not getting any playing time First enes kanter now Omer Faruk Yurtseven
Christopher King
>tfw no new kutluay
Nicholas Rodriguez
Truth is I don't think you have that many high level players right now, even for Euroleague. Cedi Osman is pretty good atm and should improve. You have some promising young players too but I can't think of any older players ready to take charge of a team.
Robert Smith
well, just compare it to greece or serbia. they lost a bunch of good people to the NBA, and they still have a lot of good players throughout all leagues. and you're the much bigger country compared to them, even combined.
Adrian Butler
I'd like to see Fener - CSKA in the finals for the whole master vs, teacher on bench
Jack Martinez
we are dominating the youth tournaments for years. we have all the talents but they just need some playing time in EL
Christopher Lee
HANGAAAAAAA
Christian Howard
Yeah I know you've been having strong youth teams for years now. I'm talking about 25+ years old players like Sloukas, Bourousis, Printezis, Calathes, Perperoglou etc who have competed at the top level for years.
Elijah Jones
qt upset coming in
Angel Mitchell
i LOVE that ref chest cam. NBA needs that too
Leo Carter
Dayum
Jason Johnson
>vitoria leading
HAPPENING ALARM THE NEIGHBORS IT'S HAPPENING
based spurs of iberia
Kevin Perry
only reason they compete now in high level teams now is that they had their minutes when they were 20
Isaac Collins
players: NBA > Euroleague muscle and power: NBA > Euroleague Money: NBA > Euroleague Playing a game that has actual tactics and where players are using the brain: Euroleague >>>>>>> NBA
Justin Nelson
Is that FT shooting par for the course for Vesely? No way he's given a second shot in the NBA with Drummond-level abusability.
Elijah Price
>Playing a game that has actual tactics and where players are using the brain: Euroleague >>>>>>> NBA only when their american point guards let them.
seriously, just ban american guards. fuck them.
Jason Hill
Bobby pls stahp
Christian Moore
The difference here is that it feels like every game actually matters. Here you have like 20games max and 2 knockout matches. In the NBA: Your team lost? Hahaha who the fuck cares? You have another hunded games to watch and even in the post season you have series at 4 wins.
Gavin Davis
Funny how Maccabi TLV's only win after Jasikevicius left was when Blatt managed to get the token basketball American guard to cooperate
Asher Phillips
Why was Bobby Dixon named Mohammed Ali
Its the most stereotypical name ever,like Giorgos Papadopoulos for Greece
Nicholas Adams
BOUROU BOUROU BOUROU BOUROU BOUROU
Jeremiah Ward
CSKA going to win....maybe
Caleb Lewis
It's not just that dude. Watch the play-offs right now, you have maybe 2 teams that actually think about plays and tactics its all run & gun
Jaxson Morgan
FUCK
Christian Cook
well its what suits teams the best
it would be stupid to be gs or okc and not to run and gun against cavs or spurs
Parker Thompson
fucking bourousis i hate it so much he never signed for the spurs FUCK
Aiden Price
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
Samuel Martinez
WTF ARE WE DOING
Brayden Mitchell
word is bourousis used anabolics quite a lot in the past, he would have trouble with NBA's blood testing
A final without Zeliko - after all these years - won't be a terrible thing.
Hunter Price
Vesily I can eat your balls
Jordan Cox
no player is more hype
Camden Torres
>WE
What part of Constantinople are you from?
Austin Young
So he would fit right in
Matthew Murphy
European side, why?
Blake Morales
Why the fuc cant they score any 3's FUCK
Chase Miller
>European side
No such thing exists.
Xavier Clark
>Constantinople Freudian slip?
Nicholas Reed
reminder that Bourousis late father in law was a drug kingpin
Dylan Brooks
Yes it does.
Grayson Gomez
>lel fener getting their shit pushed in by a low tier spanish team
Ethan Taylor
It's called a "joke", you denbt monger
Isaac Barnes
It did in the past komsu
Mason Martin
those madmen they're actually gonna do it
Dominic Cruz
Shut the fuck up you ezik pic you can't even compete in this competition
Ayden Young
when will the great greco-turkish empire return?
Thomas Bell
>based Datome
Connor Gonzalez
kill yourself diaspora I wish you got arrested for supporting isis
Dylan Rogers
What empire? They cant even live together in a small island.
