Men's Basketball European EuroLeague 2017 - 2018

[heywoodu 15,335]

Pretty cool, only one available spot which is fought for between two teams:

 

 

And as coincidence will have it, these two teams play each other today  

 

 

[Henry_Leon 1,437]

Playoff begun today with 2 matches:

In the Russian derby CSKA held on for a tough 98-95 victory over Khimki,

Panathinaikos victory 95-67  over Real Madrid

 

Other two quarterfinals Game1 Wednesday, defending champions Fenerbahce  faces visiting  Baskonia and Olympiacos hosts Zalgiris.

Thursday and Friday game 2

 

 

 

[Henry_Leon 1,437]

After game 2, CSKA (without De Colo) and Fenerbahce are 2-0, one win from Final Four; Real beat host Panathinaikos, and now tied at 1-1the series, with Madrid set to host Games 3 and 4 next week, also Olympiacos (after lost game 1) won 79-68 over Zalgiris, and now will go in Lithuania for game 3 and 4

 

The best-of-five series

CSKA 2-0 KHIMKI

PANATHINAIKOS 1-1 REAL

FENERBAHCE 2-0  BASKONIA

OLYMPIACOS 1-1 ZALGIRIS

 

 

[Henry_Leon 1,437]

After game 3 no one teams is already at final four, all ties are 2-1 today and Friday game 4

 

The best-of-five series

BASKONIA 1-2  FENERBAHCE

ZALGIRIS  2-1 OLYMPIACOS

KHIMKI  1-2   CSKA

REAL  2-1  PANATHINAIKOS

[Henry_Leon 1,437]

EuroLeague Final Four in Belgrade has two qualifiers!

Zalgiris Kaunas advanced first to the Final Four on Thursday by sending off last season's runner-up, Olympiacos Piraeus, later defending champion Fenerbahce ran away to a 3-1 series win over host Baskonia Vitoria

 

Zalgiris will play its first Final Four this century (1998/99 the only EuroLeague crown), while Fenerbahce reached its fourth in a row.

[nenad 443]

thank god Olympiakos didn't make it

[Henry_Leon 1,437]

EuroLeague Final Four is all set after Game 4 of the playoffs

In Friday's first game, CSKA Moscow win their series 3-1 over Khimki, and reach its seventh consecutive Final Four.

In second game, Real Madrid held off visiting Panathinaikos by 89-82 and win their series by 3-1.

 

CSKA and Real Madrid will face off in the semifinal , in the other semifinal Zalgiris will play Fenerbahce Istanbul

Final Four at Belgrade on May 18 (semifinals) and May 20 (finals)

 

[nenad 443]

So, EL F4 today in Belgrade, I think we'll see 2 good matches. Fener obviously favourite vs Žalgiris, but it could be interesting and Real vs CSKA should be a treat. 

[dareza 911]

What a nice atmosphere in Arena I don't know if there are more Turkish or Lithuanian fans in Belgrade right now, but I saw a lot of them this morning.

 

I wanted to go today, but the tickets were really expensive.

[DaniSRB 899]

it would be cool if  Zalgiris could win the trophy