Panathinaikos demolish Alba Berlin in Athens in Group E of EuroLeague. The Greek side improved to 7-4 record and bettered their chances for the Quarterfinals. Alba Berlin dropped at 1-10 record. Panathinaikos Athens did not waste the time and took control of the game from the very beginning. The hosts erupted with 21-11 lead in the first period and added massive 29-17 in the second frame. Moreover the Greek side limited the opponents to just 9 points in the third quarter and reached 67:37 after 30 minutes. Alba Berlin could post 21-15 in the last period and reduced to final 24 points. Jonas Maciulis (199-F/G-85) top-scored for the winners with 16 points and Stephane Lasme (203-F-82, college: Massachusetts) netted 14. Sofoklis Schortsanitis (206-C-85) scored 10, whilst Dimitris Diamantidis (196-G-80) and Marcus Banks (188-G-81, college: UNLV) added 8 apiece. DaShaun Wood (185-PG-85, college: Wright St.) had only 9 in defeat and Nihad Djedovic (198-F-90, agency: Beo Basket) produced 8 points.
Player of the Year: John Bryant (208-C-87, college: Santa Clara)
Guard of the Year: Davin White (186-G-81, college: CS Northridge)
Forward of the Year: Deon Thompson (203-F-88, college: N.Carolina)
Center of the Year: John Bryant
Newcomer of the Year: Kyle Weems (198-F-89, college: Missouri St [read more]
Regionaliga team Take Off Wurzburg and farm team off the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg have recieved much experience by bringing in Christoph Henneberger (188-G-84) Lars Buss and Felix Hoffmann. All three players have played combined 10 seasons in Wurzburg. Henneberger is a 29 year old 188cm guard that last season played for the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playing six Eurocup games averaging 2,2ppg. In his two seasons with the s.Oliver baskets Wurzburg he played 26 Beko BBL games [read more]
Regionaliga team Take Off Wurzburg and farm team off the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg have recieved much experience by bringing in Christoph Henneberger (188-G-84) Lars Buss and Felix Hoffmann. All three players have played combined 10 seasons in Wurzburg. Henneberger is a 29 year old 188cm guard that last season played for the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playing six Eurocup games averaging 2,2ppg. In his two seasons with the s.Oliver baskets Wurzburg he played 26 Beko BBL games. Buss is a 34 year old 202cm forward that has much experience in Germany in the second BUndesliga having played for teams like Hannover, Bayreuth, Chemnitz and Wurzburg. He even had Beko BBL experiecne in 2007-2008 playing for Bjoern Harmsen playing 14 games: 4.1ppg, 3.1rpg. The German played for SC Heuchelhof Wuerzburg (2.Regionalliga) the last two years. In 2010-2011, he helped the s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg move up to the Beko BBL playing 12 games. SCH Wuerzburg Baskets (Regionalliga) in 2007. He then played three seasons with TSV Troester Breitenguessbach (ProB).
A.J. Rudowitz (198-F-88, college: Stonehill) has committed his future to BBL newcomer SC Rasta Vechta by signing a contract extension. Rasta also unveiled the signing of Urule Igbavboa (203-C-87, college: Valparaiso).Rudowitz will enter his third season with Rasta. He scored 11.3 points a contest for the team last season, while pulling down 5.8 boards a contest, which made him the second leading rebounder on the team [read more]
A.J. Rudowitz (198-F-88, college: Stonehill) has committed his future to BBL newcomer SC Rasta Vechta by signing a contract extension. Rasta also unveiled the signing of Urule Igbavboa (203-C-87, college: Valparaiso). Rudowitz will enter his third season with Rasta. He scored 11.3 points a contest for the team last season, while pulling down 5.8 boards a contest, which made him the second leading rebounder on the team. He started his pro career with Regionalliga team ASC Theresianum Mainz in 2010 and moved to Vechta following his rookie season. Igbavboa averaged 14.3 points and 7.1 rebounds a game for LF Basket of Sweden last season. The 26-year-old post player hails from Oakdale, Minnesota and holds a German passport thanks to his mother, a native of Muenster, Germany.
Art.Dragons: took 4th (last) place (1-5) in Group C of the Regular Season
Ratiopharm: took 2nd place (3-3) in Group G of the Regular Season, took 2nd
place (3-3) in Group L of the Top16, lost to Gescrap BB in the Quarterfinals 1-1
(-19) !!!
s.Oliver Baskets: took 3rd place (3-3) in Group D of the Regular Season
EWE Baskets: took 1st place (6-0) in Group F of the Regular Season, took 1st
place (5-1) in Group E of the Top16, lost to Karsiyaka (TUR) 62-66 in the
Semifinals, beat Gravelines (FRA) 84-76 in the 3rd place game !!!
Telekom Baskets: took 1st place (4-2) in Group H of the Regular Season, took
2nd place (4-2) in Group L of the Top16, lost to Krasnye Krylia (RUS) 0-2 in the
Quarterfinals !!!
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