Euroleague 2008–09

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The Euroleague 2008-09 season was the ninth international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe under the ULEB umbrella. The season, which featured 24 teams from 13 different countries, culminated in the 2008-09 Euroleague Final Four at the new O₂ World arena in Berlin, Germany.^[1]. It was won by Panathinaikos, who defeated in the final the defending champions CSKA Moscow.

While the general structure of the competition was identical to that used in recent seasons, changes were made to the format for two of its phases, the Regular Season and quarterfinals.

Contents 1 Teams of the 2008-2009 Euroleague 2 Team Rosters 3 Format 4 Regular Season 4.1 Group A 4.2 Group B 4.3 Group C 4.4 Group D 5 Top 16 5.1 Group E 5.2 Group F 5.3 Group G 5.4 Group H 6 Quarterfinals 6.1 Bracket 7 Final Four – O2 World, Berlin, Germany 7.1 Bracket 7.2 Semifinals 7.2.1 FC Barcelona vs. CSKA Moscow 7.2.2 Olympiacos vs. Panathinaikos 7.3 Third-place playoff 7.4 Final 8 Individual Statistics 8.1 Points 8.2 Rebounds 8.3 Assists 9 Awards 9.1 Euroleague 2008-09 MVP 9.2 Euroleague 2008-09 Final Four MVP 9.3 All-Euroleague First Team 2008-2009 9.4 All-Euroleague Second Team 2008-2009 9.5 Rising Star 9.6 Best Defender 9.7 Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Award) 9.8 Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award) 9.9 Club Executive of the Year 10 See also 11 References 12 External links

[edit] Teams of the 2008-2009 Euroleague

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (ranking in 2007-08 national championship)
Spain (ACB)	5 [2]	TAU Cerámica (1)	Regal FC Barcelona (2)	DKV Joventut (SF)	Unicaja Málaga (SF)	Real Madrid (QF)
Italy (Lega A)	4	Montepaschi Siena (1)	Lottomatica Roma (2)	Air Avellino (SF)	AJ Milano (SF)
Greece (ESAKE A1)	3	Panathinaikos Athens (1)	Olympiacos Piraeus (2)	Panionios On Telecoms (3)
Turkey (TBL)	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)	Efes Pilsen (SF)
France (LNB Pro A)	2	SLUC Nancy (1)	Le Mans (SF)
Lithuania (LKL)	1	Žalgiris Kaunas (1)
Germany (BBL)	1	ALBA Berlin (1)
Croatia (A1 Liga)	1	Cibona Zagreb (SF)
Russia (Superleague A)	1	CSKA Moscow (1)
Israel (Ligat HaAl)	1	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv (2)
Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija Ljubljana (1)
Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan Igokea (1)
Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom Sopot (1)

• DKV Joventut qualified as ULEB Cup winners.

[edit] Team Rosters

[edit] Format

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round. This was the first year for this particular format; previously, the competing teams were split into three groups of eight teams each, with the top five teams in each group plus the best sixth-place team advancing.

If two or more clubs finished level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:^[3]

1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
3. Overall point difference in all group matches
4. Points scored in all group matches
5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Games were played from October 22, 2008 to January 15, 2009.^[4]

Top 16

The surviving teams were then divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season. Games began on January 28 and ended March 12.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group played second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-five playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four. This was the first season in which the quarterfinals were best-of-five; previously, they had been best-of-three. The quarterfinal matches were played from March 24 until April 9.

Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams played a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers played in a third-place playoff. The team which was victorious in the Final (Panathinaikos) would be Euroleague champion. The Final Four semifinals were played May 1, with the third-place game and final on May 3.

[edit] Regular Season

The Regular Season began on October 20, 2008 and concluded on January 15, 2009.

[edit] Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Unicaja Málaga	10	8	2	771	698	+73
2.	Olympiacos Piraeus	10	6	4	815	748	+67
3.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	10	6	4	815	811	+4
4.	Cibona Zagreb	10	5	5	760	772	−12
5.	Air Avellino	10	3	7	754	814	−60
6.	Le Mans	10	2	8	747	819	−72

[edit] Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Regal FC Barcelona	10	9	1	813	650	+163
2.	Montepaschi Siena	10	8	2	835	750	+85
3.	Panathinaikos Athens	10	7	3	763	707	+56
4.	Asseco Prokom Sopot	10	2	8	675	734	−59
5.	Žalgiris Kaunas	10	2	8	716	812	−96
6.	SLUC Nancy	10	2	8	706	855	−149

[edit] Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	10	8	2	916	808	+108
2.	Lottomatica Roma	10	6	4	814	786	+28
3.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	6	4	779	755	+24
4.	ALBA Berlin	10	4	6	691	748	−57
5.	DKV Joventut	10	4	6	800	810	−10
6.	Union Olimpija Ljubljana	10	2	8	725	818	−93

[edit] Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	10	7	3	774	644	+130
2.	Real Madrid	10	6	4	740	707	+33
3.	AJ Milano	10	5	5	734	745	−11
4.	Partizan Igokea	10	5	5	706	687	+19
5.	Efes Pilsen	10	4	6	713	762	−49
6.	Panionios On Telecoms	10	3	7	668	790	−122

[edit] Top 16

The Top 16 stage was played from January 28 to March 12, 2009.

The draw was conducted on January 19 at ULEB headquarters in Barcelona. The group winners in the Regular Season were drawn from one pot, the runners-up from one pot, the teams in 3rd place from one pot and those in 4th place from one pot. Teams that played in the same group in the Regular Season could not meet again in the Top 16. Also, teams from the same country could not be drawn into the same pool unless it was necessary to prevent teams from the same Regular Season group from being drawn together.

[edit] Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Olympiacos Piraeus	6	5	1	496	446	+50
2.	TAU Cerámica	6	4	2	556	474	+82
3.	AJ Milano	6	2	4	455	529	−74
4.	Asseco Prokom Sopot	6	1	5	444	502	−58

[edit] Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Regal FC Barcelona	6	5	1	508	429	+79
2.	Real Madrid	6	5	1	505	487	+18
3.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	2	4	459	481	−22
4.	ALBA Berlin	6	0	6	427	502	−75

• Barça win the group over Real by virtue of their +9 head-to-head point differential.

[edit] Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos Athens	6	5	1	503	428	+72
2.	Partizan Igokea	6	4	2	420	434	−14
3.	Unicaja Málaga	6	2	4	484	461	+23
4.	Lottomatica Roma	6	1	5	441	525	−84

[edit] Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	454	377	+77
2.	Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	472	456	+16
3.	Cibona Zagreb	6	2	4	423	456	−33
4.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	6	1	5	384	444	−60

[edit] Quarterfinals

[edit] Bracket

Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Olympiacos Piraeus	3 - 1	Real Madrid	88 - 79	79 - 73	63 - 71	78 - 75
Regal FC Barcelona	3 - 2	TAU Cerámica	75 - 84	85 - 62	62 - 69	84 - 63	78 - 62
Panathinaikos Athens	3 - 1	Montepaschi Siena	90 - 85	79 - 84	72 - 53	91 - 84
CSKA Moscow	3 - 0	Partizan Igokea	56 - 47	77 - 50	67 - 56

[edit] Final Four – O2 World, Berlin, Germany

[edit] Bracket

	Semifinals May 1				Final May 3
	Regal FC Barcelona	78
	CSKA Moscow	82
					CSKA Moscow	71
					Panathinaikos	73
					Third place
	Olympiacos Piraeus	82		Regal FC Barcelona	95
	Panathinaikos	84			Olympiacos Piraeus	79

[edit] Semifinals

[edit] FC Barcelona vs. CSKA Moscow

May 1 18:00 CET	Report	Regal FC Barcelona	78–82	CSKA Moscow		O2 World, Berlin Attendance: 13,238 Referees: Voreadis (GRE), Bachar (ISR), Belisevic (SRB)
		Scoring by quarter: 21-12, 15-20, 20-22, 22-28
		Pts: Andersen 24 Rebs: Santiago 6 Asts: Lakovič 5		Pts: Šiškauskas 29 Rebs: Khryapa 9 Asts: Holden 4

[edit] Olympiacos vs. Panathinaikos

May 1 21:00 CET	Report	Olympiacos Piraeus	82–84	Panathinaikos Athens		O2 World, Berlin Attendance: 13,238 Referees: Romualdas (LTU), Arteaga (ESP), Rocha (POR)
		Scoring by quarter: 21-27, 20-16, 22-23, 19-18
		Pts: Greer 18 Rebs: Bourousis 7 Asts: Papaloukas 5		Pts: Peković 20 Rebs: Batiste, Fotsis 6 Asts: Jasikevičius 5

[edit] Third-place playoff

May 3 17:00 CET	Report	Olympiacos Piraeus	79–95	Regal FC Barcelona		O2 World, Berlin Attendance: 13,238 Referees: Belosevic (SRB), Pukl (SLO), Zamojski (POL), Rocha (POR)
		Scoring by quarter: 19-26, 11-20, 28-27, 21-22
		Pts: Greer 19 Rebs: Bourousis 9 Asts: Papaloukas 4		Pts: Andersen 20 Rebs: Vázquez 5 Asts: Lakovič 5

[edit] Final

May 3 20:00 CET	Report	Panathinaikos Athens	73–71	CSKA Moscow		O2 World, Berlin Attendance: 13,238 Referees: Romualdas (LTU), Arteaga (ESP), Bachar (ISR), Rocha (POR)
		Scoring by quarter: 21-16, 27-12, 8-18, 17-25
		Pts: Spanoulis, Fotsis 13 Rebs: Fotsis 8 Asts: Jasikevičius 4		Pts: Holden 14 Rebs: Smodiš 9 Asts: Holden 4

Euroleague 2009 Champions
Panathinaikos Athens Fifth title

[edit] Individual Statistics

[edit] Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Igor Rakočević	TAU Cerámica	21	377	17.95
2.	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	19	328	17.26
3.	Rimantas Kaukėnas	Montepaschi Siena	18	266	14.78
4.	Juan Carlos Navarro	Regal FC Barcelona	20	295	14.75
5.	Tiago Splitter	TAU Cerámica	17	238	14.00

[edit] Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Ioannis Bourousis	Olympiacos Piraeus	21	153	7.29
2.	Ersan Ilyasova	Regal FC Barcelona	21	151	7.19
3.	Stephane Lasme	Partizan Igokea	19	125	6.58
4.	Lior Eliyahu	Maccabi Tel Aviv	16	105	6.56
5.	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid	20	130	6.50

[edit] Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Theo Papaloukas	Olympiacos Piraeus	21	110	5.24
2.	Omar Cook	Unicaja Málaga	16	82	5.12
3.	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	19	84	4.42
4.	Pablo Prigioni	TAU Cerámica	21	91	4.33
5.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos Athens	18	67	3.72

[edit] Awards

[edit] Euroleague 2008-09 MVP

• Juan Carlos Navarro (Barcelona)

[edit] Euroleague 2008-09 Final Four MVP

• Vassilis Spanoulis (Panathinaikos)

[edit] All-Euroleague First Team 2008-2009

• G Terrell McIntyre (Montepaschi)
• G Juan Carlos Navarro (Barcelona)
• F Igor Rakočević (Baskonia)
• F Ioannis Bourousis (Olympiacos)
• C Nikola Peković (Panathinaikos)

[edit] All-Euroleague Second Team 2008-2009

• G Theo Papaloukas (Olympiacos)
• G Vassilis Spanoulis (Panathinaikos)
• F Ramūnas Šiškauskas (CSKA)
• F Erazem Lorbek (CSKA)
• C Tiago Splitter (Baskonia)

[edit] Rising Star

• Novica Veličković ( Partizan Belgrade )

[edit] Best Defender

• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

[edit] Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Award)

• Igor Rakočević ( TAU Cerámica )

[edit] Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

• Duško Vujošević ( Partizan Belgrade )

[edit] Club Executive of the Year

• Marco Baldi ( ALBA Berlin)

[edit] See also

• ULEB Eurocup 2008-09
• EuroChallenge 2008-09

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Euroleague official site

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