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Apr 26, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print The Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs could be concluded this week with three teams needing just one more win to secure Final Four qualification, while the other series is perfectly poised at 1-1. Here’s your guide to the action, which starts on Tuesday. Can Real contain red-hot Efes? The first team with an opportunity to book a place at the Final Four is Anadolu Efes Istanbul, which travels to Real Madrid knowing that victory on either Tuesday or Thursday will be enough to advance. Efes has made one of the ...

Apr 24, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print It took six quarters before what we know as grind-it-out playoffs basketball came to the series between CSKA Moscow and Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul. After both teams scored freely during the first half of Game 2, won 50-42 by CSKA, the action devolved into a war of free throws as the hosts went a full 8 minutes without a field goal and Fenerbahce drew within 52-51 late in the third quarter. In such situations, when baskets are scarce because all shots are well contested, assist-making is like gold dust. And in this cas...

Apr 24, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print The only Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs series that is tied after two games produced co-MVPs of the Week as Kevin Pangos of Zenit St Petersburg and Brandon Davies of FC Barcelona shared performance index ratings of 33 in their teams' respective victories. Zenit struck first, taking Game 1 by 74-76 on Wednesday as Pangos scored game-high 19 points, making all 3 of his two-point attempts while knocking down 4 of 6 three-pointers. The Zenit playmaker also dished a personal playoffs high of 9 assists to go with 3 r...

CSKA Moscow shut down Nando De Colo in the fourth quarter to take Game 1 of the EuroLeague Playoffs against Fenerbahce on Wednesday with a 92-76 win. But they will have to remain focussed as in the words of head coach Dimitris Itoudis: “A hard and long series awaits”.  On Wednesday, Will Clyburn put up a fantastic display in the paint with 20 points, but it was the Moscow side’s three-point shooting that highlighted their winning performance. Daniel Hackett joined Clyburn with 20, hitting four of five from three, as Semen Antunov had 9 with three of three made from beyond the arc.

Defense gives CSKA a 2-0 lead CSKA Moscow moved within a victory of a record-breaking ninth consecutive Final Four when it downed visiting Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul by 78-67 on Friday in Game 2 of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs. With a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series, CSKA will have at three chances, if needed, to reach its ninth consecutive Final Four, which no team has done before. Game 3 will be in Istanbul next Wednesday. Fenerbahce led 32-35 before CSKA used a 14-2 run to take a 50-42 halftime lead. Fenerbahce held CSKA without a field goal for the first 8 minutes of the third ...