Euroleague_2007–08

2007–08 Euroleague

2007–08 Euroleague

EuroLeague season


The 2007–08 Euroleague was the 8th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 51st season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2007–08 season featured 24 competing teams. The Euroleague Regular Season draw was held on 30 June 2007, in Jesolo, Italy, during the inaugural Euroleague summer league. The official inauguration was held on October 22, at Hala Olivia in Gdańsk, Poland, before the season's opening game between Prokom Trefl Sopot and CSKA Moscow. The 2008 Final Four was held on May 2–4, 2008, at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Russian power CSKA Moscow became the champion for the sixth time, placing them second in all-time European championships to Real Madrid.

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Teams of the 2007–08 Euroleague

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     Champion
     Runner-up
     Third place
     Fourth place
     Eliminated in Quarterfinals
     Eliminated in Last 16
     Eliminated in the regular season
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Teams details

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Regular season

The regular season began on October 22, 2007.

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  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 (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
  4. Points scored in all group matches
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
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     Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16
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Group C

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Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.

The draw to set up the Top 16 groups was held on Monday, February 4, 2008 (the week after the end of the Regular Season), in Madrid.[2]

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams

Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams

Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

  1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
  2. No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
  3. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Fenerbahçe), they were scheduled so that only one of the two teams would be at home in a given week.

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     Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals
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Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on April 1, 2008, and all second games were played on April 3. The deciding third games were played on April 9 and April 10.

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Final four

The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.

Semifinals

May 2, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid

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Third-place game

May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid

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Final

May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid

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Final standings

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Final Four 2008 MVP

United States Trajan Langdon (CSKA Moscow)

Individual statistics

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Other Stats

Category Name Team Games Stat
Steals per gameUnited States/Italy Shaun StonerookItaly Montepaschi Siena242.58
Blocks per gameTurkey Ömer AşıkTurkey Fenerbahçe Ülker152.07
Turnovers per gameBelize Milt PalacioSerbia Partizan233.39
Fouls drawn per gameUnited States Marc SalyersFrance Roanne146.14
Minutes per gameUnited States Marc SalyersFrance Roanne1433:54
2FG%Lithuania Marijonas PetravičiusLithuania Lietuvos Rytas170.721
3FG%Lithuania Kšyštof LavrinovičItaly Montepaschi Siena220.578
FT%Lithuania Šarūnas JasikevičiusGreece Panathinaikos200.938

Game highs

Category Name Team Stat
RatingBelgium Tomas Van Den SpiegelPoland Prokom Trefl Sopot50
PointsUnited States Marc SalyersFrance Roanne40
ReboundsSpain Jordi TriasSpain FC Barcelona20
AssistsFrance Marc-Antoine PellinFrance Roanne13
Steals3 occasions8
BlocksUnited States Terence MorrisIsrael Maccabi Elite6
TurnoversUnited States Will SolomonTurkey Fenerbahçe Ülker8
United States Marcus HaislipSpain Unicaja Málaga
Fouls DrawnMontenegro Nikola PekovićSerbia Partizan13

Awards

Euroleague 2007–08 MVP

Euroleague 2007–08 Final Four MVP

Euroleague 2007–08 Finals Top Scorer

All-Euroleague Team 2007–08

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Rising Star

Best Defender

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Club Executive of the Year

Regular season

Top 16

Playoffs

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MVP of the Month

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See also


References and notes

  1. Hala Olivia was closed indefinitely due to structural problems. Prokom's remaining home Euroleague games were moved to the arena that they use for domestic matches. "Due to force majeure, Prokom changes arenas". Euroleague.net. 2007-12-18. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
  2. "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-29.

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