2008–09 Euroleague

Euroleague
Euroleague
	The Final Four was held in the O2 World in Berlin
Season	2008–09
Duration	22 October 2008 – 3 May 2009
Number of games	188
Number of teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Juan Carlos Navarro
Finals
Champions	Panathinaikos ; 5th title
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow
Third place	FC Barcelona
Fourth place	Olympiacos
Final Four MVP	Vassilis Spanoulis
Awards
Rising Star	Novica Veličković
Best Defender	Dimitris Diamantidis
Coach of the Year	Duško Vujošević
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Igor Rakočević
Rebounds	Mirsad Türkcan
Assists	Theodoros Papaloukas
Index Rating	D'or Fischer
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The 2008–09 Euroleague was the 9th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 52nd season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season, which featured 24 teams from 13 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.

Teams of the 2008–09 Euroleague

Key to colors
	Champion
	Runner-up
	Third place
	Fourth place
	Eliminated in Quarterfinals
	Eliminated in Last 16
	Eliminated in the regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (ranking in 2007-08 national championship)
Spanien (ACB)	5 ^[2]	Tau Cerámica (1)	FC Barcelona (2)	DKV Joventut (SF)	Unicaja Málaga (SF)	Real Madrid (QF)
Italien (Lega A)	4	Montepaschi Siena (1)	Lottomatica Roma (2)	Air Avellino (SF)	Armani Jeans Milano (SF)
Griechenland (ESAKE A1)	3	Panathinaikos (1)	Olympiacos (2)	Panionios Forthnet (3)
Türkei (TBL)	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)	Efes Pilsen (SF)
Frankreich (LNB Pro A)	2	Nancy (1)	Le Mans (SF)
Litauen (LKL)	1	Žalgiris (1)
Deutschland (BBL)	1	Alba Berlin (1)
Kroatien (A1 Liga)	1	Cibona (SF)
Russland (Superleague A)	1	CSKA Moscow (1)
Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra (2)
Slowenien (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija (1)
Serbien (KLS)	1	Partizan (1)
Polen (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom Sopot (1)

DKV Joventut qualified as ULEB Cup winners.

Team rosters

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]

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches
Points scored in all group matches
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 format

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.

Regular season

The regular season began on October 20, 2008 and concluded on January 15, 2009.

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Group A

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

Group B

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

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	10	2	8	725	818	-93

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.	Armani Jeans Milano	10	5	5	734	745	-11
4.	Partizan	10	5	5	706	687	+19
5.	Efes Pilsen	10	4	6	713	762	-49
6.	Panionios Forthnet	10	3	7	668	790	-122

Top 16

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

The draw was conducted on January 19 at Euroleague Basketball Company 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.

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group E

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

Group F

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

*FC Barcelona wins the group over Real Madrid by the head-to-head point differential.

Group G

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

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 VIP	6	2	4	423	456	-33
4.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	6	1	5	384	444	-60

Quarterfinals

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	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Olympiacos	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	3–1	Montepaschi Siena	90–85	79–84	72–53	91–84
CSKA Moscow	3–0	Partizan	56–47	77–50	67–56

Final four

The Final Four was played on May 1 and on May 3. Semifinal games were played on Friday, while the third-place playoff and Final were played on Sunday. The event was hosted at the O2 World in Berlin. It was the first time the event was held in Berlin.

Semifinals May 1		Final May 3



Regal FC Barcelona	78

CSKA Moscow	82
		CSKA Moscow	71

		Panathinaikos	73
Olympiacos	82

Panathinaikos	84
		Third place



		Regal FC Barcelona	95

		Olympiacos	79

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	D'or Fischer	Maccabi Electra	13	279	21.46
2.	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	19	377	19.84
3.	Mirsad Türkcan	Fenerbahçe Ülker	14	271	19.36

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	21	377	17.95
2.	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	19	328	17.26
3.	David Logan	Asseco Prokom Sopot	15	253	16.87

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	Mirsad Türkcan	Fenerbahçe Ülker	14	121	8.64
2.	D'or Fischer	Maccabi Electra	13	99	7.62
3.	Ioannis Bourousis	Olympiacos	22	162	7.36

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	Theodoros Papaloukas	Olympiacos	22	114	5.18
2.	Omar Cook	Unicaja Málaga	16	82	5.13
3.	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	19	84	4.42

Other Stats

Kategorie	Name	Team	Games	Stat
Steals per game	David Logan	Asseco Prokom Sopot	15	2.67
Blocks per game	Fran Vázquez	FC Barcelona	23	1.74
Turnovers per game	David Logan	Asseco Prokom Sopot	15	2.93
Fouls drawn per game	Sani Bečirović	Lottomatica Roma	13	6.23
Minutes per game	David Logan	Asseco Prokom Sopot	15	34:18
2FG%	Luboš Bartoň	FC Barcelona	23	0.800
3FG%	Marco Mordente	Armani Jeans Milano	12	0.555
FT%	Louis Bullock	Real Madrid	20	0.953

Game highs

Kategorie	Name	Team	Stat
Rating	Lior Eliyahu	Maccabi Electra	42
Points	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	35
Rebounds	Pat Burke	Asseco Prokom Sopot	20
Assists	Theodoros Papaloukas	Olympiacos	13
Steals	7 occasions		6
Blocks	Loren Woods	Žalgiris	7
Turnovers	3 occasions		8
Fouls Drawn	Sani Bečirović	Lottomatica Roma	12

Awards

Position	All-Euroleague First Team	Club team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
PG	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	Theodoros Papaloukas	Olympiacos
SG/SF	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow
SG/SF	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos
PF/C	Ioannis Bourousis	Olympiacos	Erazem Lorbek	CSKA Moscow
PF/C	Nikola Peković	Panathinaikos	Tiago Splitter	Tau Cerámica

Rising Star

Novica Veličković ( Partizan )

Best Defender

Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Igor Rakočević ( Tau Cerámica )

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Duško Vujošević ( Partizan )

Club Executive of the Year

Marco Baldi ( Alba Berlin)

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Will McDonald	Tau Cerámica	32
2	Pops Mensah-Bonsu	Joventut Badalona	37
3	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	34
4	Mike Hall	Armani Jeans Milano	28
5	Edu Hernandez-Sonseca	Joventut Badalona	38
6	Lior Eliyahu	Maccabi Electra	42
7	Rawle Marshall	Cibona	34
8	Sani Bečirović	Lottomatica Roma	38
9	Immanuel McElroy	Alba Berlin	38
10	Oğuz Savaş	Fenerbahçe Ülker	41

Top 16

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Nikola Peković	Panathinaikos	28
	D'or Fischer	Maccabi Electra	28
	Lior Eliyahu (2)	Maccabi Electra	28
2	Novica Veličković	Partizan	29
3	Ersan İlyasova	FC Barcelona	39
4	Tiago Splitter	Tau Cerámica	28
5	Charles Gaines	Maccabi Electra	33
5	Mike Hall (2)	Armani Jeans Milano	33
6	Mike Batiste	Panathinaikos	35

Quarter-finals

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Romain Sato	Montepaschi Siena	36
2	Erazem Lorbek	CSKA Moscow	33
3	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow	30
3	Matjaž Smodiš	CSKA Moscow	30
4	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	37
5	Ersan İlyasova (2)	FC Barcelona	26

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
October 2008	Ersan İlyasova	FC Barcelona
November 2008	Sani Bečirović	Lottomatica Roma
December 2008	Lior Eliyahu	Maccabi Electra
January 2009	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica
February 2009	Novica Veličković	Partizan
March 2009	Erazem Lorbek	CSKA Moscow

References and notes

^ EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL, AEG ANNOUNCE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT, May 3, 2008
^ "El AXA FCB, quinto español en la Euroliga... y el Kalise GC, a la ULEB Cup". Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
^ "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
^ New competition system for 2008-09 Euroleague
^ "2008-09 All-Euroleague, MVP announced". 3 October 2024.

External links

Euroleague official site

[1] EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL, AEG ANNOUNCE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT, May 3, 2008

[2] "El AXA FCB, quinto español en la Euroliga... y el Kalise GC, a la ULEB Cup". Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2008-05-25.

[Top_16_Draw-3] "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-29.

[dates-4] New competition system for 2008-09 Euroleague

[5] "2008-09 All-Euroleague, MVP announced". 3 October 2024.

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Teams of the 2008–09 Euroleague

Team rosters

Format

Regular season

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Top 16

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Quarterfinals

Final four

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Other Stats

Game highs

Awards

Euroleague 2008–09 MVP

Euroleague 2008–09 Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague Team 2008–09

Rising Star

Best Defender

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Club Executive of the Year

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Top 16

Quarter-finals

MVP of the Month

See also

References and notes

External links