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Monday, May 16, 2005
FIBA Europe League Final Four Recap
By Jonathan Givony
by href=/profile//> Sadik href=/profile//> Iliman
European href=/profile//> basketball href=/profile//> fans href=/profile//> saw href=/profile//> an href=/profile//> interesting href=/profile//> Final href=/profile//> Four href=/profile//> tournament href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> Istanbul, href=/profile//> where href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> best href=/profile//> four href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> FIBA href=/profile//> Europe href=/profile//> League href=/profile//> competed. href=/profile//> Between href=/profile//> Dynamo href=/profile//> St. href=/profile//> Petersburg, href=/profile//> Khimki, href=/profile//> BC href=/profile//> Kyiv href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> Fenerbahce, href=/profile//> there href=/profile//> were href=/profile//> four href=/profile//> teams href=/profile//> full href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> solid href=/profile//> players. href=/profile//> In href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> end, href=/profile//> St. href=/profile//> Petersburg href=/profile//> (coached href=/profile//> by href=/profile//> ex href=/profile//> Maccabi href=/profile//> coach href=/profile//> David href=/profile//> Blatt) href=/profile//> won href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> cup href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> final href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> against href=/profile//> BC href=/profile//> Kyiv. href=/profile//> More href=/profile//> amazing: href=/profile//> Petersburg href=/profile//> finished href=/profile//> an href=/profile//> unbeaten href=/profile//> season href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> league. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> main href=/profile//> reason href=/profile//> for href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> article href=/profile//> is href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> observation href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> some href=/profile//> young href=/profile//> prospects, href=/profile//> especially href=/profile//> Kresimir href=/profile//> Loncar href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> Kyiv href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> Vladimir href=/profile//> Vereemenko href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> St. href=/profile//> Petersburg. href=/profile//>
Kresimir href=/profile//> Loncar href=/profile//>
Kresimir href=/profile//> Loncar href=/profile//> had href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> difficult href=/profile//> weekend href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> Istanbul. href=/profile//> In href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> against href=/profile//> Fenerbahce href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> played href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> solid href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> with href=/profile//> 6 href=/profile//> points, href=/profile//> 8 href=/profile//> rebounds href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> one href=/profile//> assist. href=/profile//> But href=/profile//> looking href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> this href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> fact href=/profile//> that href=/profile//> Fenerbahce's href=/profile//> frontcourt href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> very href=/profile//> limited href=/profile//> due href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> absence href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> Corsley href=/profile//> Edwards, href=/profile//> Loncar href=/profile//> could href=/profile//> not href=/profile//> give href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> team href=/profile//> an href=/profile//> edge href=/profile//> there. href=/profile//> From href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> first href=/profile//> minutes href=/profile//> you href=/profile//> could href=/profile//> see href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> will href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> play href=/profile//> a href=/profile//> good href=/profile//> game. href=/profile//> He href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> active href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> almost href=/profile//> every href=/profile//> rebounding href=/profile//> position href=/profile//> in href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> game href=/profile//> trying href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> make href=/profile//> tip-in's href=/profile//> and href=/profile//> box href=/profile//> out href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> players href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> secure href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> rebounds. href=/profile//> Though href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> has href=/profile//> nice href=/profile//> range, href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> couldn't href=/profile//> make href=/profile//> use href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> it, href=/profile//> because href=/profile//> of href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> strict href=/profile//> zone href=/profile//> defense href=/profile//> used href=/profile//> by href=/profile//> Fenerbahce. href=/profile//> But href=/profile//> there href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> one href=/profile//> thing href=/profile//> which href=/profile//> was href=/profile//> clear href=/profile//> to href=/profile//> see: href=/profile//> Loncar href=/profile//> faced href=/profile//> big href=/profile//> difficulties href=/profile//> at href=/profile//> creating href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> own href=/profile//> shot href=/profile//> the href=/profile//> post. href=/profile//> The href=/profile//> points href=/profile//> he href=/profile//> made href=/profile//> were href=/profile//> assisted href=/profile//> by href=/profile//> his href=/profile//> teammates href=/profile//> or | |
