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2008–09 Euroleague

EuroLeague season

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title	Euroleague
season	2008–09
image	O2_World_Berlin-Friedrichshain.JPG
caption	The [Final Four](2009-euroleague-final-four) was held in the O2 World in Berlin
champions	GRE Panathinaikos
5th title
runners_up	RUS CSKA Moscow
third_place	ESP FC Barcelona
fourth_place	GRE Olympiacos
teams	24
games	188
duration	22 October 2008 – 3 May 2009
MVP	ESP Juan Carlos Navarro
final_four_MVP	GRE Vassilis Spanoulis
award4	Rising Star	award4_winner = SRB Novica Veličković
award5	Best Defender	award5_winner = GRE Dimitris Diamantidis
award6	Coach of the Year	award6_winner = SRB Duško Vujošević
PIR_leader	ISR D'or Fischer	pir = 21.5
top_scorer	SRB Igor Rakočević	ppg = 18.0
rebounds_leader	TUR Mirsad Türkcan	rpg = 8.6
assists_leader	GRE Theodoros Papaloukas	apg = 5.2

Main article: EuroLeague

5th title 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. 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

	Eliminated in the regular season

LC: 3-year licence

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (ranking in 2007-08 national championship)
ESP Spain (ACB)	5	Tau Cerámica (1)
ITA Italy (Lega A)	4	Montepaschi Siena (1)
GRE Greece (ESAKE A1)	3	Panathinaikos (1)
TUR Turkey (TBL)	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)
FRA France (LNB Pro A)	2	Nancy (1)
LIT Lithuania (LKL)	1	Žalgiris (1)
GER Germany (BBL)	1	Alba Berlin (1)
CRO Croatia (A1 Liga)	1	Cibona (SF)LC
RUS Russia (Superleague A)	1	CSKA Moscow (1)
ISR Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra (2)LC
SLO Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija (1)
SRB Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan (1)
POL Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom Sopot (1)

DKV Joventut qualified as ULEB Cup winners.

Team rosters

Main article: Euroleague 2008–09 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:

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.

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.

	Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Unicaja Málaga	10	8	2	771	698
2.	GRE Olympiacos	10	6	4	815	748
3.	ISR Maccabi Electra	10	6	4	815	811
4.	CRO Cibona VIP	10	5	5	760	772
5.	ITA Air Avellino	10	3	7	754	814
6.	FRA Le Mans	10	2	8	747	819

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP FC Barcelona	10	9	1	813	650
2.	ITA Montepaschi Siena	10	8	2	835	750
3.	GRE Panathinaikos	10	7	3	763	707
4.	POL Asseco Prokom Sopot	10	2	8	675	734
5.	LTU Žalgiris	10	2	8	716	812
6.	FRA Nancy	10	2	8	706	855

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Tau Cerámica	10	8	2	916	808
2.	ITA Lottomatica Roma	10	6	4	814	786
3.	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	6	4	779	755
4.	GER Alba Berlin	10	4	6	691	748
5.	ESP DKV Joventut	10	4	6	800	810
6.	SLO Union Olimpija	10	2	8	725	818

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	10	7	3	774	644
2.	ESP Real Madrid	10	6	4	740	707
3.	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	10	5	5	734	745
4.	SRB Partizan	10	5	5	706	687
5.	TUR Efes Pilsen	10	4	6	713	762
6.	GRE Panionios Forthnet	10	3	7	668	790

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.

	Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	GRE Olympiacos	6	5	1	496	446
2.	ESP Tau Cerámica	6	4	2	556	474
3.	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	6	2	4	455	529
4.	POL Asseco Prokom Sopot	6	1	5	444	502

Group F

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP FC Barcelona	6	5	1	508	429
2.	ESP Real Madrid	6	5	1	505	487
3.	ISR Maccabi Electra	6	2	4	459	481
4.	GER Alba Berlin	6	0	6	427	502

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

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	GRE Panathinaikos	6	5	1	503	428
2.	SRB Partizan	6	4	2	420	434
3.	ESP Unicaja Málaga	6	2	4	484	461
4.	ITA Lottomatica Roma	6	1	5	441	525

Group H

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	454	377
2.	ITA Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	472	456
3.	CRO Cibona VIP	6	2	4	423	456
4.	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	6	1	5	384	444

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 GRE	3–1	ESP Real Madrid	88–79	79–73	63–71	78–75
Regal FC Barcelona ESP	3–2	ESP Tau Cerámica	75–84	85–62	62–69	84–63	78–62
Panathinaikos GRE	3–1	ITA Montepaschi Siena	90–85	79–84	72–53	91–84
CSKA Moscow RUS	3–0	SRB Partizan	56–47	77–50	67–56

Final four

Main article: 2009 Euroleague 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.

Individual statistics

Rating

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

Points

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

Rebounds

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

Assists

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

Other Stats

FT%	USA Louis Bullock	ESP Real Madrid	20	0.953

Game highs

Fouls Drawn	SLO Sani Bečirović	ITA Lottomatica Roma	12

Awards

Euroleague 2008–09 MVP

ESP Juan Carlos Navarro (ESP FC Barcelona)

Euroleague 2008–09 Final Four MVP

GRE Vassilis Spanoulis (GRE Panathinaikos)

All-Euroleague Team 2008–09

All-Euroleague First Team	Club team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
USA Terrell McIntyre	ITA Montepaschi Siena	GRE Theodoros Papaloukas	GRE Olympiacos
SRB Igor Rakočević	ESP Tau Cerámica	LIT Ramūnas Šiškauskas	RUS CSKA Moscow
ESP Juan Carlos Navarro	ESP FC Barcelona	GRE Vassilis Spanoulis	GRE Panathinaikos
GRE Ioannis Bourousis	GRE Olympiacos	SLO Erazem Lorbek	RUS CSKA Moscow
MNE Nikola Peković	GRE Panathinaikos	BRA Tiago Splitter	ESP Tau Cerámica

Rising Star

SRB Novica Veličković (SRB Partizan)

Best Defender

GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (GRE Panathinaikos)

Top Scorer ([[Alphonso Ford Trophy]])

SRB Igor Rakočević (ESP Tau Cerámica)

Coach of the Year ([[Euroleague Coach of the Year Award|Alexander Gomelsky Award]])

SRB Duško Vujošević (SRB Partizan)

Club Executive of the Year

GER Marco Baldi (GER Alba Berlin)

MVP Weekly

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Week

Regular season

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

Top 16

Game	Player	Team
1	MNE Nikola Peković	GRE Panathinaikos
ISR D'or Fischer	ISR Maccabi Electra	28
ISR Lior Eliyahu (2)	ISR Maccabi Electra	28
2	SRB Novica Veličković	SRB Partizan
3	TUR Ersan İlyasova	ESP FC Barcelona
4	BRA Tiago Splitter	ESP Tau Cerámica
5	USA Charles Gaines	ISR Maccabi Electra
USA Mike Hall (2)	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	33
6	USA Mike Batiste	GRE Panathinaikos

Quarter-finals

Game	Player	Team
1	CAF Romain Sato	ITA Montepaschi Siena
2	SLO Erazem Lorbek	RUS CSKA Moscow
3	LTU Ramūnas Šiškauskas	RUS CSKA Moscow
SLO Matjaž Smodiš	RUS CSKA Moscow	30
4	USA Terrell McIntyre	ITA Montepaschi Siena
5	TUR Ersan İlyasova (2)	ESP FC Barcelona

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague Monthly MVP Award

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

References and notes

References

[http://www.euroleague.net/item/31718 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".
(2008-01-29). "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague.
[http://www.euroleague.net/item/33672 New competition system for 2008-09 Euroleague]
(3 October 2024). "2008-09 All-Euroleague, MVP announced".

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