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The Kaunas team “Žalgiris” will end the Euroleague doubles week with another home match: they will host the Istanbul basketball players “Fenerbahche”.
Both teams face each other in different moods: “Žalgiris” confidently defeated Vitorija “Baskonia” and tied the win / loss balance (7/7), and the Turks in another subdued match 71:79 fell to the players of Milan basketball “AX Armani” and are left with 5 wins and 9 failures.
Fenerbahce brings a whole bag of problems – the game does not stick and the capacity of the team is limited by the injuries of the players – Jan Vesely will not play and Lorenzo Brown plays with painkillers, as was the case on Tuesday, when he scored only 4 points in 17 minutes and scored 3 utility points. .
By entrusting Igors Kokoškovs with the leadership of the team, Fenerbahče reduced the budget and acquired players who were recently not used to the team, when much more well-known surnames arrived. The honor of the Turkish club is now defended by Euroleague rookies Johhny Hamilton, Dyshawn Pierre and Jarell Eddie or tournament mediums like Edgar Ulanov and Danilo Barthel.
Fenerbahche have serious problems with the game, they have only won once in the last seven meetings, they defeated Zenit St. Petersburg in the away game. Even then, the Russian club eliminated the 16-point deficit and had already broken the duel, but Fenerbachche showed character and endured it. Immediately after that, he was crushed 63:89 in Berlin, and on Tuesday he was 20 points short after three halves against AX Armani. Only cosmetic corrections were successful in the fourth quarter, reducing the deficit when Ettore Messina had already rested the players before the second match of the double week.
I. Kokoshkov is a coach known for his triumph for the Slovenian national team in 2017. In the European Championship, but in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he did not get behind the wheel of the Phoenix Suns and was fired after appearing in the regular season 19/63. NBA watchers unanimously said he was a good assistant but a bad strategist.
Fenerbahche really didn’t think so, that’s why he called in this strategist, who is heavily criticized. The American-style Serbian is too calm, does not react during the game and his patterns of play are very sharp and predictable. I. Kokoškovas can be identified with Martin Schiller, but he manages to drive “Žalgiris” with more success than his well-known team “Fenerbahče”.
I. Kokoškovas had to swallow more than one bitter pill when he was painfully taught by Šarūnas Jasikevičius’ Barcelona “Barcelona” (55:97) or retired -20 in Madrid from Pablo Lasas coached “Real”. The specialist had a serious excuse: Fenerbach did not have their biggest star Nando De Colo, who missed 6 games and without a French team won against the Moscow region Chimki and the aforementioned Zenit.
The Istanbul team’s game problems have to do with players not delivering the benefits they might have hoped for. We should start with 213cm tall J. Hamilton, who was a great force under the baskets in the European Cup last season (11.3 points, 8.1 rebounds, 16.9 assists), but in the Euroleague It seems tragic and too much. 8 minutes average 1.3 points and 1.6 utility score averages. With him on the floor, the team shows the worst attack rate: only 82.3 points per 100 attacks. The American does not win the trust of I. Kokoshov even in the absence of J. Vesely; choose to play more with Ahmet Duverioglu. By the way, with him the attack is the second worst (87.9 points for every 100 attacks), but the best defense is shown: 102.3 points for every 100 attacks.
Pierre severely lacks stability, averaging 7.5 points and a utility score of 9.9 in 21 minutes, but good games are followed by bad stretches. Against Valencia, Valencia scored 18 points and registered 25 points, but were left with 6 points and 7 points in the next two games. He shone again on Tuesday: 16 points and 20 points.
Injured, Barthel’s 6 rounds looked very bleak (4.8 points average), but he still played very well, averaging 14.6 points and 18 points in the last five meetings.
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I. Kokoškovas had many complaints about his replacement, because basically the team was dragged by N. De Colo, J. Vesely and Lorenzo Brown, who took most of the points and did not receive adequate help. Now, the trend is changing, and one of the wizards, Brown, is hiding in the shadows: the American has been criticized for his selfish play and the low participation of his teammates in the game. The American wasn’t embarrassed about throwing 17 pitches during the game, but he’s been more restrained lately and isn’t throwing the whole blade in their direction.
E.Ulanovas was the player I. Kokoškovas wanted to see on his team, but the Lithuanian is misused, there are very few options when ours could focus his back on the basket, which is his strong point. We saw examples of this kind in the game with Zenit, when they used the advantage against KCRivers, but overall E. Ulanov is invisible in attack: 4.6 shots during the game, and in Žalgiris he shot 6.1 times last season. , but efficiency and effectiveness differ significantly. (4.9 points and 4.9 points now against 8.3 points and 9.7 points in Žalgiris), which clearly shows that the forward is not in his sled at the moment and is shooting from situations that are not comfortable .
Turkish fans are very emotional and often have little understanding of basketball, so there are a lot of negative comments about E. Ulanov, but after one or another successful match, the song would change. The ratings show that E. Ulanov is an average player – with him on the floor in “Fenerbahče” he shows the seventh defense and the sixth attack.
The situation is very strange with Leo Westermann, who is undesirable in the Fenerbahche team, but he played because N. De Colo was injured, and after replacing Alex Pérez, he suffered an injury and still cannot make his debut in the new team. It is ironic that “Žalgiris” replaced the late L. Westermann with a worse A. Pérez, and now the Mexican is considered a more suitable player than the beloved French fans of Kaunas.
Westermann sat on the bench for three quarters on Tuesday and only stepped onto the floor in the fourth quarter and scored 10 points in 10 minutes, bounced 3 balls, made 4 assists and posted an efficiency of 15 points, helping to narrow the gap to – 20 to -8.
It is clear that with the available resources, Fenerbahche is not capable of reaching the quarterfinals, so it is a matter of reinforcements, Thomas Heurtel is close to passing this team. Marko Guduričius is also invited to return. L. Westermann is already talking to Málaga’s “Unicaja” and in the second round against “Žalgiris” he will no longer play. The fact that Fenerbahche is thinking about changes in the composition shows that the confidence of the man. coach I. Kokoshkov, although the game he promotes raises many questions, and bettors believe that he is the second most realistic candidate to be the first to lose his job in the tournament: the most popular chairman of the helmsman “Panathinaika” of Athens, Georgios Vovors.
Fenerbahche are struggling not only in the Euroleague, but also on the home front, where they have suffered 2 misses in the last 3 matches and lost to the average team of the tournament in Buyukčekmeče in Istanbul and Pinar Karšiyaka in Izmir. It is true, with 10 victories and 2 yellow-blue failures “he remains second.
“Žalgiris” now accepts an opponent who can be beaten and the bookmakers are deservedly considered a clear favorite of the duel, as “Fenerbahče” is in a gambling crisis and a psychological pot, and will also play without its second best player J.Vesely. Hopefully, the people of Žalgiris cope with their tasks and finish the double week with maximum results.
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