2010–11 Euroleague Explained

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Season:	2010–11
Champions:	Panathinaikos (6th title)
Runners Up:	Maccabi Electra
Third Place:	Montepaschi Siena
Fourth Place:	Real Madrid
Teams:	24
Duration:	18 October 2010 – 8 May 2011
Mvp:	Dimitris Diamantidis
Final Four Mvp:	Dimitris Diamantidis
Pir:	19.1
Ppg:	17.2
Rpg:	7.3
Apg:	6.2

The 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 11th season of the modern era of professional Euroleague Basketball, and the first under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 54th season of the premier first-tier competition for European men's clubs.

The format featured 24 teams, beginning with Game 1 of the first qualifying round on September 21, 2010, and culminating at the Final Four in the Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona.^[1] It was won by the Athenian club Panathinaikos (6th title), who defeated Maccabi Electra in the championship game of May 8, 2011.^[2] Montepaschi Siena, finished 3rd by holding off Real Madrid in the third-place game.^[3]

At the individual level, the season was marked by Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos. Not only did the Greek point guard lift the trophy for the third time in five years and receive the Euroleague Final Four MVP award, but he also became the first player ever to win three end-of-season awards: Euroleague MVP, Euroleague Best Defender, and All-Euroleague First Team.^[4]

Teams

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 2009-10 national championship)
bgcolor=	Spain (ACB)	5	Caja Laboral (1)	FC Barcelona (2)	Real Madrid (SF)	Unicaja Málaga (SF)	Power Electronics Valencia (QF)
bgcolor=	Italy (Lega A)	3	Montepaschi Siena (1)	Armani Jeans Milano (2)	Lottomatica Roma (QF)
Greece (GBL)	2	Panathinaikos (1)	Olympiacos (2)
bgcolor=	Turkey (TBL)	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)	Efes Pilsen (2)
bgcolor=	Lithuania (LKL)	2	Lietuvos Rytas (1)	Žalgiris (2)
bgcolor=	Russia (PBL)	2	CSKA Moscow (1)	Khimki (2)
bgcolor=	Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan (1)
bgcolor=	France (LNB Pro A)	1	Cholet (1)
bgcolor=	Germany (BBL)	1	Brose Bamberg (1)
bgcolor=	Croatia (A1 Liga)	1	Cibona (1)
bgcolor=	Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija (2)
bgcolor=	Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra (2)
bgcolor=	Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom (1)
bgcolor=	Belgium (BLB)	1	Spirou Charleroi (1)

†As winner of the ULEB Eurocup 2009–10

Draw

The draws for the 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Thursday, July 8 at Barcelona, Spain. The draws began at 11:15 local time (CET) and determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.

Teams were organised into six pots of four teams.

Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.

width=16%	Pot 1	width=16%	Pot 2	width=16%	Pot 3	width=16%	Pot 4	width=16%	Pot 5	width=16%	Pot 6
CSKA Moscow FC Barcelona Olympiacos Caja Laboral	Montepaschi Siena Panathinaikos Maccabi Electra Real Madrid	Partizan Power Electronics Valencia Unicaja Málaga Lietuvos Rytas	Fenerbahçe Ülker Asseco Prokom Efes Pilsen Lottomatica Roma	Žalgiris Cibona Armani Jeans Milano Brose Bamberg	Union Olimpija Cholet Spirou Charleroi (QR A) Khimki (QR B)

Qualifying rounds

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 qualifying rounds. The Qualifying Rounds consisted of three rounds, QR1, QR2 and QR3. The rounds were played in home and away series.

Regular season

The Regular Season began on 18 October 2010 with Olympiacos hosting Real Madrid and ended on 23 December 2010.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Regular Season.
Points scored during the regular season.
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

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

Group A

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Regular Season Group A.

width=25		width=220	Team	width=40	Pld	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	PF	width=40	PA	width=40	Diff
1.	Maccabi Electra	10	9	1	799	700	+99
2.	Caja Laboral	10	5	5	809	784	+25
3.	Žalgiris	10	5	5	762	765	−3
4.	Partizan	10	5	5	658	717	−59
5.	Khimki	10	4	6	764	753	+11
6.	Asseco Prokom	10	2	8	689	762	−73

Group B

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Regular Season Group B.

width=25		width=220	Team	width=40	Pld	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	PF	width=40	PA	width=40	Diff
1.	Olympiacos	10	7	3	805	730	+75
2.	Real Madrid	10	6	4	734	662	+72
3.	Unicaja Málaga	10	5	5	749	759	−10
4.	Lottomatica Roma	10	5	5	733	770	−37
5.	Brose Bamberg	10	4	6	714	739	−25
6.	Spirou Charleroi	10	3	7	691	766	−75

Group C

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Regular Season Group C.

width=25		width=220	Team	width=40	Pld	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	PF	width=40	PA	width=40	Diff
1.	Montepaschi Siena	10	8	2	787	661	+126
2.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	7	3	795	723	+72
3.	Regal FC Barcelona	10	7	3	766	709	+57
4.	Lietuvos Rytas	10	4	6	779	784	−5
5.	Cholet	10	4	6	705	774	−69
6.	Cibona	10	0	10	677	858	−181

Group D

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Regular Season Group D.

width=25		width=220	Team	width=40	Pld	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	PF	width=40	PA	width=40	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	10	7	3	802	703	+99
2.	Union Olimpija	10	6	4	789	783	+6
3.	Efes Pilsen	10	5	5	756	768	−12
4.	Power Electronics Valencia	10	5	5	689	695	−6
5.	Armani Jeans Milano	10	4	6	737	766	−29
6.	CSKA Moscow	10	3	7	683	741	−58

Top 16

The 16 qualified teams were drawn into four groups with four teams. The matches were played between January 19 and March 3, the top two teams of every group advanced to the playoffs. The draw took place on 4 January 2011 at Barcelona at 13:00 CET, and was streamed live on the Euroleague's official website.^[5]

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

Group E

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Top 16 Group E.

width=15		width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	PF	width=20	PA	width=30	Diff
1.	Caja Laboral	6	4	2	468	437	+31
2.	Panathinaikos	6	4	2	452	395	+57
3.	Lietuvos Rytas	6	3	3	445	473	−28
4.	Unicaja Málaga	6	1	5	414	474	−60

Group F

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Top 16 Group F.

width=15		width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	PF	width=20	PA	width=30	Diff
1.	Regal FC Barcelona	6	6	0	471	402	+69
2.	Maccabi Electra	6	3	3	511	442	+69
3.	Lottomatica Roma	6	2	4	411	462	−51
4.	Union Olimpija	6	1	5	394	481	−87

Group G

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Top 16 Group G.

width=15		width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	PF	width=20	PA	width=30	Diff
1.	Real Madrid	6	5	1	460	423	+37
2.	Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	452	423	+29
3.	Efes Pilsen	6	2	4	426	455	−29
4.	Partizan	6	1	5	389	426	−37

Group H

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Top 16 Group H.

width=15		width=220	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	PF	width=20	PA	width=30	Diff
1.	Olympiacos	6	5	1	461	418	+43
2.	Power Electronics Valencia	6	3	3	449	438	+11
3.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	6	3	3	456	462	−6
4.	Žalgiris	6	1	5	418	466	−48

Quarterfinals

See main article: Euroleague 2010–11 Quarterfinals. Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

width=250	Team 1	width=80	Agg.	width=250	Team 2	width=80	1st leg	width=80	2nd leg	width=80	3rd leg	width=80	4th leg	width=80	5th leg
Caja Laboral	1–3	Maccabi Electra	76–70	81–83	60–81	77–99
Regal FC Barcelona	1–3	Panathinaikos	83–82	71–75	74–76	67–78
Real Madrid	3–2	Power Electronics Valencia	71–65	75–81	75–66	72–81	66–58
	1–3	Montepaschi Siena	89–41	65–82	72–81	76–88

Final four

See main article: 2011 Euroleague Final Four.

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Rating	width=40	PIR
1.	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	20	381	19.05
2.		Panathinaikos	22	407	18.50
3.		Unicaja Málaga	15	262	17.47

Points

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Points	width=40	PPG
1.	Igor Rakočević	Efes Pilsen	14	241	17.21
2.		Caja Laboral	20	309	15.45
3.		Olympiacos	20	284	14.20

Rebounds

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Rebounds	width=40	RPG
1.	Mirsad Türkcan	Fenerbahçe Ülker	12	88	7.33
2.		Partizan	14	97	6.93
3.	Paulius Jankūnas	Žalgiris	16	110	6.88

Assists

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Assists	width=40	APG
1.	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	22	137	6.23
2.		Caja Laboral	20	111	5.55
3.	Omar Cook	Power Electronics Valencia	21	116	5.52

Other Stats

width=100	Category	width=180	Name	width=180	Team	width=40	Games	width=40	Stat
Steals per game	Chuck Eidson	Maccabi Electra	22	2.64
Blocks per game	Mirza Begic	Žalgiris Real Madrid	16	1.50
Turnovers per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	20	3.85
Fouls drawn per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	20	5.40
Minutes per game	Vlado Ilievski	Union Olimpija	15	34:48
2FG%	Antonis Fotsis	Panathinaikos	22	0.760
3FG%	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	20	0.500
FT%	Nando de Colo	Power Electronics Valencia	19	0.957

Game highs

width=100	Category	width=180	Name	width=180	Team	width=40	Stat
Rating	Keith Langford	Khimki	42
Points	Keith Langford	Khimki	35
Rebounds	Richard Hendrix	Maccabi Electra	16
Assists	Vule Avdalovic		13
Assists	Marcelinho Huertas	Caja Laboral	13
Steals	Doron Perkins		7
Steals	Charles Smith	Lottomatica Roma	7
Blocks	D'or Fischer		6
Turnovers	DeJuan Collins		9
Fouls Drawn	Keith Langford	Khimki	15

Awards

Position	All-Euroleague First Team	Club team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
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		Panathinaikos	Jeremy Pargo	Maccabi Electra
		FC Barcelona	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid
	Mike Batiste	Panathinaikos	Duško Savanović	Power Electronics Valencia
	Sofoklis Schortsanitis	Maccabi Electra		Montepaschi Siena

Top scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Igor Rakočević ( Efes Pilsen)

Best Defender

Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)

Rising Star

Nikola Mirotić ( Real Madrid)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Željko Obradović (Panathinaikos)^[7]

Club Executive of the Year

Pavlos Giannakopoulos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos (Panathinaikos)

MVP Weekly

See main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Week.

Regular season

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Chuck Eidson	Maccabi Electra	30
2	Bootsy Thornton	Efes Pilsen	29
3	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	31
4	Berni Rodríguez	Unicaja Málaga	36
5		Cholet	35
6		Montepaschi Siena	36
7		Lottomatica Roma	31
8		Asseco Prokom	31
9	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	34
10	Keith Langford	Khimki	42

Top 16

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Kenny Gregory	Union Olimpija	30
2	Marcelinho Huertas Khalid El-Amin	Caja Laboral Lietuvos Rytas	29
3	D'or Fischer Lior Eliyahu	Real Madrid Maccabi Electra	30
4	Antonis Fotsis	Panathinaikos	40
5	Marcelinho Huertas (2)	Caja Laboral	30
6		Caja Laboral	37

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Richard Hendrix	Maccabi Electra	28
2	Malik Hairston	Montepaschi Siena	32
3	Marko Jarić D'or Fischer (2)	Montepaschi Siena Real Madrid	27
4	Malik Hairston (2)	Montepaschi Siena	31
5	Duško Savanović		23

MVP of Month

See main article: EuroLeague Monthly MVP Award.

Month	Player	Team
October 2010	Goran Jagodnik	Union Olimpija
November 2010	Chuck Eidson	Maccabi Electra
December 2010	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
January 2011	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona
February 2011	Radoslav Nesterović	Olympiacos
March 2011	Jeremy Pargo	Maccabi Electra

External links

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 Euroleague Final Four set for Barcelona . 15 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718215536/http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/73753/180. 18 July 2010 . live.
Web site: Game report:Maccabi Electra vs Panathinaikos . 8 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110517101253/http://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame/report?gamecode=189. 17 May 2011 . live.
Web site: Game report: Real Madrid vs Montepaschi Sienna. 8 May 2011.
Web site: MVP Diamantidis heads 2010-11 All-Euroleague First Team . 8 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110517094452/http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/85423/180. 17 May 2011 . live.
Web site: Top 16 Draw set for January 4 in Barcelona. 2010-12-16. euroleague.net. 2010-12-23.
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/85423/180 Euroleague.net MVP Diamantidis heads 2010-11 All-Euroleague First Team.
Web site: Latest News | Euroleague . 3 October 2024 .

2010–11 Euroleague Explained

Teams

Draw

Qualifying rounds

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 2010–11 MVP

Euroleague 2010–11 Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague Team 2010–11

Top scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Best Defender

Rising Star

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Club Executive of the Year

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

MVP of Month

External links

Notes and References