2011–12 Euroleague Explained

Updated:	7 September 2014
Nextseason:	2012–13
Euroleague
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Season:	2011–12
Champions:	Olympiacos (2nd title)
Runners Up:	CSKA Moscow
Third Place:	FC Barcelona Regal
Fourth Place:	Panathinaikos
Teams:	24
Duration:	19 October 2011 – 13 May 2012
Mvp Link:	EuroLeague MVP
Final Four Mvp Link:	EuroLeague Final Four MVP
Pir:	24.2
Ppg:	16.9
Rpg:	7.5
Apg:	5.7

The 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 12th season of the modern era of Euroleague and the second under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 55th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs. The Final Four was held at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, in 11–13 May 2012. It was won by the Piraeus club Olympiacos (2nd title), who defeated CSKA Moscow in the championship game. It was the 5th final involving a Greek club in the last six seasons, and 4th Greek win in that time.

Teams

On 20 June 2011 the teams for this season were announced.^[1]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

A: Qualified through an A–licence
1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
QR: Qualifying rounds
WC: Wild card
EC: Champion of the 2010–11 Eurocup

Regular season
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Qualifying rounds
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Draw

The draws for the 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Monday, 4 July. The draws 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 seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.^[2]

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.

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FC Barcelona Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid	Montepaschi Siena Caja Laboral Maccabi Electra CSKA Moscow	Partizan UNICS Unicaja Málaga Fenerbahçe Ülker	Žalgiris Asseco Prokom Gescrap Bizkaia Anadolu Efes	EA7 Milano Union Olimpija Brose Bamberg Bennet Cantù	Nancy Zagreb Galatasaray Belgacom Spirou

Qualifying rounds

See main article: 2011–12 Euroleague qualifying rounds. A total number of sixteen teams participated in the qualifying rounds. The qualifying rounds consisted of two final eight knock-out tournaments. The two winning teams advance to the regular season.

Regular season

The regular season began on 19 October 2011. If teams were level on record at the end of the regular season, tiebreakers were 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.

Top 16

The draw took place in Barcelona, Spain on 28 December 2011 at 13:00 CET.^[3] ^[4] The sixteen qualified teams were divided into four seeds based on their final standings in the regular season. Teams coming from the same regular season group were kept from coinciding in the same Top 16 group and an effort was made to keep teams from the same country from coinciding as well. Teams from the same city, Anadolu Efes, Fenerbahçe Ülker and Galatasaray Medical Park from Istanbul; Olympiacos and Panathinaikos from Greater Athens, or teams playing in the same arena were prevented from playing both at home in the same matchday.^[5]

Group E

See main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group E.

Group F

See main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group F.

Group G

See main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group G.

Group H

See main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group H.

Quarterfinals

See main article: 2011–12 Euroleague Quarterfinals. Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

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CSKA Moscow	3–1	Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao	98–71	79–60	81–94	73–71
Montepaschi Siena	1–3	Olympiacos	75–82	81–80	55–75	69–76
Panathinaikos	3–2	Maccabi Electra	93–73	92–94	62–65	78–69	86–85
FC Barcelona Regal	3–0	UNICS	78–66	66–63	67–56

Final four

See main article: 2012 Euroleague Final Four.

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Rating	width=40	PIR
1.	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	411	24.18
2.		CSKA Moscow	22	405	18.41
3.	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	294	17.29

Points

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Points	width=40	PPG
1.	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	287	16.88
2.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	350	16.67
3.		Žalgiris	15	233	15.53

Rebounds

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1.	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	127	7.47
2.	Joel Freeland	Unicaja Málaga	14	95	6.79
3.	Ioannis Bourousis	EA7 Milano	15	96	6.40

Assists

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1.	Omar Cook	EA7 Milano	16	91	5.69
2.	Sergio Rodríguez	Real Madrid	16	86	5.38
3.	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow	22	110	5.00

Other Stats

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Steals per game	Jamon Gordon	Galatasaray	16	1.81
Blocks per game	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	1.94
Turnovers per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	3.67
Fouls drawn per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	5.95
Minutes per game	Henry Domercant	UNICS	19	31:56
2FG%	Sasha Kaun	CSKA Moscow	21	0.711
3FG%	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	0.526
3FG%		20		0.526
FT%	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja	14	1.000

Game highs

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Rating	Lynn Greer	UNICS	43
Points	Lynn Greer	UNICS	33
Rebounds	Donatas Motiejūnas	Asseco Prokom	21
Assists	John Linehan	Nancy	15
Steals	3 occasions		6
Blocks	Andrei Kirilenko		5
Blocks	Serge Ibaka	Real Madrid	5
Turnovers	Vassilis Spanoulis		9
Turnovers	Nicolas Batum	Nancy	9
Fouls Drawn	3 occasions	12

Awards

Euroleague 2011–12 MVP

Andrei Kirilenko ( CSKA Moscow)

Euroleague 2011–12 Final Four MVP

Vassilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos)

All-Euroleague Team 2011–12

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All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club Team
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	Panathinaikos	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow
	Olympiacos	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena
Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona
Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona	Henry Domercant	UNICS
Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow		Panathinaikos

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Bo McCalebb ( Montepaschi Siena)^[7]

Best Defender

Andrei Kirilenko ( CSKA Moscow)^[8]

Rising Star

Nikola Mirotić ( Real Madrid)^[9]

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Dusan Ivković (Olympiacos)^[10]

MVP Weekly

See main article: EuroLeague Weekly MVP Award.

Regular season

Game	Player	Team
1	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	37
2	Nicolas Batum	Nancy	36
3	Jordan Farmar	Maccabi Electra	35
4	Nicolas Batum (2)	Nancy	35
5	Andrei Kirilenko (2)	CSKA Moscow	39
6	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	36
7	Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona	25
7	Milan Mačvan	Partizan	25
8	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid	33
9	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	31
10	Pietro Aradori	Montepaschi Siena	33

Top 16

Game	Player	Team
1	Vladimir Veremeenko	UNICS	32
2	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	36
3	Nenad Krstić (2)	CSKA Moscow	31
4	Aaron Jackson	Gescrap Bizkaia	28
5	Omar Cook	EA7 Milano	22
6	Manuchar Markoishvili	Bennet Cantù	35

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team
1	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	31
2	Andrei Kirilenko (3)	CSKA Moscow	31
3	Kostas Vasileiadis	Gescrap Bizkaia	21
4	Andrei Kirilenko (4)	CSKA Moscow	29
5	Dimitris Diamantidis (2)	Panathinaikos	34

MVP of the Month

See main article: EuroLeague Monthly MVP Award.

Month	Player	Team
October 2011	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow
November 2011	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow
December 2011	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid
January 2012	Henry Domercant	UNICS
February 2012	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
March 2012	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos

External links

Official website

Notes and References

http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/86156/180 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague teams
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/86405/180/item Turkish Airlines Euroleague Draw seeds
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/91163/180/top-16-draw-set-for-december-28-in-barcelona Top 16 Draw set for 28 December in Barcelona
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/91945/180/turkish-airlines-euroleague-top-16-draw-results Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 Draw results
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/91796/180/top-16-draw-criteria-and-procedure Top 16 Draw, Criteria and Procedure
http://www.euroleague.net/final-four/istanbul-2012/main-page/i/97498/7005 2011–12 All-Euroleague First, Second teams announced
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/96596/180/montepaschi-siena-s-bo-mccalebb-wins-the-alphonso-ford-top-scorer-trophy Montepaschi Siena's Bo McCalebb wins the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/96661/180 Head coaches vote CSKA's Kirilenko best defender!
http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/96621/180 Real Madrid's Mirotic becomes first two-time Rising Star winner
News: 2011-12 Alexander Gomelskiy Trophy: Dusan Ivkovic, Olympiacos Piraeus. Euroleague. dead. 21 March 2014. 30 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131030181919/http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/98447/180/2011-12-alexander-gomelskiy-trophy-dusan-ivkovic-olympiacos-piraeus. .

2011–12 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 2011–12 MVP

Euroleague 2011–12 Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague Team 2011–12

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Best Defender

Rising Star

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

MVP of the Month

See also

External links

Notes and References