The three Final Four participants of last season will start the Euroleague play-off – Basketball – Sportacentrs.com

• Three of the four players in tonight’s games played last season Final Four tournament in Kaunas. “Olympiacos” lost to “Real” in the final in the last seconds, but “Monaco” beat “Barcelona” in the bronze duel.

• At 20:00, the third participation in the playoffs will begin with “Monaco” managed by Saša Obradović, who will face Šarūns Jasikevičs and his coached Istanbul “Fenerbahce”.

• In the main tournament, the victories were split in half. In December in Istanbul, “Fenerbahce” won with 86:74, but in February in the French Riviera, “Monaco” was superior with 76:69.

• The leader of the Monaco club this season was Mike James, the most productive basketball player of the Euroleague. The American averaged 18.7 points and 5.1 assists.

• Another record holder stood out in Fenerbahce – Nigel Hayes-Davis, who scored the most points (50) in one match. The power forward is averaging 14.5 points and 4.7 rebounds.

• Terry Tarpy can’t help the French championship club for a long time, but Lantern the availability of the most productive center Jonathan Motley is uncertain in the ranks.

• Two hours later in Spain, the local “Barcelona” will start the quarter-final against the runner-up Olympiacos in its “Palau Blaugrana” arena.

• Was superior in both matches in the regular season Barsa – 77:68 away in October and 86:78 at home in January.

• Czech center Jan Veselys has averaged 12.9+4.4 points in the “Barcelona” team. 12.8 points average for Argentinian teammate Nicolas Laprovitol.

• “Olympiacos”, which lost two leading offensive forces in the offseason in Sasha Vezenkov and Kostas Slukas, was the American forward Alex Peters, who averaged 13.4 points per match.

• “Barcelona” will start the quarter-finals in the best lineup, while “Olympiacos” will not be able to help captain Kostas Papanikolaou. The availability of top perimeter defender Thomas Walkup is uncertain.

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