2006–07 Euroleague

Euroleague 2006-07
League	Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Season
Season MVP	Theo Papaloukas (CSKA)
Top scorer	Igor Rakočević (Baskonia)
Final Four
Final Four champions	Panathinaikos
Runners-up	CSKA
Final Four MVP	Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)
Euroleague seasons
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The Euroleague is an international professional basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2006-2007 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The draw for the groups was held on September 14, 2006 in Athens. The competition began on October 24, 2006 at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against DKV Joventut. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007 in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, with Panathinaikos defeating defending champions CSKA Moscow 93-91. The site of each year's Euroleague Final Four is selected before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance.

Format

Regular Season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is 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.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-three playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four.

Final Four format

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

Teams of the 2006-2007 Euroleague

As announced on the official Euroleague site.

Regular Season

Tiebreakers:^[1]

• 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 (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
• Points scored in all group matches
• Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	14	12	2	1165	1025	140
2.	Dynamo Moscow	14	10	4	1100	1032	68
3.	Olympiacos	14	10	4	1165	1112	53
4.	Efes Pilsen	14	8	6	1081	1031	50
5.	Prokom Trefl	14	5	9	1021	1063	-42
6.	Climamio Bologna	14	5	9	1115	1176	-61
7.	Le Mans	14	4	10	985	1041	-56
8.	RheinEnergie	14	2	12	1032	1184	-152

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	14	11	3	1128	1036	92
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	14	8	6	1230	1177	53
3.	DKV Joventut	14	7	7	1112	1049	63
4.	Unicaja Málaga	14	7	7	1001	1085	-84
5.	Lottomatica Roma	14	6	8	1027	1044	-17
6.	Partizan Belgrade	14	6	8	1100	1093	7
7.	Cibona Zagreb	14	6	8	1113	1141	-28
8.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	5	9	1038	1124	-86

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	13	1	1079	912	167
2.	Winterthur FC Barcelona	14	9	5	1093	1032	61
3.	Benetton Treviso	14	8	6	1021	989	32
4.	Pau-Orthez	14	7	7	1059	1070	-11
5.	Aris TT Bank	14	6	8	971	1013	-42
6.	Eldo Napoli	14	6	8	1032	1093	-61
7.	Fenerbahçe	14	5	9	1044	1088	-44
8.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	2	12	1062	1164	-102

Top 16

The draw was held February 5 at 13:00 CET (1200 UTC) in Barcelona, in accordance with Euroleague rules.^[1]

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

• Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
  • CSKA, TAU, Panathinaikos, Dynamo
• Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
  • Winterthur FCB, Maccabi, Olympiacos, Benetton
• Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
  • Joventut, Efes, Pau-Orthez, Unicaja
• Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
  • Lottomatica, Aris, Prokom, Partizan

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
2. No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
3. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) will receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (CSKA and Dynamo, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Winterthur FCB and Joventut) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

Teams in bold type advanced to the quarterfinals.

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	6	6	0	541	433	+108
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	463	478	−15
3.	Lottomatica Roma	6	1	5	416	468	−52
4.	Pau-Orthez	6	1	5	470	511	−41

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	6	0	475	376	+99
2.	Olympiacos	6	3	3	451	450	+1
3.	Partizan Belgrade	6	2	4	432	474	−42
4.	DKV Joventut	6	1	5	407	465	−58

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	6	5	1	501	428	+73
2.	Winterthur FC Barcelona	6	4	2	498	455	+43
3.	Efes Pilsen	6	2	4	416	458	−42
4.	Prokom Trefl	6	1	5	404	478	−74

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Unicaja	6	4	2	448	442	+6
2.	Dynamo Moscow	6	4	2	428	435	−7
3.	Benetton Treviso	6	3	3	439	428	+11
4.	Aris TT Bank	6	1	5	451	461	−10

• Unicaja won the group over Dynamo. The teams split their regular-season matches, but Unicaja scored 5 more points head-to-head.

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. Quarterfinals were played on April 3 and 5 , 2007, with third games to be played April 12 if necessary.

Quarterfinal 1

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	TAU Cerámica	84 - 59	Olympiacos	Vitoria-Gasteiz	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Olympiacos	89 - 95	TAU Cerámica	Pireaus	April 5, 2007

Quarterfinal 2

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	CSKA Moscow	80 - 58	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Moscow	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	68 - 56	CSKA Moscow	Tel Aviv	April 5, 2007
Game 3	CSKA Moscow	92 - 71	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Moscow	April 12, 2007

Quarterfinal 3

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Panathinaikos	80 - 58	Dynamo Moscow	Athens	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Dynamo Moscow	65 - 73	Panathinaikos	Moscow	April 5, 2007

Quarterfinal 4

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Unicaja Málaga	91 - 75	Winterthur FCB	Málaga	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Winterthur FCB	80 - 58	Unicaja Málaga	Barcelona	April 5, 2007
Game 3	Unicaja Málaga	67 - 64	Winterthur FCB	Málaga	April 12, 2007

Final Four

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

May 4		Panathinaikos	67–53	TAU Ceramica		Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18363
		Scoring by quarter: 18-9, 17-12, 12-14, 20-18

Semifinal 2

May 4		Unicaja Malaga	50–62	CSKA Moscow		Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18363
		Scoring by quarter: 15-18, 9-15, 20-11, 6-18

Third Place

May 6		Unicaja Malaga	76–74	TAU Ceramica		Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18363
		Scoring by quarter: 16-15, 19-25, 16-21, 25-13

Final

May 6		Panathinaikos	93–91	CSKA Moscow		Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18,363
		Scoring by quarter: 18-17, 28-19, 19-21, 28-34
		Pts: Šiškauskas 20 Rebs: Batiste 5 Asts: Šiškauskas 5		Pts: Papaloukas 23 Rebs: Andersen 6 Asts: Papaloukas 8

Euroleague 2007 Champions
Panathinaikos Fourth title

Champion roster

4 Alvertis | 5 Delk | 6 Papanikolaou | 7 Bečirovič | 8 Batiste | 9 Šiškauskas | 10 Hatzivrettas | 11 Dikoudis | 12 Tsartsaris | 13 Diamantidis (Final4 MVP) | 14 Xanthopoulos | 15 Tomašević | 16 Sakota | 18 Vujanić | 19 Javtokas | Coach Obradović

Awards

Euroleague 2007 MVP

• Theodoros Papaloukas, ( CSKA Moscow )

Euroleague 2007 Final Four MVP

• Dimitris Diamantidis, ( Panathinaikos )

All-Euroleague First Team 2006-2007

• Theodoros Papaloukas ( CSKA Moscow )*
• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )
• Juan Carlos Navarro ( FC Barcelona )
• Trajan Langdon ( CSKA Moscow )
• Luis Scola ( TAU Ceramica )
• Nikola Vujčić ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )

*A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theodoros Papaloukas. Consequently, the 2006-07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players.

All-Euroleague Second Team 2006-2007

• Pablo Prigioni ( TAU Ceramica )
• Igor Rakočević ( TAU Ceramica )
• Ramūnas Šiškauskas ( Panathinaikos )
• Matjaž Smodiš ( CSKA Moscow )
• Lazaros Papadopoulos ( Dynamo Moscow )

Rising Star

• Rudy Fernández ( DKV Joventut )

Best Defender

• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

• Igor Rakočević ( TAU Ceramica )

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

• Željko Obradović ( Panathinaikos )

Club Executive of the Year

• Juan Manuel Rodríguez ( Unicaja Málaga )

References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format

External links

• Euroleague.net - Official Euroleague homepage.
• Eurobasket.com - Popular basketball news site.
• TalkBasket.net - Basketball forum.

v t e Euroleague 2006–07 Champions Panathinaikos Runners-up CSKA Moscow Third place Unicaja Málaga Four place TAU Cerámica Eliminated in quarter-finals Dynamo Moscow · Maccabi Tel Aviv · Olympiacos · Winterthur FCB Eliminated in Top 16 Aris TT Bank · Benetton Treviso · DKV Joventut · Efes Pilsen · Lottomatica Virtus Roma · Partizan PMB · Pau-Orthez · Prokom Trefl Sopot Eliminated in Regular Season Cibona · Climamio Bologna · Eldo Napoli · Fenerbahçe · Le Mans · RheinEnergie Köln · Union Olimpija · Žalgiris Group A • Group B • Group C • Group D • Group E • Group F • Group G • quarter-finals • Final Four