DKV JOVENTUT VS. PAMESA VALENCIA
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GAME
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DATE
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TIME
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MORE INFO
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DKV Joventut vs. Pamesa Valencia
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Thu., April 10
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21:00 CET
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A sometimes-overlooked part of the DKV Joventut success this season has been blue-collar center Jerome Moiso. On a team best known for its exciting perimeter players, Moiso, 29, has done the dirty work in the paint to help make his team a winner. The Frenchman has made a solid impact in his first ULEB Cup season as a punishing offensive rebounder and shot-blocker. MORE |
On a team full of big names, Dejan Milojevic remains one of the most consistent contributors and is a big reason that Pamesa Valencia can think about becoming the first team to win the ULEB Cup twice. Milojevic, 30, has had a brilliant career both in terms of personal and team success since he arrived on the scene a decade ago. He has won Euro Championships with Serbia at junior and senior levels. MORE |
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STATS SUMMARY
Averages for 14 games/Rankings among 54 teams
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Rank=
Ave=
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3rd
88.9
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66.6
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3rd
59%
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4th
42%
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11th
76%
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1st
36
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13th
11
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35th
15
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Pts+
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Pts-
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2PT%
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3PT%
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FT
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Reb
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St
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TO
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Ave=
Rank=
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78.6
29th
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71.8
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53%
24th
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39%
11th
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73%
26th
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29
37th
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7
42th
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13
17th
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- Jan-Henrick Jagla is the only German player in the Final Eight this season?
- Rudy Fernandez has the chance to join a rare elite of players who have won the World Championship and the ULEB Cup? Dejan Tomasevic (Yugoslavia 2002, Pamesa Valencia 2003), Felipe Reyes and Alex Mumbru (Spain 2006, Real Madrid 2007) have won both titles in the past.
- Three former Joventut members - Albert Teruel, Darryl Middleton and head coach Pedro Martinez - are in the Final Eight with Akasvayu Girona? Martinez coached Joventut to the 1990 Korac Cup trophy.
- Dmitry Flis will be the only Russian player in the Final Eight not playing for a Russian team?
- Ricky Rubio won the Under-16 European Championship with Spain in 2006? He had 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists and 7 steals in the title game against Russia and forced overtime by banking in a midcourt shot.
- Rubio ranks fifth in assists (5 apg.) in the ULEB Cup this season. He led the Euroleague in steals last season (3.2 spg.) - at age 16.
- Edu Hernandez-Sonseca can become the first player to win two ULEB Cup titles? Hernandez-Sonseca won his first last season, when Real Madrid beat Lietuvos Rytas in the final.
- Aito Garcia Reneses has won several European club titles throughout his career? Aito won the 2006 FIBA EuroCup with Joventut, the 1986 Saporta Cup with Barcelona, as well as lifting the 1987 and the 1999 Korac Cup titles also with Barcelona. The ULEB Cup would be his fourth different European club title.
- Joventut is the only Euroleague winner in the Final Eight? Joventut won the top European club competition in 1994 against Olympiacos in Tel Aviv.
- Fernandez, Flis, Pau Ribas and Lubos Barton are the only remaining Joventut players from the team that won the 2006 FIBA EuroCup title?
- Fernandez leads the ULEB Cup in free throw shooting percentage (35/37, 95.6%)?
- Barton leads the ULEB Cup in two-point shooting percentage (33/42, 78.6%)?
- Hernandez-Sonseca is fourth in blocks (1.46 bpg.) in the ULEB Cup this season?
- Fernandez won the Euroleague Rising Star award last season? He joined a list of previous winners featuring Erazem Lorbek and Andrea Bargnani.
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- Pamesa Valencia was the first-ever ULEB Cup winner? Pamesa won the competition in 2003. There are no players left from that team on the 2007-08 Pamesa roster.
- Ruben Garces is the only Panamanian player in the Final Eight this season? Despite having played previously for the Panamanian national team, Ruben Douglas was registered as U.S. citizen in the ULEB Cup.
- Bozhidar Avramov is the only Bulgarian player in the Final Eight this season?
- Fred House was injured when Lietuvos Rytas won the ULEB Cup in 2005? He now has the chance to win his first ULEB Cup title with Pamesa.
- Douglas can become the first player to win two ULEB Cup titles? Douglas was the 2006 ULEB Cup final MVP with Dynamo Moscow and could also become the first player to win that award for the second time.
- Albert Oliver and Albert Miralles started their respective basketball careers at Joventut - another Final Eight team and Pamesa's quarterfinal opponent?
- Both teams faced other in the Spanish King's Cup final eight? Joventut downed Pamesa 84-59 in the quarterfinals. Pamesa, however, beat Joventut 85-92 in their last Spanish League matchup behind 26 points from Douglas.
- Douglas has broken a ULEB Cup record this season? He buried 9 three-pointers in a road loss against Khimki, more than any other player in competition history.
- Pamesa is in its third ULEB Cup year and has always reached at least the semifinals?
- Douglas ranks sixth in most three-pointers made (78) in ULEB Cup history?
- Dejan Milojevic was a back-to-back Adriatic League MVP with Buducnost and Partizan, respectively?
- Shammond Williams ranks third in assists (5.4 apg.) in the ULEB Cup this season?
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ULEBCup.com
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