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Christmas greetings, the Zalgiris Kaunas way
For Christmas this year, Žalgiris Kaunas is offering Christmas greetings in the best fashion Lithuanians know: With basketball, electronic card-style. Head on over to the official website by clicking here to a page that merrily welcomes you with “Žalgiris Kaunas welcomes the approaching winter holidays and gives good cheer!” (“Kauno Žalgiris sveikina su artéjančiomis Žiemos […]
Turnover City: Solving the mystery of Zalgiris Kaunas
“Do[es] all the little things with surprising grace and feeling – and an iron will to win.” – characterization of prototypical Lithuanian player in FreeDarko’s The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac BallinEurope’s latest obsession started with a tweet. Specifically, a message from BiE’s main Lithuanian, Martynas “Air” Pocius. Pocius retweeted a fascinating stat about his Žalgiris […]
#1 Euroleague Play of All-Time? Come on! (Pargo was mighty sweet on that jam, though)
A new leader in hyperbole may have emerged in the wake of Jeremy Pargo’s play for Maccabi Tel Aviv last night in the 71-68 squeaker over Žalgiris Kaunas. Pargo was just 4-of-9 in overall shooting for Maccabi, but it was the former ’Zag’s half-closing jam that captured the fancy of YouTube poster “NCAAchannel” enough to […]
Basketball fight: Arizona WILDcat strikes in Russia
Ilya Kalyagin, our source from Russia, lives in Rostov. On Tuesday, Spartak St. Petersburg played Lokomotiv Rostov in the Russia Cup quarterfinal. Just to let you know who players are on these teams: Spartak St. Petersburg: head coach Yevgeny Pashutin, former assistant coach of Ettore Messina at CSKA Moscow Zakhar Pashutin, Yevgeny’s brother and former […]
Monday's cigarettes
The rumors in Europe are in heavy rotation these days when it comes to transfers. But we also found some other nice stories that are worth mentioning.
The BallinEurope playoff round-up
As the playoffs are running across Europe, BallinEurope will give you some regular updates about series in the different countries and the stories that you don’t read in the box scores.
Monday's cigarettes
The playoffs have begun and there are already big surprises in various European leagues.
The Lithuanian Finals (or, the Porn-chicken combo will break noses)
The Lithuanian Finals continue and the talking trash continues as well. After we have analyzed the dirty play by Arturas Jomantas, we got the reactions of two of the targeted Zalgiris players through krepsinis.net.