2007 Euroleague Final Four

2007 Euroleague Final Four

Season	2006–07 Euroleague
Tournament details
Arena	Olympic Indoor Hall Marousi, Athens, Greece
Dates	May 4 – May 6, 2007
Final positions
Champions	Panathinaikos (4th title)
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow
Third place	Unicaja Málaga
Fourth place	Tau Cerámica
Awards and statistics
MVP	Dimitris Diamantidis
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The 2007 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding Euroleague Final Four tournament of the 2006–07 Euroleague season. It was held on May 4–6, 2007. All of the games were held at the O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, in Marousi, Athens, Greece.

Bracket

	Semifinals May 4				Final May 6
	Panathinaikos	67
	Tau Cerámica	53
					Panathinaikos	93
					CSKA Moscow	91
	Unicaja Málaga	50
	CSKA Moscow	62
					Third-place
					Unicaja Málaga	76
					Tau Cerámica	74

Semifinals

Semifinal A

May 4

(Report)

Panathinaikos	67–53	Tau Cerámica
Scoring by quarter: 18-9, 17-12, 12-14, 20-18
Pts: Batiste, Bečirović 15 Rebs: Batiste 12 Asts: Diamantidis 4		Pts: Erdoğan 11 Rebs: Peker 8 Asts: Prigioni 2

Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18,363 Referees: Lamonica (ITA), Belosevic (SRB), Ryzhyk (UKR)

Semifinal B

May 4

(Report)

Unicaja Málaga	50–62	CSKA Moscow
Scoring by quarter: 15-18, 9-15, 20-11, 6-18
Pts: Cabezas 13 Rebs: Jiménez 8 Asts: three players 3		Pts: Langdon 13 Rebs: Andersen 9 Asts: Papaloukas 4

Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18,363 Referees: Pitsilikas (GRE), Pukl (SLO), Sahin (ITA)

Third-place game

May 6

(Report)

Unicaja Málaga	76–74	Tau Cerámica
Scoring by quarter: 16-15, 19-25, 16-21, 25-13
Pts: Tušek 18 Rebs: Tušek, Piétrus 5 Asts: Sánchez 8		Pts: Rakočević 16 Rebs: Splitter 8 Asts: Vidal 5

Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 18,363 Referees: Pitsilikas (GRE), Sahin (ITA), Viator (FRA)

Final

Panathinaikos played its 5th European final, while CSKA played in its 9th final. Željko Obradović won his sixth EuroLeague title, which made him the most successful coach in league history.

Panathinaikos v CSKA Moscow

May 6, 2007	Panathinaikos	93–91	CSKA Moscow	Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens
20:30 (CET)	Scoring by quarter: 18–17, 28–19, 19–21, 28–34
	Pts: Šiškauskas 20 Rebs: Batiste 5 Asts: Šiškauskas 5	Boxscore	Pts: Papaloukas 23 Rebs: Andersen 6 Asts: Papaloukas 8	Attendance: 18,363 Referees: Mitjana (ESP), Lamonica (ITA), Belosevic (SRB)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 13 Dimitris Diamantidis 15 3 3 SG 10 Nikos Chatzivrettas 10 4 1 SF 9 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 20 4 5 PF 8 Mike Batiste 12 5 1 C 15 Dejan Tomašević 16 3 0 Reserves: F/C 11 Dimos Dikoudis 2 3 0 G 7 Sani Bečirovič 6 0 1 PG 18 Miloš Vujanić 12 0 0 SF 4 Fragiskos Alvertis 0 0 0 G 5 Tony Delk 0 0 0 F/C 12 Kostas Tsartsaris 0 0 0 C 19 Robertas Javtokas DNP Head coach: Željko Obradović

Panathinaikos CSKA

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 10 J.R. Holden 11 1 0 SG 21 Trajan Langdon 16 1 0 SF 4 Theo Papaloukas 23 1 8 PF 13 David Andersen 4 6 0 C 8 Matjaž Smodiš 18 3 0 Reserves: C 14 Aleksey Savrasenko 4 2 0 G/F 17 Óscar Torres 9 4 1 PG 18 Anton Ponkrashov 0 0 0 C 22 Tomas Van Den Spiegel 6 0 0 PG 11 Zakhar Pashutin 0 0 0 G/F 5 Nikita Kurbanov DNP SG 9 David Vanterpool DNP Head coach: Ettore Messina

Awards

Euroleague Final Four MVP

• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos)

Euroleague Finals Top Scorer

• Theo Papaloukas ( CSKA Moscow)

External links

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

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