No Sleep Till Berlin

Euroleague Playoffs 2024 - No sleep till Berlin

If you have watched basketball long enough, you know there is an ebb and flow to the game. And things go where it looks like they are going, most of the time… It was one of those nights… İbrahim Kutluay called it…

The Jersey

Euroleague Final Four 2024 -The jersey

First we take Monaco…

It is May 1, 2024, playoff time in İstanbul… Fenerbahçe Beko returns home after splitting the two away games in Monaco…

The city of lost souls

It turns out the universe was not joking but sending a warning message. You are going to need two Calathes jerseys. But there was only one on the court, and at the end of the day it was not enough to fill the big gap in the middle.

Game 4: The book of plays

The inevitable. I was not going to write anything about Mike James until after the series. Because he is able to…

For the love of the game

I am writing this early Saturday morning, watching nine year olds work on their shooting fundamentals. For all you…

The times they are a-changin’

Any basketball fan in the Uber Arena last night, without any allegiance to Real Madrid or unbridled by any…

This, that and the other

The League. I have started watching the Turkish league with the quarterfinals, and it was a pretty lopsided affair on both sides. The coaches of the losing sides, Ufuk Sarıca for Karşıyaka and Alimpijević for Beşiktaş, who were not able to steal a single game against their mighty…