Vassilis Spanoulis Named 2013 Euroleague MVP

[Euroleague]

Vassilis Spanoulis 2013 Euroleague MVP Award Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuOOXs_o3I

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http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/113134/180

Vassilis Spanoulis, named bwin MVP of the 2012-13 Turkish Airlines Euroleague



Vassilis Spanoulis of Olympiacos Piraeus was named 2012-13 bwin Euroleague MVP at the EFES Euroleague Awards Ceremony held at the City Hall in London, England on Thursday. The day before the semifinals tip-off at The O2, the best players from the Final Four teams gathered with the rest of the global basketball elite attending the 2013 Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four. The attending members of the All-Euroleague First Team received their awards too, but it was Spanoulis who walked away with the biggest of them all. Spanoulis joined Nenad Krstic of CSKA Moscow, Ante Tomic of FC Barcelona Regal and Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid, plus former Euroleague MVP Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos Athens, on the All-Euroleague First Team. Kostas Papanikolaou of Olympiacos received the Rising Star award and Bobby Brown of Montepaschi Siena was on hand to pick up the Alphonso Ford Top Scoring trophy. Tomic and Fernandez were each named to the All-Euroleague Team for the first time in their respective careers. Diamantidis claimed First Team honors for the fourth time, while Spanoulis and Krstic each received First Team trophies for the second time. Spanoulis, a two-time Final Four MVP in as many appearances in the event, was chosen as the Euroleague MVP for the first time.



Impressive as they are, statistics only tell part of the story for Spanoulis, who is the unquestionable leader of defending Turkish Airlines Euroleague champion Olympiacos Piraeus. Spanoulis, 30, is the ultimate combo-guard, who can lift his team with his scoring and passing, which go hand in hand to plague opposing defenses. He ranked among the league leaders in both categories, placing fourth in scoring (14.7 ppg.) and third in assists (5.59 apg.). The inability to guard Spanoulis is well represented by the fact that he led the league in fouls drawn (5.41 per game). All told, he is ninth in the league in average performance index rating (15.4). Spanoulis got the Reds rolling early this season and was duly rewarded as bwin MVP for November. He scored at least 9 points in every game before the playoffs, and when his shooting slumped in the series against Anadolu Efes, Spanoulis took over to lead the playoffs in assists (6.6 apg.). Now in his third season with Olympiacos, Spanoulis is also a two-time Euroleague champ, and a two-time Final Four MVP. This marks his fifth All-Euroleague selection.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

Euroleague.net


Euroleague Awards Ceremony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwkorPyxvs


Vassilis Spanoulis Euroleague MVP Interview


Interviewer: You must be thrilled to win this MVP award?

Vassilis Spanoulis:

"Yes, it's nice because my team goes to the Final Four, because this is the most important. When you take something individually, everything is good, whenever your team has succeeded to make something. So that's why I have a double pleasure, because, first of all my team goes to Final Four, and we have the chance to..to make something good again."

Interviewer: What's made the difference for you this year? How have you been so consistently good, right the way through the season?

Vassilis Spanoulis:

"Working hard, being emotionally in a balance with my feelings, not so much up and not so much down, and every time trying to work harder and harder, see the mistakes and improve it every day."

Vassilis Spanoulis Euroleague MVP Interview Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhq6rDfHHo

[niko]

There is a Euroleague forum. This type of thing really should be there. It has nothing to do with the NBA.

[fpliii]

Euroleague - Are you doing a preview/predictions for the Final Four?

[maybeshewill13]

14/5 = MVP in Euroleague

[jzek]

Rudy looks good in a suit.

[jzek]

14/5 = MVP in Euroleague

LOL, wow.

If you ever need to argue that NBA > Euroleague then just point out the stat above. 14 and 5 aren't MVP numbers in a good league, sorry.

[Unbiased_one]

Euroleague.net

Who cares? He wouldn't even be an all-star in the NBA.

[Wavves]

There is a Euroleague forum. This type of thing really should be there. It has nothing to do with the NBA.

This.

[Bandito]

Isn't that they guy that chocked against Nigeria awhile ago in the olympics?

[Euroleague]

14/5 = MVP in Euroleague

His average is 15/6 idiot.

It's funny because last year Andrei Kirilenko got the Euroleague MVP award averaging 14/8 --->

http://www.euroleague.net/competitio...asoncode=E2011

And this entire forum was claiming he had the most dominant Euroleague season ever and that he had the greatest stats in the history of European basketball.


Evidently, you are a freaking moron.

[Unbiased_one]

His average is 15/6 idiot.

It's funny because last year Andrei Kirilenko got the Euroleague MVP award averaging 14/8 --->

http://www.euroleague.net/competitio...asoncode=E2011

And this entire forum was claiming he had the most dominant Euroleague season ever and that he had the greatest stats in the history of European basketball.


Evidently, you are a freaking moron.

Yeah but having the best season in the recent history of european basketball doesn't really mean anything...cause it's like a division 2 compared to the nba. And there's no need to be insulting: 14/5 and 15/6 are basically the same thing, especially when he actually averaged 14.7/5.6.

All I need to know about the euroleague is that greece lost to nigeria, who got beaten by a sleepwalking usa by 80 points.

[jzek]

Serious question - how is 14 and 5 MVP-type numbers?

LBJ gets those numbers in a quarter sometimes!

[Kews1]

Nobody cares

[Collie]

Nice, nearly as great in Euroleague as he was with the Rockets!

[Trollsmasher]

15 points is good enough for the 4th place in scoring?
6 assists is enough for the 3rd place in assists?