2017 EuroLeague Final Four

2017 EuroLeague Final Four

Logo for 2017 Final Four in Istanbul[1]
Season	2016–17 EuroLeague
Tournament details
Arena	Sinan Erdem Dome Istanbul, Turkey
Dates	19–21 May 2017
Final positions
Champions	Fenerbahçe (1st title)
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Third place	CSKA Moscow
Fourth place	Real Madrid
Awards and statistics
MVP	Ekpe Udoh
Top scorer(s)	Sergio Llull (35)
Attendance	59,276 (total)
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The 2017 EuroLeague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2016–17 EuroLeague season, the 60th season of Europe's premier level club basketball tournament, and the 17th season since it is organised by Euroleague Basketball. It was the 30th Final Four of the modern EuroLeague Final Four era (1988–present), and the 32nd time overall that the competition was concluded with a final four format. The Final Four was played at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2017.^[2] Fenerbahçe won its first EuroLeague title.^[3]

Venue[]

On September 27, 2016, Euroleague Basketball announced that the Final Four will be held in the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul.^[2] It has a seating capacity of 22,500 for concerts, for the sport of basketball and tennis it has a seating capacity of 16,647 people, making it Turkey's largest multi-purpose indoor venue and the third largest in Europe (although it is not the third largest in Europe in capacity for basketball use). The arena is named after Sinan Erdem (1927–2003), who was the President of the Turkish Olympic Committee, from 1989, until his death in 2003.

Istanbul	Istanbul 2017 EuroLeague Final Four (Europe)
Sinan Erdem Dome
Capacity: 16,647

Bracket[]

	Semifinals 19 May v t				Championship game 21 May
	Fenerbahçe	84
	Real Madrid	75
					Fenerbahçe	80
					Olympiacos	64
	CSKA Moscow	78
	Olympiacos	82
					Third place game
					Real Madrid	70
					CSKA Moscow	94

Semifinals[]

Semifinal B[]

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1 Nando de Colo 16 1 3 SG 9 Aaron Jackson 12 0 1 SF 41 Nikita Kurbanov 2 2 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 2 4 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 8 3 0 Reserves: PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 23 2 1 C 6 James Augustine 6 6 0 SF 7 Vitaly Fridzon 0 0 0 PF 11 Semyon Antonov DNP C 19 Joel Freeland DNP SG 22 Cory Higgins 6 6 0 PF 31 Victor Khryapa 3 8 2 Head coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

CSKA Moscow Olympiacos

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 17 Vangelis Mantzaris 12 6 3 SG 7 Vassilis Spanoulis 14 1 6 SF 16 Kostas Papanikolaou 14 9 1 PF 15 Georgios Printezis 14 7 1 C 11 Nikola Milutinov 5 2 2 Reserves: PG 1 Erick Green 8 1 0 C 2 Khem Birch 4 4 0 C 4 Patric Young 0 1 0 PG 5 Vassilis Toliopoulos DNP PF 6 Ioannis Papapetrou 3 2 2 PG 9 Dominic Waters DNP C 10 Dimitrios Agravanis 8 7 0 Head coach: Ioannis Sfairopoulos

Semifinal A[]

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 35 Bobby Dixon 9 1 3 SG 13 Bogdan Bogdanović 14 6 1 SF 33 Nikola Kalinić 12 6 6 PF 24 Jan Veselý 12 3 3 C 8 Ekpe Udoh 18 12 8 Reserves: SG 10 Melih Mahmutoğlu DNP C 12 Pero Antić DNP PF 15 Anthony Bennett DNP PG 16 Kostas Sloukas 9 3 1 SF 21 James Nunnally 2 1 2 C 44 Ahmet Düverioğlu DNP SF 70 Luigi Datome 8 1 0 Head coach: Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe Real Madrid

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 7 Luka Dončić 0 2 3 SG 23 Sergio Llull 28 1 8 SF 8 Jonas Mačiulis 0 0 1 PF 3 Anthony Randolph 7 2 0 C 14 Gustavo Ayón 2 4 0 Reserves: PG 4 Dontaye Draper 0 0 1 SG 5 Rudy Fernández 0 1 0 PF 9 Felipe Reyes DNP SG 20 Jaycee Carroll 21 1 0 C 21 Othello Hunter 6 7 0 PF 33 Trey Thompkins 8 3 0 SF 34 Jeffery Taylor 3 0 0 Head coach: Pablo Laso

Third place game[]

CSKA Moscow won the penultimate game of the tournament, securing third place over Real Madrid and ending the campaign with the best overall record – twenty-six wins and nine defeats.^[4] A significant factor to their win was a superior three-point shooting rate. CSKA lead from the start, taking five points before a reply from Real, and ended the first quarter with a 23–10 lead. There was nothing between teams during the second and third quarters, allowing CSKA to maintain their thirteen-point lead into the final quarter. CSKA added to their score and pulled away from Real to finish with a score of 94–70.^[5]

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 23 Sergio Llull 7 0 4 SG 8 Jonas Mačiulis 11 3 1 SF 34 Jeffery Taylor 8 1 0 PF 3 Anthony Randolph 4 3 0 C 14 Gustavo Ayón 11 6 3 Reserves: PG 4 Dontaye Draper 5 0 0 SG 5 Rudy Fernández 4 0 2 SF 6 Andrés Nocioni 4 3 1 PG 7 Luka Dončić 6 4 2 PF 9 Felipe Reyes 5 2 1 SG 20 Jaycee Carroll 3 0 1 PF 33 Trey Thompkins 2 2 0 Head coach: Pablo Laso

Real Madrid CSKA Moscow

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1 Nando de Colo 13 4 4 SG 9 Aaron Jackson 13 2 5 SF 41 Nikita Kurbanov 2 0 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 10 6 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 14 7 1 Reserves: PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 7 1 6 C 6 James Augustine 4 3 0 SF 7 Vitaly Fridzon 12 3 2 PF 11 Semyon Antonov 3 1 0 C 19 Joel Freeland 1 2 0 SG 22 Cory Higgins 12 3 3 PF 30 Mikhail Kulagin 3 0 0 Head coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

Championship game[]

Fenerbahçe played in its second consecutive championship game, after it lost to CSKA Moscow in 2016.^[6] Olympiacos returned to the title game for the first time since 2015.^[7]

The first two quarters were evenly matched. Fenerbahçe opened the scoring and led by 5–1 before Olympiacos replied with five unanswered points. They relinquished the lead soon after and were unable to regain it for the remainder of the game. Fenerbahçe took an eight-point lead over Olympiacos after the first quarter, with a score of 26–18, though Olympiacos had reduced the deficit to five points, to 39–34, by half time. Fenerbahçe broke away in the third quarter, taking a commanding twelve point lead to go into the fourth quarter 60–48 up.^[3] An 11–2 run by Fenerbahçe at the start of the final quarter effectively secured the title for the club.^[8] The game ended with a score of 80–64. Fenerbahçe led at each quarter on its way to the title, and head coach Željko Obradović added to his record total of nine EuroLeague championships. Fenerbahçe became the first Turkish club to win the EuroLeague championship.^[3]

Bogdan Bogdanović and Nikola Kalinić both scored the most points, with 17 each, while Ekpe Udoh set a EuroLeague championship game record of five blocks. Udoh was also named EuroLeague Final Four MVP.^[8]

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 35 Bobby Dixon 8 2 2 SG 13 Bogdan Bogdanović 17 5 1 SF 33 Nikola Kalinić 17 5 5 PF 24 Jan Veselý 8 8 2 C 8 Ekpe Udoh 10 9 4 Reserves: SG 10 Melih Mahmutoğlu 0 0 0 C 12 Pero Antić 4 1 1 PF 15 Anthony Bennett 0 0 0 PG 16 Kostas Sloukas 3 1 5 SF 21 James Nunnally 2 1 0 C 44 Ahmet Düverioğlu 0 0 0 SF 70 Luigi Datome 11 6 0 Head coach: Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe Olympiacos 0 Fenerbahçe Statistics[9] Olympiacos 13/31 (41.9%) 2-pt field goals 14/35 (40%) 13/25 (52%) 3-pt field goals 9/26 (34.6%) 15/19 (78.9%) Free throws 9/12 (75%) 11 Offensive rebounds 10 29 Defensive rebounds 20 40 Total rebounds 30 20 Assists 18 8 Turnovers 6 2 Steals 7 9 Blocks 2 18 Fouls 20

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 17 Vangelis Mantzaris 9 1 3 SG 7 Vassilis Spanoulis 9 2 8 SF 16 Kostas Papanikolaou 3 5 3 PF 15 Georgios Printezis 7 1 1 C 2 Khem Birch 14 0 0 Reserves: PG 1 Erick Green 7 4 0 C 4 Patric Young 0 0 0 PG 5 Vassilis Toliopoulos 3 0 0 PF 6 Ioannis Papapetrou 0 2 0 PG 9 Dominic Waters 2 1 1 C 10 Dimitrios Agravanis 0 3 1 C 11 Nikola Milutinov 10 4 1 Head coach: Ioannis Sfairopoulos

References[]

External links[]

• Official website