Igor Rakocevic: 'The EuroLeague is by far the best basketball in the world' / News - Basketnews.com

Igor Rakocevic was excited to watch this year's EuroLeague playoffs. The retired Serbian shooting guard conveyed his feelings and impressions about the quality of basketball played in the top European competition.

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Igor Rakocevic closely followed the EuroLeague playoff series. The 46-year-old retired Serbian national team player, who won the Alphonso Ford trophy for top EuroLeague scorer three times, spoke highly of the quality of basketball displayed in the games he watched.

Igor Rakocevic

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"What an extremely high-quality EuroLeague playoff games!" he exclaimed in a post on X (former Twitter).

"Of the four duels, three were decided in Game 5, and the other pairing probably would not have ended 3-0 if the best player of Baskonia [Markus Howard] had not been injured," Rakocevic wrote.

The former shooting guard of Baskonia, Real Madrid and Crvena Zvezda, who also spent the 2002-03 season with Minnesota, observed that the contests were characterized by "fantastic defense, a lot of tactics, fighting for every ball and a crowd that understands basketball and actively participates."

"Coaches who adapt tactics and changes on the fly, every minute," Rakocevic marveled.

"Involvement of all players from the bench, emotions, intensity. And on top of all that, two Final Four participants who secure passage in Game 5 on the road. The EuroLeague has been by far the best basketball in the world for some time," he argued.

The Final Four will be held from May 24 to 26 in Berlin, withPanathinaikos AKTOR Athens taking on Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in the first semi-final (18:00) and last year's finalists Real Madrid and Olympiacos Piraeus squaring off in the other pairing (21:00).

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