2004–05 Euroleague

Main article: Euroleague Basketball

2004-05 Euroleague
League	Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Season
Season MVP	Anthony Parker (Maccabi Elite)
Top scorer	Charles Smith (Scavolini Pesaro)
Final Four
Champions	Maccabi Elite
Runners-up	Tau Cerámica
Final Four MVP	Šarūnas Jasikevičius (Maccabi Elite)

The Euroleague is an international professional basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2004–2005 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The final of the competition was held in Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow, Russia, with defending champions Maccabi Elite defeating Tau Cerámica 90-78.

Regular Season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Key to colors
	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advance to Top 16

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Climamio Bologna	14	12	2	1199	1091	+96
2.	Efes Pilsen	14	12	2	1080	934	+145
3.	Cibona	14	8	6	1172	1037	+47
4.	Real Madrid	14	7	7	1056	1020	+36
5.	Prokom Trefl Sopot	14	7	7	981	1028	-47
6.	Adecco Estudiantes	14	4	10	1074	1109	-35
7.	Olympiacos	14	4	10	1017	1144	-127
8.	Partizan	14	2	12	1030	1146	-116

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Elite	14	10	4	1324	1189	+135
2.	FC Barcelona	14	9	5	1071	1045	+26
3.	Žalgiris	14	8	6	1185	1180	+5
4.	AEK	14	7	7	1102	1106	-4
5.	Montepaschi Siena	14	7	7	1105	1049	56
6.	Scavolini Pesaro	14	7	7	1116	1168	-52
7.	Union Olimpija	14	6	8	1040	1058	-18
8.	Adecco ASVEL	14	2	12	973	1121	-148

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	14	0	1191	1074	+117
2.	Panathinaikos	14	8	6	1126	1061	+65
3.	Benetton Treviso	14	8	6	1039	986	+53
4.	Ülker	14	7	7	1030	987	+43
5.	Tau Cerámica	14	6	8	1149	1146	+3
6.	Unicaja Málaga	14	6	8	1030	1024	+6
7.	Frankfurt Skyliners	14	4	10	996	1137	-141
8.	Pau-Orthez	14	3	11	1070	1216	-146

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

CSKA Moscow, Climamio Bologna, Maccabi Elite, Efes Pilsen

Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams

FC Barcelona, Panathinaikos, Benetton Treviso, Cibona

Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams

Žalgiris, Ülker, Real Madrid, AEK

Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team

Tau Cerámica, Montepaschi Siena, Prokom Trefl Sopot, Scavolini Pesaro

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) will receive priority.

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advance to quarterfinals

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Elite	6	6	0	513	427	+86
2.	Ülker	6	3	3	434	469	-35
3.	Montepaschi Siena	6	2	4	470	462	+8
4.	Cibona	6	1	5	430	489	−59

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	515	450	+65
2.	Scavolini Pesaro	6	3	3	467	492	-25
3.	FC Barcelona	6	2	4	463	478	−15
4.	Real Madrid	6	2	4	477	502	−25

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	6	4	2	480	450	+30
2.	Tau Cerámica	6	4	2	526	483	+43
3	Climamio Bologna	6	4	2	471	479	−8
4.	Žalgiris	6	0	6	457	522	−65

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Benetton Treviso	6	4	2	447	385	+62
2.	Efes Pilsen	6	4	2	424	377	+47
3.	AEK	6	4	2	436	427	+9
4.	Prokom Trefl Sopot	6	0	6	387	505	−118

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Maccabi Elite	2–0	Scavolini Pesaro	88–60	103–100
CSKA Moscow	2–0	Ülker	88–74	82–64
Panathinaikos	2–1	Efes Pilsen	102–96	63–75	84-76
Benetton Treviso	0–2	Tau Cerámica	59–98	64–66

Final Four

Main article: 2004–05 Euroleague Final Four

Semifinals

May 6, Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Maccabi Elite	91–82	Panathinaikos
CSKA Moscow	78–85	Tau Cerámica

3rd place game

May 8, Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Panathinaikos	94–91	CSKA Moscow

Final

May 8, Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Tau Cerámica	78–90	Maccabi Elite

2004-05 Euroleague Champions
Maccabi Elite 5th Title

Final standings

	Team
	Maccabi Elite
	Tau Cerámica
	Panathinaikos
	CSKA Moscow

Final Four 2005 MVP

Šarūnas Jasikevičius (Maccabi Elite)

Maccabi Elite 2004–05 Euroleague Champions

4 Fanan 5 Baston 6 Sharp 7 Vujčić 8 Parker 9 Shelef 10 Burstein 11 Halperin 12 Dotan 13 Jasikevičius (Final4 MVP) 20 Kommatos 25 Thomas 41 Green Head coach: Gershon Assistant coaches: Gino Shamir

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Elite	24	597	24.88
2.	Tanoka Beard	Žalgiris	20	439	21.95
3.	Chris Williams	Frankfurt Skyliners	14	301	21.50

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	Charles Smith	Scavolini Pesaro	20	413	20.65
2.	Chris Williams	Frankfurt Skyliners	14	265	18.93
3.	Tanoka Beard	Žalgiris	20	360	18.00

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	Tanoka Beard	Žalgiris	20	212	10.60
2.	Rubén Garcés	Adecco Estudiantes	14	121	8.64
3.	Hüseyin Beşok	ASVEL	14	112	8.00

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	Mire Chatman	Pau-Orthez	14	87	6.21
2.	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Maccabi Elite	24	128	5.33
3.	Nikolaos Zisis	AEK	20	88	4.40

Other Stats

Category	Name	Team	Games	Stat
Steals per game	Chris Williams	Frankfurt Skyliners	14	2.79
Blocks per game	Eurelijus Žukauskas	Ülker	22	1.82
Turnovers per game	Mire Chatman	Pau-Orthez	14	3.64
Fouls drawn per game	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja Málaga	13	6.54
Minutes per game	Pascal Roller	Frankfurt Skyliners	14	36:38
2FG%	Fran Vázquez	Unicaja Málaga	14	0.701
3FG%	Antonio Granger	CSKA Moscow	23	0.483
FT%	Uroš Tripković	Partizan	14	0.968

Awards

Euroleague MVP

Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Elite )

Final Four MVP

Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( Maccabi Elite )

All-Euroleague First Team 2004-05

All-Euroleague Second Team 2004–2005

Club Executive of the Year

Jose Antonio Querejeta ( Tau Cerámica )

References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format

External links

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

Maccabi Elite 2004–05 Euroleague Champions

4 Fanan 5 Baston 6 Sharp 7 Vujčić 8 Parker 9 Shelef 10 Burstein 11 Halperin 12 Dotan 13 Jasikevičius (Final4 MVP) 20 Kommatos 25 Thomas 41 Green Head coach: Gershon Assistant coaches: Gino Shamir

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