2005–06 Euroleague

The 2005–06 Euroleague was the 6th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 49th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall.

Euroleague
The Sazka Arena in Prague hosted the Final Four
Season	2005–06
Teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Anthony Parker
Finals
Champions	CSKA Moscow (5th title)
Runners-up	Maccabi Elite
Semifinalists	Tau Cerámica
Fourth place	Winterthur FC Barcelona
Finals MVP	Theo Papaloukas
Statistical leaders
Points Drew Nicholas 18.5 Rebounds Mirsad Türkcan 8.9 Assists Pablo Prigioni 6.2 Index Rating Anthony Parker 20.5
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The 2005–06 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries. The Final Four was held at the Sazka Arena in Prague, Czech Republic on April 30, 2006. CSKA Moscow defeat the defending champions, Maccabi Elite by a score of 73–69 in the final.

Team allocation

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.

	Teams entering in this round
Regular season (24 teams)	3 best-placed teams from: Italy Spain 2 best-placed teams from: Greece Lithuania The champion teams from: Croatia France Germany Israel Poland Russia Slovenia Serbia and Montenegro Turkey 5 Wild Cards
Top 16 (16 teams)	3 group winners from the regular season 3 group runners-up from the regular season 3 group third-placed teams from the regular season 3 group fourth-placed teams from the regular season 3 group fifth-placed teams from the regular season 1 group sixth placed team from the regular season
Quarterfinals (8 teams)	4 group winners from the top 16 4 group runners-up from the top 16

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders)

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• WC: Wild card

Regular season
Real Madrid (1st)	Benetton Treviso (3rd)	Pau-Orthez (7th)WC	CHP Bamberg (1st)
Tau Cerámica (2nd)	Montepaschi Siena (5th)WC	Žalgiris (1st)	Maccabi Elite (1st)TH
Unicaja Málaga (3rd)	Panathinaikos (1st)	Lietuvos Rytas (2nd)	Prokom Trefl Sopot (1st)
Winterthur Barcelona (5th)WC	AEK (2nd)	Efes Pilsen (1st)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Climamio Bologna (1st)	Olympiacos (8th)WC	Ülker (3rd)WC	Union Olimpija (1st)
Armani Jeans Milano (2nd)	Strasbourg (1st)	Cibona VIP (2nd)WC	Partizan Pivara MB (1st)

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played 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 advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

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

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

3–5 are used to break ties between 6th place teams

Key to colors

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

Group A Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Tau Cerámica 14 11 3 1130 976 154 2. Climamio Bologna 14 10 4 1114 989 125 3. Žalgiris 14 9 5 1065 1037 28 4. Benetton Treviso 14 8 6 1042 1134 8 5. CHP Bamberg 14 7 7 975 1023 -48 6. Union Olimpija 14 5 9 1059 1080 -21 7. Strasbourg 14 3 11 972 1058 -86 8. AEK 14 3 11 940 1100 -160

Group B Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Maccabi Elite 14 9 5 1220 1135 85 2. Efes Pilsen 14 9 5 1025 995 30 3. Lietuvos Rytas 14 8 6 1068 1012 58 4. Winterthur FC Barcelona 14 8 6 1079 1021 56 5. Olympiacos 14 7 7 1085 1059 26 6. Cibona VIP 14 6 8 917 1054 -137 7. Prokom Trefl Sopot 14 5 9 997 1066 -69 8. Armani Jeans Milano 14 5 9 1036 1085 -49

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Unicaja Málaga	14	12	2	1100	1015	85
2.	Panathinaikos	14	12	2	1219	1063	156
3.	CSKA Moscow	14	10	4	1116	950	166
4.	Real Madrid	14	7	7	1012	1004	8
5.	Ülker	14	5	9	1000	1055	-55
6.	Montepaschi Siena	14	4	10	1001	1055	54
7.	Pau-Orthez	14	4	10	971	1103	-132
8.	Partizan Pivara MB	14	2	12	978	1152	-174

Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were 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

• Unicaja Málaga, Tau Cerámica, Maccabi Elite, Panathinaikos

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

• Climamio Bologna, Efes Pilsen, CSKA Moscow, Žalgiris

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

• Lietuvos Rytas, Benetton Treviso, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid

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

• Olympiacos, Brose Bamberg, Ülker, Cibona

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

1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
2. No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
3. If there was a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Ülker) they were scheduled so that every week, only one team would be at home.

Key to colors

Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group D Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Winterthur FC Barcelona 6 5 1 448 434 14 2. Olympiacos 6 4 2 490 450 40 3. Unicaja Málaga 6 3 3 447 435 12 4. Žalgiris 6 0 6 425 491 −66

Group E Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Maccabi Elite 6 5 1 491 448 43 2. Real Madrid 6 4 2 446 412 34 3. Climamio Bologna 6 2 4 469 477 −8 4. Ülker 6 1 5 415 484 −69

Group F Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. CSKA Moscow 6 5 1 441 391 50 2. Tau Cerámica 6 4 2 453 422 31 3. Lietuvos Rytas 6 3 3 422 427 −5 4. CHP Bamberg 6 0 6 374 450 −76

Group G Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Panathinaikos 6 3 3 447 419 28 2. Efes Pilsen 6 3 3 446 447 −1 3. Benetton Treviso 6 3 3 476 488 −12 4. Cibona VIP 6 3 3 458 473 −15

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Winterthur FC Barcelona	2–1	Real Madrid	72–58	78–84	76-70
Maccabi Elite	2–1	Olympiacos	87–78	70–76	77-73
CSKA Moscow	2–0	Efes Pilsen	66–57	75–71
Panathinaikos	1–2	Tau Cerámica	84–72	79–85	71-74

Final four

Main article: 2005–06 Euroleague Final Four

Semifinals

April 28, Sazka Arena, Prague

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Winterthur FC Barcelona	75–84	CSKA Moscow
Maccabi Elite	85–70	Tau Cerámica

3rd place game

April 30, Sazka Arena, Prague

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Winterthur FC Barcelona	82–87	Tau Cerámica

Final

April 30, Sazka Arena, Prague

Team 1	Score	Team 2
CSKA Moscow	73–69	Maccabi Elite

2005–06 Euroleague Champions
CSKA Moscow 5th Title

Final standings

	Team
	CSKA Moscow
	Maccabi Elite
	Tau Cerámica
	Winterthur FC Barcelona

Final Four 2006 MVP

Theodoros Papaloukas (CSKA Moscow)

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Elite	25	513	20.52
2.	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja Málaga	18	348	19.33
3.	Luis Scola	Tau Cerámica	25	470	18.80

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	Drew Nicholas	Benetton Treviso	20	369	18.45
2.	Scoonie Penn	Cibona	20	341	17.05
3.	Louis Bullock	Real Madrid	20	316	15.80

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	Mirsad Türkcan	Ülker	16	143	8.94
2.	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Žalgiris	20	166	8.30
3.	Robertas Javtokas	Lietuvos Rytas	20	164	8.20

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	Pablo Prigioni	Tau Cerámica	25	156	6.24
2.	Tyus Edney	Olympiacos	23	103	4.48
3.	Shammond Williams	Winterthur FC Barcelona	25	107	4.28

Other Stats

Category	Name	Team	Games	Stat
Steals per game	Jeff Trepagnier	Ülker	20	3.05
Blocks per game	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Žalgiris	20	2.10
Turnovers per game	Massimo Bulleri	Armani Jeans Milano	14	3.79
Fouls drawn per game	Scoonie Penn	Cibona	20	5.80
Minutes per game	Yotam Halperin	Union Olimpija	14	36:04
2FG%	Tomas Masiulis	Prokom Trefl	14	0.666
3FG%	Giacomo Galanda	Armani Jeans Milano	14	0.536
FT%	Nikos Chatzis	Olympiacos	20	0.969

Game highs

Category	Name	Team	Stat
Rating	Spencer Nelson	Brose Bamberg	48
Points	Luis Scola	Tau Cerámica	36
Rebounds	Spencer Nelson	Brose Bamberg	20
Assists	Vrbica Stefanov	Ülker	12
	Lonnie Cooper	Pau-Orthez
Steals	Jeff Trepagnier	Ülker	11
Blocks	Maceo Baston	Maccabi Elite	6
Turnovers	Igor Rakočević	Real Madrid	9
	Giannis Kalampokis	AEK
Fouls Drawn	Jaka Lakovič	Panathinaikos	15

Awards

Euroleague MVP

• Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Elite )

Final Four MVP

• Theodoros Papaloukas ( CSKA Moscow )

Finals Top Scorer

• Will Solomon ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )

All-Euroleague Team 2005–06

Position	All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
PG	Theodoros Papaloukas	CSKA Moscow	Pablo Prigioni	Tau Cerámica
SG/SF	Juan Carlos Navarro	Winterthur FC Barcelona	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos
SG/SF	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Elite	Trajan Langdon	CSKA Moscow
PF/C	Luis Scola	Tau Cerámica	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja Málaga
PF/C	Nikola Vujčić	Maccabi Elite	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Žalgiris

Best Defender

• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

Rising Star

• Andrea Bargnani ( Benetton Treviso )

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer

• Drew Nicholas ( Benetton Treviso )

Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year

• Ettore Messina ( CSKA Moscow )

Club Executive of the Year

• Sergey Kushchenko ( CSKA Moscow )

Regular season

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Dejan Milojević	Partizan	33
	Nikola Vujčić	Maccabi Elite	33
2	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos	32
3	Marko Popović	Efes Pilsen	31
4	Maceo Baston	Maccabi Elite	35
5	Dejan Milojević (2)	Partizan	33
	Lynn Greer	Strasbourg	33
6	Haris Mujezinović	Lietuvos Rytas	36
	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Elite	36
7	Scoonie Penn	Cibona	36
8	Spencer Nelson	Brose Bamberg	48
9	Andrija Zizić	Olympiacos	41
10	Mike Batiste	Panathinaikos	33
11	Louis Bullock	Real Madrid	34
12	Marko Popović (2)	Efes Pilsen	40
13	Tyus Edney	Olympiacos	38
	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid	38
14	Scoonie Penn (2)	Cibona	37

Top 16

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Anthony Parker (2)	Maccabi Elite	39
2	Igor Rakočević	Real Madrid	32
	Sofoklis Schortsanitis	Olympiacos	32
3	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja Málaga	37
4	Maceo Baston (2)	Maccabi Elite	28
	Nikola Prkacin	Efes Pilsen	28
	Antonio Granger	Efes Pilsen	28
5	Igor Rakočević (2)	Real Madrid	28
6	Henry Domercant	Efes Pilsen	29
	Maceo Baston (3)	Maccabi Elite	29

Playoffs

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1-2	Vassilis Spanoulis (2)	Panathinaikos	23
3	Michalis Kakiouzis	Winterthur FC Barcelona	23

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
November 2005	Kaya Peker	Efes Pilsen
December 2005	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja Málaga
January 2006	Juan Carlos Navarro	Winterthur FC Barcelona
February 2006	Tyus Edney	Olympiacos
March 2006	Maceo Baston	Maccabi Elite
April 2006	Trajan Langdon	CSKA Moscow

References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format

External links

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