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By Stathis Trapezanlidis/ barkas@eurohoops.net
Which are the games that have stayed in everyone’s memory because of two players’ excellent performances? In which games did one player from each team dominate to such an extent that the confrontation turned into a personal duel? Eurohoops remembers and looks back on recent EuroBasket competitions.
The selection was made based on two criteria:
a. The game has to be a knockout game.
b. The contribution and influence of the rest of the players on the game has to have been the smallest possible, as much as someone can say that about a basketball game, especially when we’re speaking of great teams with many stars on their roster.
As is expected, not everyone could fit in the top 10 and this is why the criticalness of the game played an important role in the selection. This is how truly great confrontations were left out, like the epic battle Sabonis (34 points) – Petrovic (30 points) in 1985, Navarro (35 points) – Valters (28 points) in 2005, Szanyiel (29 points) – Galis (38 points) in 1983, Herreros (28 points) – Jasikevicius (22 points) in Paris and many others.
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