By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
You can read the full article here which explains the full criteria used. The first Final Four was held in 1988 and that means this list misses some legendary names,
Still it’s quite representative of the modern European basketball and includes illustrious with long careers full of successes and titles. However, there’s one coach that in any list of this kind has “locked’ the top.
10. Dimitris Itoudis (born in 1970)
The youngest of the elite, but in just his third year coaching CSKA he’s already in his third Final Four and won the title in 2016. This season, he has a chance to win another. For 13 years he was more than Zeljko Obradovic‘s assistant coach at Panathinaikos, where they lifted five EuroLeague trophies together. A physical education teacher and a passionate basketball coach, Itoudis is a modern coach with clear ideas. He has put CSKA back atop European basketball.
9. David Blatt (1959)
The only head coach who worked in big European clubs as well as the NBA (Cleveland). He was EuroLeague champ with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2014 and also won the Coach of the Year award. He also guided Maccabi to the 2002 and 2011 Final Fours, and was assistant coach there for their 2001 SuproLeague and 2004 EuroLeague crowns. He showed his coaching abilities this year with Darussafaka Dogus, a team few counted on being in the playoffs. He also won the EuroBasket with Russia in 2007 and a bronze medal at the London Olympics in 2012.