By Stelios Toromanidis/ info@eurohoops.net
We have all experienced those moments when the clock is ticking down, everyone’s adrenaline spikes, eyes pop from their sockets, no one can breathe and everything hinges on a single shot. These are the moments that make basketball the most exciting game on the planet!
Since the turn of the century, the Euroleague has witnessed hundreds of great shots. Some have decided a game, others secured tickets to a Final Four and there have even been championship games with such moments. To celebrate these unforgettable moments, Eurohoops.net chose its top ten and presents them here for fans to take a trip down memory lane to re-witness some of the competition’s greatest moments.
The list includes the best game-winning shots, but not those that took a game into overtime.
Thus, for instance, Derrick Sharp’s unbelievable buzzer beater in the Top 16 finale in 2004 – which took the Maccabi Tel Aviv–Zalgiris Kaunas game into overtime, where the home team won and qualified for the Final Four in Tel Aviv – is not among our choices. The same goes for Joshua Childress’s follow in the semifinal between Partizan Belgrade and Olympiacos Piraeus in the 2010 Final Four in Paris, which gave the Reds a second chance in the extra five minutes and, in the end, the ticket to the final.
Sit back and enjoy the countdown of the greatest game-winners in competition history.