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The EuroLeague clubs injury woes

The EuroLeague clubs injury woes

16/Dec/17 11:51

Injury woes are part of the game and with Nick Calathes being the latest star who went down, here’s which EuroLeague teams have faced big issues so far and which are more than lucky.

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

Israeli portal Walla counted one by one all the absences of the sixteen teams in the EuroLeague, as well as the players who have competed in all games up to Round 11. Below, you can see which clubs have been lucky enough to avoid serious injury problems and which clubs have had to deal with the most important long-term injuries of players who have a place in their rotation.

The reason for the survey was the lack of absences for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Zalgiris Kaunas, who have been the competition’s “lucky ones” so far. On the other side, there is Real Madrid, who have been dealing with numerous problems from the beginning of this season. Below is the table containing the number of absentees for every club regarding players with at least 12 minutes of playing time per game.

1. How many absences did the teams had in 12 EuroLeague games?

(By rotation players who get 12+ minutes per game)

Team	No. of absences	Notable injured players
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	1	–
Zalgiris Kaunas	1	–
Panathinaikos Superfoods	2	–
Bamberg Baskets	7	Hackett (3 games missed)
AX Olimpia Milan	8	Goudelock (5)
Crvena Zvezda mts	9	Antic (3)
CSKA Moscow	12	Westermann (7)
Olympiacos	13	Spanoulis (10)
Unicaja Malaga	13	Diez (4), Nedovic (3)
FC Barcelona Lassa	16	Navarro, Claver (5)
Anadolu Efes	17	Brown (10)
Khimki Moscow Region	17	Honeycutt (9)
Valencia Basket	17	Abalde(5) San Emeterio (4) Dubljevic (3)
Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz	18	McRae (8)
Fenerbahce Dogus	22	Kalinic (11), Dixon (9)
Real Madrid	40	Llull (11), Kuzmic (9), Ayon, Randolph (6)

The zeros for Tel Aviv’s team and Sarunas Jasikevicius’s squad have turned into ones after Round 12 due to the absences of Michael Roll and Edgaras Ulanovas, respectively. Also, Olympiacos’performance will now be “boosted” with the absence of Dimitrios Agravanis for the remainder of the season.

The perfect attendance records

Maccabi and Zalgiris are also the teams that have the most players who have competed in every game of the 2017-18 season so far. In fact, Panathinaikos are tied in second place next to the Israelis, but things have already changed due to the injury of Nick Calathes. Here is the relevant table:

Number of players per team who competed in all first 11 games

Team	Players with 11 appearances
Zalgiris Kaunas	10
Maccabi FOX TA	9
Panathinaikos	9
Baskonia	7
Barcelona	7
Fenerbahce	7
CSKA Moscow	6
Real Madrid	6
Olympiacos	6
Valencia	6
Efes	5
Milan	5
Unicaja	5
Bamberg	4
Khimki	4

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