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By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
The GMs of the Euroleague teams voted Boban Marjanovic as the player who is most likely to have a breakout season in 2014-15. However, there are more. We checked the stats of all the Euroleague players, compared them with their careers so far, the expectations from them in the start of the season and picked our Top 10 of break out players.
In our list we took into account only the players who made it to the Top 16 and chose those whose career didn’t “betray” that they would have a season like this. We picked players who have key roles in their teams, improved their game and play better according to our expectations. For example in this list, we could include Dario Saric or Nando de Colo but they considered to were supposed to be leaders to their teams. So here are those who took us by surprise.
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[lptitle title=”10. A.J. Slaughter (Panathinaikos)”]
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The highlight of his four-year European career was his excellent last season with Chalon in the Eurocup and the French league. Who could think that A. J. Slaughter could be an X-factor of a top Euroleague team like Panathinaikos? Only Dusko Ivanovic! Slaughter is the absolute “catch and shoot” player with great technique and efficiency in shooting.
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[lptitle title=”9. Zoran Erceg (Galatasaray)”]
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During the last season he was also good with Galatasaray but there is a big difference. This season he forced to be the leader of his team and he is the most important big guy of his team. He shoots excellent and he’s much better in rebounding and in they way he passes the ball.
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