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By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
How experienced is each of the teams in the Final Four?
They say that the only thing you cannot teach is experience. And in Madrid will compete players and coaches with little, a lot or no experience in winning Euroleague Final Four games. Who are the most experienced and those with the most games and trophies?
Experience in these kinds of games can be important concerning the mental preparation of the players and the coaches, for the management of games or the responses in crucial moments. A lot has been decided because of the know-how. However, there will always be the example of teams (taking under consideration only the last few years) like Olympiacos in 2012 (only Vassilis Spanoulis and the substitute center Lazaros Papadopoulos had won the Euroleague in the past) or Maccabi last year (only David Blu had done it before) that did not have a lot of experience in Final Fours but made the big surprise. We take into account as participation even if a player took part only in one Euroleague game that season.
Let’s take a look then, at what these players and coaches of the four finalists have done in previous Final Fours.
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