EB Pau-Orthez wins French Championship

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 11:12 PM

74-66 over ASVEL

Diaw-Riffiod scored 7 points and had 9 rebounds. Pau's leading scorer had 16 points, and they only had two players to score in double figures. Mickael Pietrus scored 6 points, and his brother Florent (who was worked out by Atlanta BTW) scored 8 points and grabbed 9 rebounds.

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Posted 29 June 2003 - 12:31 AM

I did not realize how few players score in double figures in Europe. Someone posted Darko, Pietreus, and Diaw-Rifford all averaged less than 10 ppg. There games are low scoreing, I have read they play a much more controled style of offense there that make the games slow and each bucket is a grind. (like the final 2 minutes of a close NBA game but for the whole game)

Does anyone know if they play four 12 minute quarters like the NBA or 2 halves of 20 minutes each ? Or are the length of their games no way related to US ball.

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Posted 29 June 2003 - 07:13 AM

In europe, the game time is 4 x 10 minutes. And the clock doesn't stop after each basket (Otherwise in NBA, if I'm right?), but in the last 3 minutes from 4th quater, the clock stops after every basket too.

So basicly I would say that scoring in european games are somewhere between 60 to 70 points (per team). 50 or 80 points isn't that amazing scores either.