Changes in EuroLeague Women for the 2012/13 season

Posted by: Jānis Kacēns 2012-07-14 22:14 in EuroLeague Women, Featured

During the previous week FIBA Europe has released regulations for club competitions in 2012/13.

There aren’t much changes in EuroLeague Women regulations for the next season. Unlike it was previously talked about, there is no mention of teams not advancing to the second round of ELW, joining the teams in EuroCup Women elimination phase.

The final deadline for adding/replacing players will be on February 13.

Right now teams will be ranked in the second round and for the Final Eight based on win percentage in all first round games. That, of course, didn’t stop FIBA Europe changing the system last year, though this year there’s an even number of teams in all three groups.

Final Eight will be stretched out from 4 games in 5 days to 5 games in 7 days. Added will be a semifinal round where the top two teams from each group will play. Judging by the last spring, this addition could have been requested by UMMC, who lost their chances to play in the final after a loss to Ros Casares on the opening day after an unlucky collision in warm ups. Cynics will say that it only gives UMMC one more chance to fail on the big stage.

Games for fifth and seventh place have been removed, so the four teams that won’t advance to the semifinals will be able to go home after 3 days.

Jack

Ros Casares was better than Ekat. Ros Casares was a Dream Team. May be next year Ekat will have his chance. They are really strong. But in my opinion Galatasary (with Wauters and Lyttle) and Spartak Moscow (with Aguilar and Yacoubou) can say something.
Michelle

Galatasaray and maybe Fenerbahce will be the biggest opponent for UMMC IMO. They have a pretty good postrotation but i miss some depth on the perimeter where UMMC is pretty strong with Bird/Taurasi/Nolan/AJZ.

Good changes, i really like the 2 extra days. Because 5 was insane and resulted in a lot of injuries.
- Pepe Matanza
  
  Good thing is that results from all games will count so we wont have situation like last year that in last round, half of the games were played for nothing.Finaly something smart from Fiba.But than, it was stupid that they didnt agree that teams who didnt advance, join fiba cup.That would make fiba cup much stronger competition.
  Gala will be competitive only if they bring good PG. Fenerbahce-I dont think so.They got the easiest group to play but I think that quality of their team is not close to what they had past seasons(they have 5 players and thats it).