Traditionally at the end of the year Eurobasket announces Year End Awards, this
time for 2005.
Eurobasket has a network of over 230 correspondents, where major part of them
took part in the voting for this year awards.
There are two major categories: All-Europe and All-Europeans, while All-Europe
applies to all players (also imports) who played in Europe, while all-Europeans
applies to only European players, who players around the World.
We also have Coach of the Year Award. There were easy guesses for All-Europeans
and Coach of the Year awards as
Dirk
Nowitzki of Dallas Mavericks (NBA) and
Panagiotis
Yiannakis of Maroussi (GRE) were definite leaders in their categories.
However All-Europe awards were not such obvious.
Sarunas
Jasikevicius of Indiana Pacers (NBA) took All-Europe Player of the Year
award being followed very closely by
Anthony
Parker of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR) and
Luis
Scola of Tau Ceramica Vitoria (ESP) .
Here are all Eurobasket.com awards for 2005:
All-Europe - only players, who
played in Europe in 2005 (both domestic and imports). There were in total 76
players, who received votes in this categoryEurobasket.com All-Europe
Player of the Year:
Sarunas
Jasikevicius (192-G-76), Indiana Pacers (NBA), Lithuania
Eurobasket.coom All-Europe Point Guard of
the Year:
Sarunas
Jasikevicius(192-G-76), Indiana Pacers (NBA), Lithuania
Eurobasket.com
All-Europe Shooting Guard of the Year:
Arvydas Macijauskas (192-G-80) of New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets (USA),
Lithuania
Eurobasket.com
All-Europe Small Forward of the Year:
Anthony Parker (196-G/F-75) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), USA
Eurobasket.com
All-Europe Power Forward of the Year:
Luis
Scola (206-F/C-80) of Tau Ceramica Vitoria (ESP), Spain-Argentina
Eurobasket.com
All-Europe Center of the Year:
Nikola
Vujcic (211-C-78) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), Croatia
Eurobasket.com All-Europe 1st Team:
Sarunas Jasikevicius
(192-G-76), Indiana Pacers (NBA), Lithuania
Anthony Parker (196-G/F-75) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), USA
Luis Scola (206-F/C-80) of Tau Ceramica Vitoria (ESP), Spain
Nikola Vujcic (211-C-78) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), Croatia
Juan Carlos Navarro (192-G-80) of F.C. Barcelona
(ESP), Spain
Eurobasket.com All-Europe 2nd Team:
David
Andersen (212-C-80) of CSKA Moscow (RUS), Australia-Denmark
Arvydas
Macijauskas (192-G-80) of New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets (USA),
Lithuania
Lazaros
Papadopoulos (210-C-80) of Dynamo Moscow (RUS), Greece
Dimitris
Diamantidis (196-G-80) of Panathinaikos Athens (GRE), Greece
Theodoros Papaloukas (200-G-77) of CSKA Moscow (RUS), Greece
Eurobasket.com All-Europe Honorable Mention:
Jorge
Garbajosa (205-C/F-77) of Unicaja Malaga (ESP), Spain
Jaka
Lakovic (182-G-78) of Panathinaikos Athens (GRE), Slovenia
Dejan
Milojevic (200-F-77), Partizan (SRB), Serbia/M.
Tanoka
Beard (205-F-71) of B.C. Zalgiris Kaunas (LTU), USA
J.R.
Holden (184-G-76) of CSKA Moscow (RUS), USA-Russia
Marcus
Brown (192-G-74) of Unicaja Malaga (ESP), USA
Ricardo
Greer (195-F/G-78) of Strasbourg IG (FRA), Dominican Rep.
Mirsad
Turkcan (206-F-76) of Ulker Istanbul (TUR), Turkey
Felipe
Reyes (203-F/C-80) of Real Madrid (ESP), Spain
Henry
Domercant (192-G-80) of Efes Pilsen Istanbul (TUR), Bahama
Maceo
Baston (206-F-75) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), USA
All-Europeans
-only
Europeans, including these, who played in Europe or overseas in 2005. There were
in total 62 players, who received votes in this category
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Player of the
Year:
Dirk Nowitzki (211-F-78) of Dallas Mavericks
(NBA), German
Eurobasket.com
All-Europeans Player of the Year:
Dirk Nowitzki
(211-F-78) of Dallas Mavericks (USA), Germany
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Point Guard of the Year:
Tony
Parker (183-G-80) of San Antonio Spurs (USA), France
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Shooting Guard of
the Year:
Predrag Stojakovic
(207-F-77) of Sacramento Kings (USA), Serbia/Montenegro
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Small Forward of the Year:
Andrei
Kirilenko (205-F-81) of Utah Jazz (USA), Russia
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Power Forward of the Year:
Dirk
Nowitzki (211-F-78) of Dallas Mavericks (USA), Germany
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans Center of the Year:
Pau Gasol
(214-F-80) of Memphis Grizzlies (USA), Spain
Eurobasket.com All-Europeans 1st Team:
Dirk Nowitzki (211-F-78) of Dallas Mavericks (USA), Germany
Pau Gasol (214-F-80) of Memphis Grizzlies (USA), Spain
Tony Parker (183-G-80) of San Antonio Spurs (USA), France
Andrei Kirilenko (205-F-81) of Utah Jazz (USA), Russia
Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76), Indiana Pacers
(NBA), Lithuania
Eurobasket.com
All-Europeans 2nd Team:
Predrag
Stojakovic (207-F-77) of Sacramento Kings (USA), Serbia/Montenegro
Emanuel
Ginobili (198-G-77) of San Antonio Spurs (USA), Italy-Argentina
Zydrunas
Ilgauskas (218-C-75) of Cleveland Cavaliers (USA), Lithuania
Mehmet
Okur (210-C/F-79) of Utah Jazz (USA), Turkey
Arvydas
Macijauskas (192-G-80) of New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets (USA),
Lithuania
Eurobasket.com
All-Europeans Honorable Mention:
Boris
Diaw (203-F/G-82) of Phoenix Suns (USA), France
Dimitris
Diamantidis (196-G-80) of Panathinaikos Athens (GRE), Greece
Nikola
Vujcic (211-C-78) of Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (ISR), Croatia
Luis
Scola (206-F/C-80) of Tau Ceramica Vitoria (ESP), Spain-Argentina
Juan
Carlos Navarro (192-G-80) of Winterthur F.C. Barcelona (ESP), Spain
Nenad
Krstic (213-C-83) of New Jersey Nets (USA), Serbia/Montenegro
Gordan
Giricek (197-G-77) of Utah Jazz (USA), Croatia
Igor
Rakocevic (191-G-78) of Real Madrid (ESP), Serbia/Montenegro
Jaka
Lakovic (182-G-78) of Panathinaikos Athens (GRE), Slovenia
Andres
Nocioni (199-F-79) of Chicago Bulls (USA), Italy-Argentina
Eurobasket.com
European Coach of the Year:
There were 12 coaches, who received votes in this
category
1.
Panagiotis
Yiannakis of Maroussi (GRE) and Greek NT
2. Dusko
Ivanovic of FC Barcelona (ESP), Serbia / Montenegro
3. Pini
Gershon of Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
Sarunas Jasikevicius - Best Player
in Europe in 2005
