# 2004–05 Euroleague

The 2004–05 Euroleague was the fifth season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 48th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2004–05 season featured 24 competing teams, from 13 countries. The final of the competition was held in Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow, Russia, with the defending champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv, defeating Tau Cerámica by a score of 90-78.

## Team allocation
### Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.
| | Teams entering in this round |
| Regular season (24 teams) | 5 best-placed teams from: Spain 4 best-placed teams from: Italy 2 best-placed teams from: Turkey The champion teams from: Croatia France Germany Greece Israel Lithuania Poland Russia Slovenia Yugoslavia 3 Wild Cards |
| Top 16 (16 teams) | 3 group winners from the regular season 3 group runners-up from the regular season 3 group third-placed teams from the regular season 3 group fourth-placed teams from the regular season 3 group fifth-placed teams from the regular season 1 group sixth placed team from the regular season |
| Quarterfinals (8 teams) | 4 group winners from the top 16 4 group runners-up from the top 16 |

### Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders)
* 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
* WC: Wild card
Regular season :
| Winterthur Barcelona (1st) | Climamio Bologna (2nd) | Pau-Orthez (1st) | Maccabi Elite (1st)$^{TH}$ |
| Adecco Estudiantes (2nd) | Benetton Treviso (3rd) | Adecco ASVEL (11th)$^{WC}$ | Žalgiris (1st) |
| Unicaja Málaga (3rd) | Scavolini Pesaro (4th) | Efes Pilsen (1st) | Prokom Trefl Sopot (1st) |
| Tau Cerámica (4th) | Panathinaikos (1st) | Ülker (2nd) | CSKA Moscow (1st) |
| Real Madrid (5th) | AEK (4th)$^{WC}$ | Cibona VIP (1st) | Union Olimpija (1st) |
| Montepaschi Siena (1st) | Olympiacos (8th)$^{WC}$ | Opel Skyliners (1st) | Partizan Pivara MB (1st) |

## Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
* Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
* Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
* Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
* Points scored in all group matches
* Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Key to colors :
* Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16
| Group A Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Climamio Bologna 1412211991103+96 2. Efes Pilsen 141221080934+146 3. Cibona VIP 148611721037+47 4. Real Madrid 147710561020+36 5. Prokom Trefl Sopot 14779811028-47 6. Adecco Estudiantes 1441010741109-35 7. Olympiacos 1441010171144-127 8. Partizan Pivara MB 1421210301146-116 | Group B Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 1410413241189+135 2. Winterthur FC Barcelona 149510711045+26 3. Žalgiris 148611851180+5 4. AEK 147711021106-4 5. Montepaschi Siena 14771105104956 6. Scavolini Pesaro 147711161168-52 7. Union Olimpija 146810401058-18 8. Adecco ASVEL 142129731121-148 |

### Group C

| | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
| 1. | CSKA Moscow | 14 | 14 | 0 | 1191 | 1074 | +117 |
| 2. | Panathinaikos | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1126 | 1061 | +65 |
| 3. | Benetton Treviso | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1039 | 986 | +53 |
| 4. | Ülker | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1030 | 987 | +43 |
| 5. | Tau Cerámica | 14 | 6 | 8 | 1149 | 1146 | +3 |
| 6. | Unicaja Málaga | 14 | 6 | 8 | 1030 | 1024 | +6 |
| 7. | Opel Skyliners | 14 | 4 | 10 | 996 | 1137 | -141 |
| 8. | Pau-Orthez | 14 | 3 | 11 | 1070 | 1216 | -146 |

## Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.
The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.
The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:
Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
* CSKA Moscow, Climamio Bologna, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Efes Pilsen
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
* FC Barcelona, Panathinaikos, Benetton Treviso, Cibona
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
* Žalgiris, Ülker, Real Madrid, AEK
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
* Tau Cerámica, Montepaschi Siena, Prokom Trefl Sopot, Scavolini Pesaro
Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:
* No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
* No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
* If there was a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.
Key to colors :
* Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals
| Group D Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 660513427+86 2. Ülker 633434469-35 3. Montepaschi Siena 624470462+8 4. Cibona VIP 615430489−59 | Group E Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. CSKA Moscow 651515450+65 2. Scavolini Pesaro 633467492-25 3. Winterthur FC Barcelona 624463478−15 4. Real Madrid 624477502−25 |
| Group F Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Panathinaikos 642480450+30 2. Tau Cerámica 642526483+43 3 Climamio Bologna 642471479−8 4. Žalgiris 606457522−65 | Group G Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Benetton Treviso 642447385+62 2. Efes Pilsen 642424377+47 3. AEK 642436427+9 4. Prokom Trefl Sopot 606387505−118 |

## Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2–0 | Scavolini Pesaro | 88–60 | 103–100 | 0 |
| CSKA Moscow | 2–0 | Ülker | 88–74 | 82–64 | 0 |
| Panathinaikos | 2–1 | Efes Pilsen | 102–96 | 63–75 | 84–76 |
| Benetton Treviso | 0–2 | Tau Cerámica | 59–98 | 64–66 | 0 |

## Final four

| Semifinals 6 May | Semifinals 6 May | Final 8 May | Final 8 May |
| Maccabi Elite | 91 |
| Panathinaikos | 82 | | |
| Panathinaikos | 82 | Maccabi Elite | 90 |
| | | Tau Cerámica | 78 |
| CSKA Moscow | 78 | Tau Cerámica | 78 |
| Tau Cerámica | 85 | | |
| Tau Cerámica | 85 | Third place | Third place |
| | | CSKA Moscow | 91 |
| | | Panathinaikos | 94 |

## Individual statistics
### Rating

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | PIR |
| 1. | Anthony Parker | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 24 | 597 | 24.88 |
| 2. | Tanoka Beard | Žalgiris | 20 | 439 | 21.95 |
| 3. | Chris Williams | Frankfurt Skyliners | 14 | 301 | 21.50 |

### Points

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | PPG |
| 1. | Charles Smith | Scavolini Pesaro | 20 | 413 | 20.65 |
| 2. | Chris Williams | Frankfurt Skyliners | 14 | 265 | 18.93 |
| 3. | Tanoka Beard | Žalgiris | 20 | 360 | 18.00 |

### Rebounds

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | RPG |
| 1. | Tanoka Beard | Žalgiris | 20 | 212 | 10.60 |
| 2. | Rubén Garcés | Adecco Estudiantes | 14 | 121 | 8.64 |
| 3. | Hüseyin Beşok | ASVEL | 14 | 112 | 8.00 |

### Assists

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | APG |
| 1. | Mire Chatman | Pau-Orthez | 14 | 87 | 6.21 |
| 2. | Šarūnas Jasikevičius | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 24 | 128 | 5.33 |
| 3. | Nikos Zisis | AEK | 20 | 88 | 4.40 |

### Other Stats

| Category | Name | Team | Games | Stat |
| Steals per game | Chris Williams | Frankfurt Skyliners | 14 | 2.79 |
| Blocks per game | Eurelijus Žukauskas | Ülker | 22 | 1.82 |
| Turnovers per game | Mire Chatman | Pau-Orthez | 14 | 3.64 |
| Fouls drawn per game | Jorge Garbajosa | Unicaja Málaga | 13 | 6.54 |
| Minutes per game | Pascal Roller | Frankfurt Skyliners | 14 | 36:38 |
| 2FG% | Fran Vázquez | Unicaja Málaga | 14 | 0.701 |
| 3FG% | Antonio Granger | CSKA Moscow | 23 | 0.483 |
| FT% | Uroš Tripković | Partizan | 14 | 0.968 |

## Awards
### Euroleague MVP

* Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )

### Final Four MVP

* Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )

### Finals Top Scorer

* Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )

### All-Euroleague First Team 2004-05

* Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )
* Arvydas Macijauskas ( Tau Cerámica )
* Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )
* David Andersen ( CSKA Moscow )
* Nikola Vujčić ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )

### All-Euroleague Second Team 2004–05

* Jaka Lakovič ( Panathinaikos )
* Marcus Brown ( CSKA Moscow )
* Charles Smith ( Scavolini Pesaro )
* Luis Scola ( Tau Cerámica )
* Tanoka Beard ( Žalgiris )

### Rising Star

* Erazem Lorbek ( Climamio Bologna )

### Best Defender

* Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

### Alphonso Ford Top Scorer

* Charles Smith ( Scavolini Pesaro )

### Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year

* Pini Gershon ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv )

### Club Executive of the Year

* Jose Antonio Querejeta ( Tau Cerámica )

## References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format