EuroLeague teams have clearly increased their pace this season, but when their tempo is converted to 48 minutes and compared to NBA standards, it raises one key question: how close are they really to matching the speed of the NBA game?
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When we talk about the two defining traits of modern basketball, there's no doubt that pace and space stand at the very top.
If anything truly captures the direction in which today's game is moving, it's those two concepts.
Historically, the EuroLeague has always been a bit more conservative in adopting these trends compared to the NBA.
Most stylistic shifts in global basketball start in the NBA, while European basketball, and especially the EuroLeague, tends to follow at its own rhythm, sometimes only slightly behind, sometimes by a wider margin.
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This season, however, the shift is undeniable.
Paris Basketball currently plays the fastest basketball in Europe, leading the league with a pace of
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Vukašin Nedeljković
Vukašin played basketball competitively in his youth, and now contributes to Synergy Sports Technology and Sportradar regarding basketball analysis. He also has experience working as a journalist in Serbia and is passionate about writing basketball articles mainly focused on basketball X's and O's.
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