The resurgence of Real Madrid, which has consecutive wins against top-ranked teams, with Walter Tavares serving as a sentinel in the paint, shows that preventing certain types of shots is part of a team’s overall defensive effectiveness.
He started the decade as a promising Turkish Airlines EuroLeague rookie and finished it having reached the greatest heights possible in the competition. The latest player to be revealed as a member of the 2010-20 EuroLeague All-Decade team is none other than Nando De Colo!
“101 Greats of European Basketball,” a limited-edition collection published in 2018 by Euroleague Basketball, honors more than six decades’ worth of stars who helped lift the sport on the Old Continent to its present-day heights.
