Overall, in spite of the fact that Euroleague teams seemed unable to threaten their NBA competition within the USA, they demonstrated some of the advantages that make them high-class basketball organizations: Solid fundamentals, outstanding team play and some of the greatest players of FIBA Basketball like Theo Papaloukas, Milos Teodosic, Aleks Maric, Ioannis Bourousis and Sofoklis Schortsianitis to name a few.