1988 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four

1988 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four

Tournament details
Arena	Flanders Expo Ghent, Belgium
Dates	April 1988
Final positions
Champions	Tracer Milano (3rd title)
Runners-up	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Third place	Partizan
Fourth place	Aris
Awards and statistics
MVP	Bob McAdoo

Main article: 1987–88 FIBA European Champions Cup

The 1988 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 1987–88 FIBA European Champions Cup, and the first one with the FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four format since the 1967 edition of the European Cup.

Tracer Milano won its third title.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	Aris	82
	Tracer Milano	87
					Tracer Milano	90
					Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	84
	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	87
	Partizan	82
					Third place
					Aris	93
					Partizan	105

Semifinals

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Partizan – Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv

5 April 1988 18:30

Report

Partizan	82–87	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Scoring by half: 44–43, 38–44
Pts: Grbović, Divac 19		Pts: Magee 31

Flanders Expo, Ghent Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Lubomir Kotleba (CZE), Vicente Sanchís (SPA)

Aris – Tracer Milano

5 April 1988 20:30

Report

Aris	82–87	Tracer Milano
Scoring by half: 45–45, 37–42
Pts: Gallis 28		Pts: McAdoo 39

Flanders Expo, Ghent Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Mikhail Davidov (USSR), Wieslaw Zych (POL)

Third-place game

7 April 1988 19:00

Report

Partizan	105–93	Aris
Scoring by half: 48–39, 57–54
Pts: Divac 31		Pts: Gallis 39

Flanders Expo, Ghent Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Lubomir Kotleba (CZE), Vicente Sanchís (SPA)

Final

7 April 1988 20:30

Report

Tracer Milano	90–84	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Scoring by half: 52–41, 38–43
Pts: McAdoo 25 Rebs: McAdoo 12 Asts: Premier 3		Pts: Jamchy 24 Rebs: Barlow 14 Asts: Sims 5

Flanders Expo, Ghent Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Mikhail Davidov (USSR), Wieslaw Zych (POL)

Tracer Milano

Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv

Starters: P R A PG 8 Mike D'Antoni 17 2 1 SG 14 Piero Montecchi 8 2 0 SF 7 Riccardo Pittis 8 3 1 PF 15 Bob McAdoo 25 12 1 C 11 Dino Meneghin 5 1 0 Reserves: P R A C 5 Fausto Bargna DNP SF 6 Massimiliano Aldi 7 0 0 PF 9 Mario Governa DNP SG 10 Roberto Premier 3 1 0 PF 13 Rickey Brown 17 8 4 Head coach: Franco Casalini

1987–88 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions Tracer Milano 3rd Title

Starters: P R A PG 7 Motti Aroesti 0 4 0 SG 4 Willie Sims 15 3 0 SF 12 Doron Jamchi 24 3 0 PF 15 Ken Barlow 21 14 1 C 13 Kevin Magee 13 6 1 Reserves: P R A SF 5 Motti Daniel 2 3 0 SG 9 Miki Berkovich 3 1 0 PG 10 Hen Lippin 0 0 0 C 14 Itzhak Cohen 6 7 0 Head coach: Ralph Klein

Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four MVP

• Bob McAdoo ( Tracer Milano)

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

• Bob McAdoo ( Tracer Milano)

External links

• Boxscores at Euroleague.net
• Linguasport