The EuroLeague season starts with 20 teams, and in the end, only eight of them will be part of the playoffs.

EHCB president Dimitris Itoudis addressed this issue in an interview posted on the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board website and also expressed the coaches’ general consensus about what should be done in the future.

Here’s the full interview.

Q: What does a 20-team EuroLeague mean for a coach?

It means more obligations, more double weeks, more travel, especially for Hapoel Tel Aviv, since we play our home games in Bulgaria. As the president of the EHCB, I believe we should examine the competitive aspect of the league more closely. In the past, when we were 16 teams, eight made it to the playoffs, so that’s 50% of the teams, and it approaches the percentage of the NBA teams that ar

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