All-EuroLeague Second Team announced – TalkBasket.net

Here is your All-EuroLeague Second Team for the 2021-22 season! These five stars were selected through a voting process that included the media, fans and EuroLeague team captains and head coaches.

The players who made the cut played major roles for their teams this season and most of them are not strangers to such accolades. Only one of them is a first-time All-EuroLeague selection. Both Vasilije Micic of Anadolu Efes Istanbul and Vladimir Lucic of FC Bayern Munich were membered of the first team last season. AX Armani Exchange Milan forward Shavon Shields returns to the second team for the second year running. Kostas Sloukas was a first-teamer in 2018-19. Panathinaikos OPAP Athens center Georgios Papagiannis is the only newcomer to this team. Congratulations to all of them.

Kostas Sloukas, Olympiacos Piraeus

As Olympiacos Piraeus’s floor general and emotional leader Kostas Sloukas was often the difference-maker during a campaign that saw the Reds finish second in the regular season before ousting AS Monaco in a five-game playoff series to reach the Final Four for the first time since 2017. Coming off the bench in all but one of his 35 appearances, Sloukas ranked fifth in the league in assists (4.9 apg.) and averaged a career-high 11.9 points per game. He also set career-highs in three-pointers and free throws made with 59 and 86, respectively, and counting. Sloukas buried a game-winning jumper with 2 seconds remaining to sink Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in Round 7 and beat the buzzer in overtime to defeat Anadolu Efes Istanbul in Round 23. The veteran playmaker stepped things up another notch during the postseason. Sloukas finished fourth in the EuroLeague Playoffs in average PIR (18.2), seventh in scoring (14.8) and eighth in assists (3.8 apg.). He made multiple three-pointers in all five playoff games. For the three-time EuroLeague champion, this is the second All-EuroLeague honor.