By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
The 2018-19 All-EuroLeague Second Team as announced by EuroLeague on Friday, highlights some of the best performers of the current season, with one of the most consistent honorees of recent years being joined this time by four players receiving the distinction for the first time.
Included on the second team, which was voted for by fans and accredited media members, are this season’s Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy winner, Mike James of AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan, and the EuroLeague Best Defender, Walter Tavares of Real Madrid. They are joined by two more newcomers to the All-EuroLeague team, Vasilije Micic of Anadolu Efes Istanbul and Victor Poirier of KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, and by CSKA Moscow‘s Nando De Colo, whose fifth All-EuroLeague selection ties him for the fourth-most such honors in competition history.
Media voting counted for 75% and fan voting 25% of the totals used to determine the All-EuroLeague selections. The All-EuroLeague Second Team is the last among a series of honors announced this week. The EuroLeague MVP award will be named at the 2019 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy and the Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year are post-season awards.
Nando De Colo – CSKA Moscow
Nando De Colo has earned his fifth consecutive All-EuroLeague team nomination. The French guard, who ranked fourth in the league in scoring with 14.5 points per game, tied for a competition-best three MVP of the Round honors. De Colo was a single shot away from his fourth straight 50-40-90 season (50% shooting on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws) and also contributed 3.4 assists and 1.0 steals for a performance index rating of 16.0, which was eighth in the league. De Colo’s five games with a PIR in the 30s was second-best this season, and two of them came on the road in the playoffs to lift CSKA back to the Final Four at the expense of KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. He ranked second in the playoffs in scoring (18.0) and third in PIR (20.8).