"European basketball is different but the ball is the same," Tapscott said.

He will cover Israeli and European basketball in a regular column.

"Maybe that's more like, European basketball is getting closer to Americans."

"We have had somewhat similar situations in European basketball before," he said.

Fasoulas is considered to be one of the best big men in European basketball in the last 20 years.

Their play, especially defensively, will be closely scrutinized, since the emphasis in European basketball has been on scoring rather than defense.

A big surprise to the world of European basketball.

He accepted and began a long and very successful career in European basketball.

The high school and college game do not use this rule, nor does European basketball.

The game could have served as an advertisement for European basketball.