The 2013 Euroleague Final Four coaching clinic took place Saturday afternoon at the London Soccerdome, just outside The O2, featuring Italian national team coach Simone Pianigiani, and Donnie Nelson, Dallas Mavericks GM and President of Basketball Operations. Among others, in attendance were former Euroleague champ as a Panathinaikos assistant coach, Dimitirs Itoudis, NIJT Team England head coach Steve Bucknall and technical director of UAE Basketball Association Mounir Ben Slimane. Both Pianigiani and Nelson conducted 60-minute sessions and answered questions from the audience. Pianigiani’s session was titled “Pick-and-Roll Offense” while Nelson discussed “Fast Break and Early Offense.” Nelson compared the different styles of basketball on either side of the Atlantic. “There are things in European basketball that are better than in the United States,” Nelson explained. “The NBA got away from being a five-player game and developed a star-mentality, while if you look at the Final Four games on Friday, the ball was moving. It is how game should be played.” Nelson used the NIJT Team England members in his session and got some on-court help from Alvydas Pazdrazdis, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist with Lithuania. Nelson’s involvement in the clinic is another example of Euroleague Basketball and the NBA working closely together to promote the game of basketball.