Euro-Basket Quarter Final Predictions!

[NCJazz]

Great move by Koufos on Batum. To bad he did not do that for us to often.

 

[MVP]

well, greece were leading 45-40 and let France to go on 9-0 run.. what a choke.

 

[aybars]

Spain by 15
Lithuania by 12
France by 8
Russia by 6

Bullseye,congratulations

 

[aybars]

Well at least today LT beat Slovenia 80-77 and booked ticket to Olympic qualifying tourney. With healthy Kleiza and 1 more year of experience and hopefuly added strength they should be able to win one of those three berth... somehow teams like Angola, Nigeria, NZ, Venesuela, Dominican R and Puerto Rico or whoever will come from Asia do not look that dangerous...but neither did Macedonia and look what happened. And maybe it will be time to payback Macedonia as they are no way in hell winning against Spain. JV had 8pts, 6reb,2ast, 1stl, 1blk and 1to and no fouls in 13 min of play.

he did good today,i saw the game

 

[MVP]

Russia looks good so far.

 

[MVP]

Russia dispatches Serbia 77-67. AK had great 4th quarter... 14pts, 11reb, 6ast, 4stl and I think 2blk as well. Russia-France next.

 

[sepanol]

so who won, i messed up in france game i guess

 

[MVP]

France won by 8 pts vs Greece.

 

[sepanol]

France won by 8 pts vs Greece.

haha, no i ment the predictions. Anyway i will predict, Russia will beat france by 2 and spain will win by 10

 

[MVP]

They shot terribly from the perimeter. I only watched the last 5 minutes, but they went into a Turkey like game plan of the guards taking bad,contested 3 pointers instead of going to the basket.

I rewatched the game and they lost in last minute. In fact they gave a huge gift to Macedonia and McCalleb had nothing to do with it. Three most experienced players of LT team made three crucial mistakes after they were leading 65-61 with 1 min to go. Kaukenas rushed the shot with bunch of time on the clock, then after Macedonia cut down to 2 LT had 35 seconds and possesion of the ball and Jasikevicius tripped and fell into out of bounds - Macedonia not able to score, Songaila grabs rebound with 21 second left and for some stupidest reason which is imopossible to understand for such an experience player he decided to get rid of the ball instead of waiting for Macedonia to foul him... why on earth you would like to pass right away after you secured rebound with 21 second left when you are 80% FT shooter and your team up by 2??? Hell knows what he was thinking there but he decided to pass across the court to Kaukenas who was not expecting it and the pass was bad anyway and it went out of bounds to Macedonia... another gift. Then Macedonia inbounds to corner of the court and again another experienced player Kaukenas runs and double teams somebody absolutely unnecessary in the corner instead of stying with his man... pass goes from double team to Iliewski, open three, boom, biggest upset in Eurobasket this year. The fact that Jasaitis missed open 18ft jumper at the end was irrelevant, LT was up by 4 with 1 min left, had ball in their hands and choked. And it was experienced, most trusted players who had brain farts and could not close the game...unbelievable loss I must say.

 

[MVP]

Man, Macedonia giving mightly Spain all they can handle, tied in 3quarter. Lol, now that would be funny if Macedonia would win.

 

[sepanol]

macedonia did well done in this tournament. They are like montepaschi siena in europe (mccaleb's team) , they have mccaleb and very good role players, they make good defense and it wasnt a surprise for me they beat lithuania. Just i guess i overrated russia a little bit, they arent better than France. Anyway probably Spain is gonna beat france too and Turkey will be the only team who beat spain throughout the tournament , how nice it is )