Eurobasket 2013

[MVP]

Well, Lithuania's famous defense disappearing at worst time. France with 50 point half and hitting everything from everywhere. I don't see Lithuania making comeback. Oh well, silver medal is great for little country as well.

 

[MVP]

To let teams go on 19-3 run in international basketball it is pretty much digging own grave.

 

[BTP]

To let teams go on 19-3 run in international basketball it is pretty much digging own grave.

True dat!
But my local team also made a strong comeback in the 2nd half in an exhibition game. I hope Lithuania can do the same. Would be a shame if I would turn it off bored since a couple of their fans are pretty hot.

 

[ema]

To let teams go on 19-3 run in international basketball it is pretty much digging own grave.

Agreed. But Lithuania is one of the very few teams that can make a miracle comeback at this level. Not much hope, but lets wait and see.

 

[MVP]

This loss is on LT coach and their game plan. Terrible execution and no adjustments, no use of big guys on offense at all, trying to win shooting from outside only?

 

[ema]

Kalnietis you ****ing idiot!

 

[ema]

This loss is on LT coach and their game plan. Terrible execution and no adjustments, no use of big guys on offense at all, trying to win shooting from outside only?

This is what I was gonna write exactly. Horrible 3rd quarter five from coach. Macuilus, Kleiza, JV are all on the bench and he is playing with Javtokas who have almost zero offense. Plus he let Kalnietis to ruin the 3rd quarter on his own.

JV got the first offensive rebound of the team in the 4th quarter btw. Why the coach even bothered to play him that late, idiot.

Not to mention to the horrible defense against Diaw, lastly.

 

[MVP]

This is what I was gonna write exactly. Horrible 3rd quarter five from coach. Macuilus, Kleiza, JV are all on the bench and he is playing with Javtokas who have almost zero offense. Plus he let Kalnietis to ruin the 3rd quarter on his own.

JV got the first offensive rebound of the team in the 4th quarter btw. Why the coach even bothered to play him that late, idiot.

Not to mention to the horrible defense against Diaw, lastly.

yeah, coach's love for veterans in Europe is sometimes hard to understand. I think it saved us frustration to not watch Enes sit on the Turkey's bench while Tomjanovic would have played Erden, Ozul or some other veteran guys infront of him.

 

[Trollolololol]

It was the weakest eurobasket ever.
Btw France deserve it.
It's funnny no celebration here in france,no horn... lol.

 

[ema]

It was the weakest eurobasket ever.
Btw France deserve it.

That's a good summary of the all tournament.

 

[BTP]

It was the weakest eurobasket ever.
Btw France deserve it.
It's funnny no celebration here in france,no horn... lol.

Honestly I do not think of it that way. It's just that we have become accustomed to the European top talent out there. 20 years back there were no such top talent like Parker, Gasol(s), Nowitzki. Thus Eurobasket was weaker as a whole. It's just the weakest(most meaningless) Eurobasket of the last 6 or 8 years or something, since Pau and Dirk went AWOL. The rest was right there.

 

[MVP]

Honestly I do not think of it that way. It's just that we have become accustomed to the European top talent out there. 20 years back there were no such top talent like Parker, Gasol(s), Nowitzki. Thus Eurobasket was weaker as a whole. It's just the weakest(most meaningless) Eurobasket of the last 6 or 8 years or something, since Pau and Dirk went AWOL. The rest was right there.

I agree that it was one of the weaker championships as numerous great players chose not to participate. With all due respect to Gasol and Dirk we can't forget about such European NBA players like AK, Ibaka, Galinari, Bargnani, Kanter, Pekovic, Mozgov or European stars like Navaro who did not participate for one or the other reason. It is impossible to get all of the best players to play but this one had unusually large number of stars skipping it. Lets hope next years WC will be better quality.