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for those who do not know what we are talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVxkbiikaQ#t=107
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVxkbiikaQ#t=107
Eurobasket 2013
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MVP
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if he signed with GSW he can't be spending any more time in Europe. He will be in NBA this season.
Results of the first day.
Question is there anybody good enough to challenge Spain? Good thing they are not full strength either or this might be a laugher. Greece with a resounding win, but against Sweden so hard to take much out of that.
Spain's win against Croatia might be deceptive. Turkey lost to Finland today but won against Croatia 81-52 just 10 days ago. They are horrible right now.
France, Greece, Serbia, Lithuania all can beat Spain. Maybe even Slovenia with the support of the crowd.
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France almost always underperforms as we know. Also they are missing almost all their good big men.
They already started to underperform with Germany loss. But with the tournament structure anything can happen.
Yep, there are a lot of absents this year. Too many actually.
France: Noah, Fournier, Léo Westermann, Seraphin, R. Gobert, R. Turiaf, Ali Traore, Pietrus, Beaubois, Mahinmi
Greece: Koufos, Calathes, Schortsanitis
Italy: Galinari, Hackett, Bargnani, Mancinelli, Angelo Gigli
Serbia: Teodosić, M. Mačvan, Erceg, Micov, Veličković, Savanović, Birčević, Lucic
Germany: Nowitzki, Kaman, T.Olbrecht, D. Shroeder, E.Harris
Slovenia: Lorbek, Brezec, Udrih
Croatia: Planinić, M. Banić, M. Popović, K. Lončar, R. Stipčević, Stanko Barac, Marko Tomas
Lithuania: Jasikevicius, Jasaitis, P.Jankunas
Great Britain: Deng, B. Gordon, Freeland, Mensah-Bonsu
Ukrain: A.Len, O.Pecherov, K. Fesenko, S.Lischuk
Georgia: Z.Pachulia, T.Shengelia
Russia: Kirilenko, Mozgov, S. Bykov, Khryapa, S. Kaun, Vorontsevich, Bykov
Montenegro: Todorović, N. Peković, Dragičević
Latvia: Almighty Biedrins, D. Bertans
Spain: P. Gasol, S. Ibaka, Navarro, F. Reyes, N. Mirotić
Turkey: Enes Kanter, Furkan Aldemir, K. Tunçeri, Ömer Onan, İlkan Karaman, Cenk Akyol
Some of these absents are not big names but most of them are important players and had key roles on their teams respectively.
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Latvia wins again, this time a 1pt win thriller vs Montenegro. Croatia escapes with 1 pt win vs Georgia on Tomic last second basket. He finished with 7pts, 2reb, 7ast. Ukraine beats Israel. Finland is being nice surprise so far, second win in the tournament already, this time over neighbours Sweden by 21 pts.
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Looks like Dario Saric finally show the flashes what hes capable of with 6/6 on the floor, 12 points in 16 minutes.
Finland probably got the best fan support so far in the tournament and having a good guard like Koponen is a huge advantage and taking the team a couple of steps further in this tournament. Other players know their roles well and trying not to go beyond that and thats pretty enough for beating unorganized teams like Turkey or Sweden who is relying on individual performances of Jeffrey Taylor and Jonas Jerebko. I think they might make a surprise against Russia too.
Finland probably got the best fan support so far in the tournament and having a good guard like Koponen is a huge advantage and taking the team a couple of steps further in this tournament. Other players know their roles well and trying not to go beyond that and thats pretty enough for beating unorganized teams like Turkey or Sweden who is relying on individual performances of Jeffrey Taylor and Jonas Jerebko. I think they might make a surprise against Russia too.
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7 assists by Tomic? Damn. Wish he would bring his *** over already.
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Thanks for the summaries, all. Will try to rep when 24 hours are up
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But besides passing he was not that impressive. Was totally outmatched against M.Gasol in game vs Spain and would play outside of the paint in NBA most of the time. Latvia has no quality bigs and yet he grabbed only 2 reb. Since he is neither 3 point threat nor good paint protector/shot blocker I do not see him helping Jazz in any significant way. I think Gobert has way more to offer then Tomic IMHO.