Summer 2015: FIBA games of Utah Jazz players
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Tomorrow's games
Germany vs Spain 945MT. Most likely unless Germany can shock Spain Germany and Dirk's last game.
Israel vs France 1MT Israel has been playing quite well so this is most definitely not a gimee for France. Casspi and Mekel lead Israel.
Serbia vs Italy 6:30 MT. Italy could actually win the group with a W but I think they have expended to much energy in their games to beat the best team of the tournament so far.
Czech Republic vs Lithuania This is for the winner of the group. Czechs have been playing surprisingly good with Lithuanians have struggles. Satoransky to Vesely has been deadly this tournament.
Only two teams Iceland and Russia are definitely out so tomorrow could get pretty wild.
Germany vs Spain 945MT. Most likely unless Germany can shock Spain Germany and Dirk's last game.
Israel vs France 1MT Israel has been playing quite well so this is most definitely not a gimee for France. Casspi and Mekel lead Israel.
Serbia vs Italy 6:30 MT. Italy could actually win the group with a W but I think they have expended to much energy in their games to beat the best team of the tournament so far.
Czech Republic vs Lithuania This is for the winner of the group. Czechs have been playing surprisingly good with Lithuanians have struggles. Satoransky to Vesely has been deadly this tournament.
Only two teams Iceland and Russia are definitely out so tomorrow could get pretty wild.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
He had a shoulder injury his final year in Atlanta. Briefly rumored that SA was interested in him, but nothing came of it last year. He's a little long in the tooth (30 years old) and commits a lot of fouls per 36.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
Thanks for the correction. Also, Burks is a much better FT shooter than Millsap and Cotton is much better than Exum was. So Utah's FT% should increase just based on minutes going to better shooters.
That's the thing with Fiba ball : player movement and rim attacking are not encouraged by the set up : ball movement and shooting is at a premium. There is a reason why technically savvy stiffs are excellent in a Fiba environment but struggle in the NBA : players like Antoine Rigaudeau were FIBA legends but sucked in the NBA, greek gods like Spanoulis and such... Lauvergne is far from being a stiff though, but Gobert's game doesn't translate "that well" to FIBA ball. Sure defensively he is a freak and still has massive impact, but the whole "De Andre Jordan offensive skillset" is less interesting, whereas a 5 who can shoot (and even better when he can shoot the 3 !!!) is extremely helpful. This is why losing Ajinca sucked for the french team, because his offensive skillset would have been very very helpful and would have stretched the floor for the rest of the team. This also illustrate why a playe like De Colo is being very efficient whereas more nba typed "rim attacking" players like Fournier and even Parker (although he is becoming less and less of a rim attacking player) aren't being as efficient.
Still Lauvergne did make a bloody big difference offensive at the end of the game, there is no denying it, and it doesn't take anything away from Gobert's defensive game changing abilities
Miggs
Well-Known Member
Nice. I'm hoping Hayward gets to the line a little bit more (like 0.5-1.0 more times) and that Favors does as well.