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[1/4 finals - Day 2] Italy - Lithuania

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[1/4 finals - Day 2] Italy - Lithuania

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Noncom said:
Italy - the fiercest enemy of Lithuania in quarterfinals.
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Not that it matters, but just curious, why is that? I mean exactly 1/4 :) We only played them once in 1/4 if I recall correctly, 2 years ago, that's all. Then close win in 1/8 in 2006 with Basile missing free-throws with clock ran-out and of course, that nightmarish night with 18/28 Italian triples in Athens 2004 semifinal, potentially the biggest, most important and surely most painful defeat in our bball history
 
Mindozas said:
Not that it matters, but just curious, why is that? I mean exactly 1/4 :) We only played them once in 1/4 if I recall correctly, 2 years ago, that's all. Then close win in 1/8 in 2006 with Basile missing free-throws with clock ran-out and of course, that nightmarish night with 18/28 Italian triples in Athens 2004 semifinal, potentially the biggest, most important and surely most painful defeat in our bball history
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Oh it was a semifinal in 2004 Athens.
That was very painful.
We could have got gold that year.
 
Noncom said:
Oh it was a semifinal in 2004 Athens.
That was very painful.
We could have got gold that year.
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You could have contested with Argentina for gold to be precise. Imo more chances for gold you had in 2000 against crappy USA team that won it in the end (as we Serbians would say 'na pravdi Boga').
 
In 2004 we actually won against USA.
However we were destroyed by italians.
Anyway, we didn't get the gold and that's it. It's a lesson that italians cannot be underestimated.
 
vuxsa said:
You could have contested with Argentina for gold to be precise. Imo more chances for gold you had in 2000 against crappy USA team that won it in the end (as we Serbians would say 'na pravdi Boga').
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2004 feels more painful cause we had a team to win it all and we were proving that on court, playin' arguably the best bball in tournament and when USA lost vs Argentina in 1st semi, it felt like - that's it, nothing can stop us now. But as it was admitted by some players later, it played a bad trick for a team too, especially after a good start, early 10+ pts lead, Italy hit back at us strongly, with avalanche of triples, we were simply not prepared, especially coaching stuff was non-existant, I'm still blaming Sireika for this the most (some players too). That was a huge shock for us all. In 2000 we had a chance, but none really believed that we can do good at all, especially when we were without Sabas and Karnisovas, two of our key players and after losing opening game vs the same Italy 49-50 or so... It looked terrible. Then it went better and better, loss vs USA was bitter, but bronze washed away it quite quickly, 2004 disaster couldn't be washed up by anything...
Heh, how many haters Italian NT had back then, especially Basile. I remember when Zalgiris was about to sign him after few years, some people still didn't want him due to that game, even tho he was still elite shooter :)
 
Bargnani is able to produce a star like game.
Even though his work ethics are not the best, sometimes he has those games he's unstoppable.
It will be a very interesting game for Toronto fans. Seeing their two bigs, who both received massive investment, play and decide who is better for now.
 
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Noncom said:
Bargnani is able to produce a star like game.
Even though his work ethics are not the best, sometimes he has those games he's unstoppable.
It will be a very interesting game for Toronto fans. Seeing their two bigs, who both received massive investment, play and decide who is better for now.
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Bargnani has left Toronto 2 years ago.
 
Modis said:
Yeh lets start the excuses.:D If we lose. If only Motiejunas Pocius Kleiza would have played ;)
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Motiejunas is trully a miss.
However, Kleiza is not really the same player now, we were used to in championships.
 
Noncom said:
Motiejunas is trully a miss.
However, Kleiza is not really the same player now, we were used to in championships.
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yeh I know. But still much better then Milaknis, Gailius ,or Jankunas even. Kleiza will always be Kleiza. When he feels the game he can play like Maciulis yesterday.
 
thegreekmeister said:
Plus they do not play fair by having American to add extra guns. Shame that it came to that even for them.
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American? If you're talking about Daniel Hackett you're really wrong. He is the son of Rudy Hackett, an american player who married an italian woman, and he is born and raised in Italy, moving to USA at the high school age I think mainly for basketball reasons (going to college etc...). He probably speaks better italian that english, he learned here how to play and love the game and he is a diehard fan of Scavolini Pesaro.
 
Hepcat said:
But how about Puccini and fettucini? Is he a fan of those as well?

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No idea sorry, I know him only basketball-wise. And I also don't know what fettucinI are, but nice rhyme. FettuccinE, instead, are really good with the right sauce, believe me.
 
Modis said:
yeh I know. But still much better then Milaknis, Gailius ,or Jankunas even. Kleiza will always be Kleiza. When he feels the game he can play like Maciulis yesterday.
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In what reality is Kleiza much better than Jankunas? This is year 2015 people, not 2010.
 
omgsomuchpotential said:
In what reality is Kleiza much better than Jankunas? This is year 2015 people, not 2010.
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Jankunas is much better right now and it's not even close... we suffer that kind of players with inside-out game. Him and Maciulis will be dangerous...
 
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