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2015 Estonia Pocket Tournament

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Philippines
Estonia
Netherlands
Iceland
 
Pretty much stalking the teams. Here's what I got from wiki

Estonian NT
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Dutch NT
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Icelandic NT
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i hope the game today against netherlands will have fiba livestats.
 
No notable players from all 3 teams but plenty of height

Think Gilas can win all 3 by playing quick
 
This should be a weight loss program for blatche. Focus on conditioning and try not to rely on him to much
 
SthSea22 said:
No notable players from all 3 teams but plenty of height

Think Gilas can win all 3 by playing quick
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They're not noted players from our part of the world , but make no mistake about it , they're good , most of them can play in the Austalian NBL, as an example one of Netherlands former national team players is Josh Duinker , Sydney Kings center and Best Rookie of the NZ NBL this year. he wasn't even good enough to make the Netherlands national team this year. The Estonian captain 6' 8" small forward who playes in the Italian league is a heck of a talent (i don't see a local born Asian player whose as good a SF as this guy. We just are not familiar with them (I don't even know the guys name but seen him play live) . Oh BTW I watched Estonia beat the Senegal World cup team twice a week before last year's World cup. These are good teams
 
If I'm not mistaken, NL's Charlon Kloof was a teammate of Matthew Wright at St Bonaventure. Could score from the outside. Tall PG.
 
the Dutch team that is set to make a FIBA EuroBasket comeback after 26 long years of absence.

The Netherlands, with 15 EuroBasket appearances and one World Cup stint, will showcase 6-foot-11 centers Roeland Schaftenaar, Nicolas de Jong and Henk Norel with guards Yannick Franke, Leon Williams, Worthy de Jong, Charlon Kloof and forwards Mohamed Kherrazi, Ralf de Pagter, Kees Akerboom and Robin Smeulders.

Norel plays for CAI Zaragoza in the Spanish league, Smeulders is a mainstay in the German league, De Jong competes in France, two Dutch players strut their stuffs in the Greek league and the rest in their home league.

Toon Van Helfteren calls the shots for the Dutch, assisted by Sam Jones and Peter van Noord.

In their lone World Cup appearance in 1986, the Dutch placed 14th with a 2-3 win-loss record.
 
SthSea22 said:
No notable players from all 3 teams but plenty of height
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Wouldn't say that about Iceland ;) They has one really tall guy, but he is bench player, comes for couple of minutes. The main threat in the paint should be Netherlands, they are really tough team defensivelly, playin' slower, team bball, has no star player in their squad, but compensates it with good teamwork
 
Mindozas said:
Wouldn't say that about Iceland ;) They has one really tall guy, but he is bench player, comes for couple of minutes. The main threat in the paint should be Netherlands, they are really tough team defensivelly, playin' slower, team bball, has no star player in their squad, but compensates it with good teamwork
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Thanks for the input. What can you say about the Estonian team? Which player/s stand out this year? Do they play very physical and compared to the teams we played at our group at the World Cup, how far is their level?
 
TrueBluePinoy said:
Thanks for the input. What can you say about the Estonian team? Which player/s stand out this year? Do they play very physical and compared to the teams we played at our group at the World Cup, how far is their level?
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From European sides you've played with Croatia and Greece in World Cup, so Estonia is definitely level or two below them, I'd say Estonia and Iceland are worst teams in upcoming Eurobasket (we have 24 there), I'd rate Netherlands as a bit better, but surely not close to Greece or Croatia too. Goin' back to Estonia, they doesn't have some one true leader like you guys have with Blatche, no star players on European level, most players plays in local league, which is poor in European standarts. They has quite balanced roster, no stand-out position or smth, one day you can expect danger from SG like Veidemann, other from C Talts, but I'd say their main strenght comes from SF/PF position with Vene, Kangur. Regarding their playin' style, they aren't very physicall, quite poor at rebounding and tends to shoot many 3s, even their centers loves to shoot them
 
Mindozas said:
From European sides you've played with Croatia and Greece in World Cup, so Estonia is definitely level or two below them, I'd say Estonia and Iceland are worst teams in upcoming Eurobasket (we have 24 there), I'd rate Netherlands as a bit better, but surely not close to Greece or Croatia too. Goin' back to Estonia, they doesn't have some one true leader like you guys have with Blatche, no star players on European level, most players plays in local league, which is poor in European standarts. They has quite balanced roster, no stand-out position or smth, one day you can expect danger from SG like Veidemann, other from C Talts, but I'd say their main strenght comes from SF/PF position with Vene, Kangur. Regarding their playin' style, they aren't very physicall, quite poor at rebounding and tends to shoot many 3s
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This should give Gilas a good workout (win or lose). Playing against a team that shoots a lot of threes should help prepare us against Taiwan, S. Korea and China.
 
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