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Acropolis tournament '2009 including GRE, RUS, SRB and LTU

sashikas2

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23rd Acropolis tournament starts today in Athens. Four of the Eurobasket participants will be competing against each other for the trophy.

The schedule of the tournament:

August 24th
Lithuania - Russia
Greece - Serbia

August 25th
Serbia - Lithuania
Greece - Russia

August 26th
Russia - Serbia
Greece - Lithuania
 
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sashikas said:
23rd Acropolis tournament starts today in Athens. Four of the Eurobasket participants will be competing against each other for the trophy.

The schedule of the tournament:

August 24th
Lithuania - Russia
Greece - Serbia

August 25th
Serbia - Russia
Greece - Lithuania

August 26th
Lithuania - Serbia
Greece - Russia
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According to this, Lithuana - Serbia will be on 25th and Lithuania - Greece on 26th.
 
Lithuania - Russia 78-61 FT

Lavrinovič brothers were on their best today. Also Javtokas was huge in the third quater, when the major pull away took place. In the fourth quater russians tried to catch the runaway train, but the referees took several pro-lithuanian decisions (out of bounds after the Fridzon - Mačiulis fight for the ball; Jomantas' offensive foul against Shved and gentle Sokolov's fifth foul on Petravičius), and all the intrigue disappeared.

Generally I liked the attitude in the defense, the guys were sweating out every second while defending their own basket. There were several not-so-good moments though (f.e. Delininkatis' screen to Javtokas in the first half; several Kleiza's lazy moments in the defense)

What I didn't like was the absence and meaninglessness of our PGs tonight. Kalnietis was just the guy who brings up the ball to the opponents halfcourt, Mažutis did score a threepointer, but the team still is four against five in the offense, while he is doing the playmaking. Jomantas and Delininkaitis also were tried in the PG position tonight, but they weren't impressive as well.

Jankūnas was the thirteenth guy tonight, and Butautas barely uses him when he is available. I guess he might be the guy, who will have to stay home, or travel to Poland by his own means. But I hope I am wrong. If I was the one to choose the left-out guy from tonights game, it would be Lukauskis.
 
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If I was the one to choose the left-out guy from tonights game, it would be Lukauskis.
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I think that would be a bad call, since he is able to shoot buzzer beater type of three pointers in stressful situations. Though i couldn't single out anyone that is not worthy to be in the team (well maybe Kalnietis, but since we don't have any guards...), they are all pretty equal, with their strengths and weaknesses.
 
sashikas said:
Lithuania - Russia 78-61 FT

Lavrinovič brothers were on their best today. Also Javtokas was huge in the third quater, when the major pull away took place. In the fourth quater russians tried to catch the runaway train, but the referees took several pro-lithuanian decisions (out of bounds after the Fridzon - Mačiulis fight for the ball; Jomantas' offensive foul against Shved and gentle Sokolov's fifth foul on Petravičius), and all the intrigue disappeared.

Generally I liked the attitude in the defense, the guys were sweating out every second while defending their own basket. There were several not-so-good moments though (f.e. Delininkatis' screen to Javtokas in the first half; several Kleiza's lazy moments in the defense)

What I didn't like was the absence and meaninglessness of our PGs tonight. Kalnietis was just the guy who brings up the ball to the opponents halfcourt, Mažutis did score a threepointer, but the team still is four against five in the offense, while he is doing the playmaking. Jomantas and Delininkaitis also were tried in the PG position tonight, but they weren't impressive as well.

Jankūnas was the thirteenth guy tonight, and Butautas barely uses him when he is available. I guess he might be the guy, who will have to stay home, or travel to Poland by his own means. But I hope I am wrong. If I was the one to choose the left-out guy from tonights game, it would be Lukauskis.
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Jomantas has the best court vision of all our players, and this does really scare me.
On the other hand, we do not have any PGs of higher class available, so we have to move on with what we have. Actually, I'm slowly changing my mind on Mažutis. I was thinking that he will be the 13th player, but he does not look like the worst of our guards at the moment, and he has one of the clearest functions of all the players (still not a starting five material in any case, when Kalnietis' mind is in the game).
On the other hand, Jankūnas does not look to have any function. He's really talented, very solid worker, but he just doesn't do anything much better than any other frontline player. Javtokas, Petravičius and the Brothers together form very solid front line, that is not really thin, when we have Kleiza, Mačiulis and even Jomantas able to play some minutes as PF.
Speaking about Lukauskis, we do know that he has allways been unstable. One game or even two do not mean much.
On defense: this team has all the tools to be really good defensively. And that might be our biggest chance, because offense will surely suck from time to time. It's all on Butautas...
 
Is it my impression or as the days go by Koufos gets worse instead of better? :confused:
 
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Is it my impression or as the days go by Koufos gets worse instead of better? :confused:
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He is to soft in defense and in offense as well. Often he does not jump to the rebound and he does not even raise his hands.
 
relax guys
you are watching friendlys again.
most of the players havent played together.so each logical to play one day good and the other day bad.
dont fell to the trap of one day perperoglou plays bad and he is an average player while the other day which plays good becomes the SF that greece searching.
Koufos has talent but needs time to adjust to his role (like the majority of greece NT players which dont know their)and one or two or three games cannot change that.
have faith

nice team serbia is creating.After some years i can see some light in the end for the serbia NT.
nothing else to mention.these 2 teams know so well each other since if i am not mistaken have played 3 games this week so each team matched up well the other.just that they have potencial and i am sure they will go well in the euro
 
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Raduljica should be our starting center.Krstic is so terrible. Injury really killed his career :( We don't have shooter that we can relay on.I wish we have Peja or Pavlovic on our team :rolleyes:
 
It was a bad game, even for friendly, imo. Greece is making uncharacteristic mistakes, I still have to get used to seeing the new young Greece play, without all those veterans. Bouroussis seems to be the only really reliable guy on that team. Spanoulis has set his mindset on scoring. He does that brilliantly, but the slick halfcourt passing seems to be gone. Calathes without self-confidence, maybe lost it because he's not starting anymore. Young players with American background are sensitive in that aspect, even old ones are. Or, more likely, everyone was a bit overenthusiastic after easy games against Romania and Latvia. Serbian players are young but already experienced, and very physical. It's a different game playing against those guys.

Don't want to draw too early conclusions though.

Serbia, another intersting young team, I like them, even if they lack a bit on the PG position and even if Kristic indeed plays like 38 year old. Trio of power forwards, Velickovic, Macvan, Erceg, very impressive, there won't be any problems in the future.

Considering the lack of real contenders behind Spain, who knows, both teams might show up in the semis.

Lithuania looks bound for 5-8 with that roster. They'd be the 2nd strongest team with Saras, but without him nobody can create an offense for them. Even the Lavrinovic brothers are only worth half when they don't have someone who provides them with open looks. In general, 3-5 positions are solid, Lukauskis, Delininkaitis, Jasaitis is not bad either to play alongside a great point guard. One man makes the difference.

Kleiza has a bad game every time I watch him play for Lithuania.
 
Wow based on these two games these teams look awful.

Russia - they look completely lost and baffled on offense. No hope for them at all if they are going to play like that. Just terrible.

Lithuania - They look like they will be fighting just to make one of the 6 spots to qualify for the World Championship. Their point guard position is really terrible and that is the most important position.

Greece - Basically the entire team is Spanoulis and his sidekick Zisis, with a little Bourousis and Sofo added in. But Sofo can only play 15 minutes and Bourousis is a foul machine. Calathes and Koufos look totally overwhelmed.

Serbia - Deep team, physical, lots of good role players but not one guy that stands out even in the slightest bit. Teodosic appears to be the leader on offense and they seemed doomed to be a team that will have to win games by holding the other team in the 60s in points.

It seems Greece is the strongest of these 4 clubs but none of them look up to challenging a team like Spain.
 
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