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Obina2
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Great schedule for France-Slo and Germany-Ltu.
Thx FIBA.
Thx FIBA.
Finland should have been selected to host the whole tournament.
Yeah, that would have been great!
BiH isn't on this Eurobasket because we couldn't beat Russia(now in the quarter-finals) in the qualifications, in some other groups it was enough to beat national teams made of semi - professional players![]()
I guess I'll have to be cheering from Serbia from here on in because Serbia is the only remaining team that's never had a questionable "national" on its roster. The Serbian players as a whole should shave more often, however....
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the 24 team tournament is a nice effort of exploring basketball in new territories. we shouldn't be elitists, there wasn't basketball tradition in Greece before 80s, there wasn't turkish basketball back in 90s, and now we have Latvia.
On the other hand, what is going to happen from November and on, is really a complicated mystery. International bball is in danger of devaluation, and really hard to find out who to blame for.
FIBA, since knew there was no chance on earth for NBA players to play, yet they decided to introduce the new format. As a result the NTs which are heavily relient on NBA and EL players (basically half of Europe) will field teams 2-3 times worse, quality wise and will be in danger of missing the tournament.
FIBA, since knew there was no chance on earth for NBA players to play, yet they decided to introduce the new format. As a result the NTs which are heavily relient on NBA and EL players (basically half of Europe) will field teams 2-3 times worse, quality wise and will be in danger of missing the tournament.
So i guess that National championships will be off during this qualification tournaments, but Euroleague will still be on. Am i right?
And if i am right, for example, Greek NT would be represented basically from AEKs, PAOKs, Aris' etc players, that compete to fiba's tournaments?
The question is why NTs don't do something about it? Who can forces them to play this qualifications? Fiba without NTs is dead and buried.