Preparation Games for Eurobasket 2011

[baelor2]

It's a good thing Greece lost. They were starting to be considered one of the favorites. We can't have that. Our youngsters are too inexperienced to carry that kind of weight. Now we are back to our real target, which is to be among the first six...

Favorites? By who?

ok ok... kiddin'

It's funny that Greece lost, Russia was almost trashed in last game, Lithuania has lots of problems and loses most of preparation games, Croatia, France, Germany and Serbia are looking quite inconsistent, Turkey is even worse than LTU... so till now we see only Spain and Slovenia as realy well prepared.

It's gonna be a interesting start of championship. Lots' of surprises in the first round i suppose

 

[Perseus19662]

as i see the teams the first 3 positions must be left ,none deserves them ...

 

[Silvio2]

italy won gold in 1999 and brozne in 2003....when was last time croatia did a podium finish??you are the ones who cry wolf, this italian team would absolutely destroy your team right now...greece are still much better than you...you are much weaker than serbia and slovenia, the real powerhouses of jugo bball in recent years...croats go cry like you always fo

What an argument. Croatia has no medals since late Drazen played ... so then Italy must be good team. Hilarious. How one possible connect such this two completely unrelated things.

BTW Croatia easily won friendly games over Italy last 2 summers. Perhaps that's why Italy started to avoid us.

 

[baelor2]

What an argument. Croatia has no medals since late Drazen played ... so then Italy must be good team. Hilarious. How one possible connect such this two completely unrelated things.

BTW Croatia easily won friendly games over Italy last 2 summers. Perhaps that's why Italy started to avoid us.

Sorry to intervene, burt your dispute is so silly !!! Quit it please...

 

[Silvio2]

Sorry to intervene, burt your dispute is so silly !!! Quit it please...

Sorry to intervene - but Baelor you intervene too much. And in the end almost always you go over the line. Then at the end you say - sorry, too much Latvian beer. That is silly.

Go open your forum, set yourself as administrator and ask people there to quit whatever you want.

 

[baelor2]

Sorry to intervene - but Baelor you intervene too much. And in the end almost always you go over the line. Then at the end you say - sorry, too much Latvian beer. That is silly.

Go open your forum, set yourself as administrator and ask people there to quit whatever you want.

ok ok Mr Hater i'll just ignore your bullshit and ignorance ..... starting now!

 

[OrgoglioSlavo2]

plus an olympic silver in 2004.......got to love how croats whine about everything, especially bball despite being always in shadow of great serbia...and also italy.....gallinari bargnani and belinelli, hell even mancinelli will take a **** on tomic, markota , barac, tomas ...only bogdanovic and popovic might save you getting embaressed....

 

[OrgoglioSlavo2]

silvio the thing is when you always criticize greece and italy (and probably all countries croatia is rivals with, you probably would say serbia are not in top8 ) you sound bitter and it makes me think that youare just jealous and upset that croatia since 1994 has achieved one quarter of italy success and one tenth of serbia...im not saying italy are great because croatia havent been at the top for 20 years...im saying they are better than croatia now!! and you know it thats why you hatin as usual

 

[Italian Pride2]

plus an olympic silver in 2004.......got to love how croats whine about everything, especially bball despite being always in shadow of great serbia...and also italy.....gallinari bargnani and belinelli, hell even mancinelli will take a **** on tomic, markota , barac, tomas ...only bogdanovic and popovic might save you getting embaressed....

oroglio fly down,our team is very strange,we can defeat france,germany or serbia and then lose with lettonia and israel,our task is pass the first round...

 

[euskadi2]

plus an olympic silver in 2004.......got to love how croats whine about everything, especially bball despite being always in shadow of great serbia...and also italy.....gallinari bargnani and belinelli, hell even mancinelli will take a **** on tomic, markota , barac, tomas ...only bogdanovic and popovic might save you getting embaressed....

you never stop to talk about the croatia whole morning

now is time to talk about croatian complex

while, croatia maybe is bad team but that don't change fact that italy is bad bad team ( they did not past quali ) and serbia is heavily overrated team

every single serbian player is same or worse then in eurobasket 2009. and no, you will not make in 1/4 finals

 

[boyd202]

These are just friendlies and preparation games, guys, don't take anything for granted...
Personally, I still believe we (Italy) got a lot of problems and it's not because we won two meaningless games against Greece that all of a sudden I will start considering Italy semifinals-stuff. Yeah, winning is always nice, it boosts team's morale, but the holes (point guards and depth among them) we had before those two wins are still there. So let's just try to play one game at a time and see what happens, I just hope our players don't get overconfident by ignoring our evident weaknesses, that would be deadly to our hopes of advancing.

 

[Silvio2]

silvio the thing is when you always criticize greece and italy (and probably all countries croatia is rivals with, you probably would say serbia are not in top8 ) you sound bitter and it makes me think that youare just jealous and upset that croatia since 1994 has achieved one quarter of italy success and one tenth of serbia...im not saying italy are great because croatia havent been at the top for 20 years...im saying they are better than croatia now!! and you know it thats why you hatin as usual

You really don't understand anything, do you?
i) You say Italy is very good with some arguments.
ii) I say they are not with some arguments.
iii) You say Croatia sucks. Where is there argument about Italy NT?

That is no more discussion with arguments. That is trash talking. What if flag of my avatar was Abu Dhabi one? You would say Abu Dhabi BB NT team sucks? Besides, I don't need you to say me my team sucks, I know it.

And where do you see hate? I said I would be happy if Italy is in quarterfinals. I just think it is not possible with no PG, no C, bad bench and awful defense. Plus extremely bad draw.

BTW
Hater = world Americans invented to label people who write critically, then in lack of arguments other side says "he's hater". Laughable ... yet typically American.
That is exactly what you do, no arguments = let's call him hater.

 

[NorCal2]

You really don't understand anything, do you?
i) You say Italy is very good with some arguments.
ii) I say they are not with some arguments.
iii) You say Croatia sucks. Where is there argument about Italy NT?

That is no more discussion with arguments. That is trash talking. What if flag of my avatar was Abu Dhabi one? You would say Abu Dhabi BB NT team sucks? Besides, I don't need you to say me my team sucks, I know it.

And where do you see hate? I said I would be happy if Italy is in quarterfinals. I just think it is not possible with no PG, no C, bad bench and awful defense. Plus extremely bad draw.

BTW
Hater = world Americans invented to label people who write critically, then in lack of arguments other side says "he's hater". Laughable ... yet typically American.
That is exactly what you do, no arguments = let's call him hater.

Actually the word hater is intended to mean exactly the opposite of what you just wrote, its for someone who has no counter argument to someone who writes a well informed, critical answer but still holds to his 'side'. The word hater has just been misused by all of these teenagers surfing the web and trying to inflame others.

I really wish everyone on this forum would stop with the 'typical American' stuff. I can handle it from time to time but damn, every time I log on to IBN- a basketball website- I'm reading something generalizing Americans. Can we just keep it to basketball?

Anyways, sorry for the off topic comments.

 

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[UMUT_FB_LAL2]

Anyone got a link for Spain-Australia? Thanks in advance

 

[M-Stul92]

Anyone got a link for Spain-Australia? Thanks in advance

http://www.mips.tv/channel.php?u=68799

 

[Picek2]

Germany - hard working team with virtually no talent (excluding Nowitzki and Kaman)..
Bauermann is a magician..
it will be a disaster for european basketball if they make it to olympics qualifying tournament..

 

[Silvio2]

Spain - Australia 97-58
Navarro and Llull returned, Reyes still out for private reasons.


Germany - Macedonia 70-68
http://live.fibaeurope.com/www/Game.aspx?acc=3&gameID=9776


France - Bosnia 85-60
http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/3886/03/91/53/10tpS047jVqk/
22-25, 23-14 (45-39), 25-5 (70-44), 15-16

Points in the Paint: 40-12
Nough said.

France good defense, BiH forced to shoot from outside. At beginning they shot well, at halftime only 6 points deficit thanks to 60% hit 3-pointers (9/15).
Of course, they could not sustain it, better teams than BiH could not, especially versus France.

Q1 BiH shot 3-pointers 7/11 = 64%, BiH won quarter by 3 pts, 22-25
Q2 BiH shot 3-pointers 2/4 = 50%, FRA won quarter by 9 pts, 23-14
Q3 BiH shot 3-pointers 1/8 = 13%, FRA won quarter by 20 pts, 25-5
Q4 BiH shot 3-pointers 2/6 = 33%, BiH won quarter by 1 pt, 15-16

In Q4 both Parker and Diaw rested, consequently France did not score single point in first 3 minutes of play, and scored only 6 pts in first 7 minutes of last quarter. So much about creativity of their other players.

 

[aspsgge2]

In Q4 both Parker and Diaw rested, consequently France did not score single point in first 3 minutes of play, and scored only 6 pts in first 7 minutes of last quarter. So much about creativity of their other players.

On the last QT, France had tested their offensive plays for the big guys. Noah, Seraphin, Pietrus got a lot of balls, but they can't manage to score efficiency (they are not very good offensive players). I think France won't test their offensive plays for big guys like that during a so long time at the eurobasket.

France had already play with a lot of defensive specialists during last QT against Serbia to train them to offensive plays, this didn't work well too, the Serbia lost only by 3 after being dominated by 20.

For me, the last QT of those game were just offense training for the non-offensive specialist players.

 

[Fearless2]

Germany - hard working team with virtually no talent (excluding Nowitzki and Kaman)..
Bauermann is a magician..
it will be a disaster for european basketball if they make it to olympics qualifying tournament..

I really missed your totally unbiased comments on germany! I really did!