[Day 2] Game A/4: Poland - Lithuania

[sashikas]

Date: September 1st, 2011
Venue: Cido arena, Panevėžys
Time: 21:00 (EEST (UTC+3))

[baelor]

No worries.... i didn't expect very good start of the tournament from our team and I was right. Anyways the ball moves quite good and if it wasn't for lot of mistakes in 3rd quarter we would won 20+.

Poland doen't have Deng to play 40 min and to make 60% of all shots so I think +15 for Lithuania without any big trouble. Expect to see Jonas for 15 min or so...

[CKR13]

Betting for Green Tank on this one.

[B84]

i'd say it will be a single digit win for lithuania. Poland showed they are fairly strong team yesterday vs spain. But Lithuania is still big favourite.

[nerkav]

+25 for Lithuania. Reasons - 1. second match of the tournament - mentally easier; 2. No such great one-on-one mismatches as in previous game vs. Deng; 3. Seek of revenge for 2009 Poland loss; 4. Must be a great game for Valanciunas - Polish centers lack speed in legs

[Levenspiel]

I also expect a big margin win for Lietuva. Yesterday Spain shot terrible from the perimeter, thus could never get away, but given the chance Lithuanians will go crazy on threes today.

I'm still sympathetic to Poland, though.

[Darknemo2000]

+25 for Lithuania. Reasons - 1. second match of the tournament - mentally easier; 2. No such great one-on-one mismatches as in previous game vs. Deng; 3. Seek of revenge for 2009 Poland loss; 4. Must be a great game for Valanciunas - Polish centers lack speed in legs

Valanciunas could have a good game against them but I dont think Kemzura will let him. He is very hesitant to play youth. I dont think he will get more than 10 minutes.

[pimpekaustas]

Poljska! cause lithuania is overrated

[gimme85]

I didn't expect surprises , they will pound on some of players of Poland that's all .

[demiurg]

Hopefully we will see a repeat from 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hiIJza-d6o

[sashikas]

To spice it up: if we would be looking at history, last time we beat the poles in the official game was 14 years ago (1997.10.11). We have lost two last official games.

[baelor]

Hopefully we will see a repeat from 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hiIJza-d6o

sure. Poland was always better in basketball or it was one year when championship was held in Poland and your team had Gortat, Lampe and one more polish guy Logan and we had the weakest team through the decade just wondering

[pimpekaustas]

tell me about poland - lithuania relations? i heard they are not so good?

[baelor]

To spice it up: if we would be looking at history, last time we beat the poles in the official game was 14 years ago (1997.10.11). We have lost two last official games.

it's hard to have lots of official games and to improve that statistics with the team that rarely competes on highest level

It's the same as to say that last time we won against Switzerland in 1996 and haven't won from then ))

[baelor]

tell me about poland - lithuania relations? i heard they are not so good?

As half-polish I must say that I have very good relations with my other - Lithuanian half