[Day 3b] Game C/7: Finland - Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Levenspiel]

Date: 03.09.2011
Time: 15:30 local (GMT+3)
Venue: Alytus

[Liha]

BIH impressed me by having so close game vs Greece, so have to say BIH will win, although Finland is quite different type team than Greece. If they can't slaughter us near the basket like Greece / Croatia they will be in trouble. Lee has to score some, Koponen needs to hit 3's with decent accuracy and Teletovic's 3's have to be shutdown. They are smaller team than than Greece / Croatia so will be interesting, but their couple big guys are still better than our big guys so a slight disadvantage there.

[Somnium]

Very bad defensive execution and some bad shoot selections by bosnia so far. On the other hand good ball distribution and sharing at Finland side. If Finland will manage the win this game, situation will be interesting at this group

[Adon]

Finland is trashing Bosnia
Once more, the collective opinion of the board was wrong.
-2 points for almost anyone in the prediction game

[hustlerlt]

Woag,what the hell happened?I thought this would be an easy win for Bosnia,but I'm shocked when I've seen that the result is 92:64 Finland wins.

[Liha]

Minus points for me too in the guessing game. Wonder if anyone got this right :P. Montenegro will beat us (due to size) and we have a small chance vs MKD again I'd say, but have to say some really poor shooting from BIH apart of Domercant.

[Liha]

Woag,what the hell happened?I thought this would be an easy win for Bosnia,but I'm shocked when I've seen that the result is 92:64 Finland wins.

What happened was we didn't get owned by size. This team wasn't as big as Cro/Gre. Hence why Montenegro will beat us, bad match up. People need to stop underestimating Finland. This is maybe the second toughest group in the tournament after all and we still got a win and more to come maybe.

[xxax]

What happened was we didn't get owned by size. This team wasn't as big as Cro/Gre. Hence why Montenegro will beat us, bad match up. People need to stop underestimating Finland. This is maybe the second toughest group in the tournament after all and we still got a win and more to come maybe.

Second toughest? No way. A and B are much harder. Between C/D it could be debatable. But second? Nah.

Congrats on the win thou. This are getting really complicated in group C :P

[Joško Poljak Fan]

Congrats Finland

BiH considered themselves a winner at the moment they've stepped on court. They must've thought Finn's annoying to go with all that effort in the first half, while in the 3rd quarter Kopponen and Salin increased the lead over 20.

Bosnian defense seemed unexistant for the bigger part of the game.

Although EC games can't be the best criteria, I still hope Salin stays in Olimpija's roster.
This game (as well as the Finish one vs. Croatia) is showing why Fiba's expansion makes sense in the long run.

[pimpekaustas]

congrats to finland! is this good or bad for croatia

[Liha]

Yep and Finland is only going to get better, so i'm sure we'll make it back to EC soon in the coming years. Rannikko is 31 and 1 of the oldest/most important so even he isn't that old. Mottola had a great game today, but he isn't that needed anymore. We'll do fine without him. Other than that our team is young so looking good.

MVP of the game for Finland was Koponen imo. I'm not a true Koponen fan like most finns are, but i've never seen him play better than today. His drives were completely unstoppable. BIH had to take like 6-8 fouls just on him alone. Koivisto took a lot of shots so i wouldn't say he was the MVP, although he scored the most from Finland.

congrats to finland! is this good or bad for croatia

Meaningless. You and Gre will be #1 and #2 of the group if miracles wont happen. Wow... I'll take that all back I didn't know MKD beat you. How did i miss that one. Well you better beat Montenegro tonight, otherwise we might have to start calculating point differences soon...

[hustlerlt]

What happened was we didn't get owned by size. This team wasn't as big as Cro/Gre. Hence why Montenegro will beat us, bad match up. People need to stop underestimating Finland. This is maybe the second toughest group in the tournament after all and we still got a win and more to come maybe.

Well I can only congratulate you with a victory,but I would never say it's the 2nd toughest group in the tournament.Group A is the strongest followed closely by group B.

[pohani komarac]

Congrats to Finland, they made Santa pruod

Joke aside great game from Finland. Lee deserves shoot at higher club level competition for sure

[Dtown]

Great win for Finland, terrible for my prediction game. Aside from Greece group C is just a mess. No clue who else is going through anymore.

edit: said before I saw the greek/fyrom score. Group C is just a mess

[Liha]

MKD is winning the group, but check this. They will face Finland tomorrow in the afternoon game. Finland got 3 hours more rest and now that they feel good after beating Greece / Croatia they are gonna underestimate Finland and Finland will win lmao. After that the group will be even more messed up.