EuroBasket 2022 Power Rankings

[ronmercer80]

Fiba's new ranking is more realistic then 1st one.

Serbia is now 1st favorite, Slovenia 2nd,..France dropped to 5th. Germany is now 6th. Turkey 9th

That's the main changes.


Turkey dropped 3 places, could be even more tbh.. This is direct consequence of not involving Larkin in leading role, awful defense without clear roles, bad ball movement in offense and giving too much space to zero-defense players like Melih and Tuncer.

Germany could be even higher imo.

Greece seems to me stronger and more complete than Slovenia, in fact any other result below the final would be a failure for Greece considering the enormous amount of absences involving most of the opponents.

[Big Lebowski]

As always, in predictions there are always many patriot-fanatics who see Lithuania and Turkey on the top and as always we will see Lithuania and Turkey not winning.
Lithuania is far from the top for years now and probably will never be back to its historical third places (2003 was some random thing), Turkey can lead with clubs where foreigners are allowed. Since only one naturalized player is allowed and since Yugoslav wars are over for years, Turkey will lose as always in the 1st round of the knock-out phase.
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Indeed.

But I was cheering for LTU: it is really unbearable to see some random black American getting Spanish citizenship just because he worked with Scariolo in Toronto.