FIBA U18 Europe 2024 (2006 born or younger)

[Toruko]

Indeed, may be the best player here. He scored 40 pts and Israel disappointed Spain in 1/8.

He is amazing!

[Srle]

Spain's summer from hell in the youth competitions is continuing. They came to both competitions as one of the favorites to wins it all. No medals and no spot at U19 world cup for them. On the other side, Slovenia summer of luck at youth competitions is strongly marching on They had no business winning the quarterfinal game against Poland at U20 tournament and against Latvia yesterday, they had even more luck and more stupidity from their opponents. Latvia had plus 6 points,14 seconds before the end of the game and they wasted all of that and eventually lost the game in the overtime. Those were the two dumbest losses that I have ever watched in the basketball games by far.

[Toruko]

Never saw such a soft Spanish team.

[pohani komarac]

Croatian youth summer is from horror not even satan could write. U20 could not qualify for A division, U18 relegated to B division and I expect same with U16. And worst is that all the best prospects actually decided to skip NT. Ružić, Jerkić, Katanović in U18, and Jelavić and Krajnović U18. It say something that problem is much deeper.

[thiago94]

Good first half, unfortunately our coach decided to threw the lead away with his terrible lineup management. I mean, look at the plus/minus numbers, our starting five is outperforming Serbia, whereas our bench loses all the advantage. I do not blame them, but coach cannot play with Kayil or Anderson and four bench players, it is too much. You have to cross the bench players with at least two starters. In addition the quality of the referees is very low, but it's the same story every youth tournament. Serbia has to suffer from bad calls as well, but both foul calls on Steinbach were wrong and he is crucial for us.

[Srle]

Too bad Mitar Bosnjakovic got injured in the semifinals and he couldn't play in the finals. As I expected we went to the finals. There is lots of potential for us in this generation and we could even be better with some extra additions next year at U19 championships. We should contend for the finals there too. The biggest disappointment of the tournament is Spain again, they barely survived staying in division A. The biggest surprise is Sweden , they had a great tournament.

[Ridirkulous]

First ever German boys title in any under category. We like to play Serbia in finals the last two years it seems. Let's hope it happens again in the Olympics. Christian Anderson and Jack Kayil are our post Dennis Schroeder hope!
Next year with the addition of Mathieu Grujicic and Eric Reibe should be a very very fun U19 World championship.