Group D, day 4, Spain vs. Lithuania

[toxmarius]

Duh, France won a close game today... that means that Lithuania probably needs to win this one or at least loose by a very small margin to stay in 1-2 places.. If Lithuania looses by a very big margin, i would rather see them loosing to France and Libanon to take a 4th place.

[auris1]

i go for spain >
But
...
I see our chance in winning against France,so it could be 3 team tie in the end.So most important thing is to loose by as little as humanly possible.
First or second place in the group could mean quarter-finals...Long shot though

[Man whith dissapoint]

what la roja means?

the red, it means lefty friend, communist, viva la revolucion, and all that

[Man whith dissapoint]

This is the game, at least the first game.

Nervous

I bet for spain, but not really sure, I hope, as in last EC, we start our tournament in the 3rd game.

Well, at least my fav team and my 2nd one are playing.


I dont know what the other spaniards in this forum think, but I dislike when our NT is named 'La Roja', is difficult to explain, but it implies soccer more than basketball. And not only that, our disgusting and horrible government and shameful president tries to make us believe that every sport sucess is because of its good politics.

The other day a tv reporter of TVE was saying sometingh and he said:
La selección... (stayd quiet)
eeeerhhhh La roja bla bla bla

He was about to say la seleccion española, then he realised it's prohibited and sayd the correct word.
He porbably got a corrective after that

I haven't seen him in tv since then
Yes im paranoid, too paranoid and too dissapoint

[mayteromanl]

The other day a tv reporter of TVE was saying sometingh and he said:
La selección... (stayd quiet)
eeeerhhhh La roja bla bla bla

He was about to say la seleccion española, then he realised it's prohibited and sayd the correct word.
He porbably got a corrective after that

I haven't seen him in tv since then
Yes im paranoid, too paranoid and too dissapoint

madre mía!!!! i'm also getting mad with this.... What happened with the ÑBA? I can understand that name can be a little bit arrogant for other countries, but thats not the intention.

Game starts again 6-6, but Garbajosa hits the three...

And our good commentators are in the greece-turkey

[Fedfan]

guys..I don;t understand anything..why it;s taboo to say la selecion espagniola?
The selection of the spanish team...no?
and what is ÑBA ?

[Man whith dissapoint]

Mac showing klimavicius how it's done, i cant wait until he owns sofocles again like he did in 2006, hes ridiculous

[Buzissa]

Javtokas goes to the bench, Gasol dominates the paint.

[Panco]

Spain is just on the different level.. This game was probably over with the first sub of Javtokas. Klimavicius got owned by Gasol badly 4 times in a row and we're pretty much done.

[mayteromanl]

guys..I don;t understand anything..why it;s taboo to say la selecion espagniola?
The selection of the spanish team...no?
and what is ÑBA ?

Its difficult, the government is making a hard job in the shadows, they just want to have the power forever (as all these politicians...) and they're changing our mentality and our identity. And there is taboo saying la selección española (the spanish NT), that is worng, what is correct now is "la roja". As Man with Dissapoint had explained, that 'new mentality' tries to persuade us that the red is the good, we are red, and our sucess is the red, the comunism, Zapatero...
fuc*** politics.

ÑBA is a funny name for our NT for the last tournaments. It's funny because it plays with NBA (obvious.... I know), and with our typical spanish letter, the Ñ. That was a very satisfying name for us because it also implied the high quality our players had, and the sucesses they got

[Illegal2k10]

Navaro shoots an airball

[Man whith dissapoint]

guys..I don;t understand anything..why it;s taboo to say la selecion espagniola?
The selection of the spanish team...no?
and what is ÑBA ?

it has with politics, its bullcrap
the socialist party is ruling now, his logo is red, a hand with a rose, also, people from the left are "rojos", I don't know, it's a little bit like paranoia, they say la roja this, la roja that,
it's subtle, instead of saying seleccion española, wich integrates all spaniards, they say la roja
they make it appear it only has to do with the color of the shirt, but...
If you're one of the paranoid, you start thinking things, maybe it's more than the color of the shirt.....

[mayteromanl]

26-19

What is happening to us? we're only able to hit the threes!!!! and that's not the best way to win this game

[Man whith dissapoint]

yeah, we started to play the tipical three point game, forget about interior game
just shoot threes, I hope this doesn't contiune

[Buzissa]

Lithuania offense hasn't been fluid. The ball rotation is always on the perimeter.