QF: Australia - Lithuania

[madmax]

I thought that Sabonis' defense was already elite and JV has eclipsed Sabonis Sr.

Joking aside. You cannot play the same defense all game, you have to adjust sometimes. But tempting your fate 3 games in a row with a same defensive gameplan is just bad. Plain bad. All my love to Kalnietis and Jankunas who showed up for this tournament. The others never came off the plane...

You were not convincing or played well in none of the 6 games in the tournament.

there is only so much that bigs can do on defense really, unless they are prime Garnett or Ben Wallace out there. Everyone knows JV is bad at rotating back to his man after helping on the perimeter, so that should be no news to our head coach as well yet JV still spent majority of the time chasing the other teams' guards on the court That's simply a bad coaching and lack of adjusting and I completely agree with you here. Also everyone was late on their rotations, not only your "beloved" JV or Sabonis. All of our opponents were quicker, smarter and more determined than we were. I don't really have an answer if it's physical or mental issue or most likely all of them combined...

[auris1]

You were not convincing or played well in none of the 6 games in the tournament.

When you put it this way ,then yes .
But we started tournament with brilliant 2 quarters . Surely you are not gonna take that away from us ?

[CoachZ]

When you put it this way ,then yes .
But we started tournament with brilliant 2 quarters . Surely you are not gonna take that away from us ?

I agree. You did have a fantastic first half against Brazil.

I am a bit sad, was hoping for a Semis rematch with Lith. Now this will have to wait for Eurobasket 2017.

[auris1]

I agree. You did have a fantastic first half against Brazil.

I am a bit sad, was hoping for a Semis rematch with Lith. Now this will have to wait for Eurobasket 2017.

Trust me , I was hoping for the same .
But ...Why are you so confident of Serbia reaching semis ? I mean , i sort of can guess why ,but still ...
It is your turn to be biting your fingernails )

[CoachZ]

Trust me , I was hoping for the same .
But ...Why are you so confident of Serbia reaching semis ? I mean , i sort of can guess why ,but still ...
It is your turn to be biting your fingernails )

Not really. I take this do or die games very easy always. We are playing a team we should beat and they have never beaten us in any competition since the breakup of Yugoslavia. They have so many holes that we can exploit and should be easy to game plan them. If we despite all that fail, then we don't deserve any better. I will not fret so much for people who don't give their best effort and lose to teams they should beat with a margin.

I will save that for the Semis vs AUS, where I truly have no idea what will happen. If we play our 100% we are a better team, even if they are at their 100%. Still we have been known to show up slacking, especially if we manhandle Croatia or something like that. The only good thing is that Djordjevic holds grudges, so I am sure he will be really fired up for that rematch.

[ThePeraCar]

Not really. I take this do or die games very easy always. We are playing a team we should beat and they have never beaten us in any competition since the breakup of Yugoslavia. They have so many holes that we can exploit and should be easy to game plan them. If we despite all that fail, then we don't deserve any better. I will not fret so much for people who don't give their best effort and lose to teams they should beat with a margin.

I will save that for the Semis vs AUS, where I truly have no idea what will happen. If we play our 100% we are a better team, even if they are at their 100%. Still we have been known to show up slacking, especially if we manhandle Croatia or something like that. The only good thing is that Djordjevic holds grudges, so I am sure he will be really fired up for that rematch.

Yes yes, old bald Djordjevic always hold grudges like with Marjanovic xD

[Hepcat]

Is very pitty we lost Kleiza he was true leader for this team

Truth!

[Hepcat]

It means +48 players,coaching stuff etc.They didn't have enough condoms to share

Maybe they could try recycling?

[Hepcat]

You realize that the next Eurobasket is in 2021.

Next eurobasket 2017 in Finland Israel Romania and Turkey.

What then are we going to have in 2018 and 2019?

[auris1]

... I take this do or die games very easy always. We are playing a team we should beat and they have never beaten us in any competition since the breakup of ...

It is easier said than done, this attitude of yours )
Last year,when we played Italy in QF ,midway through the game I just could not handle the game anymore . I got so stressed that i thought i am gonna have a stroke or something . I felt extremely anxious the previous game vs Georgia and stopped watching the game for about 5 minutes. .This time I just left the house and went for a long walk ,came back only to find out the game was not finished .
Anyways ...I do not believe a word you say here regarding how confident you are )

[auris1]

What then are we going to have in 2017, 2018 and 2019?

Fucking qualifiers . During the club/ NBA season as well

[auris1]

Maybe they could try recycling?

Somebody on reddit did a math . No way they would be using number that by a large margin .
Most likely they are just being stolen or ,you know ,people take them just "in case" by tens or hundreds.

[Hepcat]

I think they played all of their friendlies without Bogut.
huge difference.

But adding a big superstar at the last minute just as often hurts as helps a team since the addition can very well hurt carefully constructed team chemistry.

[mojo13]

But adding a big superstar at the last minute just as often hurts as helps a team since the addition can very well hurt carefully constructed team chemistry.

I firmly believe the addition of Tristan Thompson last second to the Canadian team at the qualifier hurt them more than it helped (no practice, no warm up games, joined them in Manila). They were playing better in the friendly warm-ups with Khem Birch in that role. Not like Tristan Thompson is a "star player" even though he tried pretend he was during the qualifier games. A 60% plus FG% NBA player shooting in the low 40% range taking shots he would never do in the NBA,

[Srle]

Fucking qualifiers . During the club/ NBA season as well

FIBA the most incompetent sport organization.