The good, the bad and the ugly in this competition

[wardjdim]

The Good: The drama matches Turkey-Serbia, Serbia-Spain, Serbia-Croatia, Serbia-Argentina, Serbia-Germany, Argentina-Brazil and USA-Brazil. The nice court atmosphere. Milos Teodosic snubbing FIBA's award. The topsy-turvy group A. Kevin Durant, Luis Scola, Marcelinho Huertas, Milos Teodosic, Juan Carlos Navarro and the Lithuanian NT in the match vs Argentina. Young, potent stars like Mantas Kalnietis, Goran Dragic, Vidmar, Marko Keselj, Martynas Pocius, Timofey Mozgov, Tim Olbrecht, all had decent tournaments. New teams will appear in the next Eurobasket as contenders

The Bad: The worst USA team since the late 1980s won gold. This never happens in real life, just in fiction or fixed tournaments. The treatment of Jonas Kazlauskas towards Dimitris Diamantidis. The Spanish NT afte Calderon's injury. The Greek NT after the friendlies. Slovenia vs USA and Turkey kept on being scared. The lucky USA draw. The officiating in all USA matches. Milenko Tepic's and Ricky Rubio's dreadful performances. The disrespect to this amazing Serbia in the semi-final with Turkey. Asik's acting. The non-existant presence of fans in all games besides the Turkish ones

The Ugly: The worst referees in history. Pre-decided final. Obvious lack of audience. Very low level basketball


WC was the lowest level one since 1998. And it was unfair. Better team didn't win

[buterbrodas]

The Good: The drama matches Turkey-Serbia, Serbia-Spain, Serbia-Croatia, Serbia-Argentina, Serbia-Germany, Argentina-Brazil and USA-Brazil. The nice court atmosphere. Milos Teodosic snubbing FIBA's award. The topsy-turvy group A. Kevin Durant, Luis Scola, Marcelinho Huertas, Milos Teodosic, Juan Carlos Navarro and the Lithuanian NT in the match vs Argentina. Young, potent stars like Mantas Kalnietis, Goran Dragic, Vidmar, Marko Keselj, Martynas Pocius, Timofey Mozgov, Tim Olbrecht, all had decent tournaments. New teams will appear in the next Eurobasket as contenders

The Bad: The worst USA team since the late 1980s won gold. This never happens in real life, just in fiction or fixed tournaments. The treatment of Jonas Kazlauskas towards Dimitris Diamantidis. The Spanish NT afte Calderon's injury. The Greek NT after the friendlies. Slovenia vs USA and Turkey kept on being scared. The lucky USA draw. The officiating in all USA matches. Milenko Tepic's and Ricky Rubio's dreadful performances. The disrespect to this amazing Serbia in the semi-final with Turkey. Asik's acting. The non-existant presence of fans in all games besides the Turkish ones

The Ugly: The worst referees in history. Pre-decided final. Obvious lack of audience. Very low level basketball


WC was the lowest level one since 1998. And it was unfair. Better team didn't win

that's why Romualdas Brazauskas didnt attend to the finals ,couse he didnt agree to therms of FIBA. He's the most honest reffere there is!

[unnamed]

Teodosic is a f****** spoild kid! f*** him! If you don't respect others they will not respect you Fe***t!

Bro, I think that's pretty much irrelevant for him as he apostrophized that TEAM was much more important for him then individual record after each game in this tournament, plus they(FIBA) were shameful toward him and his team

[thegreekmeister]

no your not.

that was before, when the players were receiving their respective medals

Yes I am.

They were booing when politicans entered the hall,

they were booing when single politicans were giving some awards (including respective medals)

and they were booing when politicans were leaving the hall (it was during the anthem).

Unless you somehow saw that there was no single politican still in the hall just before the anthem started (and duing the first few seconds of playing it). I doubt it because you can not see that on TV and be sure of that unless you were in the hall yourself.
So lets wait for somebody who was watching the game live in the arena to clear the air.

[thegreekmeister]

that's why Romualdas Brazauskas didnt attend to the finals ,couse he didnt agree to therms of FIBA. He's the most honest reffere there is!

Actually he is FIBA's boy...

[nls]

Good but ugly player: Teodosic. Great player. Shitty personality. Once again he didn't come to the ceremony (he did the same in Euroleague). He should learn to behave himself and to give more respect to all the people around him.

At the Euroleague ceremony, he had gastric flu (gastroenteritis) and he was at the hospital for an IV in order to manage to play at the F4

[L8DBACK]

Wtf? who is he and can you gimme a link?

Before the start of the USA - Lithuania game, he mentioned how passionate and how the Lithuanians take pride in their basketball. He said that everybody in Lithuania are watching the game even in their town squares. I guess he tried to make a joke about since everybody is watching their team vs USA, you would be able to rob a bank in Lithuania without a quick getaway. Sorry I don't have a link to it.

[pablonis]

Actually he is FIBA's boy...

Considering that Eurobasket in Poland was his first FIBA tournament after a 7 year break, your statement does seem to be sound indeed...

[C-ka]

ah these americans are so damn brainwashed. "haters of USA", "haters of Brasil" (wtf, who are those??), these self-invented enemies remind me of the "mighty terrorists". stupid janks.

[Darknemo2000]

Actually he is FIBA's boy...

If he is a FIBA boy then why not send him to ref the finals? And also how come that in 2009 was his first FIBA tournament in 7 years you do not make much sense, you know.

Well maybe he wants in this tournament final because FIUBA got mad at his words that the refs are making it easier for team USA compared to other teams by not counting all of the traveling if they do not count it to be the significant.

[jorje]

Good
Lithuania-Scola-Durant
Bad
Spain-Greece-absences of some names
Ugly
Refs




Alternative
Good
Any Turk-Greek-American-Serbian.......good fan
Bad
Any Turk-Greek-American-Serbian.......bad fan
Ugly
Every male fan.I wish there were thousands of female fans in every stadium.
Sorry guys

[softice]

Good - 3 of 4 best teams are European
Bad - Refs on some games
Ugly - Some soccer fans on this forum, good news they ll go away soon

[Frosties]

The Good:

US team playing as a NCAA team. Great job done by coach K.
Lithuania and Serbia back to the top. They should always be there.
Thrilling games nicely played inside and outside the court: Argentina - Brazil and Spain - Serbia

The Bad:

Argentina and Spain. Poorly managed, terrible performance during important games. Big disapointment.

Same to Greece and Brazil...

The Ugly:

Attendance.
The tred after the Turkey - Serbia game.
Coaches trying to steal the game away from the players (inside and outside the court).
Some players example of bad behaviour after winning or losing a game.

[kecal]

The Bad:

Argentina and Spain. Poorly managed, terrible performance during important games. Big disapointment.

That was NOT an important match... Unluckily, I did not watch the game, so I don't know what's so bad in there.

[Frosties]

That was NOT an important match... Unluckily, I did not watch the game, so I don't know what's so bad in there.

I was talking about the NTs not about the match

The 2nd half of that match (specially the 3rd quarter) was fantastic though.