2011 U18 European Championship

[euskadi]

i am pretty suprised to see mavra and mazic in our team

there was rumor that mavra refused to play for any cro selection and i did not know that mazic is croat. i i thought he is bosnian, czech or italian


anyway, i expect next team:

pg: junakovic, mazic, cubric ( mustapic )
sg: mavra, brzoja, buovac
sf:ramljak, saric
pf:vukovic, krstanovic
c:bundovic, mikulic

i dont know what is point to play this preparation turnaments while more then half team missing. and mavra and mazic joined team couple days ago. they only embarrass themself

[sagenas]

Our team of army played against Lithuanian U-18 and won. 96:93 (14:30, 27:21, 27:19, 28:23)

U-18: Tomas DimÅ¡a - 15, Martynas Paliukėnas - 15, Osvaldas Olisevičius – 13, Artūras Gudaitis – 11, Lukas Lekavičius – 10, Tauras Jogėla - 6, Ignas RamaÅ¡auskas – 6, Paulius SemaÅ¡ka – 5, Marius Grigonis – 4, Simonas Kymantas – 3, Mantas Mockevičius - 2, Rokas Narkevičius – 2.

[turk-jugoslav]

Turkey won against Latvia in Riga(75-68)
Buğrahan Tuncer 13 (4 rebound), Metin Türen 2, Erbil Eroğlu 10 (5 rebound –3 assists), Berkay Candan 10, Tayfun Erülkü 8, Ramazan Tekin 8 (5 rebound), Bulut Altın 2, Onur Çalban 2, Kenan Sipahi 13 (4 rebound), Yiğit Emre Mirza 4, Samet Geyik 2, Mertcan Özen 4
I could only find our team players' individual statistics

[pohani komarac]

i am pretty suprised to see mavra and mazic in our team

there was rumor that mavra refused to play for any cro selection and i did not know that mazic is croat. i i thought he is bosnian, czech or italian


anyway, i expect next team:

pg: junakovic, mazic, cubric ( mustapic )
sg: mavra, brzoja, buovac
sf:ramljak, saric
pf:vukovic, krstanovic
c:bundovic, mikulic

i dont know what is point to play this preparation turnaments while more then half team missing. and mavra and mazic joined team couple days ago. they only embarrass themself

mazic was born in czech republic, grove up in croatia, his origins are bosnian and now he is intaly where i tink he also has italian passport. he played in croatian u-14 selections, then some friendlys for chech republic. when he was kid evryone was thriled for this kid, by now he become average prospect, tough still quite intruiging tough. his bigest problem is guy who should help him most in his life. it's his father who i guess living in dreams of having lot of $$$....Took him trough few Croatian clubs, last one was I think Zagreb, then moved him in Italy can't remeber wich club, then finally finished in Benetton. Moved him trough two NT's and was in contacts with Italian and B&H NT's as well. He was in team from start but had injured knee after first or 2nd game

He is bit like Zoran Planinić with better shooting skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeyKNekpm0A

if full roster without crnjevic and co...it will be very ofensivly talented team, but besides ramljak, buovac and brzoja non of this won't even tray to play defense. and again we will strugle under basket. vukovic and mikulic are raw, skiny but iteresting pf's, bundovic is skilled under baseket but lacks strenght and size, krstanovic is average, while madunic is just tall. i just hope full game plan won't be like with brajkovic...give saric ball and evrybody spred....

to bad this kid is injured, he could help a lot on defense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ryeb1Jgfkw

[Picek]

Å arić could potentially miss the tournament due to injury..

[carlo]

Italy-Slovenia 94-87 after 2 OT.

Italy box score:

Fantinelli, Giovara 4, Chillo 4, Gaspardo 13, Della Valle 9, Magrini 19, Monaldi 9, Fallucca 3, Imbrò 4, Carnovali 5, Tessitori 4, Cefarelli 4, Pascolo, Veccia 1, Strotz 5, Candussi 10.

Next friendly match in Slovenia (Sezana) on Sunday.

From: FIP - Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro

[mbenga]

Spain and Poland, IMHO the 2 best teams in the tournament, will play 2 friendly games tomorrow and on monday.

BTW is any polish TV broadcasting the first phase or only semifinals and final?

[carlo]

Spain beat Poland 68-60 in their first friendly.

In the home team didn't play stars Ponitka and Karnowski.

High scorers:

Spain: Jaime Fernandez & Julen Olaizola, 13 pts

Poland: Filip Matczak 16 pts and Piotr Niedzwiedzki 14.

[carlo]

Italy edged Slovenia 84-81 (36-42) in the second friendly played in Sezana (SLO).

Italy high scorers: Gaspardo (15) and Della Valle (13).

The 12 Italian finalists should be announced today.

[sagenas]

Final Lithuanian roster has been announced:

Tomas Dimša
Marius Grigonis
Artūras Gudaitis
Tauras Jogėla
Simonas Kymantas
Lukas Lekavičius
Tomas Lekūnas
Mantas Mockevičius
Rokas Narkevičius
Osvaldas Olisevičius
Martynas Paliukėnas
Paulius Semaška

Players who were leaders in last two tournaments (Jogėla and Mockevičius) aren't in the good shape right now, SemaÅ¡ka had very bad season while the biggest surprise may be A.Gudaitis who was very good in NJIT tournament last season and was leading player in MKL. As I've heard, he is well-built but myself I haven't seen him playing so far..

3 players are year younger (born in 1994) - Lekavičius, Grigonis, DimÅ¡a.

[LuDux]

Lithuanian NT
c 209 Simonas Kymantas
c 208 Artūras Gudaitis
f 198 Osvaldas Olisevičius
f 201 Tauras Jogėla
f 196 Rokas Narkevičius
f 199 Tomas Lekūnas
f 198 Marius Grigonis*
g 193 Tomas Dimša*
g 189 Mantas Mockevičius
g 195 Martynas Paliukėnas
g 183 Paulius Semaška
g 186 Lukas Lekavičius*
* born 1994
Top scorers during preperation games: Lekunas 11.6, Olisevicius 10.9, Gudaitis 10.9, Dimsa 7.9, Kymantas 7,6

[pohani komarac]

Stipe Čubrić (PG 178 93. Dubrava)
Martin Junaković (PG 185 94. Cedevita)
Dominik Mavra (SG/PG 194 94. Zagreb)
Armin Mazić (SG/PG 199 93. Benetton)
Mislav Brzoja (SG 198 94. Dubrava)
Matej Buovac (SG/SF 199 93. Dubrava)
Antonio Boban (SF 202 93. Kvarner)
Marko Ramljak (SF 201 93. Zadar)
Dario Å arić (G/F 206 94. Zagreb)
Stipe Krstanović (PF 206 93. Cibona)
Filip Bundović (PF 206 94. Cedevita)
Domagoj Vuković (PF 207 93. N. Vujčić BA)
Ivan Mikulić (PF/C 211 93. US high school)
Ante Smolić (C 208 93. Zadar)


last 14. if Saric healthy I guess Smolic and Boban shold be sen't home

[zwbgr]

Slovenian squad

Tomaž Bolčina Helios Domžale 207 cm center 6. 1. 1994
Boris Bošnjak Škofja Loka 203 cm krilni center 13. 5. 1993
Žiga Dimec Zlatorog 211 cm center 20. 2. 1993
Matevž Dobravec Geoplin Slovan 195 cm branilec 25. 6. 1993
Rok Gominšek Zlatorog 196 cm krilo 17. 3. 1993
Marko Kastelic Krka 194 cm branilec 15. 9. 1994
Miha Lapornik Zlatorog 197 cm branilec 18. 10. 1993
Jan Osolnik Krka 202 cm krilni center 13. 2. 1993
Matej Rojc Krka 198 cm branilec 17. 2. 1993
Luka Rupnik (K) Geoplin Slovan 184 cm organizator igre 20. 5. 1993
Tim Å kerbec Geoplin Slovan 202 cm krilo 1. 2. 1993
Aleksandar Tomič Geoplin Slovan 187 cm organizator igre 29. 10. 1993

[raph]

Domagoj Vuković (PF 207 93. N. Vujčić BA)

Vujcic's BB academy i assume ? How does it work (he has no links with any teams with youth tradition like zadar, kk zagreb & else?) ?

[euskadi]

there is rumor about link with kk split. but i am not sure what will bi with that