2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers - EUROPE

[Obina]

Bigger problem than these FIBA windows are naturalized players IMO.

I watched Latvia vs Mne and Needham (best player near Dubljevic) is probably reason because Mne will go to China and Latvia not. Latvia should pay Cory Higging for example and go to WC but what's the point of this?

[okanial]

Bigger problem than these FIBA windows are naturalized players IMO.

I watched Latvia vs Mne and Needham (best player near Dubljevic) is probably reason because Mne will go to China and Latvia not. Latvia should pay Cory Higging for example and go to WC but what's the point of this?

This is correct. Sunday Wilbekin will Come and probably take the spot of Buğrahan Who was a great player Last night. I wish we could just use our own youngsters Who play pretty good so far

[Levenspiel]

Right now it seems like Turkey is qualifying without our A, B or C. Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Lithuania all doing fine without their top players as well. Croatia is the other country that suffers a lot but at least they are fighting and their players actuallly came when they can instead of Slovenian players who didnt even show up during summer

Do you mean we're qualifying without our A, B, C players, or teams? Because this is like our B-team, we cannot replace them entirely when the WC comes.

[okanial]

ABC players. Which are Cedi, Ersan and Furkan

[markkanen]

Dettmann is fucking clown. Shame on him!!! And I hope that FIBA with stupid windows and their awful and shameful referees will burn in hell soon.

In near future nobody would care about your stupid and meaningless competitions, I mean national team with so many dedicated fans get robbed and nobody cares.

FIBA WC 2019 without Porzingis, Markkanen, Doncic, what a competition!

[raph]

Dettmann is fucking clown. Shame on him!!! And I hope that FIBA with stupid windows and their awful and shameful referees will burn in hell soon.

In near future nobody would care about your stupid and meaningless competitions, I mean national team with so many dedicated fans get robbed and nobody cares.

FIBA WC 2019 without Porzingis, Markkanen, Doncic, what a competition!

There is absolutely NO reasons to do everything to help small nations to qualify because their stars 'can't' play (or better, dont want to) during qualifiers.
This is not the nba, we are talking about a real competition here. And by principle, we want to see the best teams, not the team of x or y supposed superstar.

Before crying about who will miss the WC, check who will be there. I know it's internet and everyone has the right to complain about everything, but jeez, we are talking about european qualifiers and from Italy, to germany, including Serbia or France, ALL big teams have missed some big time competitions in the recent past because they could not qualify.
No one is gonna cry when it's small countries's time just because a couple of nba fans want to see their superstar score empty stats while not caring at all about how competitive their team can be (caricaturing a bit, but the spirit is there).

[Straight forward]

There is absolutely NO reasons to do everything to help small nations to qualify because their stars 'can't' play (or better, dont want to) during qualifiers.
This is not the nba, we are talking about a real competition here. And by principle, we want to see the best teams, not the team of x or y supposed superstar.

Before crying about who will miss the WC, check who will be there. I know it's internet and everyone has the right to complain about everything, but jeez, we are talking about european qualifiers and from Italy, to germany, including Serbia or France, ALL big teams have missed some big time competitions in the recent past because they could not qualify.
No one is gonna cry when it's small countries's time just because a couple of nba fans want to see their superstar score empty stats while not caring at all about how competitive their team can be (caricaturing a bit, but the spirit is there).

I second this. Lithuania qualified with B team and grabbed most of it. If you don't have a B team it's your own BB school issues, not even FIBA qualification issues. So Slovenia with Dragic and Doncic goes all the way and without them completely collapses? Hello...That divides strong BB schools from lucky shots...

[Efesdxb]

Imo it is very easy to solve this problem.
1st 6 match window can be played late June early July, 2nd 6 match window early September such as (taking 2018 calendar),
game 1: wed-thu (27-28 june) // (5-6 sept)
game 2: sat-sun (30 june-1 july) // (8-9 sept)
game 3: tue-wed (3-4 july) // (11-12 sept)
game 4: fri-sat (6-7 july) // (14-15 sept)
game 5: mon-tue (9-10 july) // (17-18 sept)
game 6: thu-fri (12-13 july) // (20-21 sept)

or alternatively divide 4 games windows, get them played 1st 4 match window late june, early july, 2nd 4 match window in september, 3rd 4 match window in june period before world cup...

Don't know if this is so difficult to arrange.
Then all players will be available...

[Miškinis]

I second this. Lithuania qualified with B team and grabbed most of it. If you don't have a B team it's your own BB school issues, not even FIBA qualification issues. So Slovenia with Dragic and Doncic goes all the way and without them completely collapses? Hello...That divides strong BB schools from lucky shots...

It's not about who has the strongest basketball schools. It's about who has the strongest teams. The current system simply does not allow to determine who is who. It's a garbage competition with the dream by FIBA to earn money.

[markkanen]

Guys, guys, hold on. Do you really think it's fair when Olympiacos don't let Timma and Strelnieks to play, and Buducnost let Ivanovic, Sehovic, Popovic and Barovic to play against Latvia? Or what about Randolph who didn't get permission from Real to play, but Guler did? Or when Vorontsevic and Kulagin can play vs Finland, but Koponen can't.

And what you think about this situation - WC 2019 without european champions?

[Straight forward]

Guys, guys, hold on. Do you really think it's fair when Olympiacos don't let Timma and Strelnieks to play, and Buducnost let Ivanovic, Sehovic, Popovic and Barovic to play against Latvia? Or what about Randolph who didn't get permission from Real to play, but Guler did? Or when Vorontsevic and Kulagin can play vs Finland, but Koponen can't.

And what you think about this situation - WC 2019 without european champions?

This system sucks, no question, but what about Slovenian stars showing up at least in the summer windows? One doesn't even want to play for NT anymore (Dragic), other pre-occupied with NBA career (Doncic). Third star not even sure he's Slovenian and doesn't give damn. So so much of the champs. Lithuania's, Croatia's stars showed up then they could and some others NTs. Conditions sucks, but it's all equal for every damn NT. If you're not in WC, blame yourself.

[Jon_Koncak]

Guys, guys, hold on. Do you really think it's fair when Olympiacos don't let Timma and Strelnieks to play, and Buducnost let Ivanovic, Sehovic, Popovic and Barovic to play against Latvia? Or what about Randolph who didn't get permission from Real to play, but Guler did? Or when Vorontsevic and Kulagin can play vs Finland, but Koponen can't.

And what you think about this situation - WC 2019 without european champions?

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[Killer Bob]

Funny read. That’s why Fiba basketball is light years behind Nba or football. Dallas and Nba are making star from Doncic, New York made a star from KP. On the other hand Fiba did everything possible for them not to play in WC and Olympics, just because they wanted total war against Euroleague. People are nostalgic for past times, when everyone were amateurs and played for peanuts but are forgetting the world is not like that anymore. If you want to have great competition, you have to generate money and Fiba basketball is not generating anything.

[BiHBasket]

Koponen joined for the game against us, I see him in some photos from Finnish training in Zenica. He wasn't in the team against Russia because of duties in the Euroleague.

https://sportsport.ba/kosarka/finska-trenirala-u-areni-srdacan-pozdrav-dettmanna-i-bosnica/298724

[Obina]

Poland is so close to China.

I watched Montenegro vs Turkey. Big win, I must say Turkey is so poor team without NBA players. Last game between Mne and Latvia will probably decide third passenger in this group. Latvia has no big chances with this roster, but if Oly and Milano let Bertans, Timma, Strelnieks, it can be tough game.