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Croatia has a great balance of young and old. Their oldies did a grat job. Very good balance inside and outside. Structured gameplay, nice minute distribution. Often badly treatened coach has to get some respect.
Miro Bilan showed what could have become out of him if he had a different and not so apathic mindset.
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We totally slept the first half. It could be seen that the team is 0 prepared. Efes can be happy about its win and stuck it in its butt. Sengün on 4 killed us and he was also not able to defend under the rim what is totally normal. First time I saw him that excited but in the second half with 4 fouls he had a very good 7-8 minutes.
The finishing was horrible and defense was even worse in the first half. We cant defend like that and we must finally find a solution of our lack of play making. Mert Akay must be implemented if hes ready or not.
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Originally posted by Mindozas View PostTurkey announced squad for tonight, Larkin is in, along with Balbay, Sanli and Tuncer from Efes. It will be interesting to see how they'll do, that trip should've cost some mess in preparation. I think Croatia might have not bad chance for upset, they will be more ready.
Lithuania should have an easy night tonight. Denmark without Shields, and without few other important guys like best bigmen Larsen, forwards Jukic, Gilling. Not a sound names but important absentees for a team like Danes. Lundberg alone hardly will cause too much troubles. Good preparation for us before Belgium game, even tho they are also weakened
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For different reasons we are without 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th best center, but two young centers with zero experience in the national team filled the role against Bulgaria: 20 - years old Kenan Kamenjas(12 points, 3 rebounds) and 23 - years old Ajdin Penava(9 points, 9 rebounds).Last edited by BiHBasket; 11-28-2020, 04:57 AM.Due to his elegance and imagination, Mirza Delibasic was one of the continent's greatest ever players.
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Originally posted by Toruko View PostWe totally slept the first half. It could be seen that the team is 0 prepared. Efes can be happy about its win and stuck it in its butt. Sengün on 4 killed us and he was also not able to defend under the rim what is totally normal. First time I saw him that excited but in the second half with 4 fouls he had a very good 7-8 minutes.
The finishing was horrible and defense was even worse in the first half. We cant defend like that and we must finally find a solution of our lack of play making. Mert Akay must be implemented if hes ready or not.1997 - 2012 - 2013
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Originally posted by R1ou View PostWhat Efes could do more? Perhaps they are the only team that gave permission to their local players to play for the NT.
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People should not put much weight on team jerseys. Anyone can beat anyone in these tournaments. And when the A teams will compete, only two or three teams will be a level above the rest. Nowadays the game of basketball is played on a good level across the continent.PAO EUROPEAN CHAMPION 1996 - 2000 - 2002 - 2007 - 2009 - 2011
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Originally posted by Victorious View PostPeople should not put much weight on team jerseys. Anyone can beat anyone in these tournaments. And when the A teams will compete, only two or three teams will be a level above the rest. Nowadays the game of basketball is played on a good level across the continent.
Not to mention that usually players of "weaker" teams are extra motivated to beat a nominally better opponent. 90% of this players in this qualification are Eurocup-quality (and more often that not even below). That's not that extra class that you need to slalom through the qualifiers. That's why I absolutely put 0 emotion in this whole qualifiers. I think FIBA could make a gigantic own goal this time.
And often not recognized but very important reason of this upsets is that the Denmarks, Netherlands, Switzerlands of this world are playing together for years with the same group of guys, they have chemistry, hierarchy and cohesion. And in basketball this is usually the receipe to win games.
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