Eurobasket 2022 - Group stage - Gameday 2

[Levenspiel]

today's games:

Montenegro - Belgium
Finland - Poland
Great Britain - Croatia
Germany - Bosnia
Bulgaria - Turkey
Estonia - Ukraine
Lithuania - France
Georgia - Spain
Hungary - Slovenia
Greece - Italy
Netherlands - Israel

[SaliH]

Bulgaria vs Turkey is a game I have been waiting for.

Hopefully Turkey starts getting into rhythm.

[paspalj]

I haven't seen the future matchups to know if we should be aiming for/avoiding a specific spot in the group but since we won over Croatia I would like to see our injured players get some minutes (especially Papagiannis that didn't participate at all in preparation games) to increase the cohesion of the team for the knockout stage.

[Killer Bob]

I haven't seen the future matchups to know if we should be aiming for/avoiding a specific spot in the group but since we won over Croatia I would like to see our injured players get some minutes (especially Papagiannis that didn't participate at all in preparation games) to increase the cohesion of the team for the knockout stage.

If you win today, first place is almost guaranteed, so I doubt very much we will see much experimenting.

[paspalj]

If you win today, first place is almost guaranteed, so I doubt very much we will see much experimenting.

I guess I could look it up mylself, but is 1st place important in our group?

[Killer Bob]

I guess I could look it up mylself, but is 1st place important in our group?

If all favourites win their group, you can't meet them before semis. If somehow Serbia finished 2nd and you 3rd, you play in 1/8 with them. First place for sure brings something.

[slice me nice]

Nurkic beasting all over the Germans. Just too dominant. Bosnians as team surprisingly look better than expected.

[Toruko]

Too many harsh ups and downs with Bosnia within the game.

[R1ou]

If all favourites win their group, you can't meet them before semis. If somehow Serbia finished 2nd and you 3rd, you play in 1/8 with them. First place for sure brings something.

However Greece or Italy would still have a difficult quarter final supposing they beat their group D opposition, since they will be meeting with group B teams.

[Furkan Korkmaz]

God our defende is so soft(!), it seems we are only willing to play hard when we fall behind by 15... Bulgarians shooting as if it’s a practice match.

[R1ou]

Been telling this since preperation games but had been attacked by most Turkish fans here.

[Killer Bob]

Why Furkan isn't playing?

[Levenspiel]

Been telling this since preperation games but had been attacked by most Turkish fans here.

Which Turkish fans? I don't know any sane bball follower who would object to this.

Anyway. It's not bad defense or soft defense. It is having no fucking clue.

[SaliH]

Turkey is an absolute trash again... against freaking Bulgaria that only has Vezenkov and Dee Bost (who is an okay player but nothing special) and all the rest are scrubs from the Bulgarian league.

Nobody from the Turkish team tries to play, nobody runs, nobody plays defense. Some soulless pieces of meat running around like headless chicken being lead by Ataman who looks like someone ate his breakfast and doesn't even stand from his chair.

[Straight forward]

52 points for this Bulgaria... Turkey is an average team thus far. Spain would probably school them.