U19 FIBA World Championship

peZt · Post #1 » by **peZt** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:43 am

This year's edition of the U19 FIBA World Championship just began with the first match being Turkey - Argentina. Nets draftee Juan Pablo Vaulet is playing for Argentina and Turkey has two NBA prospects with #10 Furkan Korkmaz and #15 Egemen Güven

Here's the website where you can check games and stats
http://www.fiba.com/world/u19/2015

And on their Youtube channel every single game will be broadcasted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQ0VJk8-fI

NBA prospects to watch are:
USA: Harry Giles, Josh Jackson, Jayson Tatum, Caleb Swanigan
Turkey: Furkan Korkmaz, Egemen Güven, (Okben Ulubay)
Greece: Vasilis Charalampopoulos, Giorgios Papagiannis
Croatia: Dragan Bender, Ante Zizic
Italy: Diego Flaccadori
Spain: Marc Garcia
Serbia: Borisa Simanic

Top favorites should be USA, Turkey, Greece and Croatia

There's rumours that Dragan Bender, Zubac and Zizic can't play for Croatia because Croatia has an exclusive deal with Jordan and they don't allow these players to play with their Adidas shoes. Would be an absolute shame to see the most talented european player miss this tournament because of such a bull**** reason

EMG518 · Post #2 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 11:21 am

Thank you sir.

Muizha · Post #3 » by **Muizha** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:14 pm

Bender apparently won't play in the tournament, because he has a contract with Adidas, while the Croatian federations has a contract with Nike. True Story

Rosque · Post #4 » by **Rosque** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:19 pm

Muizha wrote:Bender apparently won't play in the tournament, because he has a contract with Adidas, while the Croatian federations has a contract with Nike. True Story

Same thing happened when Hezonja/Šarić were 17,18. But they had contract with Nike and HKS had with Adidas.

Muizha · Post #5 » by **Muizha** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:59 pm

Rosque wrote:
Muizha wrote:Bender apparently won't play in the tournament, because he has a contract with Adidas, while the Croatian federations has a contract with Nike. True Story

Same thing happened when Hezonja/Šarić were 17,18. But they had contract with Nike and HKS had with Adidas.

Apparently Bender entered into his contract with Adidas, when Croatian federation still had the contract with them and they changed to Nike after that, so basically they screwed themselves :crazy:

Rosque · Post #6 » by **Rosque** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:10 pm

Muizha wrote:
Rosque wrote:
Muizha wrote:Bender apparently won't play in the tournament, because he has a contract with Adidas, while the Croatian federations has a contract with Nike. True Story

Same thing happened when Hezonja/Šarić were 17,18. But they had contract with Nike and HKS had with Adidas.

Apparently Bender entered into his contract with Adidas, when Croatian federation still had the contract with them and they changed to Nike after that, so basically they screwed themselves

Yep. HKS at it's best. Their incompetence never seizes to amaze me

EMG518 · Post #7 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:25 pm

Yankuba Sima on Spain looks like a potential prospect.

UcanUwill · Post #8 » by **UcanUwill** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:34 pm

Muizha wrote:Bender apparently won't play in the tournament, because he has a contract with Adidas, while the Croatian federations has a contract with Nike. True Story

well, this sucks. Bender was the only one I wanted to see really. Have no interest in this tourney now...

immortalone23 · Post #9 » by **immortalone23** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:40 pm

EMG518 wrote:Yankuba Sima on Spain looks like a potential prospect.

Isn't he a good rebounder?

EMG518 · Post #10 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:06 pm

This is not a good USA team. Iran is taking it to them.

EMG518 · Post #11 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:07 pm

immortalone23 wrote:
EMG518 wrote:Yankuba Sima on Spain looks like a potential prospect.

Isn't he a good rebounder?

Looks like a poor mans Nerlens Noel.

EMG518 · Post #12 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:14 pm

EMG518 wrote:This is not a good USA team. Iran is taking it to them.

USA's athleticism and pressure is starting to take over. Not a good team though.

Pe_Mar · Post #13 » by **Pe_Mar** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:42 pm

Dragan Bender is one of the coolest names i've seen.

Zombiesonics · Post #14 » by **Zombiesonics** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:18 pm

this us team is fine, jackson and tatum are just too good on the wing. future all stars

immortalone23 · Post #15 » by **immortalone23** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 5:02 pm

Giles and Tatum will be the crown jewels for their draft class.

EMG518 · Post #16 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 5:41 pm

Pe_Mar wrote:Dragan Bender is one of the coolest names i've seen.

Completely agree

EMG518 · Post #17 » by **EMG518** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 5:42 pm

Zombiesonics wrote:this us team is fine, jackson and tatum are just too good on the wing. future all stars

The U17 team with their draft class was better and the prior U19 teams were better.

Greek · Post #18 » by **Greek** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:12 pm

From Greece watch also Tyler Dorsey. Maybe we will have something here.

Charalampopoulos got injured, and most likely will lose the 1st phase

reanimator · Post #19 » by **reanimator** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:20 pm

EMG518 wrote:Yankuba Sima on Spain looks like a potential prospect.

He will be at St Johns next year.

peZt · Post #20 » by **peZt** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 4:20 pm

2nd half of the USA - Croatia match just started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWUhV4DGpb8

Would have been such an interesting matchup if Bender and Mazalin were there.