Spain Euro champions, congrats Pau: Top Center +1st Team

vmor · Post #1 » by **vmor** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:48 pm

KAUNAS, Lithuania (AP) — Defending champion Spain and first-time finalist France will compete for the European basketball title on Sunday...

Juan Carlos Navarro scored 35 points in a performance his coach called a “masterpiece” as Spain beat Macedonia 92-80 in the first semifinal on Friday... Pau Gasol had 22 points and 17 rebounds

France got 22 points from Tony Parker to beat Russia 79-71 in the late game. Nicolas Batum added 19 points for France

per cbslocal

Does anyone know how/where to watch it?

TruSkool · Post #2 » by **TruSkool** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:13 am

spain is too deep, Pau is only gona add more leverage for a spot in the hall of fame on sunday

vmor · Post #3 » by **vmor** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:28 pm

... the finals repeat on ESPN2 now - Sunday 9 pm

Post #4 » by **Slava** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:35 am

Finally watched the highlights and two things impressed me:

1. The passing between the Gasol brothers is superb, similar to the 2 man game Odom and Pau with one of them posting up and the other cutting through.

2. Pau's definitely added a legit perimeter shot and he's been draining 3s, which might not happen in the NBA but he surely will add more range to spread the floor if he has to play with another center.

H00PDREAMS · Post #5 » by **H00PDREAMS** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:44 am

Since when did Pau become a legit 3 Point shooter. Gawd I was so giddy when I saw that... There was a small puddle... Most awesome!

H00PDREAMS · Post #6 » by **H00PDREAMS** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:04 am

OH I almost forgot!

Gasols in the house!

vmor · Post #7 » by **vmor** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:42 pm

He must've been jealous of Dirk's 3pt shot

Seriously, Pau Gasol always had a nice midrange shot, but his long/3pt shot should be an interesting way of stretching defenses. Didn't Pau have one at the end of quarter against the Mavs, though?

I hope Bynum was watching the Gasol Bros. cooperation, and Kobe JC Navarro's...

vmor · Post #8 » by **vmor** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:27 am

Not a bad couple of weeks of work for Pau at the Eurobasket:

Best Player: Juan Carlos Navarro (192-G-80) of Spain
Best Center: Pau Gasol (214-F/C-80) of Spain

1st Team
PG: Tony Parker (183-80) of France
PG: Bo McCalebb (183-85) of FYR Macedonia
G: Juan Carlos Navarro (192-80) of Spain
F: Andrei Kirilenko (205-81) of Russia
F/C: Pau Gasol (214-80) of Spain ... per Eurobasket

Now if we could get that Calderon guy from Toronto,
or at least young Rubio before he settles in Minnesota to feed Pau... :wink:

H00PDREAMS · Post #9 » by **H00PDREAMS** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:40 am

vmor wrote:
I hope Bynum was watching the Gasol Bros. cooperation, and Kobe JC Navarro's...

Bynum aint watchin' nothin im pretty sure of that... :roll:

But I was hoping he was watching too.