EuroBasket 2009 Thread

[I Feel Devotion]

I honestly had no idea why everyone was so infatuated with Spain and why everyone picked them to win gold. When I saw their final roster I knew they would struggle at the EuroBasket. I mean they have some good players like, Navarro, Fernandez, Gasol brothers, and Reyes, but the rest of their roster is pretty much garbage.

Their 3 point guards are awful. LLull has an exceptionally low basketball IQ, Garbajosa is completely washed up, Claver is not even an established pro player that much. Mumbru is washed up. Not one of them could start on a serious Euroleague club.

I think everyone just got totally infatuated with Spain because of the NBA players, and then the NBA draft picks and whatever. But like half of their team is composed of below average players.

HA, HA, HA, oh wait HE HE HE

Spain lost 2 games. They barely beat Great Britain. They went to overtime with Slovenia. They beat a B Greek team and a 22 year old Serbian team. All around Spain had a pretty sub-par tournament and their teams from the previous 3 summers were all better.

[penzias]

Greece had their B team and really they were the second best team in the tournament.

Greece missed 2 players, that does not make it a B team.

Diamantidis
Papaloukas
Vasilopoulos
Tsartsaris

How is that 2 players?

Calderon
Sergio Rodriguez
Carlos Jimenez
Fran Vazquez

Did Spain also play with a B team?

[Sheenmue]

Bringing back old "I feel devotion" posts is so funny.

With Spain playing at this level I think they should win easy the last two matches, it doesn't matter the rival. The key was the game against Lithuania. When they were loosing in the 2nd quarter they started to run and they have continued since that moment -keep running Forrest-. Playing games with 60-70 points there are teams that can beat them, but when they make 80-90 points you better pray to make a perfect game because actually USA is the only team that can score so much points in FIBA basket on a daily basis.

To be perfectly honest, every opponent they face from now on will be a much better team than France.

So every opponent they faced was much better than France...

France +20
Pau Gasol 28 minutes

Greece +18
Pau Gasol 21 minutes

Serbia +22
Pau Gasol 22 minutes

It didn't look like that on the court and France was actually the only team in the tournament that only lost 1 game, the rest of teams lost 2 at least.

[tirador]

I honestly had no idea why everyone was so infatuated with Spain and why everyone picked them to win gold. When I saw their final roster I knew they would struggle at the EuroBasket. I mean they have some good players like, Navarro, Fernandez, Gasol brothers, and Reyes, but the rest of their roster is pretty much garbage.

Their 3 point guards are awful. LLull has an exceptionally low basketball IQ, Garbajosa is completely washed up, Claver is not even an established pro player that much. Mumbru is washed up. Not one of them could start on a serious Euroleague club.

I think everyone just got totally infatuated with Spain because of the NBA players, and then the NBA draft picks and whatever. But like half of their team is composed of below average players.

HA, HA, HA, oh wait HE HE HE

Spain lost 2 games. They barely beat Great Britain. They went to overtime with Slovenia. They beat a B Greek team and a 22 year old Serbian team. All around Spain had a pretty sub-par tournament and their teams from the previous 3 summers were all better.

so what u mean is that Spain playing "sub-par" is 20 points (at least) better that any other team in Europe.

[I Feel Devotion]

These posts are pretty funny. Spain won't win a medal next year. Any objective viewer could see that they were in a clear decline this year. Adding Calderon won't change that because they will also be tired next year. Their 2008 team was noticeably better. Next year playing against the best squads of USA, Argentina, Greece - I would be very surprised to see Spain win a medal. They are declining and it is very obvious.

[tirador]

These posts are pretty funny. Spain won't win a medal next year. Any objective viewer could see that they were in a clear decline this year. Adding Calderon won't change that because they will also be tired next year. Their 2008 team was noticeably better. Next year playing against the best squads of USA, Argentina, Greece - I would be very surprised to see Spain win a medal. They are declining and it is very obvious.

so now you say that they are declinig, that a lot better than saying they are rubbish as you said before, what a sad hater. Thank u for the congratulations on the victory btw.

[aceking79]

I honestly had no idea why everyone was so infatuated with Spain and why everyone picked them to win gold. When I saw their final roster I knew they would struggle at the EuroBasket. I mean they have some good players like, Navarro, Fernandez, Gasol brothers, and Reyes, but the rest of their roster is pretty much garbage.

Their 3 point guards are awful. LLull has an exceptionally low basketball IQ, Garbajosa is completely washed up, Claver is not even an established pro player that much. Mumbru is washed up. Not one of them could start on a serious Euroleague club.

I think everyone just got totally infatuated with Spain because of the NBA players, and then the NBA draft picks and whatever. But like half of their team is composed of below average players.

HA, HA, HA, oh wait HE HE HE

Spain lost 2 games. They barely beat Great Britain. They went to overtime with Slovenia. They beat a B Greek team and a 22 year old Serbian team. All around Spain had a pretty sub-par tournament and their teams from the previous 3 summers were all better.

saitama, japan 3 years ago...do you remember, greek troll???? was that team the AAA greek team?
i think so.
welll...+23.
greece dont win spanish team since 2003. asume that. excuses are for losers and greek team is not loser but you...you are a f... loser troll

[safari]

As a long time reader I can say without a doubt that you are one of the worst RGM poster ever IFD. Greece is the best team ever, Spanoulis is the greek CP3 he didn't get the chance to shine in the NBA, every non-greek team that wins a competition in which greek players play is just lucky and on the decline for obvious reasons, when Greece loses it's either on purpose or because the team was missing key players... Blablabla

Fortunately, Greek players are scrubs (except maybe Koufos) in the NBA so we don't get to read your stuff in other sections...

BTW, I really love Papaloukas and Baby Shaq (can't stand Diamantidis and Vaginis though), so I am not hating on greek players, I am hating on big time homers (and you're the best of them).
Peace

[M.Balla]

I think that it's pretty obvious, and being objective it's impossible to deny it, that if Grecia didn't lost Papamakarios to injury and Koufos had been healthy, they would have been European Champions.

Please, don't ban him ever again. He's sooooooo funny.

[Mumbles]

These posts are pretty funny. Spain won't win a medal next year. Any objective viewer could see that they were in a clear decline this year. Adding Calderon won't change that because they will also be tired next year. Their 2008 team was noticeably better. Next year playing against the best squads of USA, Argentina, Greece - I would be very surprised to see Spain win a medal. They are declining and it is very obvious.

lol who is Greece going to add that will have them marketedly better than Spain? What? two older guys and two role players? Yeah Spain has their number too. You better hope Pao Gasol doesn't play, because if he does Greece isn't beating Spain. Matter of fact next time you need not even place Greece in the same context with the defending World and current European Champion, and the last two Olympic Champions. What is Greece the champion of? They are a notch below those teams. Before worrying about The U.S, Spain, and even Argentina. Greece better be concenced with the teams right behind them or about to be bettern than them like Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey & France. Greece absolutely needs Theo & DD, and more Calathes, and less of the Nikos Spanoulis parternship..then maybe they can challenge Spain again..that current squad is super average without Sofo..he was the Greece's true MVP throughout the tournament.

Anyways haters are already saying that Spain was helped by a field that had weaker teams roster wise. Well people tried to say the same thing about Team USA in the Summer of 2007 when they ran through a 'wea' Fiba Americas field. Sometimes a team is simply playing superior basketball. When the knockout stages started it was a wrap. It was done, I did not get any indication that any team in Europe could mess with Spain's perimeter defense, or mess with Gasol when he plays well. Nobody in that tourmanent was going to stop Gasol, A teams, B teams, C teams, no teams.

[jolbe_]

Did Slovenija play with C/D team then?:)
Rasho Nesterovic
Sani Bečirovič
Goran Dragič
Beno Udrih
Matjaž Smodiš
Emir Preldžić

?
Come on IFD, no one was complete

[I Feel Devotion]

Spain will not win a medal next year.

[jolbe_]

Spain will not win a medal next year.

Quote!

[Greek]

Spain is the best European team on the last 5 years. Period. Thats a fact and nobody can argue for that. You got a well deserved gold. I hate how u r players react (being cocky etc), but they are the best right now. I am very proud for the Greek team. We are not the most talented (Spain), we dont have the best athletes (France) but i strongly believe that we have the biggest heart. When a game is on the line i am sure that we will win, and thats the most important for me. Maximize our ability. We are small country, full of mess. Basketball maybe is the only thing that is healthy, in our country. I am proud also that the future looks bright for us, considering the success of the youth NT's. No reason to argue or to fight. Basketball is a fair game. The best (unlike soccer) wins almost all the time

[mnWI]

Spain will not win a medal next year.

Ok, but can you post your next 3 or 4 user-names so we can track you down after this one gets banned? Actually scratch that. It'll be obvious, you just can't help it.

[AdamTheGreek]

Long weekend but I finally have my last EuroBasket recap:
http://mason360.com/20090922585/News/Sp ... recap.html