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Recent update - Papaloukas will not play for Greece.

Greece is going to be extremely young again, but they have a decent chance to medal depending on how the brackets turn out.

link to rosters?

http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe ... earch.html

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via the link

Wiki also provides a list of team rosters. Wikipedia

Croatian 17 men roster selected for preparatoins

Roko Ukić (PG 6'5 84. Fenerbahce)
Zoran Planinić (PG 6'7 82. Khimki Moscow)
Davor Kus (PG/SG 6'3 78. Benetton)
Marko Popović (PG 6'0 82. Unics)
Rok Stipčević (PG 6'1 86. Zadar)
Krunoslav Simon (SG 6'6 85. Zagreb)
Bojan Bogdanović (SG/SF 6'7 89. Cibona)
Marko Tomas (SG/SF 6'7 85. Fenerbahce)
Hrvoje Perić (SF 6'8 85. Zadar)
Marko Banić (PF 6'8 84. Bilbao)
Vedran Vukušić (PF 6'9 82. Cibona)
Mario Delaš (PF 6'10 90. Žalgiris)
Luka Žorić (PF/C 6'10 84. Zagreb)
Leon Radošević (PF/C 6'10 90. Cibona)
Krešimir Lončar (PF/C 6'11 83. Unics)
Ante Tomić (PF/C 7'2 87. Real Madrid)
Stanko Barać (C 7'2 86. Caja Laboral)

About time they got some youth on that roster. They were painful to watch last year. They're still weak on that PG spot, though.

Is Ante Tomic any good? He was supposed to be a top 5 draft pick at one point.

BLKOUT wrote:Is Ante Tomic any good? He was supposed to be a top 5 draft pick at one point.

He had a breakout season for Real Madrid. Time will tell if that translates to success in the NBA (IF he decides to go).

He needs to stop skipping meals if he ever wants to play in the NBA.

BLKOUT wrote:Is Ante Tomic any good? He was supposed to be a top 5 draft pick at one point.

in terms of skills he has evrything what center needs to have, only gasol is bit more skilled center then him, but he has very week body, on wich he can't add much more weight. gasol would look like shaq standing next to him

some of his highlights

vs. Splitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1JA-OM5La0
vs. Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpIv8HzV4w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVioqV_C ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTKOw2F ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVNMn4k ... re=related

kuhane gace wrote:in terms of skills he has evrything what center needs to have, only gasol is bit more skilled center then him

Yeah, that's not true at all.

Rasho Brezec wrote:

kuhane gace wrote:in terms of skills he has evrything what center needs to have, only gasol is bit more skilled center then him

Yeah, that's not true at all.

maybe not, but i haven't see one

Uhm, Splitter is most definitely more skilled than him. I'd also say Lorbek, he's definitely more fluid in the post than Ante.

kuhane gace wrote:

BLKOUT wrote:Is Ante Tomic any good? He was supposed to be a top 5 draft pick at one point.

in terms of skills he has evrything what center needs to have, only gasol is bit more skilled center then him, but he has very week body, on wich he can't add much more weight. gasol would look like shaq standing next to him

some of his highlights

vs. Splitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1JA-OM5La0
vs. Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpIv8HzV4w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVioqV_C ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTKOw2F ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVNMn4k ... re=related

Tomic has the potential to be the best, current center from Europe. But right now, he's still a little bit raw.

Rasho Brezec wrote:Uhm, Splitter is most definitely more skilled than him. I'd also say Lorbek, he's definitely more fluid in the post than Ante.

splitter is better yes, but not in terms center skills. tomic has all moves besides left turnaround jupper and left roling. left and right hook, left and right pivot, can pop out or roll after pick, right turnaround jummper, right roling, midrange juper, penetration left and right from high post after small drible, can pass face to basket or back to basket and fake in post. unfortunaly his body is limited, so he may never translate his game in nba but he will be best ofensive center in euroleague

lorbek is defenetley more fluid, but also is 3-4 inches shorter and for me he is pure pf who at the time is used at center, so i never classified him as center.

You just described Splitter.

Rasho Brezec wrote:You just described Splitter.

no, splitter has les efective left side, and jumpers. he is greatley skilled and he learnd a lot and curentley is better player, but tomic muves are more natrual same as lorbek

brassviews wrote:

kuhane gace wrote:

BLKOUT wrote:Is Ante Tomic any good? He was supposed to be a top 5 draft pick at one point.

in terms of skills he has evrything what center needs to have, only gasol is bit more skilled center then him, but he has very week body, on wich he can't add much more weight. gasol would look like shaq standing next to him

some of his highlights

vs. Splitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1JA-OM5La0
vs. Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpIv8HzV4w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVioqV_C ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTKOw2F ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVNMn4k ... re=related

Tomic has the potential to be the best, current center from Europe. But right now, he's still a little bit raw.

Thanks guys. He doesn't like to rebound much does he? I guess that's a side effect of his frame. I remember reading he was a point guard until he had a massive growth spurt. His hookshot is almost identical to Bogut's.

BLKOUT wrote:

Thanks guys. He doesn't like to rebound much does he? I guess that's a side effect of his frame. I remember reading he was a point guard until he had a massive growth spurt. His hookshot is almost identical to Bogut's.

George Mikan invented hook shoot-origins Croatian, Bogut has great hook shoot-origins Croatian, Tomic has great hook shoot-Croatian Croatian conection with hook shoot

yeah, curentley he has some problems with rebounds, mostley because him beaing skiny, but also lacks bit of agression

Rasho Brezec wrote:Uhm, Splitter is most definitely more skilled than him. I'd also say Lorbek, he's definitely more fluid in the post than Ante.

I would tend to disagree with that statement from what little I have seen of them head-to-head.