Official Eurobasket 2013 Thread

mitrandil20 · Post #501 » by **mitrandil20** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:28 pm

I spoke too soon

Laure · Post #502 » by **Laure** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:34 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:Lithuanian defense is pathetic.

Wat?

Italy was scoreless for 6 minutes in the last quarter

Rasho Brezec · Post #503 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:39 pm

They started playing defense as soon as I called them out, you should thank me.

Laure · Post #504 » by **Laure** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:45 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:They started playing defense as soon as I called them out, you should thank me.

Fair enough. LTU 81-77 ITA.

JV4MVP · Post #505 » by **JV4MVP** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:46 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:They started playing defense as soon as I called them out, you should thank me.

LTU's defense was amazing in the first half.

In the third quarter they played poorly. But again played well in the 4th.

Rasho Brezec · Post #506 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:47 pm

I'm pretty sure Lithuanians only allow hot young women to leave their country, I haven't seen a single ugly fan wearing yellow-green-red colours.

th1 · Post #507 » by **th1** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:49 pm

many of them are wifes and girlfriends of Lithuanian players

JV4MVP · Post #508 » by **JV4MVP** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:52 pm

th1 wrote:many of them are wifes and girlfriends of Lithuanian players

Multiple ones per player?

I saw hundreds so that's like 10+ per guy... would make Jimmer Fredette jealous.

th1 · Post #509 » by **th1** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:54 pm

well why not ? They deserve every each of them

CaptainFanchini · Post #510 » by **CaptainFanchini** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:55 pm

0 points for 6 minutes into 4th quarter :oops:

What a pity, we played well until the 30th minute

Now we have to win against Ukraine to go to Spain2014.

SportsGuy8 · Post #511 » by **SportsGuy8** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:03 pm

th1 wrote:many of them are wifes and girlfriends of Lithuanian players

Yeah, that wasn't hard to guess.

That row/group was extremely delicious. :droop:

aristippus · Post #512 » by **aristippus** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:10 pm

The better team won.

Congratulations to Lithuania.

Italy, with a rotation of 9 players, at the 9th game in sixteen days and with Datome injured, came too tired and at the end collapsed.

JV4MVP · Post #513 » by **JV4MVP** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:13 pm

CaptainFanchini wrote:Now we have to win against Ukraine to go to Spain2014.

No you have two chances. If you lose to Ukraine you will still get another chance against Serbia (for 7th and a WC seed)). I think you'll crush Ukraine though

As Spain is holding the tournament they are already qualified, leaving 6 more spots. Top 7 places from EuroBasket will go to the WC

th1 · Post #514 » by **th1** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:13 pm

the knee of that one Italian player looked terrible. How could he even walk, let alone play

SportsGuy8 · Post #515 » by **SportsGuy8** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:15 pm

I hope Italy plays at full strength in the future. This team would be so good and so much fun to watch with Gallo & Bargs.

Laure · Post #516 » by **Laure** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:15 pm

aristippus wrote:The better team won.

Congratulations to Lithuania.

Italy, with a rotation of 9 players, at the 9th game in sixteen days and with Datome injured, came too tired and at the end collapsed.

Great fight guys, you ran out of steam at the end.

Good luck against Ukraine, you deserve a spot to the WC, especially if Gallinari can play and you get another legitimate big-man (Can't count Bargs there, sorry).

JV4MVP · Post #517 » by **JV4MVP** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:15 pm

th1 wrote:the knee of that one Italian player looked terrible. How could he even walk, let alone play

That was Datome. He will be a Piston this year:

Belinelli also banged knees with D-Mo but fortunately was able to shake it off. Arodori had a deep cut on his eyebrow.

JV4MVP · Post #518 » by **JV4MVP** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:25 pm

Croatia Back In Semis After 18 Years

An honor for this stud:

JustOneFix · Post #519 » by **JustOneFix** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:57 am

Again, i'm Croat but this is just laughable. I'm glad and happy and all but this is like the Sixers or Bucks playing the nba finals.

JV4MVP · Post #520 » by **JV4MVP** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 1:26 am

TheGreatSatan wrote:Again, i'm Croat but this is just laughable. I'm glad and happy and all but this is like the Sixers or Bucks playing the nba finals.

Why so? Croatia is on a 8-0 run. The only game they lost was the first one of the tournament and understandably against Spain. Give your team more credit.

And Lithuania's entire roster is composed of NBA and Euroleague players. ESPN ranked them 3rd overall before the tournament started.

The only team head and shoulders above the competition is Spain, and they still have a few Ls. Italy, France, Slovenia, Lithuania, Serbia, Croatia and Greece are all second tier but still quite good.