Eurobasket 2022 (daily OP updates), day 11, all quarter finals teams known, Italy shocks Europe, eliminates Serbia

[Sgt Major]

Doncic barring injury WILL no doubt end up being the best fiba player ever.

but for the time being he still has a lot of silverware to win to earn that over the belovs, dalipalgics, petrovics, sabonises and Pau Gasols of the world ( and that is disregarding americans who played some fiba)

It's a little more difficult to win all that playing for Slovenia with only 2 mio population.

I was just reading somewhere that the US have 2 mio people in jail LOL
Crazy perspective of how small Slovenia really is

[Beorn]

It's the size of Peloponnese, with a similar amount of mountains but almost no coastline

Still have that time you pricks arsed a win against us in the Olympics with a heap of end of game threes burned into my memory. Was back in the Andrew Gaze era. Now Greece has less shooters than the average D grade team at Frankston stadium.

Do you mean this game?

Watch on YouTube

[Pachinko_]

It's the size of Peloponnese, with a similar amount of mountains but almost no coastline

Still have that time you pricks arsed a win against us in the Olympics with a heap of end of game threes burned into my memory. Was back in the Andrew Gaze era. Now Greece has less shooters than the average D grade team at Frankston stadium.

Do you mean this game?

Watch on YouTube

Classic Giannakis haircut

[wco81]

Must be difficult to develop a lot of good basketball players in countries where football is so dominant, like Germany, France, Spain, Italy.

Best athletes choose football or are snapped up into football academies before they're even 10.

So basketball developmental coaches pick over the rest or boys destined to be over 6-5 get diverted into basketball programs?

[HEKTOR]

Anyone know why Teo was cut? Seems Avramovic is out with injury while Smailagic also seems to be out.

[crkone]

https://www.ertflix.gr/en/epg/channel/ept-world-live

Spain Greece friendly right now

[Pachinko_]

Multiple Antetokounmpos!

[Nuntius]

It's the size of Peloponnese, with a similar amount of mountains but almost no coastline

Still have that time you pricks arsed a win against us in the Olympics with a heap of end of game threes burned into my memory. Was back in the Andrew Gaze era. Now Greece has less shooters than the average D grade team at Frankston stadium.

Do you mean this game?

Watch on YouTube

That team had some clutch shooters.

[Hellcrooner]

Doncic barring injury WILL no doubt end up being the best fiba player ever.

but for the time being he still has a lot of silverware to win to earn that over the belovs, dalipalgics, petrovics, sabonises and Pau Gasols of the world ( and that is disregarding americans who played some fiba)

Yea Doncic has a great shot at doing that especially with Jokic not participating, who in theory would have the best squad around him to win medals consistently.

It's a pity Dirk had incredibly weak supporting casts on those national teams. Even beat Spain in 2005 and won MVP despite losing in the final.

you forgot to add beat gasol-less spain in 05

[UcanUwill]

Ok, caught only the final quarter, but Giannis is serious this time. Played as center, and he really is kinda like modern Wilt Chamberlain, in a sense, just lob a ball near the basket to him and its basically a score, man is a monster. Good to see his NBA dominance translated to FIBA even if its only a one friendly against weak Spanish team. ANd speaking about Spain, I legit couldn't recognize half of their team, wow, what a transition from a generation that won 2 world cups and were in few Olympic finals.

[Ruma85]

Must be difficult to develop a lot of good basketball players in countries where football is so dominant, like Germany, France, Spain, Italy.

Best athletes choose football or are snapped up into football academies before they're even 10.

So basketball developmental coaches pick over the rest or boys destined to be over 6-5 get diverted into basketball programs?

Not exactly you can become a pro at 15, meaning there's plenty of kids who play basketball, Germany has over 80 million people France over 60 million and Italy over 59 million, case being even if 1/3 are kids of those countries that's a lot of kids that play basketball.

[theFireBlanket]

Ok, caught only the final quarter, but Giannis is serious this time. Played as center, and he really is kinda like modern Wilt Chamberlain, in a sense, just lob a ball near the basket to him and its basically a score, man is a monster. Good to see his NBA dominance translated to FIBA even if its only a one friendly against weak Spanish team. ANd speaking about Spain, I legit couldn't recognize half of their team, wow, what a transition from a generation that won 2 world cups and were in few Olympic finals.

Too bad DR doesn't play in Eurobasket, of course. Giannis could get the opportunity to go at Horford again if they did.

[Pachinko_]

Ok, caught only the final quarter, but Giannis is serious this time. Played as center, and he really is kinda like modern Wilt Chamberlain, in a sense, just lob a ball near the basket to him and its basically a score, man is a monster. Good to see his NBA dominance translated to FIBA even if its only a one friendly against weak Spanish team. ANd speaking about Spain, I legit couldn't recognize half of their team, wow, what a transition from a generation that won 2 world cups and were in few Olympic finals.

Yeah it's funny how people kept saying "in FIBA Giannis would be called for travelling and pushing off and running into people"
Turns out, he isn't.

[Ruma85]

Anyone know why Teo was cut? Seems Avramovic is out with injury while Smailagic also seems to be out.

Not sure they might talk about it on the serbian news in the morning, let you know if i see anything.
I was quite surprised.

[UcanUwill]

Anyone know why Teo was cut? Seems Avramovic is out with injury while Smailagic also seems to be out.

Not sure they might talk about it on the serbian news in the morning, let you know if i see anything.
I was quite surprised.

Micic is their best PG now without question, and its not out of the question thatn Nedovic is better at this point. So that leaves Teo as third stringer, of course you can play Teo and those other two together, where Nedovic and Micic play more as scorers, Teo seems to me that he still could have had a role on a team, but I wouldn't be surprised that he was not pleased with small role, so they parted ways. Or maybe coach really wanted someone who plays defense, and Teo couldn't play any when he was 25 and he is 35 now.

[Ruma85]

Anyone know why Teo was cut? Seems Avramovic is out with injury while Smailagic also seems to be out.

Not sure they might talk about it on the serbian news in the morning, let you know if i see anything.
I was quite surprised.

Micic is their best PG now without question, and its not out of the question thatn Nedovic is better at this point. So that leaves Teo as third stringer, of course you can play Teo and those other two together, where Nedovic and Micic play more as scorers, Teo seems to me that he still could have had a role on a team, but I wouldn't be surprised that he was not pleased with small role, so they parted ways. Or maybe coach really wanted someone who plays defense, and Teo couldn't play any when he was 25 and he is 35 now.

It's quite surprising to see how little lateral movement he has, i don't think he deserved to be cut, every time they called him to play he has shown up.

[UcanUwill]

Not sure they might talk about it on the serbian news in the morning, let you know if i see anything.
I was quite surprised.

Micic is their best PG now without question, and its not out of the question thatn Nedovic is better at this point. So that leaves Teo as third stringer, of course you can play Teo and those other two together, where Nedovic and Micic play more as scorers, Teo seems to me that he still could have had a role on a team, but I wouldn't be surprised that he was not pleased with small role, so they parted ways. Or maybe coach really wanted someone who plays defense, and Teo couldn't play any when he was 25 and he is 35 now.

It's quite surprising to see how little lateral movement he has, i don't think he deserved to be cut, every time they called him to play he has shown up.

Yes, he played for National team in like 10 summers. If I invited him to camp, I wouldn't have guts to cut him. dont invite him at all, or make sure he has a spot on a team. But as I said, wouldn't be surprised that Teo wasnt happy with his role and maybe (friendly) decided its not worth it.

[HEKTOR]

Micic is their best PG now without question, and its not out of the question thatn Nedovic is better at this point. So that leaves Teo as third stringer, of course you can play Teo and those other two together, where Nedovic and Micic play more as scorers, Teo seems to me that he still could have had a role on a team, but I wouldn't be surprised that he was not pleased with small role, so they parted ways. Or maybe coach really wanted someone who plays defense, and Teo couldn't play any when he was 25 and he is 35 now.

It's quite surprising to see how little lateral movement he has, i don't think he deserved to be cut, every time they called him to play he has shown up.

Yes, he played for National team in like 10 summers. If I invited him to camp, I wouldn't have guts to cut him. dont invite him at all, or make sure he has a spot on a team. But as I said, wouldn't be surprised that Teo wasnt happy with his role and maybe (friendly) decided its not worth it.

Yeah, sounds likely, just unfortunately. Didn't think Pesic would do him like that considering his service but Teo hasn't always been a model pro from what I remember. Perhaps they mutually agreed it would be better he parts ways considering the reduced role he would have had - but somehow I doubt it.

Who do you guys think makes the team?

[UcanUwill]

Few photos from Greece-Spain game. Greece won 86-70 (Giannis 31 points)

Spoiler:

and Highlights :

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[Ruma85]

It's quite surprising to see how little lateral movement he has, i don't think he deserved to be cut, every time they called him to play he has shown up.

Yes, he played for National team in like 10 summers. If I invited him to camp, I wouldn't have guts to cut him. dont invite him at all, or make sure he has a spot on a team. But as I said, wouldn't be surprised that Teo wasnt happy with his role and maybe (friendly) decided its not worth it.

Yeah, sounds likely, just unfortunately. Didn't think Pesic would do him like that considering his service but Teo hasn't always been a model pro from what I remember. Perhaps they mutually agreed it would be better he parts ways considering the reduced role he would have had - but somehow I doubt it.

Who do you guys think makes the team?

G. Vasilije Micić / Nemanja Nedović
SG. Marko Gudurić /Vanja Marinković / Aleksa Avramović
SF. Vladimir Lučić / Nikola Kalinić /Dejan Davidovac
PF. Nemanja Bjelica / Alen Smailagic / Filip Petrusev / Boriša Simanić
C. Nikola Jokić / Nikola Milutinov /