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

[Nuntius]

Todays individual performances :

Fontecchio : 21 pts. 8 rbs. 6 asi. 1 stl. (32:09)
Nurkic : 21 pts. 9 rbs. 4 asi. 2 stl. 1 blk. (31:30)
Hanga : 20 pts. 12 rbs. 5 asi. (25:51)
Sabonis : 15 pts. 8 rbs. 7 asi. (25:02)

I remember watching some Hanga highlighrs randomly once, back when he was in baskonia (not much of a eurobasketball guy) and being relatively impressed. Dude seemed like he could become a excelent nba wing

How is he doing these days?

Yeah, Hanga is really good. He could definitely be a rotation player for an NBA team, imo.

[UcanUwill]

Turkey is absolutely terrible. You would think a team with Larkin, Sengun, Korkmaz, Osman and Sanli would be somewhat competitive in these games.

[HEKTOR]

Since we are talking about Eurobasket, i think that this tweet is not too irrelevant
(My guy won 3 eurobasket gold medals and a bronze, among other achievements)

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Seks, droga...Bodiroga!

[LuDux1]

Final Lithuanian NT roster: C Jonas Valančiūnas (6'11", 30 years), [img]C%20Martynas%20Echodas%20(6'9"%2025),[/img]F/C Domantas Sabonis (6'11" 26), PF Eigirdas Žukauskas (6'8" 30), PF Mindaugas Kuzminskas (6'9" 32), SF Ignas Brazdeikis (6'7" 23), SF Arnas Butkevičius (6'6" 29), F/G Rokas Giedraitis (6'7" 30), SG Marius Grigonis (6'6" 28), Lukas Lekavičius (6'00" 28), PG Kristupas Žukauskas (6'3" 26), PG Rokas Giedraitis (6'4" 21)

Top losses: Donatas Motiejūnas, Artūras Gudaitis, Edgaras Ulanovas (luckily they all play in already strong positions)

I agree with Maksvytis decision to cut Masiulis, I think he was the weakest player left and didnt made much sense to be kept.

I found it funny, that Masiulis could be on pace to shoot 6 trees in a game, but Valanciunas would stand wide open and hesitate or not shoot a 3 at all. It is funny, because there is no way in hell Masiulis is actually better 3 point shooter than Valanciunas, I mean Valanciunas has slower release for sure, and can only shoot while wide open, but it is funny how it is. Jonas is so good in different areas that 3 for him is just an afterthought, even tho if he didnt have those inside strengths of his and was just an Euro scrub ala Masiulis, he is still good enough shooter to be just a Masiulis type stretch big who would just shoot and do nothing else. You know what I mean, I find it weird that wide open Jonas is not encouraged to shoot those, while Masiulis, who basically provides little to nothing else than just shootings 3s on worse finishing rate, is on the same team as Jonas.

Well Masiulis once scored 33 points for my hometown team and Echodas once scored 38 against (and still lost HA HA), but it's 12th player, so who cares?

[Torgeir Bryn]

Norway with another strong win 99-75, this time over Denmark. They've got a real shot of getting to the qualifying stage of Eurobasket '25 now.

Once again Norway did a great job defensively and on the board against a bigger team, but the biggest story this game was the scorching Norwegian shooting (20/32 or 62,5%)! Harald Frey led all scorers with 26-5-5, but Ndiaye (19 pts on 5/6 3pts) and Mjøs (17 pts on 5/7 3pts) also really showed up.

Denmark's big star Lundberg, who got a couple of games with the Suns last season, was held to 16 and 7 on 5/11 shooting and turned it over 5 times.

[GSWFan1994]

link to box scores :

https://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2023/african-qualifiers/game/2708/South-Sudan-Congo-DR#tab=boxscore
https://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2023/african-qualifiers/game/2608/Congo-DR-Cameroon#|tab=boxscore

To find these fiba pages, you can always google - fiba wc quliafiers africa - something like that, you will always find it, thats what I do when i dont have it on quickdial slot.

Nice one!

Thanks, much appreciated.

[Hugi Mancura]

Finland did what they were supposed to do. After beating Israel and now Estonia they have a 7-1 record and they're at the top of group J along with Germany. The top 3 teams of each group advance to the World Cup and Israel, the team that is currently 4th in group J, currently has a 3-4 record (they're playing Sweden later tonight) so it would take a collapse of epic proportions for Finland to miss the World Cup. They only need to win 1 more game to ensure their qualification.

I was a big fan of Finland's teams in the mid 2010s and I'm hoping that this newer generation can follow in their footsteps and play some entertaining basketball.

I'm happily surprised Finland has been this good. Personally I expected these Eurochamps and World cup qualifiers to be learning period for the younger generation, whom I expected still would need 2-3 years before they really be in top of their game. So expected them to reach the next World cup, not this one. The 2010's team is pretty much retired or just too old, with the exception of Salin, but younglings have been really good surprise, even though they still show the age lot of times in a game. Finland is like last years Bulls. Wins the games they are supposed to, but can't really challenge the top teams.

For the group. Sweden and Estonia are out, but as right now I do think Slovenia is joining them. Slovenia isn't really that good without Doncic and Dragic. Israel probably has the second best non-nba roster in this group (after Germany), so I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Doncicless Slovenia twice.

[UcanUwill]

Good second half bounce back from Turkey, Sengun, but after Turks tied the game, Serbia got serious and closed it quite comfortably

Serbia 79 - 72 Turkey

Jokic : 24 pts (10/16 FG ; 4/5 FT), 10 rbs, 1 stl. (24:35)
Sengun : 17 pts. (4/10 FG ; 1/3 3PT ; 8/9 FT), 13 rbs, 2 asi, 2 blk. (34:26)

[Sgt Major]

Micić with some seriously stupid moves. Looks like he still doesn't understand who's the boss of this team.

And the refs are always shite in Constantinople.

[Nuntius]

I'm happily surprised Finland has been this good. Personally I expected these Eurochamps and World cup qualifiers to be learning period for the younger generation, whom I expected still would need 2-3 years before they really be in top of their game. So expected them to reach the next World cup, not this one. The 2010's team is pretty much retired or just too old, with the exception of Salin, but younglings have been really good surprise, even though they still show the age lot of times in a game. Finland is like last years Bulls. Wins the games they are supposed to, but can't really challenge the top teams.

Yeah, Finland has some players with good potential. Jantunen has been very productive in this tournament and he's only 22. Maxhuni and Valtonen are also quite young (24 and 23 respectively) and they're playing important roles already (Valtonen hasn't shot well, though, that's true). There's also Miro Little who hasn't been used a ton in this tournament since he's only 18 years old. Finland is in a good place.

For the group. Sweden and Estonia are out, but as right now I do think Slovenia is joining them. Slovenia isn't really that good without Doncic and Dragic. Israel probably has the second best non-nba roster in this group (after Germany), so I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Doncicless Slovenia twice.

Yeah, I see your point here. The loss to Germany with Luka may come back to bite them.

[Jellybeans]

Latvia wins against Great Britain in one of the worst games ive seen.
KP 29+14

[SpreeS]

Refs were something else in Serbia/Turkey game

[mpoo_sin]

Germany beats Slovenia with 90:71. Great effort from our team. Let's see if they can make a splash at the Eurobasket. Let's gooooo!

Franz is underrated.

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Germany outrebounded Slovenia 10000 to 1...or at least it felt like that.
Multiple instances where Germany was able to snatch 3 or for offensive rebounds before they eventually scored.
It really looked like adults playing with children in regards to rebounding.
Wasn t aware that that might be Slovenias weak spot. Or was it just today or is Germany a bad match up for them?

They really looked terrible today.

[Ruma85]

I always enjoy destroying Turkey and Turkish teams. The refs are blind when games are played there.

Always controversial when playing in Turkey weather its Football or Basketball.

[Ruma85]

Finland did what they were supposed to do. After beating Israel and now Estonia they have a 7-1 record and they're at the top of group J along with Germany. The top 3 teams of each group advance to the World Cup and Israel, the team that is currently 4th in group J, currently has a 3-4 record (they're playing Sweden later tonight) so it would take a collapse of epic proportions for Finland to miss the World Cup. They only need to win 1 more game to ensure their qualification.

I was a big fan of Finland's teams in the mid 2010s and I'm hoping that this newer generation can follow in their footsteps and play some entertaining basketball.

I'm happily surprised Finland has been this good. Personally I expected these Eurochamps and World cup qualifiers to be learning period for the younger generation, whom I expected still would need 2-3 years before they really be in top of their game. So expected them to reach the next World cup, not this one. The 2010's team is pretty much retired or just too old, with the exception of Salin, but younglings have been really good surprise, even though they still show the age lot of times in a game. Finland is like last years Bulls. Wins the games they are supposed to, but can't really challenge the top teams.

For the group. Sweden and Estonia are out, but as right now I do think Slovenia is joining them. Slovenia isn't really that good without Doncic and Dragic. Israel probably has the second best non-nba roster in this group (after Germany), so I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Doncicless Slovenia twice.

When the stakes are higher I don't see Finland winning against Slovenia again, they have been very impressed generally suprised how good Finland has looked.

[Swuul]

Sweden wins @Israel 95-83.
Finland is the first European country to get the ticket to World Cup 2023!!! Who would have thought

[Hugi Mancura]

Finland did what they were supposed to do. After beating Israel and now Estonia they have a 7-1 record and they're at the top of group J along with Germany. The top 3 teams of each group advance to the World Cup and Israel, the team that is currently 4th in group J, currently has a 3-4 record (they're playing Sweden later tonight) so it would take a collapse of epic proportions for Finland to miss the World Cup. They only need to win 1 more game to ensure their qualification.

I was a big fan of Finland's teams in the mid 2010s and I'm hoping that this newer generation can follow in their footsteps and play some entertaining basketball.

I'm happily surprised Finland has been this good. Personally I expected these Eurochamps and World cup qualifiers to be learning period for the younger generation, whom I expected still would need 2-3 years before they really be in top of their game. So expected them to reach the next World cup, not this one. The 2010's team is pretty much retired or just too old, with the exception of Salin, but younglings have been really good surprise, even though they still show the age lot of times in a game. Finland is like last years Bulls. Wins the games they are supposed to, but can't really challenge the top teams.

For the group. Sweden and Estonia are out, but as right now I do think Slovenia is joining them. Slovenia isn't really that good without Doncic and Dragic. Israel probably has the second best non-nba roster in this group (after Germany), so I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Doncicless Slovenia twice.

When the stakes are higher I don't see Finland winning against Slovenia again, they have been very impressed generally suprised how good Finland has looked.

Well, I think the stakes were quite high earlier in World cup qualifications and Finland beat Slovenia twice (no NBA players). Those losses might cause Slovenia to miss the World cup. It is now either them or Israel who will be third in this group behind Finland and Germany. Before today I really thought Israel would have a good team, but a loss to Sweden at home didn't help them. So maybe Slovenia can win one the games vs Israel and be the third team. But no Doncic or Dragic in those games.

With Doncic I agree it is hard to see Finland beat Slovenia this year, but without him Slovenia isn't that great.

[Nuntius]

Sweden wins @Israel 95-83.
Finland is the first European country to get the ticket to World Cup 2023!!! Who would have thought

That is indeed a surprise. But, they did what they had to do so kudos to them.

[Swuul]

Doncic is extremely important for Slovenia, there is no doubt about that. But so is Markkanen for Finland; on offense he was today pretty much three-manned by Estonia all the match, which left the other 4 finns play against 2 estonians, and the match still was a very close shave.

[dirkdiggler4177]

Norway with another strong win 99-75, this time over Denmark. They've got a real shot of getting to the qualifying stage of Eurobasket '25 now.

Once again Norway did a great job defensively and on the board against a bigger team, but the biggest story this game was the scorching Norwegian shooting (20/32 or 62,5%)! Harald Frey led all scorers with 26-5-5, but Ndiaye (19 pts on 5/6 3pts) and Mjøs (17 pts on 5/7 3pts) also really showed up.

Denmark's big star Lundberg, who got a couple of games with the Suns last season, was held to 16 and 7 on 5/11 shooting and turned it over 5 times.

Is that actually you? If so, you should make a "ask a former NBA player anything"-thread.