lambchop wrote:Tomazan wrote:a-French-Fan wrote:
Ask Lituanians if Slovenia was so overrated last year ...
I fully expect Luka and Dragič to kill our perimeter defense today(...)
This. Imo Slovenia definitely has the most formidable combination of perimeter players in the tournament in Dragic and Doncic. The next best would probably be something like Sloukas-Calathes / Fournier-Heurtel /Schroeder-Wagner/ Larkin-Korkmaz so yea imo that gap is pretty big. When Luka plays seriously he is very tough to limit both in the NBA and in FIBA games. So it will essentially come down to how consistent Dragic can be or as Tomazan said whether the role guys can carry some of that load.
Luka is out of shape and Dragic is not what he used to be, at least not consistently. They will not get to the semi final is my prediction. I believe even todays game will not be particularly close and it will be a relatively easy win for LTU. I hope I am wrong though.