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

[Cubbies2120]

Best Eurobasket moment so far

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Damn, I love Giannis's reaction here. I am sure he knows who Pozzecco is but still, to just take this hug with such a smile and answer back happily and remain cool as you like. Great stuff

All part of a master strategy to injury Giannis's back

[Oscar9992]

Bad news: seems like LUKA IS INJURED! Missed the practice with Slovenian National Team

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Mavericks star Luka Doncic sat out practice with the Slovenian national team with what appears to be an ankle injury, as relayed by BasketNews.

While the report itself hardly made it seem like anything serious, there is always a little bit of concern — and gobs of speculation — when a player of Doncic’s caliber is on the sidelines for any reason.

Per BasketNews, Doncic only watched practice, sitting with ice wrapped around his ankle. Slovenia is preparing to face Poland in the FIBA EuroBasket quarterfinals.

Doncic can be viewed in a video from Mozzart Sport taking in practice and walking with the ice around his ankle. If he felt any sort of pain while walking, it sure wasn’t noticeable.

EuroBasket play will wrap up in less than a week, with the Mavs and other teams set for training camp shortly thereafter.

https://hoopswire.com/luka-doncic-sits-out-slovenia-practice-leading-to-injury-speculation/

[basketballRob]

How can us Magic fans watch the Germany vs Greece game tomorrow?

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[Taikuri]

It would feel right if Finland would send Spain home from this tournament, because of the case Lorenzo Brown, who isn't Spanish and has no connection to Spain. Lithuania would have won that game if there was no Lorenzo Brown. Finland could do some justice for Lithuania.

While that sucks for Lithuania and basketball in general that teams abuse the naturalized player rule like this, I feel like Spain is easier opponent for Finland compared to Lithuania and Finland actually has a chance to win now. Stylistically Lithuania would have been very hard opponent for Finland. It would've been like Finland-Serbia game against Lithuania maybe. Spain is the favorite against Finland, but as a Finnish fan I feel better about playing vs Spain than I felt about Finland facing Croatia, before the Croatia game.

[Taikuri]

Because he cares more about his national team than he does about the NBA. That's not to say that he doesn't care about his NBA career, of course. He definitely does. But there are some players who put their performance with their national team above everything else. Lauri seems to be one of these players.

I'm Finnish and I think that you are probably right. Maybe it comes from his dad. Lauri's dad is a legendary figure of Finnish basketball. Markkanen's dad played 129 games for the Finnish national basketball team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Markkanen

[Taikuri]

the format of this year is awful.
they should have tried to make one in wich second pahse is still rouondrobin ( counting the results from fase 1) as has happened other times.

the fact that either Finland or THIS iteration of Spain are going to fight for a bronze medal is mind bogglin and a bit shameful for the organization....

You sound bitter. What is your country if I may ask?

[Nuntius]

How can us Magic fans watch the Germany vs Greece game tomorrow?

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The official way is through Courtside 1891 -> https://www.courtside1891.basketball/plans?utm_source=fibaweb&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=eurobasket2022_gamelinks

Another official way would be through the state TV providers of the countries in question. I know that the state TV of my country is going to show this game and that you can find it online in their website which is the following -> https://www.ertflix.gr/

I have no idea if the above website is working for those that are not in Greece, though. It could be region-blocked.

[Taikuri]

Hi guys
i want to say i have been enjoying Eurobasket more than ever thanks to this thread, getting info about all Euro League players, history of the NTs. As NBA fan, a Swede whose national team never make Eurobasket, usually i watch Olympics basketball, Fiba World Cup. This NBA summer/basketball summer was so long, boring until Eurobasket.

Too bad that Sweden didn't play in this tournament. I as a Finnish guy saw Sweden's level in the World Cup qualifiers and it was pretty good, especially in the home games of Sweden, in which Sweden beat Finland and Croatia and almost beat Slovenia who had Doncic. Sweden was the only team that beat Finland in the qualifiers.

Sweden would've been better than some teams in this tournament, such as The Netherlands or Great Britain. Sweden also would've had a much better chance to upset a team that is in general on a higher level than Sweden, which I guess is easy to say in hindsight that The Netherlands and GBR were lacking. Estonia was all right in this tournament, but I feel like Sweden would've also beaten them if all Swedish players would be healthy. Well we will see that match up in the World Cup qualifiers anyways.

[Hellcrooner]

the format of this year is awful.
they should have tried to make one in wich second pahse is still rouondrobin ( counting the results from fase 1) as has happened other times.

the fact that either Finland or THIS iteration of Spain are going to fight for a bronze medal is mind bogglin and a bit shameful for the organization....

You sound bitter. What is your country if I may ask?

Spain actually.
so no bias here.
it is what it is.

[edededtut]

scariolo expects finland to run like headless chickens for 23 seconds and then hit a three pointer

https://www.marca.com/baloncesto/eurobasket/2022/09/12/631f62da268e3ed1308b45db.html

[Paija]

Hi guys
i want to say i have been enjoying Eurobasket more than ever thanks to this thread, getting info about all Euro League players, history of the NTs. As NBA fan, a Swede whose national team never make Eurobasket, usually i watch Olympics basketball, Fiba World Cup. This NBA summer/basketball summer was so long, boring until Eurobasket.

Too bad that Sweden didn't play in this tournament. I as a Finnish guy saw Sweden's level in the World Cup qualifiers and it was pretty good, especially in the home games of Sweden, in which Sweden beat Finland and Croatia and almost beat Slovenia who had Doncic. Sweden was the only team that beat Finland in the qualifiers.

Sweden would've been better than some teams in this tournament, such as The Netherlands or Great Britain. Sweden also would've had a much better chance to upset a team that is in general on a higher level than Sweden, which I guess is easy to say in hindsight that The Netherlands and GBR were lacking. Estonia was all right in this tournament, but I feel like Sweden would've also beaten them if all Swedish players would be healthy. Well we will see that match up in the World Cup qualifiers anyways.

I am still bitter that Latvia managed to lose to Bulgaria in qualification stages. Imagine Latvia (as was playing last two games in WC qualifiers) instead of Bulgaria. Porzingis, Bertans, Strelnieks, Smits, Kurucs, playing modern type of basketball (crushing Turkey 111:85), shooting 20/35 on 3pt, 31 assists, 10 offensive rebounds etc.

[TSS]

scariolo expects finland to run like headless chicken for 23 seconds and then hit a three pointer

https://www.marca.com/baloncesto/eurobasket/2022/09/12/631f62da268e3ed1308b45db.html

That is our famous "headless chicken offense". It has worked rather well on this tournament except for the Serbia game. Apparently Serbs were too physical and intimidating for our poor chickens to run at all and as we all know - a static headless chicken is not much of a threat to anyone.

I expect Spain to try pressure and bully us like the Serbs did and we might see the Head (headless)Chicken Markkanen bring the ball up more often than not.

/TSS

[Saberestar]

It would feel right if Finland would send Spain home from this tournament, because of the case Lorenzo Brown, who isn't Spanish and has no connection to Spain. Lithuania would have won that game if there was no Lorenzo Brown. Finland could do some justice for Lithuania.

While that sucks for Lithuania and basketball in general that teams abuse the naturalized player rule like this, I feel like Spain is easier opponent for Finland compared to Lithuania and Finland actually has a chance to win now. Stylistically Lithuania would have been very hard opponent for Finland. It would've been like Finland-Serbia game against Lithuania maybe. Spain is the favorite against Finland, but as a Finnish fan I feel better about playing vs Spain than I felt about Finland facing Croatia, before the Croatia game.

The rules are the same for every team and have been like that for decades. You use it if you want it.

Lorenzo Brown is not even an end-of-the-bench NBA caliber player, if some national team can't handle him that means they aren't very good.

BTW I don't agree with that rule, and I would like to see some changes in the future. At least FIBA can ask to those naturalized players to have played a minimum of years ( three or more) for their domestic leagues or something like that.

[Nuntius]

Lorenzo Brown is not even an end-of-the-bench NBA caliber player

Which is what makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization all the more baffling.

[Saberestar]

Lorenzo Brown is not even an end-of-the-bench NBA caliber player

Which is what makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization all the more baffling.

That makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization more irrelevant. He is not a transcendent player.

[lambchop]

Lorenzo Brown is not even an end-of-the-bench NBA caliber player

Which is what makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization all the more baffling.

That makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization more irrelevant. He is not a transcendent player.

Whether or not he can excel in the NBA is irrelevant. If you put Domantas Sabonis on Spain's team instead of Brown, they probably lose to LTU, despite Domantas being a solidified NBA starter, just like 2004 LBJ and Wade struggled, even Tim Duncan had a hard time.

[Saberestar]

Which is what makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization all the more baffling.

That makes Lorenzo Brown's naturalization more irrelevant. He is not a transcendent player.

Whether or not he can excel in the NBA is irrelevant. If you put Domantas Sabonis on Spain's team instead of Brown, they probably lose to LTU, despite Domantas being a solidified NBA starter, just like 2004 LBJ and Wade struggled, even Tim Duncan had a hard time.

Yeah, I understand what you said, but the point is that Lorenzo Brown is not a game changer, not in EuroLeague neither. It’s not like they "signed" a great player to make the competition unbalanced.

Scariolo met him on the Raptors and that's the only connection that he had with Spain. With Rubio out and Sergio Rodriguez retired from the national team Scariolo and Garbajosa wanted a veteran PG to start for them...and that's why they naturalized Brown.

But he will not be part of the next big core from Spain, he is already 32 years old.

[UcanUwill]

How can you sey hes not a game changer, when he literally won a knowkout game? Was JR Holden also not a game changer, just because he wasnt in the NBA? Bo McCalebb, Mike Tobey? Give me a break, honestly, there are worse guys in the NBA every year then the ones I mentioned, it comes down to many factors why one sticks and other doesn't, it is not always that the guy just flat out sucks. Obviously Brown didnt suck, he dominated the game with 4 NBA players on the court.

[Dirk]

Is Scariolo the best coach in Europe?

[Mavrelous]

Any news on Wagner?