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mcmurphy wrote:Mamba81p wrote:Primarily those who don't ha e a long tradition( Greece, serbia, Lithuania), but nations that grew exponentially in the last 3 decades like Germany and spain and others
Greece, Serbia and Lithuania don't have a long tradition??
in 70s-80s
galis-giannakis,... in Greece
cosic-dalipagic-kikanovic,... in Serbia
zalgiris kaunas of sabonis-chomicius-kurtinaitis in Lithuania
lambchop wrote:Phreak50 wrote:NZ looking tired. A 15 hour turnaround between games and down 17 at the half.
I was about to say. Back to backs are pretty much unthinkable outside of the NBA. They do them in the youth international tournaments as well, but I can understand why NZ just can't handle it.
Ville5 wrote:By the way, Latvia won the very first EuroBasket in 1935. Spain was the runner-up.
Probably the formatting, but I believe that poster was giving the examples in brackets as teams that DO have a long tradition.LuDux1 wrote:mcmurphy wrote:Mamba81p wrote:Primarily those who don't ha e a long tradition( Greece, serbia, Lithuania), but nations that grew exponentially in the last 3 decades like Germany and spain and others
Greece, Serbia and Lithuania don't have a long tradition??
in 70s-80s
galis-giannakis,... in Greece
cosic-dalipagic-kikanovic,... in Serbia
zalgiris kaunas of sabonis-chomicius-kurtinaitis in Lithuania
And before that won Eurobasket in 1937 and 1939. 86 years and counting
og15 wrote:Probably the formatting, but I believe that poster was giving the examples in brackets as teams that DO have a long tradition.LuDux1 wrote:mcmurphy wrote:
Greece, Serbia and Lithuania don't have a long tradition??
in 70s-80s
galis-giannakis,... in Greece
cosic-dalipagic-kikanovic,... in Serbia
zalgiris kaunas of sabonis-chomicius-kurtinaitis in Lithuania
And before that won Eurobasket in 1937 and 1939. 86 years and counting
LuDux1 wrote:Ville5 wrote:By the way, Latvia won the very first EuroBasket in 1935. Spain was the runner-up.
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og15 wrote:Probably the formatting, but I believe that poster was giving the examples in brackets as teams that DO have a long tradition.LuDux1 wrote:mcmurphy wrote:
Greece, Serbia and Lithuania don't have a long tradition??
in 70s-80s
galis-giannakis,... in Greece
cosic-dalipagic-kikanovic,... in Serbia
zalgiris kaunas of sabonis-chomicius-kurtinaitis in Lithuania
And before that won Eurobasket in 1937 and 1939. 86 years and counting
ROballer wrote:Phreak50 wrote:ROballer wrote:
New Zealand is pushing for the Qualifying Tournament, there is a best Asia/Oceania spot left.
Assuming Japan makes the Olympics directly themselvez as the Asian direct berth, New Zealand can make the qualifying tourney if they take care of business in their games.
Ok cool, thank you.
I knew there were qualifying games for the Olympics but didn’t think another Oceania team could make it.
They can either make it as the best Asian/Oceania team or just by their overall classification. And they probably will, judging they already have a win from the first group phase.
The Olympic Qualifying tourney has 24 teams participating. 5 of them have qualified in the last 10 days via the Pre-Olimpic tourney.
The teams who made the main group phase have already a guaranteed spot for next summer's Qualifying tourney.
But 5 of them will qualify directly for the Olympics, 2 from Europe, 2 from the Americas. + Australia.
So the remaining 11 teams will be participating in the Qualifying tournament + 5 teams from the prequalifiers(Poland, Croatia, Bahamas, Bahrain and Cameroon) + best team from Asia/Oceania + best team from Africa(actually second best technically, the best teams from Asia and Africa make the Olympics directly).
18 spots filled, 6 remaining. Probably between Finland, New Zealand, China, Jordan, Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Phillipines, Mexico.
Assuming South Sudan and Japan make it directly for the Olympics.
Also probably New Zealand and any other African nation have another direct berth to the Qualifying tournament.
Out of these, 6 make it as well even though they have lost most of their games thus far.
Basically long story short, almost every damn team in this tournament, with very few exceptions...will be at worst in the Olympics qualifying tournament as well.
That's why you still see guys like Markkanen busting their asses against Cape Verde for what seems a meaningless purpose, Finland can't even get classified in the top 20 most likely. But there's still that spot up for grabs, that's why the teams will go all in even in these consolation groups.
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