OT : Eurobasket 2025

UcanUwill · Post #201 » by **UcanUwill** » Thu Aug 14, 2025 7:33 pm

LuDux1 wrote:1925-12-13 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 20:41
2025-8-14 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 105:109

Latvia scored 39 points in first quarter... I only watched second half tho, i do not know what happened there at the beginning.

Jellybeans · Post #202 » by **Jellybeans** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:57 am

UcanUwill wrote:
LuDux1 wrote:1925-12-13 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 20:41
2025-8-14 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 105:109

Latvia scored 39 points in first quarter... I only watched second half tho, i do not know what happened there at the beginning.

Nothing really.
Both teams where shooting like crazy. Only diff was that LV was shooting ft's and LT wasnt.
Hard to play 5 out when u dont have cutters.Best PG and SF injured.Too many standing around and doing nothing.
Bertans made 4/4 3s in first half and then was awful after the break as usual.
Quoting that one coach-sometimes good sometimes shiet

Swuul · Post #203 » by **Swuul** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:31 am

Latvia vs Lithuania was quite the nailbiter, went to over-time. Both teams *really* wanted to win the match. Of the other matches I've only seen highlights, but looks like Italy vs Argentina would have been a good match to see in full.

Reports on all the friendly matches from yesterday can be read at the Eurbobasket site (short reports on all, starts with a bit longer report on Latvia-Lithuania:
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-eurobasket-2025/news/unbeaten-lithuania-overcome-porzingis-latvia-in-ot-classic

UcanUwill · Post #204 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:03 am

pretty good odds for Slovenia vs Lithuania today, considering Lithuania on back to back and just played an overtime, tho Lithuania look pretty good so far.

Germany vs Turkey also today, Germany is a favorite understandably, Germany alos look good so far.
Belgium vs Great Britain, always wondered why Great Britain is basketball NT, when in Football, all these countries have their own teams, Maybe they just do not care for Basketball much so have united team...
Also, Portugal vs Iceland today.

UcanUwill · Post #205 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:08 am

Jellybeans wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
LuDux1 wrote:1925-12-13 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 20:41
2025-8-14 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 105:109

Latvia scored 39 points in first quarter... I only watched second half tho, i do not know what happened there at the beginning.

Nothing really.
Both teams where shooting like crazy. Only diff was that LV was shooting ft's and LT wasnt.
Hard to play 5 out when u dont have cutters.Best PG and SF injured.Too many standing around and doing nothing.
Bertans made 4/4 3s in first half and then was awful after the break as usual.
Quoting that one coach-sometimes good sometimes shiet

I am not familair with that Lomaž guy, but man he impressed. He will play for Neptūnas, so I am pretty exited.

Bob8 · Post #206 » by **Bob8** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:33 am

UcanUwill wrote:pretty good odds for Slovenia vs Lithuania today, considering Lithuania on back to back and just played an overtime, tho Lithuania look pretty good so far.

Germany vs Turkey also today, Germany is a favorite understandably, Germany alos look good so far.
Belgium vs Great Britain, always wondered why Great Britain is basketball NT, when in Football, all these countries have their own teams, Maybe they just do not care for Basketball much so have united team...
Also, Portugal vs Iceland today.

Are you sure Luka is playing?

sisibilio · Post #207 » by **sisibilio** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 9:01 am

Spain VS France was pretty bad. I known it's early and were missing Wemby and that s quite something (Aldama didn't play either) but France should have crushed this anyway. Wouldn't bet on them to go all the way in the Eurobasket tbh.

-Luke- · Post #208 » by **-Luke-** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 9:15 am

UcanUwill wrote:pretty good odds for Slovenia vs Lithuania today, considering Lithuania on back to back and just played an overtime, tho Lithuania look pretty good so far.

Germany vs Turkey also today, Germany is a favorite understandably, Germany alos look good so far.
Belgium vs Great Britain, always wondered why Great Britain is basketball NT, when in Football, all these countries have their own teams, Maybe they just do not care for Basketball much so have united team...
Also, Portugal vs Iceland today.

Serbia vs. Czech Republic also today. The winner plays the winner of Germany vs. Turkey tomorrow, it's a little tournament. So we may get a rematch of the 2023 World Cup final.

LuDux1 · Post #209 » by **LuDux1** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:10 am

LuDux1 wrote:1925-12-13 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 20:41
2025-8-14 @Riga: Latvia - Lithuania 105:109

Watch on YouTube

Mirotic12 · Post #210 » by **Mirotic12** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 2:45 pm

UcanUwill wrote:pretty good odds for Slovenia vs Lithuania today, considering Lithuania on back to back and just played an overtime, tho Lithuania look pretty good so far.

Germany vs Turkey also today, Germany is a favorite understandably, Germany alos look good so far.
Belgium vs Great Britain, always wondered why Great Britain is basketball NT, when in Football, all these countries have their own teams, Maybe they just do not care for Basketball much so have united team...
Also, Portugal vs Iceland today.

It's because of when London hosted the Olympics in 2012. FIBA refused to just give them an automatic place as the tournament hosts, because they had such a poor history in the sport.

So FIBA demanded a certain set of criteria that the national team had to meet in terms of actual competitive results.

They did have for example the Welsh, Scottish, and English national teams, but they didn't think they were strong enough to meet any of the criteria. Northern Ireland competes with Ireland.

So they used a combined Great Britain team to qualify and were able to do so.

Bob8 · Post #211 » by **Bob8** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 3:23 pm

UcanUwill wrote:pretty good odds for Slovenia vs Lithuania today, considering Lithuania on back to back and just played an overtime, tho Lithuania look pretty good so far.

Germany vs Turkey also today, Germany is a favorite understandably, Germany alos look good so far.
Belgium vs Great Britain, always wondered why Great Britain is basketball NT, when in Football, all these countries have their own teams, Maybe they just do not care for Basketball much so have united team...
Also, Portugal vs Iceland today.

Luka is not playing so I hope you didn't take odds on Slovenia.

UcanUwill · Post #212 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:25 pm

Bob8 wrote:
Luka is not playing so I hope you didn't take odds on Slovenia.

LOL, I didn't, I guess that was the reason for the odds, but I mean, Slovenia is not that terrible (without Doncic), and Lithuania on back to back and not like Lithuania is powerhouse, I just thought odds were pretty good.

That said, Lithuania comfortably leading.

Bob8 · Post #213 » by **Bob8** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:29 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
Bob8 wrote:
Luka is not playing so I hope you didn't take odds on Slovenia.

LOL, I didn't, I guess that was the reason for the odds, but I mean, Slovenia is not that terrible (without Doncic), and Lithuania on back to back and not like Lithuania is powerhouse, I just thought odds were pretty good.

That said, Lithuania comfortably leading.

Slovenia is very average with Luka and terrible without him. You should forget second game against Germany, it was more about Germany not taking seriously the game than Slovenia being good. Average Slovenian fan has never seen playing half of Slovenian players that should tell you everything about Slovenia. Coming out of the group is realistic goal for them, everything else is a success.

Lithuania looks pretty bad too, but playing the whole second Q with reserves, so I guess that's ok.

UcanUwill · Post #214 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:41 pm

Bob8 wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
Bob8 wrote:
Luka is not playing so I hope you didn't take odds on Slovenia.

LOL, I didn't, I guess that was the reason for the odds, but I mean, Slovenia is not that terrible (without Doncic), and Lithuania on back to back and not like Lithuania is powerhouse, I just thought odds were pretty good.

That said, Lithuania comfortably leading.

Slovenia is very average with Luka and terrible without him. You should forget second game against Germany, it was more about Germany not taking seriously the game than Slovenia being good. Average Slovenian fan has never seen playing half of Slovenian players that should tell you everything about Slovenia. Coming out of the group is realistic goal for them, everything else is a success.

Lithuania looks pretty bad too, but playing the whole second Q with reserves, so I guess that's ok.

I do not know many Slovenian players, as I only follow NBA and Euroleague these days. But I tried to look at it from this perspective - lots of Lithuanian players also not playing in NBA or Euroleague, and if I wasn't Lithuanian i wouldn't even know them, but some of these players are pretty good, so I tried to give Slovenia the benefit of doubt.

UcanUwill · Post #215 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:48 pm

My family member met Darius Songaila today, her coworker was more exited

UcanUwill · Post #216 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:51 pm

Bruh, Dirk had better FIBA teammates than what Luka has now. This is not good.

DanEu · Post #217 » by **DanEu** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:00 pm

UcanUwill wrote:Bruh, Dirk had better FIBA teammates than what Luka has now. This is not good.

That's just the reality. There isn't a single eurleage level player on that team right now.

UcanUwill · Post #218 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:11 pm

LuDux1 wrote:...

DO you have aby idea who will be cut by Kurtinaitis? This is the first time maybe ever where I have no clue, usually you can tell before the games even start who will not be there at the end.

UcanUwill · Post #219 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:34 pm

Luka does look skinny, he definitely lost weight.

Bob8 · Post #220 » by **Bob8** » Fri Aug 15, 2025 6:34 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
Bob8 wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
LOL, I didn't, I guess that was the reason for the odds, but I mean, Slovenia is not that terrible (without Doncic), and Lithuania on back to back and not like Lithuania is powerhouse, I just thought odds were pretty good.

That said, Lithuania comfortably leading.

Slovenia is very average with Luka and terrible without him. You should forget second game against Germany, it was more about Germany not taking seriously the game than Slovenia being good. Average Slovenian fan has never seen playing half of Slovenian players that should tell you everything about Slovenia. Coming out of the group is realistic goal for them, everything else is a success.

Lithuania looks pretty bad too, but playing the whole second Q with reserves, so I guess that's ok.

I do not know many Slovenian players, as I only follow NBA and Euroleague these days. But I tried to look at it from this perspective - lots of Lithuanian players also not playing in NBA or Euroleague, and if I wasn't Lithuanian i wouldn't even know them, but some of these players are pretty good, so I tried to give Slovenia the benefit of doubt.

I don't know about Lithuanian players, but believe me Slovenian players are not only unknown but also bad.

European champion will be?