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UcanUwill wrote: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.
LuDux1 wrote:UcanUwill wrote: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.
Of course. Rubštavičius, Birutis or Blaževičius, one of guards
DanEu wrote: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.
Mirotic12 wrote: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.
AleksandarN wrote:Wtf did I just watch. That’s Shameful and disrespectful treating the Czechs like they are the Washington Generals globetrotting the **** out of them lol
RookieStar wrote:If Germany had trouble guarding a Sengun-Turkey team, they are gonna get stomped against a Jokic-Serbia team. They really don't have quality bigs in their lineup huh? I cant wait to see what Theis will try to do to stop Jokic....
Mirotic12 wrote:RookieStar wrote:If Germany had trouble guarding a Sengun-Turkey team, they are gonna get stomped against a Jokic-Serbia team. They really don't have quality bigs in their lineup huh? I cant wait to see what Theis will try to do to stop Jokic....
Theis looked almost totally washed up with Monaco in EuroLeague. He was slow and couldn't move his feet. He basically couldn't guard anyone.
Guards that could shoot from long range were often killing him on switches and he couldn't consistently keep opposing bigs from grabbing offensive rebounds. He was an absolute disaster on defense in the EuroLeague Final, with Fener's guards just torching him on switches.
If he plays anything like he did in EuroLeague, he could be a defensive liability for Germany against the better teams.
RookieStar wrote:Mirotic12 wrote:RookieStar wrote:If Germany had trouble guarding a Sengun-Turkey team, they are gonna get stomped against a Jokic-Serbia team. They really don't have quality bigs in their lineup huh? I cant wait to see what Theis will try to do to stop Jokic....
Theis looked almost totally washed up with Monaco in EuroLeague. He was slow and couldn't move his feet. He basically couldn't guard anyone.
Guards that could shoot from long range were often killing him on switches and he couldn't consistently keep opposing bigs from grabbing offensive rebounds. He was an absolute disaster on defense in the EuroLeague Final, with Fener's guards just torching him on switches.
If he plays anything like he did in EuroLeague, he could be a defensive liability for Germany against the better teams.
Yup thats why i said i cant wait to see what he will try to do. Cant believe GER cant find better bigs than the ones they are bringing in right now.
-Luke- wrote:RookieStar wrote:Mirotic12 wrote:
Theis looked almost totally washed up with Monaco in EuroLeague. He was slow and couldn't move his feet. He basically couldn't guard anyone.
Guards that could shoot from long range were often killing him on switches and he couldn't consistently keep opposing bigs from grabbing offensive rebounds. He was an absolute disaster on defense in the EuroLeague Final, with Fener's guards just torching him on switches.
If he plays anything like he did in EuroLeague, he could be a defensive liability for Germany against the better teams.
Yup thats why i said i cant wait to see what he will try to do. Cant believe GER cant find better bigs than the ones they are bringing in right now.
Could have really used Hartenstein this year (and going forward). Theis and Voigtmann (who didn't play yesterday) both lost a step or more. But a few good German bigs could come into the NBA in the next years.
Swuul wrote:Mirotic12 wrote: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.
Uhmmm... No?
Until 1996 FIBA accepted certain nations sub-associations be (in spesifically mentioned cases) presented in their tournaments (which is why for example the Socialist Republic of Kazakstan could take part in FIBA tournaments when Soviet Union existed). In 1996 FIBA decided that would not be the case anymore (Olympic games in Atlanta were the last time there could be such sub-associations present in FIBA sanctioned tournaments).
In UK that caused a problem, because Basketball Great Britain had existed for a long time already (and the Basketball organisations of England, Scotland and Wales were (and still are) its sub-organisations), but Basketball North Ireland was not part of Great Britain Basketball (and didn't want to be in the future either). In the end (in 1999) FIBA made a ruling, that Basketball Great Britain represents the whole GB island, and Basketball Ireland reprsesents all of the island of Ireland; a ruling which left the basketballers from Northern Ireland miffed (I don't know if any Northern Ireland basketballers have to this day reprsented Ireland in any FIBA organised tournaments (to be honest, I don't know how big basketball is in Northern Ireland)).
That is why there is no UK (Great Britain & Northern Ireland) in international basketball, and why there is also no longer England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland in international basketball.
AleksandarN wrote:Wtf did I just watch. That’s Shameful and disrespectful treating the Czechs like they are the Washington Generals globetrotting the **** out of them lol
BruttoNostra wrote:Can you pls provide a link for the bold part?
Every place I look it says they joined FIBA in 1992 and can't find anything before that.
Ruma85 wrote:AleksandarN wrote:Wtf did I just watch. That’s Shameful and disrespectful treating the Czechs like they are the Washington Generals globetrotting the **** out of them lol
Majstor.
Bob8 wrote:I don't know about Lithuanian players, but believe me Slovenian players are not only unknown but also bad.