OT : Eurobasket 2025

[Mirotic12]

Who's Slovenia's naturalized player? Is it still Mike Tobey? Or is it Nebo? Haven't watched a single game yet

It was supposed to be Nebo, who is much better than Tobey, but he's still not recovered from a serious injury. Considering how long he's been out, he probably wouldn't be of much help anyway.

[Mirotic12]

Slovenia has really regressed in their national team. Only worse regressions in recent times are probably Argentina and Russia.

Slovenia's case of regression is even worse than Italy's was some years back, because Italy still had players, they just refused to play defense or share the ball on offense.

Going back to the 2000s, that Slovenia from that era, could probably arguably be a top 2 or even top 1 team on paper at this tournament. If you added Luka to a team like that, it would be the favorite.

[Bob8]

Who's Slovenia's naturalized player? Is it still Mike Tobey? Or is it Nebo? Haven't watched a single game yet

Omic. Olimpia Milano didn't allow Cancar and Nebo to play.

[Bob8]

Who's Slovenia's naturalized player? Is it still Mike Tobey? Or is it Nebo? Haven't watched a single game yet

It was supposed to be Nebo, who is much better than Tobey, but he's still not recovered from a serious injury. Considering how long he's been out, he probably wouldn't be of much help anyway.

No, he wanted to play, but in last second Olimpia Milano said no, the same thing happened to Cancar.

[Bob8]

Yeah, what was that guys name, he should be on one of these youth teams? .

Klavzar? Joksimovic? Vide?

https://www.eurohoops.net/en/trademarks/1456594/ziga-samar-emerging-as-the-next-big-guard-from-slovenia/

He's not playing for personal reasons.

[Bob8]

Slovenia has really regressed in their national team. Only worse regressions in recent times are probably Argentina and Russia.

Slovenia's case of regression is even worse than Italy's was some years back, because Italy still had players, they just refused to play defense or share the ball on offense.

Going back to the 2000s, that Slovenia from that era, could probably arguably be a top 2 or even top 1 team on paper at this tournament. If you added Luka to a team like that, it would be the favorite.

Yes they regressed, but they would still be much better team with Cancar, Nebo, Samar and Blazic. That's basically 4 starters missing.

[Mirotic12]

Yes they regressed, but they would still be much better team with Cancar, Nebo, Samar and Blazic. That's basically 4 starters missing.

They wouldn't have needed guys like Tobey, Randolph, Nebo in the 2000s era. Even when they won EuroBasket, they wouldn't have gotten a medal without Randolph.

It's just strange how they went to one good player so fast.

[Bob8]

Yes they regressed, but they would still be much better team with Cancar, Nebo, Samar and Blazic. That's basically 4 starters missing.

They wouldn't have needed guys like Tobey, Randolph, Nebo in the 2000s era. Even when they won EuroBasket, they wouldn't have gotten a medal without Randolph.

It's just strange how they went to one good player so fast.

They didn't produce good C for a long time, that's why those players played. The last half decent C was Vidmar. My guess is not enough big boys in 2 mio nation. Difficult to do anything about that.

Bigger problem is that Luka is the youngest player they successfully added to NT, consequently he has no one to play with. And nothing will change in next few years. It's very questionable if they can build good team in Luka's window.

[Swuul]

Every place I look it says they joined FIBA in 1992 and can't find anything before that.

I can't, because only the national associations were and are FIBA members. For example Basketball England was always reprsesented by Basketball Great Britain in FIBA committees. In 1996 it was decided, that no sub-associations could take part in any FIBA sanctioned tournaments either, only teams presenting the parent associaction (hence England, Scotland and Wales could no longer take part in FIBA sanctioned tournaments).

I played in 1980 or 1981 (or maybe 1982?) in a FIBA youth tournament (could have been a friendly tournament, can't really remember anymore), where three of the six teams came from Soviet Union (Soviet Union, Kazakstan and Lithuania, if memory serves right). Wish I had any photos from that.

[vagelis]

Giannis slaps his teammate Larentzakis.
That is not a good behavior

Giannis already has some bad behaviors during time.

The incident with the ladder, hitting Harden with the ball in the head, putting his leg in purpose to injure Irving in playoffs and now this.

[Ruma85]

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

Read on Twitter

Majstor.

Found a better replay of it. I mean a no look behind the back over the head tap pass is wild

Read on Twitter

Love it.

[Dr Aki]

[Mrakar]

Was at Serbia - Germany game last night. Serbia played the game at 60%. Jokic didnt even shot. Wagner was god awful for Germany for 3 qrtrs and then woke up late. Serbs let him shoot open 3s, went under a lot. What happend to his shot? Fun fact: even though game was played in Munich Germany, that didnt feel like away game for Serbia, there was at least 30% serbs in the stands.

First game of the night, Czech Rep vs Turkey was awful, it looked like middle schoolers game compared to the finals. Sengun didnt play but still...

[durden_tyler]

SERBIA leads the pack at +130 but Germany (+350), France (+500) are close behind.

[UcanUwill]

France announced final 12. Funny thing, was it last week they cut Hornets center Debate, but days later Poirier got injured and he wont be able to play, so France called Diabate again, but he said - no, I am good...

France roster

C: Alexandre Sarr, Mouhammadou Jaiteh
PF: Guerschon Yabusele, Jaylen Hoard
SF: Zaccharie Risacher, Bilal Coulibaly, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot
SG: Elie Okobo, Isaia Cordinier
PG: Theo Maledon, Sylvain Francisco, Matthew Strazel

Man, France centers : Victor, Rudy, Lessort, Poirier, Fall.but Mouhammadou Jaiteh is going to Eurobasket.

[UcanUwill]

SERBIA leads the pack at +130 but Germany (+350), France (+500) are close behind.

I really hate that +100 bet odds format, do all countries use that, cause we don't? it is so needlessly more confusing than just saying 2.0.

[bravor]

France announced final 12. Funny thing, was it last week they cut Hornets center Debate, but days later Poirier got injured and he wont be able to play, so France called Diabate again, but he said - no, I am good...

France roster

C: Alexandre Sarr, Mouhammadou Jaiteh
PF: Guerschon Yabusele, Jaylen Hoard
SF: Zaccharie Risacher, Bilal Coulibaly, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot
SG: Elie Okobo, Isaia Cordinier
PG: Theo Maledon, Sylvain Francisco, Matthew Strazel

Man, France centers : Victor, Rudy, Lessort, Poirier, Fall.but Mouhammadou Jaiteh is going to Eurobasket.

Does not matter. That will be very experimental frontcourt. 'Normal' frontcourt for the future will be around Raynaud/Wembanyama + Risacher/Coulibaly (at the wing). Pf spot will be a mix of players (Sarr being one of them, Victor probably as well in Fiba bball).
Knowing there are other options at the 4/5 spots (like Tillie, Batcho..).

Diabate refused to come back and staff did not want to call (insist on) another option (we had Bodian Massa that made the preparation, and some other possible options).

Our main issue will remain the consistency on both ends - of our backcourt compare to other teams.

We are not competiting with best teams (far from it). We belong to the Finland/Turkey etc tier (and that's being optimistic).

[BruttoNostra]

Every place I look it says they joined FIBA in 1992 and can't find anything before that.

I can't, because only the national associations were and are FIBA members. For example Basketball England was always reprsesented by Basketball Great Britain in FIBA committees. In 1996 it was decided, that no sub-associations could take part in any FIBA sanctioned tournaments either, only teams presenting the parent associaction (hence England, Scotland and Wales could no longer take part in FIBA sanctioned tournaments).

I played in 1980 or 1981 (or maybe 1982?) in a FIBA youth tournament (could have been a friendly tournament, can't really remember anymore), where three of the six teams came from Soviet Union (Soviet Union, Kazakstan and Lithuania, if memory serves right). Wish I had any photos from that.

That's the point. Each republic indeed had separate teams, it's just they competed only in internal USSR tournaments and sometimes some friendly, non-FIBA tournaments (just like another poster shared a photo of LT youth team against US college team or something)

[knicksfan974]

Markkanen with another casual 42/12 performance in less than 24mins, this time in a win against Poland.

[Ruma85]

Markkanen with another casual 42/12 performance in less than 24mins, this time in a win against Poland.

Looking forward to watching the highlights in the morning.