OT : Eurobasket 2025

sisibilio · Post #481 » by **sisibilio** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:44 pm

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
Nuntius wrote:Good win by Greece in the opener.

It’s Poland not Greece , and they have their own Jordan ……..Loyd

Greece - Italy were playing also now.

Greek · Post #482 » by **Greek** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:44 pm

Good win against Italy, Giannis dominated with 31 14/20 3/4 FT 6rebs 2 assists 5 turnovers. No other Greek got a double digits. Still actually maybe we have a few shooters right now, but we have a hole in rebounds. Still scrappy team anyone who face us will suffer.

Edit: keep your eyes on Saliou Niang from Italy, he oozes potential

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Post #483 » by **Nuntius** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:44 pm

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
Nuntius wrote:Good win by Greece in the opener.

It’s Poland not Greece , and they have their own Jordan ……..Loyd

I mean, Greece - Italy was also playing

Archx · Post #484 » by **Archx** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:47 pm

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:Luka Oncic with some O but no D

Nico was right

34/4/9, 5STLs, 2BLKs and efficiency index of 42. Plus played entire 2nd half even at center position because Slovenia has nothing there. Yeah, he's done so bad :lol:

The fact that he managed to collect 9 assists with this YMCA team is quite amazing.

Loyd also amazing 32pts with eff index 30 for Poland.

KGtabake · Post #485 » by **KGtabake** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:50 pm

Georgia and Poland will make noise.
Pretty decent for underdogs.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #486 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:51 pm

KGtabake wrote:Georgia and Poland will make noise.
Pretty decent for underdogs.

Felt bad for Polish fans wearing Jeremy Sochan jerseys and he’s not even there

Mirotic12 · Post #487 » by **Mirotic12** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:04 pm

Andreas Obst
Mateusz Ponitka
Giannoulis Larentzakis
Vaidas Kariniauskas
Jordan Loyd
etc., etc., etc.

It's always funny how any random EuroLeague, EuroCup, or FIBA BCL role player can look so good in these national team tournaments like the Olympics, World Cup, or EuroBasket.

And if it's something low level like the AmeriCup - FIBA BCL / EuroCup level guys look like all time greats.

The funniest one is Zach Auguste on Team USA - he was not good enough to even make Greece's training camp, yet is Team USA's best big man.

RookieStar · Post #488 » by **RookieStar** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:16 pm

lambchop wrote:Luka with Slovenia reminds me of Dirk playing for Germany. These teams would struggle to beat the likes of Cyprus and Croatia without that one all time great star player.

Doesn't Croatia have NBA-caliber guys in its team?

Where is Croatia anyway? Why aren't they playing?

Archx · Post #489 » by **Archx** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:19 pm

RookieStar wrote:
lambchop wrote:Luka with Slovenia reminds me of Dirk playing for Germany. These teams would struggle to beat the likes of Cyprus and Croatia without that one all time great star player.

Doesn't Croatia have NBA-caliber guys in its team?

Where is Croatia anyway? Why aren't they playing?

They have Zubac.

RookieStar · Post #490 » by **RookieStar** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:31 pm

Archx wrote:
RookieStar wrote:
lambchop wrote:Luka with Slovenia reminds me of Dirk playing for Germany. These teams would struggle to beat the likes of Cyprus and Croatia without that one all time great star player.

Doesn't Croatia have NBA-caliber guys in its team?

Where is Croatia anyway? Why aren't they playing?

They have Zubac.

Don't they have former Magic great Crobe?

darmani · Post #491 » by **darmani** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:33 pm

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sisibilio · Post #492 » by **sisibilio** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:42 pm

If he always played vs Slovenia, then sure.

Mirotic12 · Post #493 » by **Mirotic12** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:59 pm

sisibilio wrote:If he always played vs Slovenia, then sure.

And if it was just FIBA level. He's not really all that effective at the EuroLeague level, which on average, has much better teams and players.

CharityStripe34 · Post #494 » by **CharityStripe34** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:14 pm

Greece had a solid win but a lot of sloppy turnovers and the alarming thing, for me, is the clear lack of chemistry between Sloukas and Giannis. He couldn't throw a proper lob and the timing was off. Even the diminutive Toliopoulos threw some good passes. I'm hoping Spanoulis uses Giannis more as a high-post hub sometimes to get some open shooters like Dorsey and Larentzakis. Italy played hard and stayed in the game when we were up double digits and got a bit too comfortable.

CharityStripe34 · Post #495 » by **CharityStripe34** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:15 pm

Mirotic12 wrote:
CharityStripe34 wrote:And yet the Spaniards won in 2022. Go figure. Though no Scariolo this time.

Scariolo is still Spain's head coach.

https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-eurobasket-2025/teams/spain#roster

It's amazing how overrated Scariolo has become among fans, because he finished in the top 3 places in the national team tournaments, with the best or second best team.

As soon as he didn't have a top tier team, the good results stopped.

Spain didn't make it out of the group stage at the 2024 Olympics.

Scariolo is just considered an average level coach in EuroLeague. He made a great career move for marketing reasons with the fans, when he took on Spain's job. Now, he's super overrated from people thinking he's some great coach, when he isn't.

He's the most overrated basketball coach by fans ever.

Yeah, but Eurobasket is not exactly the Euroleague either. It's a bit "easier" for an underdog team to surprise some people, especially with good coaching. 2022 was a great example.

Mirotic12 · Post #496 » by **Mirotic12** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:30 pm

CharityStripe34 wrote:Greece had a solid win but a lot of sloppy turnovers and the alarming thing, for me, is the clear lack of chemistry between Sloukas and Giannis. He couldn't throw a proper lob and the timing was off. Even the diminutive Toliopoulos threw some good passes. I'm hoping Spanoulis uses Giannis more as a high-post hub sometimes to get some open shooters like Dorsey and Larentzakis. Italy played hard and stayed in the game when we were up double digits and got a bit too comfortable.

Sloukas is the second most selfish and egotistical player in Europe, behind only Mike James.

Anyone that has followed Sloukas' career knows what a huge cancer he is to his teams.

Spanoulis and Giannis had a beautiful combo in the pick and roll, and it was one of Greece's best plays, whenever they played.

So, if you have Spanoulis as the coach, and Sloukas is a great passer himself and great at pick and roll....

There is zero reason for chemistry issues, other than the huge ego Sloukas has. It's why a lot of people didn't even care if he was on the team anymore.

Let's just hope he doesn't start his team destroying antics.

Mirotic12 · Post #497 » by **Mirotic12** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:33 pm

CharityStripe34 wrote:Yeah, but Eurobasket is not exactly the Euroleague either. It's a bit "easier" for an underdog team to surprise some people, especially with good coaching. 2022 was a great example.

2022 was an example of a title being purchased through free agency. Unfortunately, so was 2017. It's happened in the last two tournaments. But 2022 was at a ludicrous level.

They didn't win in 2022 because of Scariolo. Unless we are crediting him for completing the free agency deal.

Handlez · Post #498 » by **Handlez** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:42 pm

Poor Luka.

So loyal to his nation, but very little help.

Slovenia is turrible.

boogiezen · Post #499 » by **boogiezen** » Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:43 am

Luka looks reallyyyyyyyy GOOD, and that's all that matters.

boogiezen · Post #500 » by **boogiezen** » Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:49 am

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:Luka Oncic with some O but no D

Nico was right

I know you're sacred.

European champion will be?