OT : Eurobasket 2025 - Türkiye and Greece in the Final 4

[UcanUwill]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

[UcanUwill]

Finland bounce back after underwhelming game vs neighbour Sweden. Blowing out Great Britain with no regards.

[AleksandarN]

Hopefully nothing too serious

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[Handlez]

Lauri is locked in.

Sheesh.

Get him out of Utah.

[UcanUwill]

Seems like Pesic didn't get his team motivated for todays game at all.

[Nuntius]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Miikka Muurinen represents a pretty major hope for Finland. His father, Kimmo, was a part of the Finnish NTs of the early 10s that helped make basketball more popular in Finland. He wasn't a starter but he was a part of their shooting identity as a perimeter-shooting PF. Miikka has all the tools to become a very good basketball player and he's just 18 years old.

If he develops properly, he's gonna be awesome next to Lauri. And if Miro Little develops as well then Finland is going to have a very good team for the next decade.

[Nuntius]

Seems like Pesic didn't get his team motivated for todays game at all.

It could be this or it could be that Portugal is just better than most of us expected. I mean, they did beat Czechia in the opener. I could definitely see Portugal advancing.

[Pokuokic]

There is way to many bad teams at Eurobasket they should just have the best 8 teams in Europe everyone outside of France, Serbia, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Lithuania, Italy, (normally I would say Spain but they look awful as well) and whatever two other teams is just garbage and has no business playing at any high level tournament.

Garbage qualification process absolute garbage product by Fiba. They need to have A division and B division cause man these teams have little to no talent and it's boring to watch unmotivated good teams playing these bad ones.

[Foliohattu]

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Muurinen is probably not ready for the tougher competition yet, but he's such an exciting prospect

[sisibilio]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Miikka Muurinen represents a pretty major hope for Finland. His father, Kimmo, was a part of the Finnish NTs of the early 10s that helped make basketball more popular in Finland. He wasn't a starter but he was a part of their shooting identity as a perimeter-shooting PF. Miikka has all the tools to become a very good basketball player and he's just 18 years old.

If he develops properly, he's gonna be awesome next to Lauri. And if Miro Little develops as well then Finland is going to have a very good team for the next decade.

He looks like a young Vesely who can also shoot.
Aaron Ekwere is another guy i've been impresed whenever i saw him play, if he develops any semblance of a jumpshot watch out.

[RookieStar]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Isn't this dude going to the NCAA this upcoming season or was it next?

[sisibilio]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Isn't this dude going to the NCAA this upcoming season or was it next?

Next season.

Duke target Miikka Muurinen has cut his list and he’s down to seven schools: Arkansas, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, NC State, and North Carolina.

[Zang]

[rafale]

Jokic against Portugal in 23 minutes : 23 pts (on 8/9 shooting) 10 rbds 3 assists 2 steals 2 blocks

Unstoppable in the NBA, the same in FIBA

[RookieStar]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Isn't this dude going to the NCAA this upcoming season or was it next?

Next season.

Duke target Miikka Muurinen has cut his list and he’s down to seven schools: Arkansas, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, NC State, and North Carolina.

Yeah... no wonder his name sounded familiar... his name was floating around already as a target from the P5 schools. Hope he chooses wisely.

[Nuntius]

Miikka Muurinen Holy Macaroni!!!!!!!!

Miikka Muurinen represents a pretty major hope for Finland. His father, Kimmo, was a part of the Finnish NTs of the early 10s that helped make basketball more popular in Finland. He wasn't a starter but he was a part of their shooting identity as a perimeter-shooting PF. Miikka has all the tools to become a very good basketball player and he's just 18 years old.

If he develops properly, he's gonna be awesome next to Lauri. And if Miro Little develops as well then Finland is going to have a very good team for the next decade.

He looks like a young Vesely who can also shoot.
Aaron Ekwere is another guy i've been impresed whenever i saw him play, if he develops any semblance of a jumpshot watch out.

The shooting definitely wasn't there for Ekwere in the u20 EuroBasket earlier this summer. He only shot 16.7% from 3. He definitely has athletic tools but the shooting needs to improve.

Frankly, looking at the stats of this year's u20 team for Finland, shooting was a problem across the board. They shot 20.7% from 3 throughout the tournament and their best shooters were only at 33.3%. That's why they finished 15th. They had a number of close games (4 of their 6 losses were in the single digits) that could have ended differently if they were able to make perimeter shots.

[mkot]

Jokic against Portugal in 23 minutes : 23 pts (on 8/9 shooting) 10 rbds 3 assists 2 steals 2 blocks

Unstoppable in the NBA, the same in FIBA

Looks like he didn't play the 4th?

The game wasn't close though, hopefully no concern on his health

[knicksfan974]

I am well on record, I hate naturalized players. I do not mind players with blood connection, I do not think most of them even count as naturalized, but due to FIBA rules sometimes they do. I hate guys like Brown, Nebo, Lloyd, Randolph playing for random teams, I have way more respect for teams that do not have these mercenary type of players, but very few nations are still openly against it. Like, I will just never respect last Spain gold, sorry, But I wont, end of story. I would rather see my nation lose than win medal with Lorenzo Brown, I am 100% serious.

In 00s, Russian giant clubs, when signing some Americans, they even included in their contracts that they should play for Russia if needed, and they were the ones pushing to eliminate naturalized player limit, they literally tried to turn FIBA into club Basketball, or at least their National team, that is like most pathetic loser move I have ever seen In FIBA politics ever. Just the fact naturalized player limit exist, I think is confirmation that they know it is wrong, if they didn't think that, why would they set the limit?

Spain Lorenzo Brown gold will forever be big asterisk gold for me. Big respect to all countries refusing to add naturalized random american, who has about zero connection to the country, to their national team roster. Those who fall for the random american mercenary option: shame on you.

[Mirotic12]

Jokic against Portugal in 23 minutes : 23 pts (on 8/9 shooting) 10 rbds 3 assists 2 steals 2 blocks

Unstoppable in the NBA, the same in FIBA

They were playing Portugal. Games like that are just about meaningless for a team like Serbia.

Portugal is like a 3rd or 4th tier European national team.

[Swuul]

And if Miro Little develops as well then Finland is going to have a very good team for the next decade.

Maybe Miro Little can still change the course of his development. He prolly made wrong career-decisions, got side-tracked, and he has lost confidence on his offensive skills.

The Finnish hopes for the next national team PG lay on the shoulders of the currently 17-year old Samu Adler.
https://www.prospectiveinsight.com/post/samu-adler
If he doesn't develop as projected, and if Miro Little doesn't find new life, the PG position looks to be extremely weak for Team Finland for at least the next decade. Basketball is a *very* small sport in Finland.