OT : Eurobasket 2025 semifinals | Türkiye vs Greece | & | Finland vs Germany |

RookieStar · Post #1761 » by **RookieStar** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 10:22 am

I think LIT has the "beef" to build an effective wall against Giannis.

UcanUwill · Post #1762 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 10:40 am

RookieStar wrote:I think LIT has the "beef" to build an effective wall against Giannis.

It will be interesting to see what a role Jonas will have. He is the beefiest, but also, Giannis is super fast too. Tubelis was put on Zagars, which was crazy idea, but it worked, him and Sedekerskis can hang with Giannis on foot speed, but they might be too weak, Sedekerskis often has trouble defending bigger post players.

mpoo_sin · Post #1763 » by **mpoo_sin** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 10:53 am

UcanUwill wrote:
knicksfan974 wrote:So who you picking for today's games, TUR-POL and LTU-GRE? Turkey seems like a clear favorite in the first game, but I have a feeling LTU-GRE will be a really close one, and I'm picking Lithuania.

My heart wants Poland vs Lithuania semis, but my head says it will be Turkey vs Greece.

TUR vs GRE would be an epic semi.

LuDux1 · Post #1764 » by **LuDux1** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 11:13 am

UcanUwill wrote:
RookieStar wrote:I think LIT has the "beef" to build an effective wall against Giannis.

It will be interesting to see what a role Jonas will have. He is the beefiest, but also, Giannis is super fast too. Tubelis was put on Zagars, which was crazy idea, but it worked, him and Sedekerskis can hang with Giannis on foot speed, but they might be too weak, Sedekerskis often has trouble defending bigger post players.

It's more common than you think, even google AI knows it. I remember Maskvytis putting Sedekerskis on PGs in Neptunas, probably not from the beginning

UcanUwill · Post #1765 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 11:17 am

LuDux1 wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
RookieStar wrote:I think LIT has the "beef" to build an effective wall against Giannis.

It will be interesting to see what a role Jonas will have. He is the beefiest, but also, Giannis is super fast too. Tubelis was put on Zagars, which was crazy idea, but it worked, him and Sedekerskis can hang with Giannis on foot speed, but they might be too weak, Sedekerskis often has trouble defending bigger post players.

It's more common than you think, even google AI knows it. I remember Maskvytis putting Sedekerskis on PGs in Neptunas, probably not from the beginning

Yeah, but young Sedekerskis wasn't even a bigman really, he was running pick and rolls on youth teams, and he is as I said one of the most versatile PF defenders in Europe, but he is like 6'8. Tubelis is taller, more of a center, at least would be on some teams, but guy is guarding offensive point guards, I didn't expect to see that.

CharityStripe34 · Post #1766 » by **CharityStripe34** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 1:18 pm

EDIT: Nevermind

I think both Poland and Lithuania are going to give Turkey and Greece trouble. They won't be easy.

knicksfan974 · Post #1767 » by **knicksfan974** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 2:40 pm

Jordan Loyd is a true mercenary american without any real ties to Poland, right? Because I would like to support them vs Turkey but I'm strongly against mercenaries.

El Turco · Post #1768 » by **El Turco** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 2:42 pm

Sengun could probably start at quarterback for half the nfl teams

schnakenpopanz · Post #1769 » by **schnakenpopanz** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 3:59 pm

Turkey with an relativley easy win.
Greece vs Turkey would be an epic match up

kaansunman · Post #1770 » by **kaansunman** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:00 pm

knicksfan974 wrote:Jordan Loyd is a true mercenary american without any real ties to Poland, right? Because I would like to support them vs Turkey but I'm strongly against mercenaries.

Jordan is their mercenary, Shane Larkin is ours.

It was a comfortable game after first period until the last 2 mins of thrid quarter where we build 23 point lead. Alperen's chase to triple double killed the team's rythm a bit and gave Poland an oppurtunity cut the lead to 11.

Anyhow, first final four after 23 years, we missed that!

Mirotic12 · Post #1771 » by **Mirotic12** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:07 pm

kaansunman wrote:I'd like to think that Sweeden game was a wake up call for us and the team will be ready to face Poland. It's exciting for us since it is our first quarter finals since 2009. I believe in Coach Ataman's experience and self trust will reflect to the players.

Finaldn vs. Georgia will be a fun one to watch since two upsetters face each other.

I am always an admirer to Lithuanian Basketball so even thoug Greece is the favourites, I'll be rooting for Lietuva anyhow.

That 2009 quarterfinal was such a great game. Maybe not for Turkish fans. But that was definitely of the best EuroBasket games ever.

Mirotic12 · Post #1772 » by **Mirotic12** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:11 pm

knicksfan974 wrote:Jordan Loyd is a true mercenary american without any real ties to Poland, right? Because I would like to support them vs Turkey but I'm strongly against mercenaries.

Yeah, he's a national team free agent signing, like L. Brown, Tobey, Randolph, Nebo, etc.

Mirotic12 · Post #1773 » by **Mirotic12** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:14 pm

kaansunman wrote:Jordan is their mercenary, Shane Larkin is ours.

Larkin has at least played in Turkey for a long time. Loyd has never even played for a Polish club.

El Turco · Post #1774 » by **El Turco** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:15 pm

In the beginning he was a mercenary but Larkin has lived in Turkey for 7 years by now, probably would've gotten a citizenship even without the national team.

Beat me to it.

holdenwait · Post #1775 » by **holdenwait** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:17 pm

yeah boiiiiiiiiii

kaansunman · Post #1776 » by **kaansunman** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:39 pm

Mirotic12 wrote:
kaansunman wrote:I'd like to think that Sweeden game was a wake up call for us and the team will be ready to face Poland. It's exciting for us since it is our first quarter finals since 2009. I believe in Coach Ataman's experience and self trust will reflect to the players.

Finaldn vs. Georgia will be a fun one to watch since two upsetters face each other.

I am always an admirer to Lithuanian Basketball so even thoug Greece is the favourites, I'll be rooting for Lietuva anyhow.

That 2009 quarterfinal was such a great game. Maybe not for Turkish fans. But that was definitely of the best EuroBasket games ever.

It was a great game indeed. Still I couldn't get over it. Spanoulis had cooked us but also miss free throws hurt us a lot. The teams that we beat in group stages (Spain and Serbia) played the finals.

MoreyWins · Post #1777 » by **MoreyWins** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 4:47 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
Bad Bart wrote:How's Luka's conditioning looking?

His current USG% is 41.1 and he plays some of the best defense he ever played, so I think it is good.

Could you help me find Alperen Sengun's usage this tournament?

UcanUwill · Post #1778 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 5:29 pm

MoreyWins wrote:
UcanUwill wrote:
Bad Bart wrote:How's Luka's conditioning looking?

His current USG% is 41.1 and he plays some of the best defense he ever played, so I think it is good.

Could you help me find Alperen Sengun's usage this tournament?

I think a lot of people do not even know this, but Real GM has stats for many many international leagues and tournaments, I get these stats right from here, RealGM is usually where i look up Euroleague and NBA stats too :lol:

They just take time updating it, so they can be a good day behind and most recent games not in database, according to RealGM, Senguns USG% is 30.3, which is very high, but only 17th. in this tournament as of now.

https://basketball.realgm.com/national/tournament/7/EuroBasket/362/stats/2025/Advanced_Stats/All/points/All/desc/1

Deivork · Post #1779 » by **Deivork** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 6:02 pm

Anybody know a stream to watch Lithuania Greece online?

Gusto1903 · Post #1780 » by **Gusto1903** » Tue Sep 9, 2025 6:16 pm

Bro Sengun is the best player, the turkey has ever had, and he's still only 23 lol

European champion will be (poll starting at 1/4 finals) ?