Official FIBA World Championship Thread (and long preview)

Leolovinliberal · Post #461 » by **Leolovinliberal** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:54 am

ahonui06 wrote:
Greek wrote:
UGA Hayes wrote:Interesting about Calathes. When he entered the draft Hollingers draft rater thing, which I think is pretty good for non-freshman rated him really high and he went on record saying he is absolutely an NBA talent. How did he do in Europe this year.

Also Maciej Lampe played in a summer league game for the CAvs this year and I was sort of impressed. He was in much better shape and more mobile than I remember in his first go around. Seemed to me like he could stick in the right situation

Every player who is playing for coach Obradovic, has 2 options. Be great or be lost. Well looks like that Calathes and Tepic are the recent bets of him. I guess that we will not miss Papaloukas at all after all...

Good job Greece, but why is Calathes playing on the Greek National Team?

Um, because hes Greek. Sometimes the answers are that easy. lol His real last name would be pronounced something like Kala-thees

RUDYxBLAZERS · Post #462 » by **RUDYxBLAZERS** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:54 am

So Spain plays Slovenia today (Tuesday) at 830 PM Spain time? and that would be 230 PM eastern time?

and does anyone know where I could get a link for it? It's on a channel called LaSexta....

Any help is appreciated....

peja_the_legend · Post #463 » by **peja_the_legend** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:36 am

Calathes is an American of greek descent.Greek federation saw a guy with a greek name doing well in Usa highschool leagues and decided to call him.

koko · Post #464 » by **koko** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:40 am

RUDYxBLAZERS wrote:So Spain plays Slovenia today (Tuesday) at 830 PM Spain time? and that would be 230 PM eastern time?

and does anyone know where I could get a link for it? It's on a channel called LaSexta....

Any help is appreciated....

Try here during gametime http://www.atdhe.net/index.html

Maybe here with a spanish proxy http://www.lasextadeportes.com/inicio

jinxed · Post #465 » by **jinxed** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:45 pm

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?match ... art=sports

try there for a link

linged · Post #466 » by **linged** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:44 pm

Just watched the first half of Spain - Slovenia, and it was quite incredible how Rubio managed to look pretty good despite his stats being probably 0 across the board.
Basically every great pass he delivered, the bigmen fumbled or got fouled.

And I have to say, he certainly did not look slow but passed slovenian guards several times.
The offensive defense didn't really pay off this halftime though and lead to some holes in the defense when beaten.

The spanish team has plenty of strong players btw, that is a real force even without Pau Gasol.

linged · Post #467 » by **linged** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:07 pm

The kid gambles to much on defense in this game, playing that offensively he obviously will get burned.
Probably can afford it due to this being a friendy.

AkeemTheDream · Post #468 » by **AkeemTheDream** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:27 pm

peja_the_legend wrote:Calathes is an American of greek descent.Greek federation saw a guy with a greek name doing well in Usa highschool leagues and decided to call him.

Not really. Nick Calathes isn't even a Greek name. Nikos Kalathis is a Greek name. Nick Calathes is just an Americanized version of the name Nikos Kalathis. Kalathis would be the actual name of his family, not "Calathes".

"Calathes" is just a made up name to get a US passport.

sdeezy · Post #469 » by **sdeezy** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:45 pm

I'm watching this Spain-Slovenia game and i'm not impressed with the spaniards thus far.

Rasho Brezec · Post #470 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:48 pm

It's the grand opening of a new arena, Spaniards aren't allowed to win tonight.

koko · Post #471 » by **koko** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:49 pm

Dragic is a punk.

linged · Post #472 » by **linged** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:49 pm

Refs are d-whistling in one direction pretty much, that is true.

Rasho Brezec · Post #473 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:50 pm

koko wrote:Dragic is a punk.

You spelled Rudy Fernandez wrong.

koko · Post #474 » by **koko** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:52 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:
koko wrote:Dragic is a punk.

You spelled Rudy Fernandez wrong.

Rudy might be a punk too, he likes to get to other players ears a lot, but Dragic is a punk no matter what Rudy be.

Notas A3 · Post #475 » by **Notas A3** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:52 pm

Refs are bad tonight, but our game (Im spaniard) has been awful, probably the worst game of Spain I have ever watched in the last two years.

linged · Post #476 » by **linged** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:52 pm

Oh come on, that situation wasn't much to get upset about.

linged · Post #477 » by **linged** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:54 pm

eltalavk wrote:Refs are bad tonight, but our game (Im spaniard) has been awful, probably the worst game of Spain I have ever watched in the last two years.

Yeah, Spains game isn't working that well, but this would be the 5th game or so in about 10 days so it is just natural to not play great in every testmatch.

koko · Post #478 » by **koko** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:54 pm

Spain is playing horrible but Marc Gasol is on fire, omg, the poster and the two fadeaways were sweet.

RipCityLives · Post #479 » by **RipCityLives** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:54 pm

LOL, the game is obviously rigged in Slovenia's favour and they cant win after all.....

Marc Gasol

Rasho Brezec · Post #480 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:54 pm

I'm telling you, refs were instructed not to let Spain win tonight so that it wouldn't spoil the opening of arena. It's just that Spain is so much better than Slovenia that they're winning even if they don't try.