Official Eurobasket 2013 Thread

Laure · Post #641 » by **Laure** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:45 pm

Man, Bojan Bogdanovic is legit. Can't wait to see him in the NBA. He keeps improving with every passing offseason, it's good to see.

JV4MVP · Post #642 » by **JV4MVP** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:55 pm

Laure wrote:Man, Bojan Bogdanovic is legit. Can't wait to see him in the NBA. He keeps improving with every passing offseason, it's good to see.

The contract with the Nets was voided right? Where will he play next season?

Props to Croatia for keeping it close. Best chance is to strike late.

WhateverBro · Post #643 » by **WhateverBro** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:09 pm

JV4MVP wrote:
Laure wrote:Man, Bojan Bogdanovic is legit. Can't wait to see him in the NBA. He keeps improving with every passing offseason, it's good to see.

The contract with the Nets was voided right? Where will he play next season?

Props to Croatia for keeping it close. Best chance is to strike late.

Nets will most likely bring him over next off-season. The contract wasn't voided, I think they weren't able to work a buy out with his team.

pylb · Post #644 » by **pylb** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:09 pm

Happy to see other people than Parker scoring for France.

Post #645 » by **suckfish** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:36 pm

Not sure who I want to win this more.. Tony Parker or the basketball mad nation of Lithuania?

GreenRiddler · Post #646 » by **GreenRiddler** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:36 pm

Batum is playing with alot of energy on off and Def. Very aggressive.

Chocobanana · Post #647 » by **Chocobanana** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:40 pm

Everyone on France is making shots

Laure · Post #648 » by **Laure** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:50 pm

Parker looks like the worst player on the France roster and that says something. Literally everyone is making shots. Our defence suddenly doesn't look so good. LTU need a miracle now, because Parker will eventually take over if things get grim.

pylb · Post #649 » by **pylb** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:54 pm

Laure wrote:Parker looks like the worst player on the France roster and that says something. Literally everyone is making shots. Our defence suddenly doesn't look so good. LTU need a miracle now, because Parker will eventually take over if things get grim.

Parker can have bad games too.

Obviously LTU is in a small hole right now, but bball is a game of runs. Still plenty of time to come back.

Post #650 » by **suckfish** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:16 pm

Officially rooting for a Lithuania come back.

LIE-TU-VA! LIE-TU-VA! LIE-TU-VA!

cadoi · Post #651 » by **cadoi** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:17 pm

Eurobasket's medal table:

(Not including 2013 championship)

Ganji · Post #652 » by **Ganji** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:33 pm

well congratz to France. Glad to see them get their stuff together and finally win a gold medal. Well deserved, and very happy for Parker.

justinandimcool · Post #653 » by **justinandimcool** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:40 pm

Tony Boris Nando we finally did it!!!! CHAMPIONS!!!! :rockon:

Euro77 · Post #654 » by **Euro77** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:46 pm

Congratulations to France. Great team effort and great display of what they are capable of when they're playing up to their potential.
Special compliments to Tony Parker for sticking with his national team through some pretty sh*tty years and teammates and finally obtaining a major international title.

Heat fan06 · Post #655 » by **Heat fan06** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:09 pm

Congrats to Parker and France...hope he won't struggle now in the NBA season.

Laure · Post #656 » by **Laure** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:16 pm

Pretty lackluster final, a norm when it comes to this tournament, it seems. Kinda dissapointed since Lithuania played really well and looked to be up for the task, but France just barraged us in the 2nd and the rest is history. The gap between these two teams wasn't that big, kinda simbolic that the French won by 14 when they lost exactly by 14 in the 2nd round.

Parker never missed a Eurobasket since 2001, people talk about Nowitzki's patriotism, but what can you say about a guy who played and lived majority of his life in the US, was born in Belgium and never stopped playing for his country even when they lost so many times in the latter stages. Happy for him.

Laure · Post #657 » by **Laure** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:16 pm

Double Post.

SunKing · Post #658 » by **SunKing** » Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:21 pm

Man... I just can't describe it... WE'RE CHAMPIONS

When you saw TP during the interview with french television dude literaly had stars in the eyes :lol:

The first thing I thought about when we won was 2003... A french "dream team" with a young NBA champion Parker, Diaw, Abdul Wahad, Moisi etc... We were supposed to wreck the whole damn competition. It was the case until we failed in semi and third place and didn't qualify for Olympics.

10 years later, no Joakim Noah nor Seraphin. We are champions with Alexis Ajinca and the Johan Petro of the world that are doing what they had to do.

When you know this team, everybody were like "Man this final will be HARD etc...". Then those guys are playing the best game EVER from a french NT from a context POV. I mean seriously this team notoriously known for **** up everything or toughnailed winning, just play an amazing game in total control with an amazing serinity. That's laughable :lol:

Diaw, Parker, Batum, Florent Pietrus, De Colo... And of course Vincent Collet who is a great coach. Not on some Phil Jackson type of psychologist/leadership coaching but a great Xs and Os coach.

Anyway, mad props to Lietuva. The ultimate basketball culture country with an AMAZING public. 2 millions people in this country and since 30 years they are bringing amazing players. Cheers.

JV4MVP · Post #659 » by **JV4MVP** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:30 am

Final Results:

1. France
2. Lithuania
3. Spain
4. Croatia
5. Slovenia
6. Ukraine
7. Serbia
8. Italy

All Tournament Team:

Tony Parker - France (also MVP)
Goran Dragic - Slovenia
Bojan Bogdanovic - Croatia
Linas Kleiza - Lithuania
Marc Gasol - Spain

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJ-Tfn6w1I[/youtube]

IFeelsYaBrah · Post #660 » by **IFeelsYaBrah** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:34 pm

Valanciunas didn't look too good for the prospect people say he is.

He averaged 6/5 throughout the competition (tho on limited minutes), completely disappeared during some games, and he was the 6th best scorer on the Lithuanian national team. His competition was mostly scrub European centers.

Centers can dominate Eurobasket games. Players like Marc Gasol and Nenad Krstic were playing extremely well, and were the best on their teams, even Alexis Ajinca was extremely solid. Jonas was nowhere to be seen.