The Greek National Team thread

AussieBuck · Post #81 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:37 am

Was Giannis even a basketball player last time Greece made the Olympics?

Also worth noting Spanoulis was never as good as Delly was at the 2016 Olympic games. FACT.

Pachinko_ · Post #82 » by **Pachinko_** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:42 am

AussieBuck wrote:One World Cup silver and only 4 total Olympic qualifications versus 14 Olympic tournaments with 4 times finishing better than Greece's best finish. I guess you guys used to have a bit of success in lesser tournaments so there's that.

who does Australia have to beat to qualify for the Olympics? Tonga and Easter Island?

Nightfall · Post #83 » by **Nightfall** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:43 am

The difference is that for us to qualify is that we have to play against good european teams. While Australia competes against NZ and some countries that have to recruit all males between 15-99 to make a team

AussieBuck · Post #84 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:50 am

Pachinko_ wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:One World Cup silver and only 4 total Olympic qualifications versus 14 Olympic tournaments with 4 times finishing better than Greece's best finish. I guess you guys used to have a bit of success in lesser tournaments so there's that.

who does Australia have to beat to qualify for the Olympics? Tonga and Easter Island?

Not sure it matters given we tend to finish 4th overall when we have more than half a healthy team. It's not like there aren't **** Euro teams qualifying each time around anyway. I mean either France (all pussies) or Germany (just Dirk) tend to show up alternatively. Lithuania have been bog average since the end of the cold war. (and so damn ugly, like they are all in-bred South Africans)

Pachinko_ · Post #85 » by **Pachinko_** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:53 am

AussieBuck wrote:
Pachinko_ wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:One World Cup silver and only 4 total Olympic qualifications versus 14 Olympic tournaments with 4 times finishing better than Greece's best finish. I guess you guys used to have a bit of success in lesser tournaments so there's that.

who does Australia have to beat to qualify for the Olympics? Tonga and Easter Island?

Not sure it matters given we tend to finish 4th overall when we have more than half a healthy team. It's not like there aren't **** Euro teams qualifying each time around anyway. I mean either France (all pussies) or Germany (just Dirk) tend to show up alternatively. Lithuania have been bog average since the end of the cold war. (and so damn ugly, like they are all in-bred South Africans)

Ok got it, Tonga and Easter Island

AussieBuck · Post #86 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:55 am

England have been in the Olympics more recently than Greece!!

Never mind they got the home team ticket to play like Greece got in 04. (so Greece have earned their spot twice in 64 years and three times ever.)

yannisk · Post #87 » by **yannisk** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:02 pm

AussieBuck wrote:
Nightfall wrote:Why are we teasing Australia ?
They are my favorite team of FIBA Oceania Championship !

Enough now I will go back in reading my book, called "Australia's Success in World Basketball", here is a photo of BOTH pages :

One World Cup silver and only 4 total Olympic qualifications versus 14 Olympic tournaments with 4 times finishing better than Greece's best finish. I guess you guys used to have a bit of success in lesser tournaments so there's that.

You count qualifications as successes? Trust me if you were qualifying from Europe you wouldn't see many Olympics. Angola, Puerto Rico and China manage to qualify from weak conferences as well. You have to beat Fiji and Tonga to qualify, we have to beat everybody that counts (minus Usa) to have success in our continent's tournament.

And when we play head to head in Olympics and WC he have been beating you for the last 20 years

yannisk · Post #88 » by **yannisk** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:10 pm

AussieBuck wrote:England have been in the Olympics more recently than Greece!!

Never mind they got the home team ticket to play like Greece got in 04. (so Greece have earned their spot twice in 64 years and three times ever.)

We beat you with 20+ points in 04 too

greekbuck34 · Post #89 » by **greekbuck34** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:12 pm

yannisk wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:
Nightfall wrote:Why are we teasing Australia ?
They are my favorite team of FIBA Oceania Championship !

Enough now I will go back in reading my book, called "Australia's Success in World Basketball", here is a photo of BOTH pages :

One World Cup silver and only 4 total Olympic qualifications versus 14 Olympic tournaments with 4 times finishing better than Greece's best finish. I guess you guys used to have a bit of success in lesser tournaments so there's that.

You have to beat Fiji and Tonga

Read it too fast and thought they were some kind of oceanic sex toys at first..

So you tell me that Delly has to guard these people every couple of years just to qualify to the Olympics?

AussieBuck · Post #90 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:24 pm

yannisk wrote:
AussieBuck wrote:England have been in the Olympics more recently than Greece!!

Never mind they got the home team ticket to play like Greece got in 04. (so Greece have earned their spot twice in 64 years and three times ever.)

We beat you with 20+ points in 04 too

Yep that year we didn't deserve to be playing. Was just after the Gaze era which was a very ugly time. :lol:

Just beat Angola.

AussieBuck · Post #91 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:28 pm

Seriously though Papaloukas was a **** boss. Put that limp dick Spanoulis to shame.

Beorn · Post #92 » by **Beorn** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:32 pm

Our players have too much sex during Olympics to do anything more than dragging their dry husks on the court, unlike their Southern Lithuanian counterparts 8-)

Also Baddy chooses to forget the international competitions his team has a worse winning percentage than Chile :lol:

Watch on YouTube

AussieBuck · Post #93 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:35 pm

haha that game hurt so bad. Clearly better but choked it out.

Beorn · Post #94 » by **Beorn** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:36 pm

our only bad game apart from the Final

yannisk · Post #95 » by **yannisk** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:42 pm

Ok I propose a truce with the Oceanic titan. After all, we are all Giannis fans (and a bit of Thon, Delly fans)

the truce should hold till one of the teams earns a medal when some bragging is allowed

AussieBuck · Post #96 » by **AussieBuck** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:17 pm

No truce until something interesting Bucks related happens or the season starts.

Your women are manlier than your men true/true

greekbuck34 · Post #97 » by **greekbuck34** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:24 pm

Greece vs Australia is a futile war anyway.
Nobody really wants to conquer the other.

If they beat us they will inherit our debt sell their kangaroos to Germany.
If we beat them we will have to live with their spiders and other deadly ****.
Also their most beautiful women go to Hollywood anyway..

Pachinko_ · Post #98 » by **Pachinko_** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:25 pm

I have Andrew Gaze's bio here, describing his time playing in Greece in '94-'95
He said he ended up sleeping with a carving knife under his pillow because he was scared of Greek fans LOL