Eurobasket 2011 discussions

Expected and unexpected outcomes, injury updates, analysis etc. Discuss.

If only Maltsi played like this when she gets to payed to play basketball...

Really GB? 20 points in a half? Way to make Belarus look like Seattle Storm.

I thought even Russia could avoid their customary slow start against a completely mediocre (at best) Slovak team. But no, here we go again...

Ball-handling of Russia NT is in big trouble (((

misspeach wrote:Ball-handling of Russia NT is in big trouble (((

What else is new? At least they have the WNBA champion backup PG.

Oh, wow, just noticed I was smart enough to bet on Slovakia +15.5. *pats himself on the back*

JohnyK wrote:

misspeach wrote:Ball-handling of Russia NT is in big trouble (((

What else is new? At least they have the WNBA champion backup PG.

Wow, Tanisha Wright got there fast after playing in Seattle last night .

So sad for Sveta, after all she is not a natural PG, people would blame her (((

Great ending for Slovakian - Russian game. Russia yet again slipped through just because of their talent on the roster.

I guess - go France! Don't want any nasty tiebreaker situations.

Do we give France the cup now or do we hope someone gets injured? They're ridiculously good. Spain or Russia were nowhere near that level a couple of hours earlier.

Yeah, I wonder if the bookies will finallly listen to us about Russia's 'favourites' tag being a little ridiculous now? And I hear you about the 'I guess - go France' thing. I'm in the same situation with the other game - probably just want the Czechs to win and let the top two run away leaving us to fight with Israel for third.

JohnyK wrote:Do we give France the cup now or do we hope someone gets injured? They're ridiculously good. Spain or Russia were nowhere near that level a couple of hours earlier.

Shhhht! You're going to jinx it!

Man, that France sucks, they should have been up by 60 by now, they'll get destroyed by Greece. Better?

That's great thanks!

On a more serious note, I like to see France up-tempo-ish, that's quite rare, more used to 55-60pts game with Pierre Vincent. But in this game, they don't have much to set up for on offense anyway.

Somebody send Seal Team 6 to Katowice to free the Croatian NT from that torture.

Really, Montanana? Is being 4 points down the time to attempt highlight reel behind the back passes?

BTW no Valdemoro for Spain (hardly a surprise considering her age and injury history)

Marta (Xargay) got injuried ((( Montenegro seems even tougher than Germany, which may be a tragedy for Poland to qualify. Cindy Lima tipped the ball into Spanish own basket ...

Torrens has come to play, trying her best Erika de Souza impression to light some fire under her teams assess.

Just an observation, Russia shot 15/32 FTs today, 18/30 FTs yesterday. They're doing a good job to go to the line but their FT shooting is horrible. It's clearly not their only problem but come on, free throws... and an airball on a free throw today towards the end of the game

Slovak Republic and Lithuania have an awesome FT defense.

JohnyK wrote:Slovak Republic and Lithuania have an awesome FT defense.

I've never seen a team play that good one day, and that bad the next. It's going to be a tie-breaker-fest-day tomorrow

Damnit, we played awesome on defense. France helped out by not being ridiculously good from outside. I'm ecstatic.

God, congrats for Latvia, I love them (oh Babkina!) but didn't believe in them.

It makes situation in the group just incerdibly fascinating! If I am correct, we know totally nothing right know. If Croatia wins over Latvia and Greece wins over France... It's not very likely, but still... can you believe it?