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Nicholas123

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Agree! But in all honesty, did not expect us to win, especially after that hideous game against Finland! Ewwwwhhh

Greeks are weird! We beated Spain, even if it is weaker now, but still, we lost to Finland!

OMG :eek:
 

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Greece is not a shock it's something that i expected to happen :).

Good job Greece!
 

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I watched it too, and after first quarter it seems that Spain will be easy winner in one boring game... but at the end it was great game and well deserved win for Greece.

Tomorrow we play against Ukraine and I am almost sure that we will easy won that game, soo game against France in Sunday will be fight for first place

After two awful games Slovenia finally play good against Italy, its +10 for Slovenia
 

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Agree! But in all honesty, did not expect us to win, especially after that hideous game against Finland! Ewwwwhhh

Greeks are weird! We beated Spain, even if it is weaker now, but still, we lost to Finland!

OMG :eek:

That is a typical Balkan mentality that we also have. We beat huge teams but then lose from some weaker ones and even sometimes form amateurs, literally. Looking at how :gr: and :fi: looked in their matches today, it is surprising indeed. But anyway, I believe you can be in the race for medals, as after all :gr: has always been in the top in basketball :D This team of yours is experienced and that is the biggest advantage.
 

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Agree! But in all honesty, did not expect us to win, especially after that hideous game against Finland! Ewwwwhhh

Greeks are weird! We beated Spain, even if it is weaker now, but still, we lost to Finland!

OMG :eek:
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Congrats to Dežela on crushing Italy
 

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Well done Croatia, Slovenia and Greece!! Croatia played like 10+ years ago, when they put fear in your bones from the thought of having them as an opponent. :lol: I really didn't expect such an easy win. I think Croatia is one step closer to a success. They need one more win. I think it is realistically to expect them to win over Italy, and that could be enough for 1/4-final. Slovenia won as I expected!! :D I think Slovenia can go at least to the semi-final. Can't say I'm surprised that Greece won over Spain. Well done to them, as they surely made the group more interesting. :D I think almost everyone can beat almost everyone. This championship kinda proves it. :lol:

As for tomorrow, go Serbia, Latvia and Lithuania!! :cool: Though it would be cool to see Belgium pull off a win against Lithuania. :twisted:
 

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Today we will see if our team really does play as a team or not.

Go Serbia!!!!!
 

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Congrats to :sl: on the victory against :it: :D

They played a great match and it looked like they simply can't lose. I hope they keep it up this way, just like :hr: xcheer When the shot is marked well, it can definetly be played against :it: .


Today :rs: - :ua: . I really hope for a victory that we all expect, but if we repeat the approach and play from 2 days ago, it will be a difficult match. :ua: suffered a debacle and they will be more than motivated against us. Generally, the biggest problem of the Ukranian team is that they don't play like a team and they rely on the individual actions of Vlacheslav Kravtsov (he is the most important player of the team and I'd say the key player), Ihor Zaytsev and Olexandr Mishula too much. We should pay extra attention on those 3 players, but I think most of the job will be done even after we stop Kravstov only. Their coach Mike Fratello gives the extra energy to the team and is using the maximum of them.

So, all in all, I expect and hope for a victory, but I also hope for much better play of our national team as well.
 

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I'm glad that Slovenia is an independet country,but sometimes,i wish Yugoslavia would still exist... Together,we would be the best in every single sport :D :mrgreen: Just imagine Teletović,Krstić,Dragić and Bogdanović in the same team
...or Handanović,Džeko,Mandžukić and Srna in football xshock

and individual sports... Tina Maze,Blanka Vlašić,Novak Đoković...:cool:

Suck on that,planet Earth :mrgreen:
 

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I don't feel nostalgic at all. Plus maybe it wouldn't be the same thing in that case, who knows...but it ain't important now anyway.
So let' s live in present time, the way like it really is....
 

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Ivkovic on time out: Pa nemoj da se krijes, jebo vam bog :lol: :lol:
 

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I'm glad that Slovenia is an independet country,but sometimes,i wish Yugoslavia would still exist... Together,we would be the best in every single sport :D :mrgreen: Just imagine Teletović,Krstić,Dragić and Bogdanović in the same team
...or Handanović,Džeko,Mandžukić and Srna in football xshock

and individual sports... Tina Maze,Blanka Vlašić,Novak Đoković...:cool:

Suck on that,planet Earth :mrgreen:

I feel the same sometimes... :)
 

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Ivkovic on time out: Pa nemoj da se krijes, jebo vam bog :lol: :lol:

This one is better: Zašto ne igraš po dogovoru? Pa igram! Ma igraš pičku materinu :lol:

Our team is just too young with a lack of experience, and the best prove for it is today game. They pre-posted that victory against Ukraine and only thinking about France in Sunday but booooom. However I know guys will play much better against France
 

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Miloš, what happened? I just saw the results and I'm shocked. :eek:


Unfortunately, it is more and more obvious what I noticed against :be: as well that one of the huge problems is that the form was not tempted right, as we played the best match against :lt: and we were nailing in the preparations, but now with each new match we are worse and worse.......not just individually looking but as a team too :( Almost everyone look confused, they can't hit anything, they make silly mistakes, there is no aggression in the defense at all, we let their best shooters to score without any pressure, we don't control the rebounds, we stand on the out line when we get the ball and then lose it as a result of that.............and that lack of desire is another thing that is bugging me as it looks like the chemistry in the team doesn't exist anymore. There is no team play anymore, the main premise is that everyone play on Krstic in the end, even when he is surrounded with 2-3 players. The ball goes around and ends up in his hands, no matter what, and the reserve solution is some shot from the distance and if it gets in, great, if not...........of course, in many situations only 1 player follow the endings of those attacks and we can't have a stable offensive rebound as a result of that, nor those "points from the voleyball".



Yet another terrible match for :rs: in every aspect, we managed to stay undefeated against :be: but not today. :ua: controlled the match in all 40 minutes. We sold too many attacks, the defense was not functioning at all, we just couldn't hit anything and also missed a huge, huge number of free throws (yet another showing that the form is falling). If only we hit more of those free throws we would've got a better result (irony), but we didn't.

We managed to stop Kravtsov from their team as well as Mishula who had only 6 points in the end, but some players that score 4 points on average have now scored 20+ . Their playmaker Jeter literally urinated on us in this match. I think he didn't miss any single shot for 3 points, each and every one of them got in. Especially in the end.



There are many things that I am not satisfied with, but I will still keep my mouth shut, as we are still in the game, but I will analyze some things after our participation ends and say it out loud. The only thing I can say is that some players should be embarrassed not because their performances are embarrassment for professional basketball (although I personally would be ashamed definetly), but because they don't sweat that jersey at all, and that is the worst in the whole story. I can understand and tolerate a bad period but NEVER when someone doesn't care and when he doesn't fight on the field. We must now find a way to stand up against :fr: but it will be difficult. There is no need to calculate who would be the best opponent in 1/4 finals as with this play we we will not beat anyone, whoever comes from the F group. We should only think about us and our play as there are a lot of things to be analyzed.



As for Ivkovic's cursing.........that is nothing compared to what I was telling during the whole match :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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