FIBA eurobasket 2017

[jossiel]

Unfortunately in these European Championships will be absent, many strong players for various reasons: injuries, bad physical form, NBA.

Here are some missing players:

Greece: Antetokounmpo
Serbia: Jokic,Bjelica,Raduljica, Teodosic.
Spain: Lull, Ibaka, Mirotic, Fernandez,Reyes,Claver
France: Causeur,Parker, Gobert, Batum
Lithuania: Jankunas,Sabonis
Italy: Gallinari,Bargnani
Croatia: Tomic, Zizic, Hezonja


Serbia and Spain are the favorites but I expect many surprises

These are exciting rosters, Serbia is one of the crowd favorite.

But I would like to watched with every game of Greece.

Giannis is an underrated player and this will make his career grow, its now time to shine.

[Hexah]

I like Serbia they really are a dominant team they even make it to the Finals last FIBA World Cup but I think so too of other teams like Greece now that they have a young superstar Giannis.

[BillyTalent]

To me, among all teams, like Spain. I think this team has all the chances to win this tournament. I hope they will play in the final with the national team of Serbia.

[cicciobtc]

Groups A and B are over, here are the direct clashes for the eights-final:

Finland vs Italy
Lithuania vs Greece
Slovenia vs Ukraina
Germany vs France

Slovenia should win easily against Ukraine while the other 3 games seem to be balanced.

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these instead the pairs between group C and group D:

1C Spain vs 4D
3C vs 2D
2C vs 3D
4C vs 1D





 

[Vasilije69]

Slovenia is showing great potential. If they continue like that they will definetely win some medal. I hope finals will be Slovenia- Serbia.

[LTU_btc]

It's a bit unexpected that Georgia eliminated after group stage. But they can blame only themselves - Georgia had good chances to beat Italy, but they lost in last seconds. Later, Ukraine won against hosts Israel easily and jumped into playoffs train lately.

[cicciobtc]

Here's the full draw of the playoffs:

Germany vs France
Spain vs Turkey

Slovenia vs Ucraina
Latvia vs Montenegro


Lithuania vs Greece
Croatia vs Russia

Finland vs Italy
Serbia vs Hungary


I think that the semifinals will be:
Spain vs Slovenia and Serbia vs Lithuania

Spain and Slovenia are unique teams without defeats.

[Kimi80]

Here's the full draw of the playoffs:

Germany vs France
Spain vs Turkey

Slovenia vs Ucraina
Latvia vs Montenegro


Lithuania vs Greece
Croatia vs Russia

Finland vs Italy
Serbia vs Hungary


I think that the semifinals will be:
Spain vs Slovenia and Serbia vs Lithuania

Spain and Slovenia are unique teams without defeats.

All the matches of second and third seeded teams of the groups will be interesting to watch, they all are equally quality teams by my opinion. From the other side, favorites should have easy job in this round.

[Kimi80]

One historical, very rare thing happened on this Eurobasket 2017. Romanian player Andrei Mandache made triple double( 14 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds). Last man who did that was Toni Kukoc, legendary Croatian player, 22 years ago(15 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists). Romanian team lost that game, Montenegro was to strong for them, but Mandache's individual achievement is really outstanding, we can not see things like that often in Europe. Congratulations Andrei.

[CarlesPuyol]

Here's the full draw of the playoffs:

Germany vs France
Spain vs Turkey

Slovenia vs Ucraina
Latvia vs Montenegro


Lithuania vs Greece
Croatia vs Russia

Finland vs Italy
Serbia vs Hungary


I think that the semifinals will be:
Spain vs Slovenia and Serbia vs Lithuania

Spain and Slovenia are unique teams without defeats.

Croatia VS Russia - Russia has a defence problem in this tourny. I dont think they will be able to win this match against strong and connected Croatia.

[harizen]

Croatia VS Russia - Russia has a defence problem in this tourny. I dont think they will be able to win this match against strong and connected Croatia.

Any analysis on why? Im disagree maybe there are holes but not can considered as a problem. They showed a good performance in the defense area of the paint in their recent game and the game was closed. In terms of defense, I can see that both RUS and CRO has similar stats.

But on the other hand, no doubt that CRO has been better in terms of offensive respond if we will compare to RUS squad. But hey stats is just a reference and changes are always been made right at the court erasing stats.

[LTU_btc]

My predictions for todays playoffs games.
Slovenia vs Ukraine. Easy win for Slovenia. Hard to say something more, because it's different level teams.
Germany vs France. Despite that France don't have many important players, I think they will win this game, because their squad still looks more solid. If Germany want to win, Schroder must get more help from his teammates.
Finland vs Italy. This game hard to predict. Finland looks good, but they played group games at home, now it will be neutral arena. I would bet for Italy, because they have more experience at playoff stage in previous championships.
Lithuania - Greece. Lithuania looks more solid for now. Greece struggled in group stage and looks that they have bad team chemistry.

[Tol9n]

My predictions for todays playoffs games.
Slovenia vs Ukraine. Easy win for Slovenia. Hard to say something more, because it's different level teams.
Germany vs France. Despite that France don't have many important players, I think they will win this game, because their squad still looks more solid. If Germany want to win, Schroder must get more help from his teammates.
Finland vs Italy. This game hard to predict. Finland looks good, but they played group games at home, now it will be neutral arena. I would bet for Italy, because they have more experience at playoff stage in previous championships.
Lithuania - Greece. Lithuania looks more solid for now. Greece struggled in group stage and looks that they have bad team chemistry.

Young Slovenes beat the older ones, who were older and more experienced than Ukrainians, with a devastating score. For me they are one of the favorites of this tournament.

[Vasilije69]

I think Russia could make suprise tonight, so I will try this one. And the Odd is quite good @2.70.

[Vasilije69]

I think Russia could make suprise tonight, so I will try this one. And the Odd is quite good @2.70.

Pure dominance from Russia tonight. They smashed Croatia 101:78!
This Croatia was acting a little bit bitchy, so I am happy to see them down.

[LTU_btc]

Time to summarize what we saw in in first rounf of playoffs. There was some surprises - 2015 eurobasket vice-champions Lithuania and bronze medalists France already eliminated. Greece improved their game after group stage and Germany beat Francy after great 4th quarter. Russia smashed Croatia, Shved & co played amazing tonight. I expected more from Croatia, but as usual - they start to play terrible after group stage - we saw it in previous champs.
Quartefinals:
Germany - Spain, Slovenia - Latvia,
Greece - Russia, Italy - Serbia.
For me, most interesting game will be Slovenia vs Latvia.

[Vasilije69]

Time to summarize what we saw in in first rounf of playoffs. There was some surprises - 2015 eurobasket vice-champions Lithuania and bronze medalists France already eliminated. Greece improved their game after group stage and Germany beat Francy after great 4th quarter. Russia smashed Croatia, Shved & co played amazing tonight. I expected more from Croatia, but as usual - they start to play terrible after group stage - we saw it in previous champs.
Quartefinals:
Germany - Spain, Slovenia - Latvia,
Greece - Russia, Italy - Serbia.
For me, most interesting game will be Slovenia vs Latvia.

Totally agreed. Match Slovenia- Latvia is finals before finals. It's impossible to predict a winner there.

P.S. I have some feeling that I am only one who is talking here

[Kimi80]

Time to summarize what we saw in in first rounf of playoffs. There was some surprises - 2015 eurobasket vice-champions Lithuania and bronze medalists France already eliminated. Greece improved their game after group stage and Germany beat Francy after great 4th quarter. Russia smashed Croatia, Shved & co played amazing tonight. I expected more from Croatia, but as usual - they start to play terrible after group stage - we saw it in previous champs.
Quartefinals:
Germany - Spain, Slovenia - Latvia,
Greece - Russia, Italy - Serbia.
For me, most interesting game will be Slovenia vs Latvia.

Totally agreed. Match Slovenia- Latvia is finals before finals. It's impossible to predict a winner there.

P.S. I have some feeling that I am only one who is talking here

Heh.. I have that same feeling too
I wanted to point on Greece before this game but I didn't(for some reason, I don't know why. Their last match in the group was great and I didn't know if that is a turnover in form or just one game but to win pretty easily against Lithuania... Same thing with Italy. I think that Serbia will have big big problem in quater-finale with them.
Russia and Croatia suppose to be a true derby of this round but we saw what happened. You are right when you say that they play really bad in knockout phase. And Russians are my new favorite for final game. Very good composed machine.

[cicciobtc]

Time to summarize what we saw in in first rounf of playoffs. There was some surprises - 2015 eurobasket vice-champions Lithuania and bronze medalists France already eliminated. Greece improved their game after group stage and Germany beat Francy after great 4th quarter. Russia smashed Croatia, Shved & co played amazing tonight. I expected more from Croatia, but as usual - they start to play terrible after group stage - we saw it in previous champs.
Quartefinals:
Germany - Spain, Slovenia - Latvia,
Greece - Russia, Italy - Serbia.
For me, most interesting game will be Slovenia vs Latvia.

Totally agreed. Match Slovenia- Latvia is finals before finals. It's impossible to predict a winner there.

P.S. I have some feeling that I am only one who is talking here

Heh.. I have that same feeling too
I wanted to point on Greece before this game but I didn't(for some reason, I don't know why. Their last match in the group was great and I didn't know if that is a turnover in form or just one game but to win pretty easily against Lithuania... Same thing with Italy. I think that Serbia will have big big problem in quater-finale with them.
Russia and Croatia suppose to be a true derby of this round but we saw what happened. You are right when you say that they play really bad in knockout phase. And Russians are my new favorite for final game. Very good composed machine.

Serbia and Spain should easily win their matches, so far they have proved to be far superior to other teams.
Great balance for the other 2 quarters of the final even though I see Slovenia favorite (Slovenia has won all matches played up to this point)

[ralle14]

For today's set of matches i'm going with spain and latvia to win here and also cover the spread. Slovenia are the favorites because they haven't lost yet and imo just got lucky with the group stage. Now the lines are slowly shifting to Latvia. BOL to everyone betting today.

Edit : Not a great start for spain down 0-7 right away. We'll see if they could bounce back in the next minutes.