FIBA EuroBasket 2022

[danherbias07]

^Lots of issues and shocking events on that day.
Turkey - waiting for the security footage about what happened backstage. It is said that Furkan Korkmaz was attacked by 3 Georgian players. We will see on the next news and I wish they leak it out.

Lithuania vs Germany - Where is the damn technical free-throw? It was not given to Valančiūnas after he was fouled. They only gave him 2 instead of 3 including the unsportsmanlike call/technical, iirc.

B&H and Belgium upset the strong teams.

[inthelongrun]

^Lots of issues and shocking events on that day.
Turkey - waiting for the security footage about what happened backstage. It is said that Furkan Korkmaz was attacked by 3 Georgian players. We will see on the next news and I wish they leak it out.

Lithuania vs Germany - Where is the damn technical free-throw? It was not given to Valančiūnas after he was fouled. They only gave him 2 instead of 3 including the unsportsmanlike call/technical, iirc.

B&H and Belgium upset the strong teams.

So far my bets are 0-3.

I actually stopped following and watching after losing all my bets. But since I found this thread today I will start following again and maybe I will bet again. It's just unusual, especially the upsets. It seems like Luka Doncic and Slovenia are in a death group with Germany, Norkic's B&H, mighty France, and Lithuania. Hungary will have a hard time winning a single game as the other countries are competing to reach the top and sees the Hungarians as a must-win bonus. 

[danherbias07]

So far my bets are 0-3.

I actually stopped following and watching after losing all my bets. But since I found this thread today I will start following again and maybe I will bet again. It's just unusual, especially the upsets. It seems like Luka Doncic and Slovenia are in a death group with Germany, Norkic's B&H, mighty France, and Lithuania. Hungary will have a hard time winning a single game as the other countries are competing to reach the top and sees the Hungarians as a must-win bonus. 

To be honest I am also not on a good streak. It's 3 wins and 4 losses in my case and the surprising wins of teams that are expected to lose did it. 
Thankfully, Serbia covered the -11.5 vs Finland and that adds to my wins.
It's not easy, teams today have strong players and new names are being known in the league. We also expected NBA players will dominate and I think the bookies do too but upsets had been happening over and over.

[LTU_btc]

Thanks to France who beat Bosnia and let Lithuania to stay alive. We finally achieved first win and it was easy against Hungary. Tomorrow we will face Bosnia in direct fight for 4th place in group. Playoffs begins for us now.
Germany Slovenia was great game. Germany gave good fight. I only don't understand why they fouled against Slovenia so late in last posession and barely left time for themselves.
Beast performance of Giannis - 41 point against Ukraine. It was close game until 3rd quarter, where Greece won 32:11.
Georgia unexpected lost against Bulgaria and now group hosts risking to be eliminated.
Finland in high scoring game won against hosts Czech Republic. Now Czech will face Israel in decisive game for place in playoffs.
Italy - Croatia haven't ended yet and it's very close game as expected.

[danherbias07]

Thanks to France who beat Bosnia and let Lithuania to stay alive. We finally achieved first win and it was easy against Hungary. Tomorrow we will face Bosnia in direct fight for 4th place in group. Playoffs begins for us now.
Germany Slovenia was great game. Germany gave good fight. I only don't understand why they fouled against Slovenia so late in last posession and barely left time for themselves.
Beast performance of Giannis - 41 point against Ukraine. It was close game until 3rd quarter, where Greece won 32:11.
Georgia unexpected lost against Bulgaria and now group hosts risking to be eliminated.
Finland in high scoring game won against hosts Czech Republic. Now Czech will face Israel in decisive game for place in playoffs.
Italy - Croatia haven't ended yet and it's very close game as expected.

Bosnia did a good job making it a close game after the 3rd quarter but France just dominated them in the 4th.
Now it becomes a fight for the 4th place in Group B. Lithuania vs B&H later. This is going to be an exciting game. Will be rooting for Lithuania again and I wish this time I will be right. I am 0/2 at betting for them.
If they win and ended with a tie, it will be score basis as the tiebreaker, right? That's why they still keep on scoring even if the game is a blowout unlike in NBA.

Group C is done. Group D Israel needs to defeat the Czech Republic to assure its entry. Group A though, is on a rollercoaster. 

Thanks to Giannis, but he made me a bit worried until the 3rd. 

[inthelongrun]

Congrats on your winning bets guys. I also ended my losing streak and am now on a 3 winning streak. Thanks to France indeed. Although I never took the minus points as I want to make it safe just to secure that my losing streak ends.

In a couple of hours, we will have another great matchup between France and Slovenia. I'm still undecided on who to bet on as I like both teams.

I felt bad for the loser between B&H and Lithuania, they seem capable of reaching the knockout stage if they weren't assigned to this group. So far Lithuania is leading by 14 points at halftime but it is still very early to tell. The winner should seal the 4th place, right?

[danherbias07]

Congrats on your winning bets guys. I also ended my losing streak and am now on a 3 winning streak. Thanks to France indeed. Although I never took the minus points as I want to make it safe just to secure that my losing streak ends.

In a couple of hours, we will have another great matchup between France and Slovenia. I'm still undecided on who to bet on as I like both teams.

I felt bad for the loser between B&H and Lithuania, they seem capable of reaching the knockout stage if they weren't assigned to this group. So far Lithuania is leading by 14 points at halftime but it is still very early to tell. The winner should seal the 4th place, right?

That's later and I'm actually excited to see Luka again. I just wish this will not be the same performance as he did in his previous games where his shooting percentage was way low that what is expected from him.

A win! Yey!
Finally! Lithuania gave me one win in all my bets for them. It's not much but it's still a win.

The odd is -10 before the game starts and I was worried they won't cover that spread. Well, they did.
Jonas Valančiūnas. I want to see him become that kind of leader for their team. And the plays written by their coach for Sabonis, that was all awesome.
He made most of the big men in B&H in foul trouble.

[YOSHIE]

Good chance to bet on EuroBasket basketball match this year, I can watch this match live on one of the private tv in my country, i'm a little late to watch in group stage, but i still have chance in knockout stage.

This will make a new history to start the 2022 EuroBasket tournament, the last one being held in 2017, I saw some of the top basketball teams taking part in the European tournament this year, such as: Belgium, Spain in group A and Germany, France in group B, so on.

I will follow the round of 16 teams that qualify and are ready to bet, it seems that Group A Spain, Belgium qualify and Germany, France, on average from these teams 6-7 pawns they have obtained.

[xzone]

Today's match between Spain and Türkiye was very good. We watched a pretty good fight and the match continued very exciting until the last seconds. Türkiye could not win this match because of a few simple mistakes at the end of the match, Spain performed worse than I thought.
Now they are among the last 16 teams and the more exciting part of the tournament will have started. I hope we watch matches where the referees don't make mistakes

[LTU_btc]

France - Slovenia, what a game. 47 points of Doncis is something incredible, 2nd best result in Eurobasket history. But he got posterized by Gobert . But in last minutes brother Dragic were key players. Though, Fournier and coach Collet was furious at referees for not given foul on final seconds when he steal the ball. So, Slovenia won group of death.
Lithuania saved me some nerves by winning confident against B&H and somehow reaching next round. We get Spain in 1/8 final, what should be great game.
Fiasco for Georgia - last place in group while being hosts. It only shows how important for them is Shengelia.
So, we already know 4 1/8 final pairs - Germany - Montenegro, Lithuania - Spain,  Slovenia - Belgium and Turkey - France.

I felt bad for the loser between B&H and Lithuania, they seem capable of reaching the knockout stage if they weren't assigned to this group. So far Lithuania is leading by 14 points at halftime but it is still very early to tell. The winner should seal the 4th place, right?

Good point about B&H. In all other groups they probably wouldn't have problems to reach next round.

[danherbias07]

France - Slovenia, what a game. 47 points of Doncis is something incredible, 2nd best result in Eurobasket history. But he got posterized by Gobert . But in last minutes brother Dragic were key players. Though, Fournier and coach Collet was furious at referees for not given foul on final seconds when he steal the ball. So, Slovenia won group of death.

Group of Death. 
I was so sleepy at the end of the 3rd quarter so I was unable to finish it. It was a tie game if I remember correctly.
Tough game and a lot of players are getting hurt by the physicality that is happening. I even thought Luka won't return after being hit hard.
Every play was so important that it almost looked like a playoff game. Are there perks for being at the top of one group, because I don't know the rules about it?

Lithuania saved me some nerves by winning confident against B&H and somehow reaching next round. We get Spain in 1/8 final, what should be great game.
Fiasco for Georgia - last place in group while being hosts. It only shows how important for them is Shengelia.
So, we already know 4 1/8 final pairs - Germany - Montenegro, Lithuania - Spain,  Slovenia - Belgium and Turkey - France.

Okay so there are 5 games, I guess that is where I am confused with. I thought there are only 4 games.
So Israel is still not safe for the qualifying 16 in Group D and if they are defeated by the Czech then it will be them who takes the spot.
Group C is just finishing up in rankings but 4 teams are already identified to qualify while Group D is still not complete.

[inthelongrun]

France - Slovenia, what a game. 47 points of Doncis is something incredible, 2nd best result in Eurobasket history. But he got posterized by Gobert . But in last minutes brother Dragic were key players. Though, Fournier and coach Collet was furious at referees for not given foul on final seconds when he steal the ball. So, Slovenia won group of death.

Group of Death. 
I was so sleepy at the end of the 3rd quarter so I was unable to finish it. It was a tie game if I remember correctly.
Tough game and a lot of players are getting hurt by the physicality that is happening. I even thought Luka won't return after being hit hard.
Every play was so important that it almost looked like a playoff game. Are there perks for being at the top of one group, because I don't know the rules about it?

Very tough game. France tried to bury Slovenia early but they cannot stop the momentum from shifting away. Luka Doncic had an insane night and looked unstoppable even if Gobert tried to guard him. France was always in the game but they cannot catch up with the Slovenians. It was like a do-or-die game because taking the top and second spots guaranteed facing the 3rd and 4th placers of Group A. After the defeat, France dropped to 3rd and they are facing the 2nd seed of Group A which is the ever dangerous Turkey. Top Slovenia is expected to have an easier time against the Belgians. The same with 2nd seed Germany, they are also expected to beat Montenegro.

Lithuania saved me some nerves by winning confident against B&H and somehow reaching next round. We get Spain in 1/8 final, what should be great game.
Fiasco for Georgia - last place in group while being hosts. It only shows how important for them is Shengelia.
So, we already know 4 1/8 final pairs - Germany - Montenegro, Lithuania - Spain,  Slovenia - Belgium and Turkey - France.

Okay so there are 5 games, I guess that is where I am confused with. I thought there are only 4 games.
So Israel is still not safe for the qualifying 16 in Group D and if they are defeated by the Czech then it will be them who takes the spot.
Group C is just finishing up in rankings but 4 teams are already identified to qualify while Group D is still not complete.

Yes, mate. It's round robin and there are 6 teams in a group, which means all teams will play 5 games each. And yes, Israel is not yet safe. If Czech wins then Israel's only hope is for Finland to lose against the Netherlands. But the Finns are heavy favorites to win over the still winless Dutch team.

[danherbias07]

Very tough game. France tried to bury Slovenia early but they cannot stop the momentum from shifting away. Luka Doncic had an insane night and looked unstoppable even if Gobert tried to guard him. France was always in the game but they cannot catch up with the Slovenians. It was like a do-or-die game because taking the top and second spots guaranteed facing the 3rd and 4th placers of Group A. After the defeat, France dropped to 3rd and they are facing the 2nd seed of Group A which is the ever dangerous Turkey. Top Slovenia is expected to have an easier time against the Belgians. The same with 2nd seed Germany, they are also expected to beat Montenegro.

Thank you for the patient explanation. Now it's all clear to me. So it's just like the playoffs per bracket where the top will be battling the bottom.
I guess about the point system we can just let them handle that and show us who will advance when a tiebreaker happens.

Yes, mate. It's round robin and there are 6 teams in a group, which means all teams will play 5 games each. And yes, Israel is not yet safe. If Czech wins then Israel's only hope is for Finland to lose against the Netherlands. But the Finns are heavy favorites to win over the still winless Dutch team.

I took a bet for the Czech Republic, fingers crossed for them to win it.
Finland is winning and it looks like the Netherlands cannot recover from that kind of lead. 78-51. 9 minutes left.
So it will be a do-or-die for Israel vs Czech.
Croatia vs Ukraine on the other hand is a close game even now at the 3rd quarter. A battle for the 2nd place and a strategy to avoid Greece.

Edit: Something weird happened in the last 20 seconds of the game between Croatia vs Ukraine. Bojan missed the bonus shot on purpose and then Ukraine players asking their coach if they should shoot or not. What's that?

[LTU_btc]

Edit: Something weird happened in the last 20 seconds of the game between Croatia vs Ukraine. Bojan missed the bonus shot on purpose and then Ukraine players asking their coach if they should shoot or not. What's that?

Croatia decided to pick an potential opponent in 1/4 final. If Croatia would have won by 8 or more points, they would potentially get Slovenia in 1/4 final. Now they will get winner of Spain - Lithuania. Also, it means that Italy will finnish 4th in this group and they will get Serbia in 1/8 final. Personally I don't like such opponents picking and usually such dirty games don't end well for that team.

[inthelongrun]

I took a bet for the Czech Republic, fingers crossed for them to win it.

Another win. Congrats mate. I should have bet on Czech too because I knew Israel is the underdog but I was reluctant to take the risk in that do-or-die game.

Edit: Something weird happened in the last 20 seconds of the game between Croatia vs Ukraine. Bojan missed the bonus shot on purpose and then Ukraine players asking their coach if they should shoot or not. What's that?

Croatia decided to pick an potential opponent in 1/4 final. If Croatia would have won by 8 or more points, they would potentially get Slovenia in 1/4 final. Now they will get winner of Spain - Lithuania. Also, it means that Italy will finnish 4th in this group and they will get Serbia in 1/8 final. Personally I don't like such opponents picking and usually such dirty games don't end well for that team.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand more about the points system. I really thought that the overall total points difference will be used once head-to-head is not enough for tie-breakers. Poor Italy, they dropped to 4th when I thought they secured the 2nd spot since they have a total of 45 points differential. Now Italy is likely to get dropped by Serbia while Croatia and Ukraine are most likely to win against their next opponents.

[danherbias07]

I took a bet for the Czech Republic, fingers crossed for them to win it.

Another win. Congrats mate. I should have bet on Czech too because I knew Israel is the underdog but I was reluctant to take the risk in that do-or-die game.

Yeah, it was a great day for me.   2 for 2. Croatia got me worried when at that last second there when they are trying to control the point system.

Edit: Something weird happened in the last 20 seconds of the game between Croatia vs Ukraine. Bojan missed the bonus shot on purpose and then Ukraine players asking their coach if they should shoot or not. What's that?

Croatia decided to pick an potential opponent in 1/4 final. If Croatia would have won by 8 or more points, they would potentially get Slovenia in 1/4 final. Now they will get winner of Spain - Lithuania. Also, it means that Italy will finnish 4th in this group and they will get Serbia in 1/8 final. Personally I don't like such opponents picking and usually such dirty games don't end well for that team.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand more about the points system. I really thought that the overall total points difference will be used once head-to-head is not enough for tie-breakers. Poor Italy, they dropped to 4th when I thought they secured the 2nd spot since they have a total of 45 points differential. Now Italy is likely to get dropped by Serbia while Croatia and Ukraine are most likely to win against their next opponents.

Okay, so I understand more the pattern when it comes to playoff rounds.
Correct me if I am wrong here.
Group A vs Group B but there's a catch. Rank 1 of Group A will battle Rank 4 of Group B. 2nd versus 3rd and vice versa.
The same will happen with Groups C and D.
So that's why they are trying to control the point system to target a team where they will have the upper hand. Yeah, it's a dirty one.
Thank you LTU_btc for the explanation.

[LTU_btc]

EuroBasket 1/8 finals begins on Saturday. It starts with Turkey - France game. After loss of Larkin, Turkey have don't much chances, but I still expect close game and France win in the end.
Then Slovenia - Belgium, least interesting pair. Zero chances for Belgium and probably we will see many nice moments from Doncic & co.
Germany - Montenegro. Hosts Germany is heavy favorites.
Spain - Lithuania. According to bookmakers, Lithuania is favorites, but despite that all Spain loses and change of generation, you simply can't understimate them too much. For me it's 50/50 game

Correct me if I am wrong here.

You're absolutely correct.

[danherbias07]

EuroBasket 1/8 finals begins on Saturday. It starts with Turkey - France game. After loss of Larkin, Turkey have don't much chances, but I still expect close game and France win in the end.
Then Slovenia - Belgium, least interesting pair. Zero chances for Belgium and probably we will see many nice moments from Doncic & co.
Germany - Montenegro. Hosts Germany is heavy favorites.

I will pass for Slovenia vs Belgium team bet but I will take the end total points at Over 169.
-6.5 for France should be covered too. Sad for what happened to Larkin.
I am taking a risk for Montenegro +10 vs Germany. They may lose but I think there's a chance a high handicap like that could be covered.

Spain - Lithuania. According to bookmakers, Lithuania is favorites, but despite that all Spain loses and change of generation, you simply can't understimate them too much. For me it's 50/50 game

Oh bad luck. I was preparing my bet for Lithuania if ever they will be the underdog. I mean, I want higher profits and I am in high spirits that they can win the game.
The line is -3.5 Lithuania for only 1.70. I guess I'll just take that if ever there won't be any change until later.

[LGD2Business]

It's not just about throwing a three-pointer. You will defend, you will know how to play the last ball. Otherwise, you will give the match you have won like this. Even if Cedi Osman scored 1 in 2 free throws, the match was over in normal time. They played a very bad end of the match and caused the match to be extended. Opportunity was again seized in the last ball in overtime, but this time Furkan lost the ball. It was the end of the match before he could even try to shoot. Such a bad endgame could not have been played. France continues. Gobert is an unstoppable player under the basket. Let's see how far they'll go.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Such a waste by Turkey!

I wasn't expecting my country to compete with France at the same level honestly. Especially after seeing the eight-point difference at halftime I started thinking like France would have a comfortable win. But Turkey played incredible in the third quarter. A 22-6 lead at the end carried us ahead of France by 8 points. The last quarter was too exciting. It was going on very close but Turkey had a huge opportunity to eliminate one of the favourites of the tournament. Cedi Osman was so unlucky while it was up to him for Turkey to finish this without OT. He missed both free-throws.

OT was just as I expected and we failed by 87-86. Furkan Korkmaz made a huge mistake in the last seconds and we couldn't use our last chance properly once again. It wouldn't have been this much problem for me if we lost by a big point difference. But losing like this is unacceptable. We could have won this game after all that effort.