Thread 150450376

Mediterranean derby edition

doesnt say eurobasket anywhere in thei mag

belgium france is gonna be close calling it now

we are going to lose so bad kek

https://www.viprow.nu/sports-basketball-online
https://freestreams-live.su/basketball-live-stream2/

>>150450557
cracksprts me is better

> No wemby
> No gobert
> No Salun
> No batum
Yawn

most teams including lithuania ( especially lithuania ) are so shit, only germany, france, serbia are decent

>>150450667
thats why they are better this year

>>150450718
Atleast yabuGOD is a real nigga that plays every tournament.

>>150450376 (OP)
whitest greeks VS darkest italians

>>150450764
italy have more blacks in their roster

>>150450797
but of lower quality

>>150450814
thanasis and kostas are not even actual basketball players

you now remember olympiacos bc legend Stéphane Risacher

>>150450831
https://youtube.com/shorts/0uKgjbIg6x4?si=COLD6fkNRErEKa94
Put some respek on ThaNASTY

boy belgium are bad

>>150450857
no time for basketball a new champion croissant is out and he had to do promos

Cyprus team looks like u16 boys playing adults. That's one country in europe that would actually benefit from naturalized blacks.

>>150451173
they have several in football

TIME TO DESTROY CHRISTIAN TURKISH BUSSY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

luka dropping 60 points and losing to poland would be the most luka thing ever

>>150451295
Didn't they get booted out of knockouts by Poland in the last WC or something? And then Poland themselves got destroyed in the next round
The whole thing was kino

>>150451385
yes it was hilarious though poland was playing well the entire tournament until their defeat

>>150451295
the most luka thing would be a serious injury and lefraud blaming the whole of europe or some shit

>>150451507
>hey cleveland im coming home

Frauds are probably all still hangover from drinking and playing cards all night.
Might aswell treat this as a holiday since realistically getting out of the group stage is the best they can hope for..

>>150450376 (OP)
BA
SKET
A
KI

>>150452111
this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7QkQWZsZzI

>>150452148
>blocked in your country

>>150452189
its just an add

>>150450667
>no Gobert
that's a net positive

>wake up
>check the scores
>Spain btfo by Georgia
Don't Spaniards actually care about basketball? What went wrong?

>>150452679
all our good players retired
current players aren't good enough
coach is outdated
simple as

>>150452703
Grim. Do you have young but talented youngsters who can help in the future?

>>150452726
nope they had a serb but he chose serbia

>>150452679
they don't have point guards anymore, lorenzeo brown said he wouldn't come, and they didn't have enough time to find a new one

I mean, De Larrea???

They win shitloads of titles in youth tournaments, yet it seems none of those players can earn gametime in their clubs. Baskonia fielded basically no spanish player in euroleague this season.
That being said, I still wouldn't count them out as long as they're not officially eliminated. They won't win the tournament, but beside Serbia and the Germs, there's a bunch of teams that are more or less equals and hard to rank. Turkey seems ok this year however.

>>150452751
>>150452798
Se acabó

>>150452703
it's out time now
we will crush spain at last

>>150453214
DONT TOUCH MY OFFBRAND ITALY

We're getting exposed hard today

for me its Lukas Dončičius

chances luka freaks out and starts beefing with some polish guy playing 5th divison

>>150453676
50/50.
He either does or he doesn't.

Pooland wins

SO IT BEGINS

the GOAT will do it again

>>150453701
based

Hellenic Kino

>>150453877
hell yeah

time to destroy these bitches

>Gallinari
what year is it

BRING
ME
HELLAS

why are threads so slow?

People here are getting too hyped up again which means the team is gonna get jinxed. We will 100% find a way to shit the bed again despite the competition being dogshit this year

>>150454030
Most people outaide of a few meme countries don't give a fuck sbout international basketball

>>150454049
I forgot that's it's an American site

greece starting 5 is good but they have zero bench. when they get exhausted we will blow their bench out

Melli should be in the nba

ThaNASTYYY

>>150454030
it wasnt slow last noon

We're going to be conceding 100+ points every game.

Gallinari is still class even while laughably overweight

>slovenia likely going the distance with poland
grim

1 serbia
2 france
3 germany
4 turkey
5 greece
6 lithuania
7 latvia
8 italy
removed: spain slovenia finland

Papagiannis hurt or trash?

Had to go to some russian site for the games. Thank god I'm double condom wrapped with Malwarebytes and Ublock

>>150454030
just be happy there's a thread at all
they're a bit faster when Lithuania, Turkey or Greece are playing

>>150454485
don't know if he's hurt, but at least he's trash for sure

>>150454485
been trash since the FIBA cup

>>150454500
>>150454500
>just be happy there's a thread at all
>they're a bit faster when Lithuania, Turkey or Greece are playing
Thank you anons for supporting my team

What is Doc thinking?

Why the fuck is Doc Rivers watching Greece?

>>150454542
i would die for lithuania turkiye and hellas
>>150454543
>oh my god this fat alcoholic is actually going all out against poland and still trailing

>>150454560
hes the bucks coach bruh

lmao doc rivers

What's with all the nogs on these """european"""" teams. FFS. This is pathetic.

>>150454543
nico won
luka teams flop

>>150454115
Giannis doesn't fit the traditionnal Greek basketball style. Plus his game is far less efficient in FIBA ruleset than in NBA ruleset.
Also, well, the other Greek players are just meh players, who can be good as "cogs in the machine" in euroleague teams, but can't really stand for themselves when being put out of their mahines.

As far as I remember, Greece best result since Giannis started playing for them is random quarter final a few years ago.

This tanned Polish guy is going crazy!

>NT team talks in English
soulless
any team doing this should be disqualified

>>150454485
he is trash but spanoulis didnt play him when he was in monaco so he opted out

Good old low score match can't complain

>>150454583
You wouldn't know the Bucks had a coach at all just by watching them play

>>150454551
>>150454560
>>150454585
>>150454583
he is the elias zouros of then ba

Qrd on Greece v Italy? I'm watching Donchuck

refs blowing more than a california hooker

When i was younger i thought teams like Italy, Greece, Spain & Turkiey wouldnt need americans playing for them

>>150454645
theres really nothing to discuss

>>150454618
Belgians do it to avoid national butthurt between flemoids and walloonoids

>>150454660
Fair

>>150454645
Italy hanging on via good defence and team play
Fontecchio having a mare

Slovenia giving a new meaning to the word "bum"

>>150454657
Spain had americans playing for them for decades.

>>150454627
>the italian one

oof

does anyone else think luka is kind of gross to look at during a match. he looks like he reeks

>>150454687
>Fontecchio having a mare
Guy's been living off of those 15 games with the Pistons last year

where cska moscow

>>150454740
nah, he's been our best player for years
just shitting the bed tonight

>>150454752
somewhere in donbass

>>150454755
Why doesn't Italy produce ballers anymore

>>150454772
not him but people just dont care about basket. calcio is just too dominating so the youth system for basket suffers

>>150450376 (OP)
wow greeks look like this?

>>150454772
just like spain, their clubs massively relies/relied on foreign players

>>150454800
turkish genetics

>>150450076
its good when have Lauri
>>150450216
whats cracking Pablo Iglesias?

>>150454796
Fair enough. You have some decent youth players u18s who could get drafted next year (Lonati and Garavaglia)

>>150454772
Spagnolo and Procida are decent, Niang is playing really well tonight and has had a very good Serie A
a reason we wasted a lot of talents was because Milano has been for years the only club in Italy that could pay, so they poached every half talented youngster and left them to rot
now with Virtus coming back and a lot of players preferring to go abroad for more playing time, it's changing

it's ironic, our most talented generation (Gallinari, Belinelli, Bargnani) was also the one that did worst on the international stage

>>150454807
Should have a 2 foreigners per club max rule. Why bother developing your own players when you could just get a murican who couldn't get into the NBA for cheap.

How popular is basketball in your countries lads?

>>150454049
>>150454030
I think its kinda comfy to have threads with gayreeks, Yugos and Balts
>>150454035
Have some self-confidence, there is just no risk you are losing

>>150454657
Italy and Greece too by the way (they even had one guy named Amerikanos)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Amerikanos

>>150454885
football>>basketbal>wymn volleyball

>>150454885
No one plays it ever. When we were told to play basketball in PE we just played football with the ball instead. If you play basketball and aren't freakishly tall then you are presumed to be an edgelord and will probably troon out in early adulthood.

>>150454885
depends on the area
in Lombardy it's second only to football, in the rest of the North it's third after tennis, in the South it's barely present

>>150454885
I assume its like Hockey > Football > Floorball (lol) > Basketball
Track & field and all the skiing sports probably go above basketball too

>>150454920
>When we were told to play basketball in PE we just played football with the ball instead

fuck the same thing we used to do in my school kek

>>150454657
Nobody needs them. If baltics and balkans with their tiny population and shit economy can compete with local players on their team, then obviously much larger nations with better economy and infrastructure can do it as well. This is just pure demoralization and self-flagellation, pushed from the top by self-hating cuckolds. They completely ruined football and made it unwatchable with this nog circus, I guess they want to ruin basketball as well. Soon NBA will be whiter than eurobasket.

>>150454981
Based

>>150454728
He looks hot now that he lost weight.

>>150454861
You don't even need to be that restrictive. Look at France, we have 6 foreign players allowed per club, and yet young players still have a lot of gametime and are given their chance. Pretty much all the ones with good potential will find their way to professionnalism, and will climb the ladder from middle-clubs to stronger clubs that way. Plus we have a very strong 2nd division where U20 players have a lot of gametime and play against veteran players are a earning experience very fast.

Meanwhile, Baskonia barely played any Spanish players in euroleague this year, and despite them winning many youth tournaments it seems that barely any players make it to good clubs.

>>150455013
dwight howard sounding ass kek

Norwoodcic is smoking hot

Man Slovenia is tough to watch

get Niang back in Pozzecco what the fuck are you thinking

>>150455097
The role players can't even defend or shoot memes. It's weird because their youth teams are actually quite good

>>150455113
well its marginally better than it was a couple years ago when their starting center at the world cup was a guy who played in the japanese 2nd division

kek at doncic thinking he's in nba and will get free throws if he shoots the ball when the defender is looking at him with a mean stare (then bitching at the refs and earning a tech)

>>150455135
Rough
>>150455145
Kek

greek cutie spotted

Why doesn't this Roman warrior play for Italia

>>150455184
consdering he played for usa in fiba 2023 world cup. Probaly never

>>150455184
traitor fuck

luka actually gonna foul out

The stepping too early at free throw is just dumb rule.
95% times they dont even call it.

>>150455145
just as I read this i see him do it successfully

Oh they werent kidding slovenia really is ass

Ngl Serbia are going to rape their way through this tournament

Hopefully we revenge for our ancestors and blowout poland in saturday

>>150454989
in balkans, only serbia doesn't have a naturalized players
and, well, no, they can't compete (for medals, at least) if they don't have them. Slovenia would have never won eurobasket without Zack Randolph, Mecadonia would have never reached eurobasket semi without McCallebb, Spain would have never won their last titles without Lorenzeo Brown, and Greece have/had plenty of "Greek" players like Calathes or Koufos who can't even speak Greek (plus all their ridiculous way to give Greek passports to yougo players in the 90s, reminder that Stojakovic or Tarlac are technically Greek too)

Damn Thanasty...

>>150455281
they were supposed to do that in the last eurobasket too, but then got BTFO by Italy in fucking RO16

>>150455302
t. mileikowsky

>Luka half Serb
>Plays for Slovenia instead
Why didn’t he pick to play for Serbia?

>>150455355
It's different this time...

lol Thanasty is like Rodman without any basketball skills

>>150455359
Patriotic larp

>>150455358
Im not ashkenazi though so fail
Ok i am a quarter ashkenazi but i dont have an ashkenazi surname

Poland please beat poland

>>150455359
He's quarter Serbian. And you don't get to just pick your nationality. Although if he wanted I'm sure he'd have no problem getting nationalized to be able to play for their team.

doncic's antics are suppremely annoying

Thanasty with da block

>>150455334
to add to this, basketball became popular in Greece because of Nick Gallis, born and raised in New Jersey to two first generation Greek migrants, played three seasons for Seaton Hall and first stepped foot in Greece after he got hired by Aris following a failed Celtics training camp. He does speak the language without issue though, so thats that.

>>150455439
Do you have to be a citizen to represent a national basketball team?

snack time
tiropita with some hot chocolate
what do you eat anons now?

kurwas murderball is running out of steam

Lukek keeps kicking it out to his shite teammates to brick threes... why doesn't he just shoot a floater or something

>>150455359
>>150455439
Would adding Doncic to that 2024 Olympic squad inch Serbia over the US? Less defense wouldn't have helped that team much

>italian guy shoots
>balls goes in
>Mario getting coins sound starts playing
KEK

>>150455467
Yes. They allow one person that has no connection to the country to be nationalized and play for a national team. Personally I don't really like that even thought statistically speaking we benefit the most from that rule considering how small our nation is.

refs are kurwas tonight, what shitshow lol

>>150455507
>Greek timeout
>Zorba starts playing
every fucking time

>>150455519
Oh right, I just assumed it was similar to football and you could represent the nation of your parents/grandparents

>>150455486
Jordan Lloydowzky is on the bench

>>150455481
>hot chocolate
>in august
plus sfoliatoeidh the gayreeks and britbongs go to snack

>>150455481
I will order greek food for greece's win

>>150455580
I have a cold now anon

>>150455554
you can do that too, hence why Greece had Calathes, Koufos or Galis
contrary to what people may think, FIBA is one of the most restrictive federation for that kind of things.
Handball is especially ridiculous on that matter, like that Qatar national team that reached the world cup final with an almost 100% foreign team that was granted qatari passports.
Don't forget rugby too, even if that one is special, as "national teams" are in technically not representing the country, but the national league, so you could pic as many foreign players as you want granted they've been palying in the local league for some time

>>150455600
if i saw one of those influencers coming in my store with those stupid tiny mics id punch them right in their face

>>150455619
Right so anon was wrong and Lukek could represent Serbia. And yeah rugby is absurd, I remember the Ireland team having Maoris in it kek

Italy used to be good

Stupid polack could've gotten Luka ejected with a second tech but didn't

>>150455619
>Qatar national team
I hate those arab cocksuckers so much, they cant even spend their gazillion dollars to develop random arabs from the other arab countries, they just push federations to allow them to get as many ready to eat mercenaries as possible

I once used to like doncic.
That time is long gone.

>>150455334
They have the numbers, money and infrastructure in place to produce local talent, they just don't want to do it.

Besides, most of these teams with naturalized nogs aren't competing for medals. Might as well let locals play and retain some self-respect. It's the same excuse leftists make to justify mass migration.