European Basketball Championship

[blue-san]

Anyone who cares or is watching this:

I ll make a quick sum..

there were 4 initial groups. Each had 4 countries in it and only 3 would advance from each group. After that the two groups would merge and each would play against the countries from another group…
So out of 6 teams in each group 4 would advance to quarter finals...
Team ranked 1 in the group A for instance would play the fourth one from Group B and so on...

I ll try to display it so its clearer...

INITIAL GROUPS:
(THree advancing from each group)

GROUP A
Macedonia
Greece
Croatia
Israel -out

GROUP B
Russia
France
Latvia -out
Germany

GROUP C
United Kingdom -out
Slovenia
Spain
Serbia

GROUP D
Bulgaria -out
Lithuania
Poland
Turkey

AFTER THAT GROUP A AND B WOULD MERGE AS WOULD C AND D…
(4 advancing from each group)

GROUP E
1. France - 5 won (+46 in points)
2. Russia - 3 won (0)
3.Greece - 3 won (43)
4. Croatia - 2 won (-7)
5.Macedonia - 1 won (-59)
6.Germany - 1 won (- 23)
GROUP F
1. Slovenia - 4 won (+46)
2. Turkey - 4 won (+32)
3. Serbia - 3 won (+8)
4. Spain - 3 won (+30)
5. Poland - 1 won (-90)
6.Lithuania - 0 won(-66)

QUARTER FINALS MATCHES

17.9.2009
Serbia 79 **-**68 Russia
France 66 - 86 Spain

18.9.2009 at 17:00 GMT and 20:00 GMT
Turkey - Greece
Slovenia - Croatia

So basically Serbia and Spain are in semi finals. Serbia will get either Slovenia or Croatia and Spain will get Turkey or Greece.

Thats about it. Here is now a semi proper thread if anyone wants to discuss

[MiniLuffy]

I love basketball! I wish our national team was little more organized. :sad:

[blue-san]

Your national team being UK or USA?

[blue-san]

Btw Greece vs Turkey is on right now we are close to the second half:

Score being: Greece 27 - 24 Turkey

[Ms. Suave Debonair]

Europeans play basketball?

[The Iceman]

@Bad-Beat:

Europeans play basketball?

I asked myself that too.

As the saying goes, whiteman can't jump.

But France seems to have a decent team.

[blue-san]

@The:

I asked myself that too.

As the saying goes, whiteman can't jump.

But France seems to have a decent team.

Actually Europe plays the far best basketball going by the continent…

As for World chamions title?

last world championship (2006)
1. Spain (current world champions)
2. Greece
3. USA

2002 WC (was even in USA…however USA didnt even come to semi finals)
1. Yugoslavia
2. Argentina
3. Germany

1998 WC
1. Yugoslavia
2. Russia
3. USA

1994 WC
1. USA
2.Russia
3. Croatia

So yes Europe does play basketball lol

@ The Iceman
France was actually eliminated in quarter finals by Spain wining by 20 points if you look above

[Ms. Suave Debonair]

@The:

whiteman can't jump.

But France seems to have a decent team.

Well seeing as France had a large colonial area in Africa, it makes sense.

[blue-san]

I dont know

Tony parker is France best player and he was born in Belgium…
For a mather of fact there is no one in team of France which comes from"african colonies"

next lol

btw: Greece 68 vs 66 Turkey and only 18 seconds to go...its quite a closure

[Ms. Suave Debonair]

You follow the worst sport in existence.

[blue-san]

I follow it yes because my nation will play in quarter finals.

I understand however that UK is not so good at basketball hance you have no interest whatsoever in it…

Too bad not many people play cricket (joke on the side what about football you watching that?)

btw Turkey score in last second and we are going to see extra time

[Ms. Suave Debonair]

Now that's just not cricket.

[blue-san]

You should make a cricket thread then

[Ms. Suave Debonair]

ok done, now what?

[blue-san]

Greece has won by two points against Turkey…

[MiniLuffy]

@Bad-Beat:

ok done, now what?

Stop posting useless comments in threads about sports you don't like, maybe? Besides, basketball is a good sport. What can you possibly dislike in it? Soccer is a billion times more boring than basketball.

Anyways, Europeans are good players. Maybe not the best jumpers, but they sure can play.

EDIT: Thank God. Greece won.

[Keane]

Bring on the Slamball.

[Chrissie]

Wheee! Greece won! watched the last minutes

[blue-san]

Now its my country playing

[MiniLuffy]

Hey guys, which channel broadcasts the matches for you? Because I rarely get anything good here. Most of the time downloading rips is my only option, which sucks, because we all know watching it LIVE is what it's ALL ABOUT.

[GaaraofTheDesert]

YESSSSSSS! Greece won !!!!

[Keane]

Apparently turkey couldn't keep a hold of the ball because they were playing with Greece.

[blue-san]

@MiniLuffy:

Hey guys, which channel broadcasts the matches for you? Because I rarely get anything good here. Most of the time downloading rips is my only option, which sucks, because we all know watching it LIVE is what it's ALL ABOUT.

http://basketball-online.tv/default.asp?tcg=1&PID=437c9103-76b2-4237-a8f4-bb49c9ae91fe

EDIT: Otherwise like Chrissie I have a chanl from my country so probably wont do you any good

[Chrissie]

@MiniLuffy:

Hey guys, which channel broadcasts the matches for you? Because I rarely get anything good here. Most of the time downloading rips is my only option, which sucks, because we all know watching it LIVE is what it's ALL ABOUT.

It's a Greek channel for me called NET but I doubt you have that @_@

[MiniLuffy]

This post is deleted!

[blue-san]

sorry mini luffy

Here another help perhaps:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090918060406AAJVB85

[Keane]

Dammit, someone acknowledge my awesome pun…

[MiniLuffy]

@blue-san:

sorry mini luffy

Here another help perhaps:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090918060406AAJVB85

Oh, thanks, but I'm already aware that such streams exist. I've tried TVU and several other programs, but my internet's just not good enough to play it smoothly. At least it wasn't back then, maybe something has changed. Heh.

[blue-san]

My country got to Semi Finals

Happy much

[blue-san]

Games for 5 and 6 place were played (as they were the games that decided which 6 countires would go to the WC next year which is in Turkey - and because it is in Turkey, Turkey is automatically on it.
So Europe has 7 teams:

Turkey+ 6 other

Game 1 was:

France 80 - 68 Turkey

Game 2 was:

Croatia 76 - 69 Russia

So this basically settled who ll go to next WC from Europe here is the full list:

1. Teams that got to semi finals
**- Greece

• Serbia
• Slovenia
• Spain**
  Teams that won matches for 5 and 6 place
  **- France
• Croatia**
  And the host of WC
  - Turkey

Tonight at 17.15 GMT and 20.00 GMT there will be the semi final matches

P.S. FIBA sucks (who the f plays 9 games in a week moreover quarter final, semi final and final games in three days span…Organisation is one big pile of POO

[Lee]

Good thing France won against Turkey, we have our bill for the world championships. And Turkey will organise the next world championships so no regrets in both sides I think.
As for the semi-finals, I don't think Spain can be beaten. They just made France their bitches in the quarter-final, it was really impressive.

P.S. FIBA sucks (who the f plays 9 games in a week moreover quarter final, semi final and final games in three days span…Organisation is one big pile of POO

True. I missed Turkey - France because I couldn't imagine they would have to play such an important match right the day after a quarter-final.

[blue-san]

Spain is in the finals waiting for the other finalist

[Chrissie]

Congrats to Spain for kicking Greece's butt

[blue-san]

Serbia won Slovenia in additional time after managing to force it with a three at the end of regular time…

My guys are unfortunately out (fighting for 3rd place)

[MiniLuffy]

Oh man, I wanted Slovenia to win. Ah well, Spain for champions!

[Refii]

Blue you're going down, that bronze is ours, we need some type of medal, I refuse to acknowledge that this team sucks without Papaloukas and Diamantidis, the only thing they lack is confidence. Kalathis is easily as good as Zisis and he has a mix of skills of both, although he has no defense and 3 pt game.

[blue-san]

Yep we went down for a point that is…

IMO the injuries were what took us down, as we were basically playing with 7 players

Non the less , we did well, see you next year on world championship, I think we may not be that nice that time

[Refii]

We'll have our key players back next year

But honestly, I think of our match as a friendly, what I think your country made a mistake with was not defeating Spain, because we have no chance, but you got really close, in fact you had an amazing chance to even keep them off from advancing I think, but anyway that's life, see you next year, with US and Argentina in the mix!

[GaaraofTheDesert]

Bronze medal, I guess its good…

[blue-san]

btw: Spain is now ifficially world as european champion in basketball they beat Serbia by 22 points in the finals

[Green_vs_Red]

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[Green_vs_Red]

@Keane:

Dammit, someone acknowledge my awesome pun…

Booooooooooooo.

There.