It´s halftime... I calmed down.
Fuck... basketball just gets the worse of me. Well not any basketball just our national team playing. I´m not really high tempered kind of guy but when Slovenia plays I change.
Right now I am screaming like mad in to the TV cursing every player on our team. Fuckers... shooting 3 pointers 1/12 in first half. 12 points behind. FUCK!
Disastrous... we need this win tonight. I am confident we will have no problems with Finland and overall we are better then Macedonia but they are flying high... still that will be enough only for 4th place and Spain in quarterfinals
If we allowed you to win
And don't get me wrong but Greece - Slovenia was a win for Greece way before the match starts. You know I hate Greece but in that case I was very confident about Greece win (I have it on a betting ticket)
It was not. Betting sites underrate Slovenia and Greece isn´t that good. Our players fucked up a game that was handed to them on a silver platter. Only thing that our boys needed to do was finish them of.
We can win against anyone and we should win against Russia and Greece. Russia had such an amount of luck that you see once every few years. Greece youngest player scored 2 or 3 threepointers in last minutes of the game. He won´t do anything like it on this tournament again. So with just a bit of luck we could be undefeated and whole Europe would be saying how good Slovenia is.
All of this is a mixture of luck and quality. We have quality to chalenge for TOP 6 spot. Lorbek is TOP 3 PF on tournament, Dragic TOP 3 PG on tournament but both are in shitty form. Things will fall in to place soon enough.
We can beat any team on this tournament but we can also loose against anyone.
Medal is out of reach... but you can´t expect it if you have better players sitting on the couch infront of TV then on EURO. This team just needs to build on this result and reach top in Slovenia 2013 where all our stars promised to play.
About Macedonia match. I love it that you guys are the surprise of the tournament and am really happy for you. But we should win it. We are dominant basicly in every possition and with a better coach. The only thing that scares me is that you guys are flying really high and full of confidence. So your players can go even over their abilities.
We will see what happens soon enough Good luck
Congratulations it´s well deserved.
Our boys are just in the worst form of their lives I am still 100% certain we are a better team but boys just can´t hit a three pointer on this tournament. Worst basketball I have ever seen from them. Two years ago we lost a well deserved medal and now we have to beat a fucking second rate Finland team to go in to top-8?!?!
This EURO will be forgotten but meh... things will pick up soon enough our boys are too good to go down like this.
Serbia - Turkey 68-67
Turning Point: Serbia led 68-67 with four seconds to go and Turkey's Ersan Ilyasova missed a game-winning jumper.
Game Hero: Serbia's Milos Teodosic had 14 of his game-high 20 points in the first half.
He pulled down eight rebounds, dished out five assists and came up with one steal.
Stats Don't Lie: Turkey were 16 of 29 (55%) from the free-throw line while Serbia finished
13 of 16 (81%). Serbia out-rebounded Turkey 38-35.
Lee said he’s been in touch with Biedrins all summer and that Biedrins said he was going to try to make it but it didn’t look promising
Wright and Lee said they expect Curry, Monta Ellis, Lou Amundson, Ekpe Udoh, Jeremy Lin, Klay Thompson, Jeremy Tyler and Charles Jenkins to participate. The idea came about during Curry’s wedding in late July, with Lee and Ellis in attendance.
The entire group is expected to be in Las Vegas by Thursday, and they’ll spend the long weekend together. Lee said wives, girlfriends and families are also expected to accompany the players.
My god, this is unreal. We are in the semifinal. Can't believe it.
Hell's breaking loose outside, with fans on the street, car horns, flags, absolute celebration.
Spain will be near impossible to beat, but why the fuck not. I wouldn't mind it at all. As long as we're in the competition, we stand a chance to win it.
Can't believe I'm typing this. After yesterday and today, I'm out of voice. Just can't speak anymore.
Congratulations,
Everything is possible my friend. You put real teamwork and without stars in your team made it so far.
.Semis ended, France-Spain is the final. Spain beat Macedonia 92-80 and France beat Russia 79-71.
In the end all the spirit and sacrifice in the world couldn't help Macedonia against a side that good. Catalonian scum Navarro was inhuman, hitting everything. Guy was having a three pointer layup at one point of the game. 19 points in third quarter! One of our players said he would have hit the basket even if he was kicking the ball with his foot. Macedonia played an incredible game, but Spain is just too good.
What a run we had though. We showed that getting here was not a fluke. Our players had the biggest heart from all squads in the Eurobasket. Mccalleb is undoubtedly the best shooting PG in Europe. Wonder how this guy didn't play in NBA. He is unstoppable, a mixture of D-Rose and D-Wade. The supporting cast are not spectacular players, but they are decent three point shooters and fantastic defenders. Pero Antic is as good as a rebounder gets.
These players have run themselves to the ground the past ten days. Theyve shown courage, determination and commitment bigger than any other team. They bled for their country and played out of their skin. While Spain could afford to rotate the Gasols and Ibaka (who would be the top player for probably any other team in the tournament), thus allowing them all the rest in the world, with ten excellent players making solid contribution Macedonia played essentially with six or seven players at best and they still fought to the end. This team deserves all the recognition and respect of the world.