Here are my thoughts about the ending U18 and starting U20 European Championships.
- But let’s start with the surprise of the day. Greek Media outlets announce the possibility of a transfer of Nikos Pappas to Spain. According to these rumors, his agents paid his buyout at Panellinios to make him a free-agent on the market. And these same sources report that the Spanish ACB team of Bilbao wants to sign him. We will keep you updated about this story. (found on TheHoop)
- Before coming to the important stuff, just check out this video clip of the Georgian and Israeli U20 players after the game on Sunday where Israel managed to beat Georgia and advance to the next round.
- Greece is the 2008 U18 European Champion after they beat Lithuania in a tight final 57-50. Another big game by Kostas Sloukas helped them to win over Lithuania. Despite having lost their versatile forward Vladimir Jankovic with a broken foot, the team stepped up and improved during the whole tournament. Belgium and Estonia will move to division B.
- The All-Tournament team of the U18 Division A is the following:
PG-Kostas Sloukas
SG-Nikos Pappas
SF-Mario Delas
PF-Donatas Motiejunas (MVP)
C-Enes Kanter - Slovenia hammered everybody in Division B of the U18 European Championships and will promote together with the Czech Republic to Division. The final has been won by Slovenia 68-60 against the Czechs.
- The All-Tournament team of the U18 Division B is the following:
PG-Mirza Sarajlija
SG-Tomas Satoransky
SF-Marko Vranjkovic
PF-Jakub Wojciechowsky
C-Jan Vesely - In the U20 European Championship of Division A, 4 teams go with 2 wins and zero losses to the Qualifying round which starts tomorrow. Lithuania, Italy, France and a surprising Montenegro team have now good possibilities to advance to the semis. The story about Montenegro is of course that the team has only lost 1 official game in its history so far, a surprising loss against Austria in last year’s B Division campaign. Greece, Georgia, Bulgaria and Slovenia will fight for the two spots to remain in Division A though.
1 response so far ↓
1 kozan // Aug 7, 2008 at 6:04 pm
you wrote that turkey lacks of quality but they are at the semi-final soi guess you didnt watch well^_^
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