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    Eurobaske Lithuania 2011

    Almost a week before Eurobasket 2011 and i will make some early picks,


    I believe that Italian squad has potential this year. They have an experienced head coach and the NBAers can push the others to achieve something really good! On the other hand, Turkish national team will fight for the 3rd place of Group A and this "HEAD to HEAD" will be really interesting, later at Group E.
    I bet on Italy to reach further than Turkey this year.

    Italy vs Turkey (Head to Head)
    pick Italy
    Odds paying 2.75 @ Bet365


    France is among the favourites once again, but nobody really believes that this team can take the crown. They are kind of losers, thinking of recent tournaments' performances, but there is always hope to do something special. I guess they are ready to challenge big teams like Spain, Lithuania and Serbia and keep it close till the end, even if they cannot taste the success. If you take a look at your sportsbook you might find this "Head to Head" option. France is better than the Germans and i have no doubt, that they will reach late stages of this tournament. Of course Dirk "champion" Nowitzki is a huge wall to overcome, but i cannot see it happens... you know what i am talking about.


    France vs Germany
    (Head to Head)
    pick France
    Odds paying 1.52 @ BET365

    I think home advantage will give Lithuania as push as needs to give its presence at the final day of the tournament. No analysis, why this can happen. They have a decent team since years and i watched them beating Spain few days earlier.


    Lithuania to play at the Final
    odds paying 3.00 @ BWIN


    extra picks


    Italy to reach the Quarter Finals 5,00
    France to reach the Semis 5.25

    Last edited by tullamore21; 08-25-11 at 10:35 AM.

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    like france picks
    good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrSink View Post
    like france picks good luck
    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by alamo View Post
    lol

    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by alamo View Post
    lol
    lol

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    Greece vs Bosnia Herzegovina
    pick Greece -13,5

    Lithuania vs Great Britain
    pick Lithuania -14,5

    Good Luck

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    i like today georgia

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    BOL buddy! Hope this is the start of a profitable season!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vreston View Post
    BOL buddy! Hope this is the start of a profitable season!
    thank you.
    will you start a thread for Eurobasket too?
    i hope this season would be profitable for everyone.

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    adding one more pick

    France vs Latvia
    pick France -19,5
    Last edited by tullamore21; 09-01-11 at 04:20 AM.

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    France may win by 30....Letonia has a lot of problems and their 3 key players will not play. good luck! I take it

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    Latvia hit 11 of 21 beyond the arc. Insane performance.
    Bosnia managed somehow to stay close even if Teletovic was 0 of 9 three pointers... what to say.
    Lithuania was leading by 10 at the half, but they scored 5 points at the third period... so they didn't cover.

    Anyway, terrible start as always..

    France vs Latvia
    pick France -19,5 (89-78)

    Greece vs Bosnia Herzegovina
    pickGreece -13,5 (76-67)

    Lithuania vs Great Britain
    pick Lithuania -14,5 (80-69)


    0-3-0
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    Yesterday France allowed 78 points, while Latvia was hitting 11 of 21 from downtown. This will not happen again for Israel, a team that lost by 27 and allowed 91 points. The French is a decent team and they can demolish their opponents, if they are focused and not feel like playgrounding. In my eyes, this is the pick of the day.

    France vs Israel
    pick France -14.5


    Lithuania is a run n gun team. The crowd pushes those guys to play some nice ball and they love hitting many threes and transitioning all the time. Last night they hit 83, but only 5 at third period. Tonight i expect 90+ against a team that cannot defend at all.


    Lithuania vs Latvia
    pick Lithuania to score over 86,5 points


    Spain was playing hide n seek yesterday and they somehow managed to play till the last minute against a weak Poland. Portugal is maybe the worst team at the tournament, so i predict a huge score for Spain tonight. I hope they will not stop and score over 88,5 against their neighbours.

    Spain vs Portugal
    pick Spain to score over 88,5 points

    Good luck
    Last edited by tullamore21; 09-01-11 at 05:01 AM. Reason: added another pick

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    Good luck
    I am on France to cover as well & was thinking exactly, I think France will win by 25 points.

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    53 points at the half for Spain. 36 more to hit it

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    i wanted 12 points at the last period for Spain.
    I needed 6 pontis at the last 6,5 minutes for Spain.
    i needed 2 points at the last 3 minutes for Spain.

    that didn't hit.
    Spain scored 87.

    is there god?

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    i am f*cking shocked

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    georgia-russia under 146.5
    finland greece (finland under 68.5)
    good luck

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    I just saw, france-israel line is only 147½
    I'm suprised it should be over easly. I hope I will not stumble about France

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    Quote Originally Posted by NEW_WORLD View Post
    georgia-russia under 146.5
    finland greece (finland under 68.5)
    good luck

    agree with Finland Under.
    Greece is a tradional defending team and this is a key to its success past years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tullamore21 View Post
    Yesterday France allowed 78 points, while Latvia was hitting 11 of 21 from downtown. This will not happen again for Israel, a team that lost by 27 and allowed 91 points. The French is a decent team and they can demolish their opponents, if they are focused and not feel like playgrounding. In my eyes, this is the pick of the day.

    France vs Israel
    pick France -14.5 (85-68)


    Lithuania is a run n gun team. The crowd pushes those guys to play some nice ball and they love hitting many threes and transitioning all the time. Last night they hit 83, but only 5 at third period. Tonight i expect 90+ against a team that cannot defend at all.


    Lithuania vs Latvia
    pick Lithuania to score over 86,5 points (97-77)


    Spain was playing hide n seek yesterday and they somehow managed to play till the last minute against a weak Poland. Portugal is maybe the worst team at the tournament, so i predict a huge score for Spain tonight. I hope they will not stop and score over 88,5 against their neighbours.

    Spain vs Portugal
    pick Spain to score over 88,5 points (87-73)

    Good luck

    2-4-0
    record
    Last edited by tullamore21; 09-01-11 at 05:47 PM. Reason: typo

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    It was a better day today.

    Greece played as much as it had to again, but covered. Spain didn't cover again. That number was too high.
    Lithuania will get stronger as the games go by I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NEW_WORLD View Post
    georgia-russia under 146.5
    finland greece (finland under 68.5)
    good luck
    both won

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    just a pick tonight, as line movements killed my early thoughts.

    Italy has underperformed at previous games. They are a team with limit potential, but they haven't shown theis true abilities on the court. They can win tonight and score many points, though they cannot hit anything from downtown. This is kinda strange for a team such Italy. I expect a 3 pointers shooting contest tonight among Italian players. They cannot miss so many wide open shots 3rd game in a row. Can they...??


    Italy vs Latvia
    pick Italy to score over 81,5 points.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tullamore21 View Post
    just a pick tonight, as line movements killed my early thoughts.

    Italy has underperformed at previous games. They are a team with limit potential, but they haven't shown theis true abilities on the court. They can win tonight and score many points, though they cannot hit anything from downtown. This is kinda strange for a team such Italy. I expect a 3 pointers shooting contest tonight among Italian players. They cannot miss so many wide open shots 3rd game in a row. Can they...??


    Italy vs Latvia
    pick Italy to score over 81,5 points. (71-62)

    2-5-0 record

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    After the break, Greece and FYROM are back in action. Greece is perfect with 2 wins against Bosnia and Finland, while FYROM lost its first against Montenegro at a dramatic game and won its second against Croatia.
    Everyone's expecting Greece to utilize inside game with Bourousis and Koufos. This is the more likely to happen as their neighbours haven't response for this one. Pero Antic, Todor Gechevski and Predrag Samardziski will defend Greek Big Men. These three are averaging almost 30 points per game while grabbing 18 rebounds p/g. On the other hand Bourousis, Fotsis and Koufos will recieve many balls tonight and will try to reach or overpass the combined 33 points they averaging at the 2 first games.The rebounds' average is 18 (the same as FYROM).
    Let's see some more stats.

    The matchup is Greece-FYROM
    Rebs p/g: 41.0-34.0
    Pts p/g: 78.5-71.5
    Ass p/g: 16.0-10.0
    TO p/g: 18.0-12.5

    As we can see Greece is dominating at every single category, but they turn the ball too often and cannot hit anything from downtown as they are shooting about 25% beyond the arc. This is a key factor at Greece's fate at this tournament in my opinion. It is not the team, it used to be recently, as fresh men with lower potential-talent joined it. At tonight's game i expect a tought battle, but the great rotation of Ilias Zouros can keep his team refreshed and "save" energy for the last period.
    FYROM has McCalebb, a great scorer, but that's all. McCalebb Ilievski, Antic. Those 3 cannot win Greek team. Plus the fact that Greece find its rythm while playing together. It is a roster that's improving game by game. Tonight they will drop FYROM down.


    Greece vs FYROM
    pick Greece -10,5
    pick Ioannis Bourousis over 14,5 points





    Russia facing Belgium, a team that was blown out even from Georgia. Russia has not impressed anyone at this tournament, but found the way to win the 2 previous games. The line is -16.5, so i am not too confident picking it. I think they will run the court and find open shots tonight, so i am gonna pick Russia to score much.


    Russia vs Belgium
    pick Russia over 76,5 points


    Good Luck
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    i am rolling with Greece -11.5 as well good luck to us all

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    montenegro +4,5 seems like a good bet, croatia is broken atm, vrankovic is the worst coach ever, tomas is hurt and heading home, regional rivals always play close, imho montenegro will win today but we get a nice number to cover, so +4,5 is safer. bol

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    nice call with greece
    Im on Croatia big tonight
    good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrSink View Post
    nice call with greece
    Im on Croatia big tonight
    good luck
    thank you Mr Ironic.
    good luck to you too.

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    I can't believe how terrible Greece played tonight.
    They had no answer for MacCaleb who scored 27points and the next guy scored 8! They did not take advantage of their big men either and took 3pointers when they had an off night instead of working the ball inside since their opponent's big men were in foul trouble.
    Anyway their weakness at point guard was obvious and the absence of key veteran players from the team has hurt them badly.
    Also what about Finland beating Bosnia by 28?! Strange day.

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    wow lucky with croatia
    good luck tomorrow

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vreston View Post
    I can't believe how terrible Greece played tonight.
    They had no answer for MacCaleb who scored 27points and the next guy scored 8! They did not take advantage of their big men either and took 3pointers when they had an off night instead of working the ball inside since their opponent's big men were in foul trouble.
    Anyway their weakness at point guard was obvious and the absence of key veteran players from the team has hurt them badly.
    Also what about Finland beating Bosnia by 28?! Strange day.

    Greece has noone to lead it. Fotsis is the only player with balls, but he was nowhere, except for 5 minutes at the 3rd period. Bourousis is the biggest disappointment for me. He was 2 of 10 in a game that played against a weak frontline. Greece was a joke and i maybe fade it next games. I will really do that against Croatia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tullamore21 View Post
    After the break, Greece and FYROM are back in action. Greece is perfect with 2 wins against Bosnia and Finland, while FYROM lost its first against Montenegro at a dramatic game and won its second against Croatia.
    Everyone's expecting Greece to utilize inside game with Bourousis and Koufos. This is the more likely to happen as their neighbours haven't response for this one. Pero Antic, Todor Gechevski and Predrag Samardziski will defend Greek Big Men. These three are averaging almost 30 points per game while grabbing 18 rebounds p/g. On the other hand Bourousis, Fotsis and Koufos will recieve many balls tonight and will try to reach or overpass the combined 33 points they averaging at the 2 first games.The rebounds' average is 18 (the same as FYROM).
    Let's see some more stats.

    The matchup is Greece-FYROM
    Rebs p/g: 41.0-34.0
    Pts p/g: 78.5-71.5
    Ass p/g: 16.0-10.0
    TO p/g: 18.0-12.5

    As we can see Greece is dominating at every single category, but they turn the ball too often and cannot hit anything from downtown as they are shooting about 25% beyond the arc. This is a key factor at Greece's fate at this tournament in my opinion. It is not the team, it used to be recently, as fresh men with lower potential-talent joined it. At tonight's game i expect a tought battle, but the great rotation of Ilias Zouros can keep his team refreshed and "save" energy for the last period.
    FYROM has McCalebb, a great scorer, but that's all. McCalebb Ilievski, Antic. Those 3 cannot win Greek team. Plus the fact that Greece find its rythm while playing together. It is a roster that's improving game by game. Tonight they will drop FYROM down.


    Greece vs FYROM
    pick Greece -10,5 (58-72)
    pick Ioannis Bourousis over 14,5 points (10 points)





    Russia facing Belgium, a team that was blown out even from Georgia. Russia has not impressed anyone at this tournament, but found the way to win the 2 previous games. The line is -16.5, so i am not too confident picking it. I think they will run the court and find open shots tonight, so i am gonna pick Russia to score much.


    Russia vs Belgium
    pick Russia over 76,5 points (79-58)


    Good Luck

    current record 3-7-0

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    stupid moron fouls with 5 sec left, down by 5, why would you do that???

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