Eurobasket 07 – Greece vs Lithuania 16/09
16 September 2007 Bronze For Lithuania The two last champions of Europe from 2003 and 2005 met on Sunday evening in Palacio de Deportes in Madrid and when the smoke cleared Lithuania beat Greece 78-69. Lithuania hit two birds with one stone. By winning the game they’ll get to wear the bronze medal on the EuroBasket 2007 podium later on tonight, and also earned the third European ticket to the Olympic games in 2008. Theodoros Papaloukas (Greece) Theo Papaloukas had eight points in the loss. Greece wanted to win a third medal in a row, but saw a tough Lithuanian group who recovered in time from the surprising loss to Russia in the semi-finals last night. Ramunas Siskauskas continued his great form from the last games and downed a couple of three-pointers in crunch time to secure the win. This time he was joined by Ksistof Lavrinovic and Linas Kleiza who shot very well both inside and outside the arc, to make sure Greece will stay behind for the vast majority of the game. “It’s not a gold medal but I’ll take this,” said Darius Songaila after the game. “For sure it’s a great feeling. Now we’re going to focus on the Olympics.” Sarunas Jasikevicius, who hammered the last nail in Greece’s coffin, finished with 11 points and five assists despite a slow start. Greece, once again, had only one player with a good shooting night, and this time it was Nikos Zisis. He dropped in 23 points on 58% shooting from the field, but the total of the team was poor. The team of coach Yannakis …
Is not just the defense is the in europe the ofense is better than USA. You know why? Because european basketball is more organized and fundamental that american basketball. USA style is more man to man ofense and individual style, in europe the basketball is old school basketball that consist in moving the ball all the time using pick and roll plays, movin the ball inside to outside looking for easy longshots or jump shots or easy layups. Is a style that everybody touch the ball. OLD SCHOOL.
Hey budy dont feel bad for that i am not from europe but i think european basketball today is better than USA and Lithuania is a great team a power in FIBA and because of great lithuanian players like Ardivas Sabonis, Sarunas Marcelounis, Valdemaras the fomer USSR won a lots of medals in olimpics and world championships. Feel proud of your country because Lithuania is GREAT.
look how small is Lithuania and look how big is America they have more polulation than us so they can get better people becose of thei population..Thats why fucking Americans win
Team Usa used some nba rules:refs called 1/2 of theyr travelling, and they never got any offensive fouls whle in the penalty area, thats why they were dunking so much
so then how do you explain USA winning the olympics with EUROLEAGUE rules? they obviously didn’t use the NBA rules…
ok fine, then why do so many euroleague look to play on the “next level” (nba)????
There is no defence in the nba people just run right through and shooting wide open shots all game all nba players who come to play in europe say the defence in europe is multi times tougher and better then nba. there bearly is any talent in the nba
European teams 4ever
haha it is
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rest of the world? 1?
you sir need to brush up on some history of basketball
all the americans are on drugs
lithuania owened us of course but you deserve it because you have amazing players.
and it’s ok since we both beat the americans
Im Greek and i accept that Lithuania beat us fairly. Its a very good team…
But i hate seeing americans spamming with shit … if u like that go spam at ur NBA videos
It will be not easy for you in Vilnius
NTMIB…you just showed that you know shit about Basketball Olympics…”rest of the world has 1 Olympic gold”…..1972 SSRS az ”little kids” beat USA in Final….1988 SSRS az ”little kids” with 4 Lithuanians ”who scored almost all points”beat USA in Final…..in 2004 Argentinians..Lithuanians..Puerto Ricans.. Italians..az ”little kids”beat USA ….3 Olympic gold medals and 10 winns against ” Super Americans”….pretty fuckin amazing like for ”little kids”….understud faggot???
Bitch and complaint all you want that wont change the fact that USA has 13 olympic gold medals in basketball and the rest of the world has 1. LMFAO! USA showing its true dominance over the little kids around the world. USA 4 Life! Red, White, and Blue!
NTMIB you are f…ing american idiot:)
I’m a team Greece fan, but Lithuania is awesome for a small country.
The first song is the Lithuanian basketball team Anthem
I cant agree more with u
unfair game. spain and russia had 2 days for rest. lithuania had 20 hours and greece had 16 hours. bullshit as always we got cheated out of our win. even russian coach david blatt said they could never beat lithuania if they werent tired. FIBA YOU SUCK COCK.
Greece is an excellent team, but our little lithuania 0wn3d you that time
Lithuania played better and deserved the win,but that doesn’t mean that Greece isn’t good like many of the european teams,Spain,Greece,Lithuania,Croatia,Slovenia and so on.
Keep it going guys,european basketball IS and WILL be good!
i DO believe that the usa teams beat the euroleague teams with YOUR rules.. therefore there can’t be a traveling excuse.
Ok, the nba does travel, but does that make up for the extreme level of talent?
lithunia awesome!
Its a big honour for lithuania bcz they are a small country whit 3 milljon ppl maybe now nearly 4m. but yes who care usa no honour WTHF dude mutch niggaz that palsy to mutch on street and whit luck they get pikked out.
UZ LIETUVA! <3
everytime usa wins all of the “eurofaggots” always find excuses. traveling? ha ha ha ha! right! u eurofags suck so much u guys dont even know what excuse to give. USA 4 life! Red, White, and Blue!
now go build yourself a plastic medal. LOL!