As there are some people who seem actively hostile to any information about non-US basketball, I thought I'd start a single thread for any info about the Eurobasket tournament that starts in 2 days, and they can just avoid this one thread. Here's an interview with Batum: "Maybe right now it's our time". And here's the official website. And here's a preview. And here's an article about all the ex-Americans playing.
Like you've never clicked on a "shady" link... This won't cut and paste and I'm not going to transcribe it for you, so you're just going to have to risk it.
Batum posted this picture with "Viens d arriver au bureau" which I think means "here I am at the office"
List of players with some connection to the Blazers who are competing (off the top of my head): Batum Claver Nedzad! Sergio Rudy Sergey Monya Petteri Koponen Kostas Papanikolaou Georgios Printezis Pooh Jeter Omer Asik (we drafted him) Still mad we gave up KP. Hope Thomas Robinson makes me forget all about it. But I have a feeling KP will make Chandler Parsons expendable for Houston.
Damn, it shows the schedule, but not the TV broadcast info. Hope somebody picks these games up. I'd love to watch.
Slovenian time zone. Do we subtract 9 hours for Portland time? How about putting the team next to each player so we can decide which teams to watch. It says they'll show 4 games simultaneously. So they don't show full games? Or is this online, not the TV schedule?
Excited to see how Nemanja Nedovic does. He played really well in the exhibition games leading up to the tourney.
Shit, ESPN 3 isn't showing Spain-Croatia. Nevermind, there's still Turkey-Finland! The battle of the Umlauts! Go Petteri! I love the Eurobasket two-tone "hot cross bun" ball. I'm'a get me one of those.
