After a breathtaking first quarter final day, where Serbia fought off Spain in an instant epic via 15 of 30 shooting from beyond the arc, including Milos Teodosic’s gamewinner from deep, as well as Turkey blowing past Slovenia, Russia will face USA before Lithuania and Argentina clash in the evening hours. Go ahead…
The first knockout round is over. We’ve been treated to some fairly boring blow out games, but also two absolute nailbiters played on an incredibly high level that deserved to be semifinal games. And now begins the real stuff. We have three very balanced quarter finals coming up, only one (USA vs. Russia)…
Since the provided play-by-play data is insufficient to generate plus/minus data for every player (the reason being that the action of subbing a player during the break between quarters is not registered in play-by-play), I calculated plus/minus for some of the key players in this tournament manually. Five group games is hardly enough…
So we’re off and going. After three eventful days at the World Championships, let’s have a look at some selected individual stats I’ve come up with. You’ll be familiar with them if you’ve been around on this site or one of the many American sites working with statistics, but it’s not like you…
An eventful first day of the World Championships in Turkey has just ended with a narrow Argentina win over Turkey. Earlier, Greece looked lackadaisical in a close win over China, USA cruised to victory over Croatia and Russia edged Puerto Rico in an early key game. Hosts Turkey started their campaign off with…
A Dirk-less German team reached the second round in the Eurobasket 2009 tournament in Poland – which was considered a success – , and the team is getting even younger this summer, replacing veterans Patrick Femerling, Sven Schultze and Konrad Wysocki with big man Christopher McNaughton, swingman Philip Schwethelm (born 1989) and third…
Greece, the slow-paced halfcourt machine that frustrated teams with suffocating defense and clynical pick and roll throughout the decade, is changing lately. Primarily because of a new man on the sidelines. Former China headcoach Jonas Kazlauskas brought in a new flair after taking over in 2009, and the Greek team has adopted it…
In a tournament where all top nations will be missing key players, the absence of Pau Gasol from the Spanish roster still made headlines, probably due to his outstading play at last year’s Eurobasket. The consensus is that while Sergio Scariolo has a deep and talented roster at his disposal, peppered with both…
In 1999, a Spanish team won the U19 championship in Portugal after a hard-fought final game – cheered on by 12.000 spectators – versus USA. Six players of this young team – shooting guard Berni Rodriguez, power forward Felipe Reyes, point guard Carlos Cabezas, shooting guard Juan Carlos Navarro, point guard Raul Lopez,…
In a few years time, the 2009 Eurobasket might be reflected on as a tournament that started a new era. The last years had been marked by rather consistent results: There was Spain, there was Greece, there was Lithuania. There was a talented Slovenian team that was never able to get it done.…
After six rounds of Eurobasket play, here is my second part focusing on advanced team statistics. The first part had concentrated on offensive efficiency, which is why I decided to include defense and rebounding into this one.
Most of the categories include pace adjustment [per team possessions], which allows a more…
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