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…
GAME OF THE DAY: In a physical battle, with Hedo Turkoglu hurt and unable to put the team on his back in the decisive moments, Turkey fought down Spain 63:60. It hadn’t been a game of high quality all along. Referees allowed a lot of contact [one of the characteristics of refereeing in…
GAME OF THE DAY: This wasn’t a particularly eventful Eurobasket gameday. Hardly something to write about. With Croatia and Russia fighting an ugly low-scoring contest and FYROM capitulating at the hands of France, this leaves us with the Germany versus Greece game. Which isn’t a bad choice for game of the day, one…
Thankfully, FIBA is offering fans a comprehensive database offering an in depth look at Eurobasket 2009 statistics. However, these are only the most common statistics, which aren’t always the most telling ones. Which is why I decided to do a bit of the math myself in order to take a closer look at…
GAME OF THE DAY: Spain versus Slovenia was a blast, but considering that I have not been talking about them a whole lot so far, I’ll go with the Turkish and Polish. Poland has been playing extremely well so far, following an easy opening win over Bulgaria with the upset of Lithuania, based…
GAME OF THE DAY: The Greece versus Croatia match started with high intensity from both sides, and especially on both sidelines, with Kazlauskas and Repesa continously working the referees right from the tipoff. Everything hinted towards a close one from start to finish, before Greece started pulling away based on some magnificent plays…
GAME OF THE DAY: Clearly Serbia’s dismantling of Spain. At the beginning of the day, I was asking myself how Spain was going to do against the physical, enthusiastic, young but already experienced Serbian team. Lifeless. I didn’t expect this. Spain is blessed with so much firepower, yet Serbia was able to dominate…
The 2003 Eurobasket champion Lithuania has been among the top three national teams in Europe over the years, and despite missing a group of key players, the Lithuanians are looking to preserve their status in this year’s tournament in Poland. A recent win over Spain might serve as a nice confidence-booster before the…
For a country with only slightly more than two million inhabitants, the number of high-level basketball players Slovenia has been producing over the years is simply sensational. There are two FC Barcelona key players, the CSKA Moscow captain, a guy who averaged 7.1 points per contest in 317 games in the NBA, before…
Russia’s 2007 Eurobasket triumph has to go down as one of the biggest basketball sensations of this decade, even coming close to [but not surpassing] Germany’s 1993 European Championship as one the biggest European basketball upset in the last 25 years. However, two of that year’s triumph’s main catalysts are not going to…
Dirk Nowitzki has been a regular on the German national team roster since 2001, when he led the team to an excellent fourth place in Turkey. Much to the displeasure of the Dallas Mavericks, and undoubtedly at the expense of Dirk’s own NBA career, which has suffered under the huge number of games…
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