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Batum airballs a three to end the game. :(
 
After seeing Belgium's reaction with the sound of the buzzer, I'm guessing this is a huge upset.
 
Overall, it seems like this tournament has gone a lot like last season. In low pressure games, he performs competently and has flashes that show you he could be something special. Under pressure (at the end of this game, in the playoffs last year) he starts to suck.

Meh, that's ok though. He's only 20. Hopefully with enough experience under pressure he'll grow into handling it. At least he was pretty consistently good on the defensive end.
 
mook said:
Overall, it seems like this tournament has gone a lot like last season. In low pressure games, he performs competently and has flashes that show you he could be something special. Under pressure (at the end of this game, in the playoffs last year) he starts to suck.

Meh, that's ok though. He's only 20. Hopefully with enough experience under pressure he'll grow into handling it. At least he was pretty consistently good on the defensive end.
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The two games against Italy were high pressure and he was excellent. For the Blazers, off the top of my head I remember some great games against the Lakers and Spurs... I don't think pressure is the issue, he's just inconsistent, especially with his shot.
 
number 10 said:
The two games against Italy were high pressure and he was excellent. For the Blazers, off the top of my head I remember some great games against the Lakers and Spurs... I don't think pressure is the issue, he's just inconsistent, especially with his shot.
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Yeah, you're probably right. It's easy to extrapolate to much from a pretty small sample size. Especially right after he had an off-game.
 
I didn't really see France losing to Belgium in either of the games so I have to say I'm pretty surprised. :confused: But I just can't see them losing two straight and making up the four points should be manageable.

If I were a nationalistic froggy I might be mad at the Blazers right now for disrupting Batum's rhythm by making him travel back to Portland for a 20 hour stay and missing the final game versus Finland.

:devilwink:

I can't view the video at work, what's the word on Claver/Rudy versus Poland?
 
zeded said:
I can't view the video at work, what's the word on Claver/Rudy versus Poland?
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Rudy was clutch on both ends of the floor. He made a sick pass between his defender's legs to Gasol for the dunk. Navarro took and made all his shots in the fourth quarter. Claver hit one three, but was non-existent for the most part.

Spain won a close one at the end.
 
Stats for France/Belgium (Who's this W. Parker?)
Stats for Spain/Poland
Rubio didn't do much. Navarro continues his insane scoring spree, and Marc Gasol is again Spain's "other" player. Shame Memphis is such a shithole or it could've had quite the team. (How soon before Gasol gets out of there?)
On a positive Blazer note: Rudy leads the team in assists (not hard), and Claver is joint leader in rebounding. For the Poles, Gortat gets an insane 16 rbs.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Stats for France/Belgium (Who's this W. Parker?)
Stats for Spain/Poland
Rubio didn't do much. Navarro continues his insane scoring spree, and Marc Gasol is again Spain's "other" player. Shame Memphis is such a shithole or it could've had quite the team. (How soon before Gasol gets out of there?)
On a positive Blazer note: Rudy leads the team in assists (not hard), and Claver is joint leader in rebounding. For the Poles, Gortat gets an insane 16 rbs.
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William Anthony "Tony" Parker.
 
I slept right through this, but France annihilated the Belgians in the return leg, 92-54.
boxscore
Batum finished with 8 points in 17 minutes on 4/5 shooting.

France will be in Group B with Russia, Germany, and Latvia. They play one game against each team (all games are being played in Poland, the host country), starting out against Germany on September 7th.
 
France losing the first game to Belgium in the final series seemed an aberration. They sure fixed it. But Batum had his second very quiet game.

I wish we could get these games on TV.
 
ESPN 360 is partnered with Eurobasket 2009, if you have it.
 
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