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Eurobasket 2009, day 3: What the hell happened to Lithuania? (Also, increasingly fearless predictions)
After Lithuania fell to unheralded Poland for its second consecutive Eurobasket loss against teams they really should have outclassed, coach Ramunas Butautas had some choice quotes for his team and the public at large. “We played terrible,” Butautas said, getting no argument from any quarter. “We had no defense, no offense. We lost our game.” […]
La Porra, the Eurobasket 2009 bracket game
Now here’s an intriguing online game designed especially for the Euroleague 2009 tournament. Known as “La Porra” (“The Baton”?), this competition organized by our friends over at Solobasket.com combines elements of tournament bracket games, American football pools, and straight-up gambling at the bookmakers to create a challenging mix for the international basketball hardcore. And it’s […]
Pete Mickeal to be known as Petko Mihailov?
According to Spain’s leading internet basketball mag Solobasket, Tau Vitoria got Pete Mickeal a Bulgarian passport in order to sign another U.S. citizen, Gerald Fitch, as an import player to the team, as only two are allowed to play per team in Spain’s ACB (The other player would be John Lucas III.)
Jose Calderon responds to Spanish controversy
If you read BallinEurope on a daily basis, you probably read this article about the Spanish national team. For some reason, people are more interested in discussing topics like this, than talking about basketball (Is the US team THAT dominant that we have to talk about things like that?). My friend Jaime from one of […]