I love watching international basketball. You see players like Zubac and Saric have different roles. Like they're a BIG part of the Croatian team. The point is to see guys that I don't see in the NBA with "main" roles and how good they are with limited restrictions. Congrats to Greece! That was a clinic.
@@Veronikas_K45 If I were celebrating you would know about it. I am happy, I'm hardly celebrating. Keep in mind for us Greeks it has been a long 16 years to be back at the Olympics where we belong. So we're happy for sure. As for if other european teams will beat us, we will see. How do you know? We've got Australia and Canada to think about.
Rest of the world: Congrats Greece! You made it! You are in the Olympics 2024!!! Milwaukee funs: -This team looks great with Giannis, sign everyone... -What do you mean everyone? -EVERYONNNNEEEE...
@@Veronikas_K45 greece is very good at defense even though they are lacking some heavy bodies, essentially there is not a pure 5 on the Greek roster, only big 4s, but containing Slovenia and Doncic to 58 points and Croatia with Zubac, Saric and Hesonia to 69 shows to anyone who understands the game of basketball that their defense is still solid and their team work when they defend is great.
papagiannis had a phenomenal game. I think he should think about switching to power-forward. Coupled with a very athletic center, it could be a lethal combination.
I moved to Orlando Fl in the 90s and one of my close friends lived next door to Nick Calathes. I used to play basketball with Nick when he was 5 or 6. Nick would cry if u blocked his shot. Nick went on to destroy every record in our high school.
@@Veronikas_K45 if you didnt actually care you wouldnt bother yourself to read and reply to this guy's comment. If your life is miserable you dont have to project that to another person that simply shares a fun memory of his life, you are free to move on and and ignore anything you dont care about.
Of course but NBA way of play is different and European play rrlies on system , and automations and defence, whereas in NBA they try to destroy the defence and only rely on how players run ok empty space without defence. Which does not only produce worse basketball imo but it leads to European players requiring around 2-2.5 years to adapt to such changes of game, and then European players many times dont want to put 2-2.5 years to wait before they are part pf this type of game so they leave NBA. In some ways Euro basketball is more advanced. This is also why European passers in last 2 decades (I will not compare to NBA of 80s ) are better and they appear eveb better when they go to NBA.
you are tight but they would be 10-15min players , and most of them want to play their best years , so they stay in europe , others prefer to be in the nba to belong to the best of the best , and stay on the bench
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Nick and Giorgos Papagiannis were the main reason we won,incredible performance by both,Giannis wasnt bad at all,needs some time to adjust,will be ready for the Olympics.
No he does not nedd to afjust he played great. The way team plays better is when Guannis plays within the system like he did today. Great game. Dont forget also that the croats have Zubac, Saric and other players that put volume to guard the rim to team adjusts the tactics
@@vasiliosthomas4883 i mean we have interio defenders so kinda strange tactics..i would let giannis have his 30-35 they are all twos far less deadly then a 3...
The Croatian coach chose to stay in and close the racket in Gianni's efforts. However, this defense zone is applied to small teams that have one player and the rest are backups. Greece has 9 players from the teams that played in the final four and 5 European champions with Panathinaikos. Where are you going, poor thing... you didn't know, didn't you ask?
@@stelios65100 i mean greece shot >50% from 3 for most of the game and no adjustments...one action that stands out is calates and i think papagiannis where they basically were passing ball from the 3 to the key and then back to calates for an open 3 with zero croatian defenders running to close either one...just confusing tbh...
@@aslanidismichail7368 Γιατι εχεις καμια αμφιβολια?Η αυστραλια δεν ειναι φοβητρο η Ισπανια περναει μεταβατικο σταδιο δεν ειναι η ομαδα του παρελθοντος κι εμεις εχουμε το μομεντουμ και τους παικτες να κερδισουμε.Μηπως θυμασαι τι εγινε το 2006 στην Ιαπωνια.?Εχουμε καλυτερη η χειροτερη ομαδα απο τοτε?Θα με θυμηθεις αλλωστε το σχολιο υπαρχει....
Spain is very hard team to beat because they play very good aggressive team defence, and play fast offense. It would be hard game. But hardest game would be after US, France. And Serbia. Yeah is good if Sloukas plays.
Not talented? You maybe speek about football, what are players calathes, papaninilaou antetokoumpo and player who dont participate this time like sloukas printezis or spanouli (coach) these men were and are still legends WITH talent. I think you are watching another imaginable fiba
The answer is yes and there are 2 main reasons for that. 1st he is recovering from an injury. And 2nd is the way that defence is played in the fiba stage. Notice how Croatian defence just waits under the basket because there are no defensive 3 second rule. They did that the entire game, closing any possible space for Giannis to do his thing, so he had to settle for midrange shots or pass the ball to an open teamate.
No he plays very well but this is euro basketball and there is little space plus players follow team plan. Role of Giannis ans Papagiannis was to be costant threat in the rim so that Croatia players invest to guard the rim and so there is more space to others players to shoot. This was main role of Giannis and Papagiannis. Papagiannis would also shoot from perimeter but that is secondary role in the game. Primary is to be threat in the rim so that other teams arranges to put many defenders around the rim.
tall euro guys are late bloomers ,, we in greece were laughing when he went to the nba , much slower heavier , not refined shooting , he is miles better now than in the kings era , and the 3pt shot very consistent ,if he had a sold post play he d be in the nba wit good contract
Yeah and Giannis isn't even aggressive. I mean let's say he has unlucky game but still its like he's just there to have fun and make a score if there's a chance
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it will take a miracle to beat THIS usa my friend , thats the whole point , in order to win , us must bring the best of the best , nba role players with a couple of scoring starts like ant , and us is a top 5 team , not a favorite , thats what we all say , not that usa doesnt have the best players , but even THIS team must play focused agianst serbis or france , it wont be a walk in the park
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What a deadly combo duo between father & son of Greece PapaGiannis & Giannis
Hahahahahaha, very funny.
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Papa doesn't mean father in greek 😂 It means the priest. It indicates that one member of the family was a priest or his son.
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where's papanikolaou, papaloukas and papa-cologne😂😂
Giannis is finally coming to the Olympics!! 😍
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I love watching international basketball. You see players like Zubac and Saric have different roles. Like they're a BIG part of the Croatian team. The point is to see guys that I don't see in the NBA with "main" roles and how good they are with limited restrictions.
Congrats to Greece! That was a clinic.
We have a better team than Croatia at this poit of history.
Greece has a very good team but not the best.
It will be a wonder if they get to the 8 .
After 16 years at the Olympics! I can't believe so many years passed..
Well done for the Greeks! Fantastic game by Nick Kalathis last night he did everything right 🎉🎉🎉HELLAS!!!
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Great game Croatia. You are always a tough opponent.
Greece... back where we belong! 🇬🇷
@@VoltesWithElias lol why are you celebrating It's not yet over. In Olympics other European teams will beat Greece easy.
@@Veronikas_K45Teams are going to struggle beating Greece, however I don’t think Greece is making it far in the Olympics
@@Veronikas_K45 Stick to your kitchen and leave basketball alone. We are facing Canada, Australia and only one team from Europe Spain
@@Veronikas_K45 If I were celebrating you would know about it. I am happy, I'm hardly celebrating. Keep in mind for us Greeks it has been a long 16 years to be back at the Olympics where we belong. So we're happy for sure.
As for if other european teams will beat us, we will see. How do you know? We've got Australia and Canada to think about.
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Sick pass by Calathes.
@@RedDefender77 I don't even know who that was.
@@Veronikas_K45 now you know him
@@ntimance8884 no who is it?
@@ntimance8884 he looks like a homeless guy from Poland.
@@Veronikas_K45 you're just a hater
Rest of the world: Congrats Greece! You made it! You are in the Olympics 2024!!!
Milwaukee funs: -This team looks great with Giannis, sign everyone...
-What do you mean everyone?
-EVERYONNNNEEEE...
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@@katireei7761 all of that just to get beaten by any team except Japan.
@@Veronikas_K45 I don't think so but so what, still top12 in the world. What's your deal anyway?
@@katireei7761 Greece lacks paint defense and their team seems to rely on two or three players.
@@Veronikas_K45 greece is very good at defense even though they are lacking some heavy bodies, essentially there is not a pure 5 on the Greek roster, only big 4s, but containing Slovenia and Doncic to 58 points and Croatia with Zubac, Saric and Hesonia to 69 shows to anyone who understands the game of basketball that their defense is still solid and their team work when they defend is great.
Croatia did a hell of a job under the rim,not allowing Giannis to do his game
-Giannis: Hold my beer... Destroys them with jumpshots!!!
papagiannis had a phenomenal game. I think he should think about switching to power-forward. Coupled with a very athletic center, it could be a lethal combination.
I moved to Orlando Fl in the 90s and one of my close friends lived next door to Nick Calathes. I used to play basketball with Nick when he was 5 or 6. Nick would cry if u blocked his shot. Nick went on to destroy every record in our high school.
@@TheGeneral_LUFC we don't care about your life and Nick's life.
@@Veronikas_K45 if you didnt actually care you wouldnt bother yourself to read and reply to this guy's comment. If your life is miserable you dont have to project that to another person that simply shares a fun memory of his life, you are free to move on and and ignore anything you dont care about.
@@giorgosgiorgos661 It doesn't matter if I don't care I say it to her face.
@@Veronikas_K45we don't care they don't care who cares veronikas cares do you care does he care
@@Veronikas_K45 what a sad and meager existence you possess :) praying for you!
Great game ! Greece worthly to the Olympics. Great players and the best coaches ever! Vasilis Spanoulis and Panagiotis Giannakis!
Congrats Greece ❤🎉
if only Lillard could play pick and roll with Giannis like Calathes does......
I've been saying that, Middleton play great PnR with Giannis too the problem is Lillard is not a great PnR passer
Bucks should just hire Spanoulis as their coach
Watching these games it really looks like a lot more of these guys could be in the NBA.
Of course but NBA way of play is different and European play rrlies on system , and automations and defence, whereas in NBA they try to destroy the defence and only rely on how players run ok empty space without defence. Which does not only produce worse basketball imo but it leads to European players requiring around 2-2.5 years to adapt to such changes of game, and then European players many times dont want to put 2-2.5 years to wait before they are part pf this type of game so they leave NBA.
In some ways Euro basketball is more advanced.
This is also why European passers in last 2 decades (I will not compare to NBA of 80s ) are better and they appear eveb better when they go to NBA.
you are tight but they would be 10-15min players , and most of them want to play their best years , so they stay in europe , others prefer to be in the nba to belong to the best of the best , and stay on the bench
@@innosanto Too bad most of them can't play defense.
Coach Spanoulis the legend is what was missing from this team. Everything in it's place now. We are heading for the medals🇬🇷
Spanoulis who? Seems like everyone from Greece is saying He's the goat at coaching, and we don't even know who Spanoulis is.
@@Veronikas_K45 you are clueless, congrats 😆
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@@Veronikas_K45 Nobody said Spanoulis is the goat at coaching. He is a new coach but a legendary player in Greece and Europe.
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Giannis icing a game with a 3 isn’t something I’d expect. His jumper from the elbow looks clean too. Giannis with an average jumpshot is lethal.
Giannis has more lift on his jumper now. It seems to have helped get some consistency on his pull ups.
Greece team is made to win!
Incredible talent and coaching, add chemistry, this team is the bomb!!!
Overrated, probably get beat in the first round.
@@Veronikas_K45Tell me about your team!
@@Veronikas_K45Comment here to come back to this
@@TheRealCowlick wdym?
Let them hate on Greece you know us Greeks prove everyone wrong with actions not words
Congrats Greece from Turkiye. Good job konşi
Croatia is always a great team. It's never easy against them. Well done guys, you stick to your strategy!
Let’s go Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Back where we belong !!!
I’m here after watching Saric and Zubac fight.
Nick and Giorgos Papagiannis were the main reason we won,incredible performance by both,Giannis wasnt bad at all,needs some time to adjust,will be ready for the Olympics.
No he does not nedd to afjust he played great. The way team plays better is when Guannis plays within the system like he did today. Great game.
Dont forget also that the croats have Zubac, Saric and other players that put volume to guard the rim to team adjusts the tactics
USA!
I can tell Giannis has a jumper now not just jumping using his arms to shoot😂 Hard Work and Talent🎉
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Greece has great team
It's a good team!
But i think the 8th or better is what we can expect!
Maybe it is time Giannis to replace your bro Thanasis with one of these players. Sign all of them and you will have another nba ring
Thanasis is very good player but maybe NBA does not use Thanasis effectively.
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Giannis . John in Greek.
Giannakis. Litle John.
PapaGiannis. John the priest
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I'd rather hear a commentary in Greek or in Serbo-Croatian !
Make it make sense to chose a direct competitor as a host of a supposedly neutral qualifying event
Shame we let Greece shoot open 3s.. that kinda killed our chances
the other option is to let Giannis and Papagiannis dominate the interior? This was Croatia's best output, and it wasn't enough to beat Greece.
@@vasiliosthomas4883 i mean we have interio defenders so kinda strange tactics..i would let giannis have his 30-35 they are all twos far less deadly then a 3...
The Croatian coach chose to stay in and close the racket in Gianni's efforts. However, this defense zone is applied to small teams that have one player and the rest are backups. Greece has 9 players from the teams that played in the final four and 5 European champions with Panathinaikos. Where are you going, poor thing... you didn't know, didn't you ask?
@@stelios65100Και τι να έκανε να έπαιζε επιθετική άμυνα? Θα αλώνιζαν ο Αντετοκουμπο ο Καλαθης και πιθανόν και άλλοι.Δεν είχε άλλη επιλογη
@@stelios65100 i mean greece shot >50% from 3 for most of the game and no adjustments...one action that stands out is calates and i think papagiannis where they basically were passing ball from the 3 to the key and then back to calates for an open 3 with zero croatian defenders running to close either one...just confusing tbh...
We will have SLOUKAS in France....Great team.We are going to win Australia and Spain 50-50 the game with Canada.
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Oi paparies? Kala ama tha eine kai o sloukas, tha tous gamisoun olous
@@aslanidismichail7368 Γιατι εχεις καμια αμφιβολια?Η αυστραλια δεν ειναι φοβητρο η Ισπανια περναει μεταβατικο σταδιο δεν ειναι η ομαδα του παρελθοντος κι εμεις εχουμε το μομεντουμ και τους παικτες να κερδισουμε.Μηπως θυμασαι τι εγινε το 2006 στην Ιαπωνια.?Εχουμε καλυτερη η χειροτερη ομαδα απο τοτε?Θα με θυμηθεις αλλωστε το σχολιο υπαρχει....
Spain is very hard team to beat because they play very good aggressive team defence, and play fast offense. It would be hard game.
But hardest game would be after US, France. And Serbia.
Yeah is good if Sloukas plays.
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It's actually the 4th. We were in 1996 Atlanta, 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing
@@X-Ternal We also played in Helsinki 1952 and lost both games we played.
❤ to Greece from Serbia
Not talented? You maybe speek about football, what are players calathes, papaninilaou antetokoumpo and player who dont participate this time like sloukas printezis or spanouli (coach) these men were and are still legends WITH talent. I think you are watching another imaginable fiba
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is this Greek team good enough to beat team USA?
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Is it me or Giannis looks off not his usual self looks like he's a little injured.
He is recovering from an injury, he has to be careful.
The answer is yes and there are 2 main reasons for that.
1st he is recovering from an injury.
And 2nd is the way that defence is played in the fiba stage. Notice how Croatian defence just waits under the basket because there are no defensive 3 second rule. They did that the entire game, closing any possible space for Giannis to do his thing, so he had to settle for midrange shots or pass the ball to an open teamate.
He's got healthy but he hadn't been doing any cardio for 2 months because of his leg.
No he plays very well but this is euro basketball and there is little space plus players follow team plan.
Role of Giannis ans Papagiannis was to be costant threat in the rim so that Croatia players invest to guard the rim and so there is more space to others players to shoot.
This was main role of Giannis and Papagiannis.
Papagiannis would also shoot from perimeter but that is secondary role in the game. Primary is to be threat in the rim so that other teams arranges to put many defenders around the rim.
Who is this Veronikas_K45 guy and why is he on every thread?
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Too bad the Kings didn't get this Papagiannis back in the day lol
tall euro guys are late bloomers ,, we in greece were laughing when he went to the nba , much slower heavier , not refined shooting , he is miles better now than in the kings era , and the 3pt shot very consistent ,if he had a sold post play he d be in the nba wit good contract
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typical greece , not the most talented players , but always a hard to beat team
But this time they also have a top 5 player (in the world).
Yeah and Giannis isn't even aggressive. I mean let's say he has unlucky game but still its like he's just there to have fun and make a score if there's a chance
Spanoulis, Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Sloukas, Galis . They didnt have an nba career but the were legend tier talented in Euroleague
SHOW RESPECT PLEASE. IT S NOT A MIRACLE THE ACCOMPLISHMENNTS. THEY ARE INDEED TALENTED
And who had talent in this qualifier? Croatia or Slovenia? LMAO
@@thanasistagaras3256I don't even know who that players is.
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Ain’t beating USA tho
it will take a miracle to beat THIS usa my friend , thats the whole point , in order to win , us must bring the best of the best , nba role players with a couple of scoring starts like ant , and us is a top 5 team , not a favorite , thats what we all say , not that usa doesnt have the best players , but even THIS team must play focused agianst serbis or france , it wont be a walk in the park
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