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195429.16 in reply to 195429.15
Date: 9/1/2011 7:20:12 PM
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That's interesting.
Compared to Italy I thought your perimeter players played with more energy. They hit some clutch shots down the end and defended with intensity.

So if Kaman is your best player that means Nowitsky must be really diminished! I thought Dirk looked good today.
Your frontcourt will be a real test for Noah and Diaw tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised to see Florent Pietrus (who has played poorly so far) on Dirk for a good chuck of the game when Diaw is out. I don't think Kaman can get past Noah one-on-one. As for the guards, we have the edge here but we are going to have to make 3pters because there will be a lot of zone.
Batum and Gelabale have shot the ball well so far but maybe it ends tomorrow. I'd say 55-45 chance France wins a close game throughout.

"Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain." - Jean-Claude Van Damme
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195429.17 in reply to 195429.16
Date: 9/1/2011 8:44:01 PM
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Germany > Italy ... I agree.

Dirk is the best player of Europe, and Germany isn't a good team. Germany is a ISOLATION for Dirk!

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195429.18 in reply to 195429.17
Date: 9/1/2011 10:21:57 PM
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Oooh boy ... poor boy

Dirk dont love you ok?

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195429.19 in reply to 195429.18
Date: 9/1/2011 10:53:04 PM
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Still less I. But he's an amazing player and Germany depends him. If Germany don't have him, would as Portugal in Basketball.

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195429.20 in reply to 195429.16
Date: 9/2/2011 2:17:07 AM
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So if Kaman is your best player that means Nowitsky must be really diminished! I thought Dirk looked good today.


Kaman make 17 Points and 17 Rebounds yesterday, and 18 Points and 10 Rebounds against israel and he brings more at the defensiv end. I don't think that it is ashaming to be weaker then that. For me he look a bit more like an Anchor of the team.
And during his healthy season 2009/2010 he was considered often as a top 3/5 center at the point, and he seems to be back at this level.

As for the guards, we have the edge here but we are going to have to make 3pters because there will be a lot of zone.


we had trouble to defend penetrating guards, and Parker can do it against Zone and man to man defence - that scares me more then the 3 pointers cause shooting is the weakness of the French game in my eye. But in comparision to the average till weak shooting, you had probadly the most athletic squad, and if we had trouble to bring the ball like yesterday you get plenty of chanches to show that in fast breaks.

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195429.21 in reply to 195429.17
Date: 9/2/2011 2:22:40 AM
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Germany > Italy ... I agree.

Dirk is the best player of Europe, and Germany isn't a good team. Germany is a ISOLATION for Dirk!


dirk get every fourth till fifth shot, and this year we don't play the give the ball to dirk and wait offense anymore, we played often when he was at our roster in the past.

The ölast euro wasn't bad, with many close lost games with a very young and talented squad, they still don't have a big name but they had improved over the last two years. And somehow Bauermann, get the best out of them during the tournaments.

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195429.22 in reply to 195429.20
Date: 9/2/2011 3:55:36 AM
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Kaman make 17 Points and 17 Rebounds yesterday, and 18 Points and 10 Rebounds against israel and he brings more at the defensiv end.

Against Cusin and Bargnani, a notoriously terrible rebounder and bad defender. Let's see how he rebounds against the likes of Joakim Noah.
But Kaman is definitely one of the top 4 centers in the tourney, it's just he can't carry a team defensively a la Tyson Chandler, let alone offensively. He needs good spacing and ball movement to be effective.
Dirk on the other hand can carry Germany on his own shoulders, offensively anyway.

"Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain." - Jean-Claude Van Damme
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195429.23 in reply to 195429.22
Date: 9/2/2011 4:14:28 AM
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ok but Bargnani is maybe offensiv one of the most talented and he sstruggled against Kaman(and Nowe) there, and he didn't run things and 17 Rebounds are very good independ from the competion in my eyes(we ain't in the NBA with 48 minutes, and faster possesions).

At the moment and also the last preparation games, he was more important for the german team in my eyes on a very high level so that Dirk shouldn't be offended by it.
But the performance of those two are crucial for the german game.

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195429.24 in reply to 195429.1
Date: 9/2/2011 3:52:54 PM
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awesome game from parker, i know we couldn't control before but that was even better then i feared him to be before.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 9/2/2011 3:53:40 PM

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195429.25 in reply to 195429.24
Date: 9/2/2011 3:58:42 PM
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Also strange why Dirk and Kaman played so little, but the French imposed a fast tempo and the backup bigmen for Germany were making shots in the 3rd Q so that's probably why they stayed on the bench so long.

"Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain." - Jean-Claude Van Damme
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195429.26 in reply to 195429.25
Date: 9/4/2011 4:45:04 PM
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A Comedy Movie from Refrees : Poland-Turkey

Always refrees against Turkey !

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