Speaker 1: Welcome to No Ducks. We're here for some NBA offseason fun.
Speaker 1: We have some basketball to talk about, so rare, so rare.
Speaker 1: I'm tas Melice, but today I'm Tasos Melas because we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the euro Basket with me. It's
Speaker 1: the man in the middle, Trey Kirby. Hell A, just
Speaker 1: a solo ao back, just me and Trey right now
Speaker 1: as we get into some EuroBasket fund Skis will join us.
Speaker 1: Had a later show maybe for some other EuroBasket fun,
Speaker 1: because we'll be back after the round robin is done
Speaker 1: next Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's the play.
Speaker 3: That's quick, man.
Speaker 4: They get through this early part of the tournament pretty fast.
Speaker 4: I suppose playing all the round robin games over the
Speaker 4: course of a week.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Five games seven days about yeah, every team has played
Speaker 1: one game so far.
Speaker 2: Twelve games. We'll get into.
Speaker 1: What you're sort of you've seen Trey like, impressive teams, players, questions,
Speaker 1: any random notes. We'll get to those a little bit later.
Speaker 1: The games haven't been ridiculously great to start, but we've
Speaker 1: seen somebody of the stars already, so that's been fun
Speaker 1: exactly right.
Speaker 4: We got some MVPs playing, you know, we had Luca
Speaker 4: and Giannis both finished their games to differing results.
Speaker 3: We've seen Nikola jokicch.
Speaker 4: Play, but you're right, the group stage of the tournament
Speaker 4: still a big spread in talent from a lot.
Speaker 3: Of these teams.
Speaker 4: So we've seen quite a few blowouts, but a lot
Speaker 4: of NBA talent and a few bangers for games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I apologize, I mean, I'm starting it with a
Speaker 1: bit of a DeBie Downer kind of tone, but.
Speaker 4: Hey man, this was better basketball today and yesterday than
Speaker 4: any of the other basketball we've seen from NBA players
Speaker 4: this summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. We did get some upset.
Speaker 2: So let's start from the team.
Speaker 1: Side of things before we get to the individual stars.
Speaker 1: What's been the most impressive team you've seen so far?
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know if this is the most impressive
Speaker 4: team as in they're gonna win the euro Basket Tournament,
Speaker 4: But the most impressed I've been by a team is
Speaker 4: Georgia today pulling the upset against Espanya. Mamu Keleshvili and
Speaker 4: Gogo bataz Ta over these guys were awesome tasks. I
Speaker 4: didn't realize that Sandro Mamu kelsh Villi was basically the
Speaker 4: Luka Danchitz of Georgia. This guy breaking down people off
Speaker 4: the dribble, finding them with passes. I didn't know he
Speaker 4: had the passing in his bag. He had a massive
Speaker 4: right handed layup late in this game to put things
Speaker 4: away and then go Goa was hilarious making a corner
Speaker 4: three pointer from the right hand side of the court.
Speaker 4: A couple of plays later they find him in the
Speaker 4: left hand corner. He knocks down another three and then
Speaker 4: hits the straight up big ball dance in euro Basket.
Speaker 3: And here's the great thing.
Speaker 1: About Yeah, we're giving you the big balls right here
Speaker 1: on YouTube. If you're watching with us right now, he
Speaker 1: pulled it out.
Speaker 4: That's right, we have We're going to show you the
Speaker 4: big balls here. There's no ban on big balls on
Speaker 4: no dun said there's no ban on big balls on
Speaker 4: the FOBA broadcast because they ran it back and you
Speaker 4: could hear the announcers.
Speaker 3: Say, you can describe that one at home.
Speaker 4: But then at home, their Twitter account, which is awesome,
Speaker 4: posts it celebrating the big balls dance from GOGA. There
Speaker 4: much different response than you get from the NBA. So
Speaker 4: I love to see the personality. This was such a
Speaker 4: good game too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't really understand.
Speaker 4: The ins and outs of the FEBA rankings, but I
Speaker 4: think it was an upset and it was really fun
Speaker 4: to watch. And honestly, Goga and Mamu going back and
Speaker 4: forth together was unbelievable to see these guys be elevated.
Speaker 4: From a FEBA perspective, I'm ready to put them up
Speaker 4: there with Dennis, with Evan Fournier, with Boyan and bog
Speaker 4: Dan Bogdanovic, guys who just go to another level on
Speaker 4: their national teams.
Speaker 3: These guys look like.
Speaker 4: Hippin' and I don't know uh Jokich out there for
Speaker 4: the team. Awesome stuff from Goga and Mamu.
Speaker 2: No doubt this was an upset.
Speaker 1: Spain is the reigning EuroBasket champion from twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: They are not one of the favorites in this tournament,
Speaker 1: but to see Sandrew memus Kelishvili do what he did
Speaker 1: in those final mill minutes. The great thing about EuroBasket
Speaker 1: is you get the audio going for these coaches and
Speaker 1: the coach. The Georgian coach is pretty simple, dude. He's
Speaker 1: He's a man of few words. A few of them
Speaker 1: are pastu Mamu Pastu. Mamu as simple as that man,
Speaker 1: because literally Mamu taking dribble handoffs from the top. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's just playing smart now. He's more of a
Speaker 1: B line straight line nine type of driver. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. He you know, he did his thing
Speaker 1: with Space the Spurs last year, was there for his
Speaker 1: monstrous game that he had with the Spurs, and he'll
Speaker 1: be with the Raptors as a backup center this year.
Speaker 1: And you can see why he makes sense when those
Speaker 1: guys make the extra passes, whether it's Brandon Ingram or
Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes or whoever. He's there to bang home threes.
Speaker 1: He can do that, and he's decent with the dribble handoffs.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the drives he had in key moments. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they're overperforming here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And they did it against Spain. So it's a fun,
Speaker 1: really fun start for this Georgian team. Absolutely a delayed.
Speaker 1: It was a little disappointing on the other side not
Speaker 1: to see al Dama ball. I mean, he came out
Speaker 1: and performed at some times, but yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: see a little bit more aggressiveness al Dama because he
Speaker 1: is their number one score now and that's why this
Speaker 1: team isn't likely to meddle. But they still have talent,
Speaker 1: and it was just a little disappointing not this year
Speaker 1: him ball out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Aldama didn't do much. I actually thought that Spain
Speaker 4: was playing their best. Early in the fourth quarter, they
Speaker 4: went on a little bit of a run with Wancho
Speaker 4: Hair flying out like a lion's man. Apparently this guy
Speaker 4: has highlights now all over the place making plays. They
Speaker 4: pulled him out and that's instantly when Georgia went on
Speaker 4: their run. Willie hernan Gomez, I looked it up. Dude
Speaker 4: was first team All Rookie in the NBA in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 4: less than ten years ago, and now he's out of
Speaker 4: the league. And watching the way some of these rebounds
Speaker 4: were going to Goga, the wide open shots he was getting,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I get it now, he just
Speaker 4: moves a lot slower. This Spain team ain't the old
Speaker 4: Spain team. They don't have the perimeter talent and their
Speaker 4: set of brothers, the hernan Gomez is They're not the Gasols.
Speaker 2: No doubt about that.
Speaker 1: I'll move on to another team, which was impressive in
Speaker 1: very much the definition of what a team.
Speaker 2: Is the Greeks.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's Giannis and that's definitely the most important thing.
Speaker 1: But they got performances from so many guys. We watched
Speaker 1: this team in the Olympics last year and they were
Speaker 1: so desperate for a secondary player just to do anything
Speaker 1: out there, and this time it was way different. Now
Speaker 1: they're starting a different backcourt. I think that really helps.
Speaker 1: Instead of nikol Athis and Thomas walk Up, they're playing
Speaker 1: Tyler Dorsey and Costa Slucas, an old thirty five year old,
Speaker 1: and those guys were just efficient at hitting shots. They
Speaker 1: had so many helpers and it wasn't like Dorsey or
Speaker 1: Slucus even hit double digits. They had nobody hit double
Speaker 1: digits beside Yannis. But there was just so many guys, Papa, Nicolau, Slucas, Toyopulos,
Speaker 1: we had a Fanasti side to Takompo dribble three pointer
Speaker 1: with a few minutes left.
Speaker 2: There's so many.
Speaker 1: Guys to work around Yannis, who was an absolute machine
Speaker 1: last year when they were the Olympics. He was a monster.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately they went one and two in this one. You
Speaker 1: can see that they could be better. Jannis was himself
Speaker 1: I mean his first basket within the first two minutes
Speaker 1: was there's two guys around him and he could have
Speaker 1: passed to somebody. He said, now I'll I'll just use
Speaker 1: my legs to be able to pounce around these guys
Speaker 1: and dunk it got on the break. Gallinari was guarding
Speaker 1: him at some point. Danilo Gallinari, he might be the
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican MVP because he won the MVP in the
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican League this summer, but he's too old to
Speaker 1: guard Janis and I think the Italians were a little
Speaker 1: a little too old in general. Other than the who's
Speaker 1: the young guy that they had the Senegali slash Italian player.
Speaker 1: He was awesome, but they're a little too old. Even
Speaker 1: though Nicomelly was balling again, they just needed some guys.
Speaker 1: They had seven threes overall. It wasn't like they were
Speaker 1: taking a ton of threes. But Jannis was efficient himself.
Speaker 1: Didn't shoot a three thirty one points for him, fourteen
Speaker 1: of twenty for him, so it was nice to see
Speaker 1: them play the way they should play. They were giving
Speaker 1: Yannis space within the arc because they were threatening from
Speaker 1: three point lane, unlike what they had last year.
Speaker 3: I was mostly watching Luca versus Poland during this one. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: they were going head to head.
Speaker 4: But every time I tuned over to the Greece game,
Speaker 4: Yiannis was getting a dunk and then I heard the
Speaker 4: broadcaster say, oh, plan to his strengths today, and that
Speaker 4: certainly seemed like what was going down. Not a lot
Speaker 4: of beef on the inside for the Italians unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they were lacking. He could do it
Speaker 1: against whoever he wants. Saloon Niang as the guy who
Speaker 1: was thinking of from Italy, but otherwise, yeah, they're literally
Speaker 1: too small.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 1: I mean, Melli was actually balling for that team, but
Speaker 1: they just they don't have size. That is totally true.
Speaker 1: They tried to front him at times that didn't work.
Speaker 1: I like the Greeks changing to coast Usumpo. There's three
Speaker 1: a Cumpo's on this team that we're playing. They switched
Speaker 1: to coastas starting in the second half to get some
Speaker 1: some more flticism around Giannis. But that team just reacted well.
Speaker 1: Dorsey went from starter to bench to playing really well
Speaker 1: coming off the bench in that second half.
Speaker 2: So they really really played well.
Speaker 1: Any other teams you want to mention before we get
Speaker 1: to more players or mean, you do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about Luca and the loss.
Speaker 4: Here, We'll get to Luca because he was definitely impressive,
Speaker 4: But we're talking teams. I thought Turkey looked awesome in
Speaker 4: their win over Latvia. I was maybe expecting a little
Speaker 4: bit more from the Latvians. The crowd was certainly hyped,
Speaker 4: but Turkey. If we're talking about teams that look small,
Speaker 4: it ain't Turkey. They look like the biggest team out there,
Speaker 4: maybe alongside Serbia. But Shengun was incredible. Cheddy Osman was
Speaker 4: giving me sort of like Gershan yabucele vibes, a guy
Speaker 4: who was in the NBA. He has to go away
Speaker 4: for a while, but then you see him in an
Speaker 4: international competition. You're like, wait a second here, Cheddy Osmond's
Speaker 4: hoopin can he come back? He shot thirty nine percent
Speaker 4: from three to twenty twenty four. If he's a shoe
Speaker 4: and still a decent slasher, maybe he can play. I
Speaker 4: know they're kind of like in the mix for the
Speaker 4: EuroBasket Championship, but an outside shot.
Speaker 3: But I was certainly.
Speaker 4: Impressed by the way they played because they destroyed Latvia,
Speaker 4: and I thought that these were two teams that were
Speaker 4: kind of near each other talent wise, but Shngun definitely
Speaker 4: looked like the all star out there rather than Porzingis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're totally right. These are two teams that could medal.
Speaker 1: They're not the favorites. That belongs to Germany of course,
Speaker 1: along with Serbia of course, but these two could be
Speaker 1: the bronze medalist, and I think we'll make some I
Speaker 1: feel like the Turkey stole that right to be the
Speaker 1: bronze medalist from Latvia. We'll get to that a little
Speaker 1: bit later, just random things that we have decided have changed.
Speaker 1: I think that Turkey went and stole it from Latvia
Speaker 1: because I was looking forward to Christaps Porzingis seeing what
Speaker 1: he looked like. He's been talking about how fresh he feels,
Speaker 1: and he did, you.
Speaker 2: Know some things out there.
Speaker 1: The deflection on d came in and used a thunderous
Speaker 1: bang in the post to get some space, but he
Speaker 1: turned out dumped.
Speaker 2: He got dunked on.
Speaker 1: That was mean. Shae Moose has air. What a frickin
Speaker 1: dunk and he has air? For sure, he has air.
Speaker 1: And Porzingis literally was holding his wrist after it. I
Speaker 1: mentioned how he feels fresh, but he was checking his
Speaker 1: wrist because Hazard gave it to him stared him down after.
Speaker 1: So not a great start. But yeah from Turkey, now,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they just got super duper hot. They shot
Speaker 1: sixty percent from three to fifteen of twenty five, a
Speaker 1: ridiculous percentage from three you mentioned Jeddi Osman came on
Speaker 1: Sapahi and then the Turkish Shane Larkin who used to
Speaker 1: be in the NBA. I mean he was going to
Speaker 1: that crossover and raising into that three point shot. He
Speaker 1: got past Porzingis and shot over him. So this may
Speaker 1: have been a perfect night. And I may be wrong
Speaker 1: that this team's going to win the bronze medal, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they looked ridiculously great in Latvia where they're playing Latvia
Speaker 1: having this home opener for them as that group plays
Speaker 1: their games in Latvia. That was a stolen game by Turkey,
Speaker 1: so let's move on.
Speaker 3: Definitely a fun game.
Speaker 4: Also, love the sheng gun Dish had one behind his
Speaker 4: head going down the lane.
Speaker 3: I forget we drops it off too, but yeah, looks.
Speaker 4: Beautiful and I do got to give a big shout
Speaker 4: out to my guy Zagers from Latvia.
Speaker 3: Nice moment. He scored like eleven straight there in the
Speaker 3: second half.
Speaker 4: I like to see that guy cooking wearing fifty five
Speaker 4: like white chocolate himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can shoot the three, no doubt.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's get to those individual players who
Speaker 1: really impressed you. After one game so far for every
Speaker 1: team in euro Basket.
Speaker 3: Shout out Lowry Markinen.
Speaker 4: Awesome game from him, twenty eight points against Sweden. It
Speaker 4: feels like he's getting most of these on dunks, and
Speaker 4: every time he catches the ball he has ahead of steam.
Speaker 4: I know that's something Will Hardy ripped off for the jam,
Speaker 4: but it happens even more playing.
Speaker 3: For the finished team.
Speaker 4: That being said, the guy that I love on their team,
Speaker 4: Mika muran In. They call him Slim Jesus Task. This
Speaker 4: guy is born in two thousand and seven. I mean
Speaker 4: was that he was born in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 4: He's still in high school.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: This guy's a five star recruit, but he's playing in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter of EuroBasket. I think he only had
Speaker 4: five points, but they were five important points. He's got
Speaker 4: his hair flopping all crazy. The finished Matus bozellis. If
Speaker 4: you're asking me, I don't know. I'm ready to buy
Speaker 4: into the hype in this guy when he finally comes
Speaker 4: to the NBA two years from now, I'll over hype
Speaker 4: him from now until then.
Speaker 3: Mika Muran in love this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's my Jack Harlow. That hair is flowing, no doubt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, Lowry was awesome. People were calling me out
Speaker 1: because I, you know, put a little video together of
Speaker 1: the guys I'm looking forward to in EuroBasket I didn't
Speaker 1: talk about. Uh listen, he's coming off a bad season
Speaker 1: and maybe NBA is he going to be himself again? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like it coming into this tournament. He looked
Speaker 1: like it. Those curls that he runs, not on his hair,
Speaker 1: but that he runs the curl cuts like you mentioned
Speaker 1: that he does with Will Hardy in Utah. He's running them,
Speaker 1: whether it's from the corner into the lane or getting
Speaker 1: dribble handoffs up top and that huge jam that he
Speaker 1: had coming down, he looks.
Speaker 2: He looks awesome.
Speaker 1: He had a steal too, So yes, let's see what
Speaker 1: they can do. Obviously they're playing at home in this
Speaker 1: game against Sweden, which was which was fun. All those
Speaker 1: games going to be in Finland, so yeah, great start.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get to another guy, do you want to
Speaker 1: talk Luca here? Because he was good, but uh, you know, they.
Speaker 2: Didn't get the job done.
Speaker 4: He's got to carry that team pretty hard. It looks
Speaker 4: like thirty four points Luca ended up with. I think
Speaker 4: he had set in the first quarter, and he's the
Speaker 4: rare guy that actually gets an NBA whistle in FOBA games.
Speaker 4: I think he took seven free throws in the first quarter,
Speaker 4: maybe ended up with like fifteen or sixteen by the
Speaker 4: end of the game.
Speaker 3: Unreal to see that in a FOBA game.
Speaker 4: But they're all over him defensively, Poland they were completely
Speaker 4: locked in. They say, we take away Luca, We're going
Speaker 4: to win this game. They didn't even really take him away,
Speaker 4: but they held him under forty. You heard on the
Speaker 4: broadcast throughout the game, Luca's got to score forty or
Speaker 4: more for this team to win.
Speaker 3: They gave up close to one hundred points in the loss.
Speaker 2: So it just looks like sloping. In the end, there
Speaker 2: we go one oh five.
Speaker 4: Not great, but not surprising considering Slovenia does look like
Speaker 4: a Miami Dolphins team. The white and the turquoise an
Speaker 4: unusual look for some pretty sedate uniforms. Usually I would
Speaker 4: say at EuroBasket, but Luca I thought looked good. He
Speaker 4: was playing defense, he was hitting his step back threes,
Speaker 4: but just not enough with the some of the NBA
Speaker 4: talent around him missing.
Speaker 3: For the Slovenian team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's asked to do a lot.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt they were doubling him hard in Poland. Again,
Speaker 1: a home team, a home game for them. They were
Speaker 1: ready to play, they were ready to pounce defensively, while
Speaker 1: Slovenia just sort of wasn't. And the Polish team, it
Speaker 1: literally has zero NBA talent.
Speaker 3: They literally how dare you say that?
Speaker 4: When Toronto Raptors NBA champion Jordan Lloyd is carrying this team,
Speaker 4: he was on fire.
Speaker 1: He was rediculous. It's unbelievable that he had. Jordan Lloyd
Speaker 1: playing his first game ever for Poland. He's never played
Speaker 1: in Poland, he's never played for a Polish team. He's
Speaker 1: played abroad.
Speaker 2: For several years.
Speaker 1: But in February he got a Polish passport and he
Speaker 1: just got naturalized as a Polish citizen. Just now in August,
Speaker 1: and he's playing his first game and he comes out
Speaker 1: and he's rocking the show. In front of the home crowd.
Speaker 1: He got scorching hot, nineteen points in the first half
Speaker 1: for that guy talking trash to everybody, anybody that would listen,
Speaker 1: and then he had thirteen in the second half, thirty
Speaker 1: two points overall. This was just a special night shooting
Speaker 1: the ball for the entire Polish team. It felt like Ponitka.
Speaker 1: He was splashing threes. He hit a few threes, Pluta
Speaker 1: splashing threes. I mean they had fourteen threes. To have
Speaker 1: a hundred points. One hundred and five overall in a
Speaker 1: forty minute game doesn't happen a lot. We've wan now
Speaker 1: watched twelve games, only two teams have reached one hundred points,
Speaker 1: Poland and Germany. A lot of it was just them
Speaker 1: being super duper hot. There's no doubt about that. They're
Speaker 1: playing in front of a home crowd. They were scorching hot.
Speaker 1: But to see Jordan Lloyd do that, yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: Toronto legend. His only time in the NBA was literally
Speaker 1: that little run he got into the playoffs where he
Speaker 1: was that random guy in a suit beside Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: after the bounce bounce bounce shot, and then he pretended
Speaker 1: to be Steph Curry and all the practices in the
Speaker 1: NBA finals. That's what he did. And now he's got
Speaker 1: a broad abroad. He's a local Georgia boy. We got
Speaker 1: to get him on the show at some point when
Speaker 1: he comes back.
Speaker 2: But this is this is cool. Yeah, we're happy we're
Speaker 2: getting him on.
Speaker 1: This was It was just an odd situation because you've
Speaker 1: got Luke on one team. You don't have an NBA
Speaker 1: player on the other side. Jeremy Sohan hurt his I
Speaker 1: don't know. It was a calf I think recently, so
Speaker 1: he's not even playing there. So you know, Luca was good,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't He wasn't excellent. He shot a ton
Speaker 1: of free throws. As you said, they were doubling him
Speaker 1: getting the ball out of his hands. He shot eighteen
Speaker 1: free throws. He also banked home of three. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if he did it on purpose. I still can't decide.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looked. It was a classic European look.
Speaker 2: He hit the three. I don't know what it means.
Speaker 1: It was a yeah, maybe I hit that on purpose,
Speaker 1: or maybe I did, or maybe that's my new shot,
Speaker 1: or maybe I'll never shoot it again. I still don't
Speaker 1: know if he banked that thing home or not, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not get enough help, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of clanking going on besides him.
Speaker 2: It was a one five.
Speaker 1: Ninety five games, so it went down to the wire,
Speaker 1: but he needed more help, both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fun to watch a few more guys to sprinkle
Speaker 4: some love to Dennis Shruder. Of course was awesome because
Speaker 4: this is a FEBA tournament. He had twenty one points
Speaker 4: as Germany beat Montenegro. Opes Andreas Ops. I hate this guy.
Speaker 4: He never misses a shot. He killed the US once
Speaker 4: upon a time, and it just feels like he's gonna
Speaker 4: catch fire at any time. I think he had four
Speaker 4: threes in the third quarter there win, which is really
Speaker 4: when they started blowing it out. Even though Vuch played
Speaker 4: a pretty decent game, they turned Vouch mode off and
Speaker 4: the other guy. To me, Kata, if you're a Celtics fan,
Speaker 4: you got to be thrilled. Twenty three points, eighteen boards,
Speaker 4: four blocks, that's your starting center Celtics fans. But look,
Speaker 4: he's dominating out there. I don't think Portugal was probably
Speaker 4: picked to win their first game. That was a minor
Speaker 4: upset over Chechia, I believe, but he looked awesome. He
Speaker 4: looked like the best athlete on the front court out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, respect for the pronunciations of Chechia and respect to
Speaker 1: numash Kita, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Twenty three points.
Speaker 1: Eighteen boards, four blocks, two steals. He was affecting a
Speaker 1: lot of shots in that game, even though they didn't
Speaker 1: go down as blocks.
Speaker 2: He was. He was bringing it. Yeah, I threw it
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe Boston let Porzingis go, let Horford go, because they
Speaker 1: want this guy to play. I mean, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's Kya time, It's it's Kada time. Yeah, you're Amir
Speaker 1: Yager was there in Latvia supporting Chechia, but they couldn't get.
Speaker 3: To w.
Speaker 4: They were talking about Yarmir Yager on that broadcast. They
Speaker 4: were talking back and forth whoever the two the two
Speaker 4: guys were, and one.
Speaker 3: Of those like what number did Yarmir Yager wear? Sixty six? Nope,
Speaker 3: sixty eight. That was Mario Lemiu. But then they just
Speaker 3: chatted about the Penguins for a little bit. Yeah tough man.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I will say Schroeder as they pronounce it
Speaker 1: in these broadcasts. It's got to have a floater next
Speaker 1: year that the Kings Kings role with a Schroeder floater.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Kings aren't making the playoffs. They need
Speaker 1: other things to cheer about. The Schroeder floater's got to
Speaker 1: be a thing, That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 3: I don't mind it, but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: I'm fighting for my life out there hearing these FOBA broadcasters.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've been saying every name wrong for
Speaker 4: the entirety of the show. Yeah we got Alfred Sengun.
Speaker 4: Now there's still Sengen Schroeder. I thought we were like
Speaker 4: doing our best, look at the pronunciation, guys, and only
Speaker 4: to get to the international competition.
Speaker 3: They're wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're wrong.
Speaker 3: They're wrong on the world stage. Yeah, you're right. We're right.
Speaker 1: It's a shrewder, There's no doubt about it. I will
Speaker 1: give some love to Danny Avdia because he was really,
Speaker 1: really solid.
Speaker 2: That dude.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's under rated as far as being
Speaker 1: a defender goes because he played in freaking Washington for
Speaker 1: four years and then he went to Portland where he
Speaker 1: was kind of under the radar.
Speaker 2: That guy is great on the ball.
Speaker 1: Off the ball, he's helping blocking, he's staying in front
Speaker 1: of guys on fast breaks and blocking shots. He does
Speaker 1: it all and he can score and put it on
Speaker 1: the floor and he set it up for a Sorkin alleyup.
Speaker 1: That guy is just extremely, extremely talented. So I've got
Speaker 1: to mention him as well any other guys you want
Speaker 1: to mention or should we get to.
Speaker 4: Only because I just heard his name, But Sorkin had
Speaker 4: an amazing game and it was weird to me because
Speaker 4: in the first half he hit a baseline jumper from
Speaker 4: fifteen feet, which is not a shot you say a
Speaker 4: big guy take very much anymore these days. He made
Speaker 4: it and celebrated like it was the first jump shot
Speaker 4: he's ever made in his career. Then in the second
Speaker 4: half he made like three or four three pointers like
Speaker 4: it was no problem. So was he just fooling on
Speaker 4: that baseline jumper? Do you think, like, hah, look at
Speaker 4: that weird shot I took.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other team didn't scout for him.
Speaker 2: And then he's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I can hit that shot, dude, I got it tonight.
Speaker 2: Fooled it?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And shout out to Franz Wagner as well. Germany,
Speaker 1: that other team along with Serbia that should be in
Speaker 1: the finals. We'll definitely be around to talk about the
Speaker 1: quarterfinals and the semifinals later on, and whether it's Serbia
Speaker 1: and Germany or whoever, it feels like those two teams
Speaker 1: are destined for a medal. And Franz's footwork just looks
Speaker 1: spectacular out there. That guy's that guy is so solid
Speaker 1: when he puts the ball on the floor, So shout
Speaker 1: out to him.
Speaker 2: But that's all my individuals. I want to mention.
Speaker 1: Do you want to get to the biggest question you
Speaker 1: got after one game, Trey?
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you sort of touched on it, But is anybody
Speaker 4: gonna be able to beat Serbia or Germany besides each other?
Speaker 4: They seem to have reached the Spain in two thousand
Speaker 4: and eight, Argentina two thousand and four. Sort of we
Speaker 4: have the perfect amount of talent, plus our guys.
Speaker 3: Are in their prime.
Speaker 4: Plus we've actually been playing together in some major tournaments
Speaker 4: for a while, so they've got the continuity as well.
Speaker 4: Both of these teams just completely destroyed their opponents. Now,
Speaker 4: part of that is because of the seeding of things.
Speaker 4: They're playing the worst opponent right away. But I thought
Speaker 4: Serbia was completely rolling, like Jokic was messing around out there.
Speaker 4: That Polsi threw to the corner that everybody was sharing
Speaker 4: on the internet where he spins twice and just throws
Speaker 4: a no looker to the corner kind of just for fun.
Speaker 4: It was like, we're gonna win this game by thirty points,
Speaker 4: so let's get some highlights. Going to the point where
Speaker 4: another Nicola Yovich had the best game for Serbia. They
Speaker 4: looked like a well oiled machine. And then Germany always does.
Speaker 4: I think they always show up for their games. We
Speaker 4: talked about Shrewder and Oaps already, these two I know
Speaker 4: are the favorites, and they really look like it in
Speaker 4: their first.
Speaker 1: Game totally, and that leads to my question of who's
Speaker 1: gonna win the bronze. It feels like those two teams
Speaker 1: should be in the finals, but I think there's a
Speaker 1: few teams joining the bronze medal crew. We talked about
Speaker 1: Turkey and them beating Lafew. I think Turkey definitely should
Speaker 1: be the favorite I suppose for the bronze medal, but
Speaker 1: France is right there as well, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they have the top end talent that they need without
Speaker 1: Wemby in this tournament, without Gobert in this tournament, but
Speaker 1: they have just so many guys that they throw out there.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Gershan Yabusele, who I think is going to
Speaker 1: play a ton next year for Mike Brown with the Knicks,
Speaker 1: just because he shows up and he plays and he
Speaker 1: plays hard. And he was doing that for France today.
Speaker 1: Bilakoola Bali, I think he's growing. I mean he literally
Speaker 1: could be physically growing, but he's also growing as a player.
Speaker 1: He looks he looks slender, but you could see the
Speaker 1: athleticism on so many things he does because he plays
Speaker 1: properly in this French team because there's so many guys,
Speaker 1: so many moving parts, and so when the ball gets
Speaker 1: swunk to him, he's always moving. He's slashing, he drives,
Speaker 1: he hangs in the air, he's on a fast break,
Speaker 1: he takes bumps and can finish. He had two blocks
Speaker 1: in one possession, so that guy gets after it, and
Speaker 1: then Zachary Resache another guy coming off the bench, just
Speaker 1: doing his part. There's just so many guys on this
Speaker 1: team that play their role. And whether it's France or Turkey,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But the French team.
Speaker 2: Is so good.
Speaker 1: They're so deep, they're like ten deep Zacharisache. We mentioned
Speaker 1: the Turkish dunk resache Is wasn't his huge, but it
Speaker 1: was a bit of a poster dunk on Kevin Toomba.
Speaker 1: Recess A beat him like a tumba drum and we
Speaker 1: have a baseline cut. Dang, he's good. He's good on
Speaker 1: the baseline cuts when he played. I'm already looking forward
Speaker 1: to the NBA season.
Speaker 2: I can't help it.
Speaker 1: But when he's playing with Tree Young and Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: and even a Chrisps, he's gonna make those baseline cuts,
Speaker 1: and he's good at getting out to the three point shot.
Speaker 2: So he's he's.
Speaker 1: He's running out there to the corner, throwing it up.
Speaker 1: It's quick release. He's he's got it man. So I
Speaker 1: believe in the growth of recession. Yeah, whether or not
Speaker 1: it's France or Turkey, it'll be fun as we get closer.
Speaker 2: But it is twenty four teams we're talking here.
Speaker 3: There's too many, lot of teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of teams still going on right now.
Speaker 4: But if we're talking about big questions, I'm with Roberto Aguilar,
Speaker 4: who says, what is a tumba drum?
Speaker 2: It's an African drum? Okay, allwhere?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I thought France looked super athletic compared to Belgium.
Speaker 4: The question to me is are their guards going to
Speaker 4: be good enough? I think it's Francisco and Ellie Acobo.
Speaker 4: Elli Acobo had a coffee in the NBA, But Francisco,
Speaker 4: I don't think so. But they do have a lot
Speaker 4: of depth at the three four to five position, to
Speaker 4: the point where Resa che and Sar are coming off
Speaker 4: the bench, they actually looked have a little bit of
Speaker 4: a connection together, which I thought was pretty cool. Resa say,
Speaker 4: they said he grew and he looks a little bit
Speaker 4: taller and a little bit broader to me, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's young enough that he still has some growth left
Speaker 4: in his body.
Speaker 3: But I thought they were impressive.
Speaker 4: I would like to see them play against the real
Speaker 4: team because it looked like easy enough for the guard
Speaker 4: to beat whoever off the dribble from Belgium. Then they
Speaker 4: would pitch it out to Kola Bali and they were
Speaker 4: just trying to catch up to Coola Bali and guess what,
Speaker 4: he was already at the rim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you being sold by the off season workouts
Speaker 1: of Zachary Resachet and close up close up of the
Speaker 1: bicep as he's curling.
Speaker 2: It looks good that By.
Speaker 3: Self was looking nice.
Speaker 4: Man, if we're going to give Luka Danci's credit for
Speaker 4: being on the cover of Men's Health magazine, we should
Speaker 4: give zach Resacha some credit for flexing and oiling up
Speaker 4: his guns.
Speaker 3: Down at the Hawk's training facility. I think he looked awesome.
Speaker 4: And if we're talking about another question, there was an
Speaker 4: incredible question asked by a broadcaster in this game who
Speaker 4: just asked the play by play announcer, do you ever
Speaker 4: wish you were seven feet tall like Alexander sar or no?
Speaker 1: Yeah I heard he was like, nah, no, I don't.
Speaker 4: I wish I was as tall as Francisco, who was
Speaker 4: the smallest.
Speaker 3: Guy on the cork.
Speaker 4: So I don't know how little this play by play
Speaker 4: guy is, but that was Habby rolling there for a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was very, very quick.
Speaker 1: And shout out to this comment here from the No
Speaker 1: Dunks Chad here it's on a tomba.
Speaker 2: The Arnold Schwarzenegger quote.
Speaker 1: Because I literally I bring that up because not because
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring it up. But I was literally
Speaker 1: outside a restaurant called Altoona yesterday and I made that
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger joke. I said, it's not all anyway. Cool
Speaker 1: story bro, Okay, yeah, let's move on to any other
Speaker 1: random notes and observations you've got through.
Speaker 2: Cool story bro.
Speaker 4: I forgot we had drops loaded here in the yard.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the drops. You never know what's gonna
Speaker 4: happen during your own basket show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, random notes, I know you. We've had a bunch
Speaker 1: of random notes all.
Speaker 3: Oh, the boys have been noting with the boys.
Speaker 4: What do you think of the look just the general
Speaker 4: look of the EuroBasket Tournament. I like the look of
Speaker 4: the floor. It's got a whole bunch of dots inside
Speaker 4: the three point line. I think the center court logo
Speaker 4: is pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I feel right, I feel great.
Speaker 1: I'm the production is always so good as well.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I lump it all together. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: watching for all these slow modes of fans reactions.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a great T shirt from a fan. Literally
Speaker 1: it was a Dongic versus Jordan Lloyd. O.
Speaker 4: No, that's gotta be that's gotta be so hand, got
Speaker 4: to be so handed the you're right.
Speaker 3: Way.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, Breaking Tea gets our T shirts out fast.
Speaker 4: But if you were going to get a Jordan Lloyd
Speaker 4: Luca Donja shirt printed during the game, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I was sold on it because Jordan Lloyd was. They
Speaker 1: showed a package of Jordan Lloyd hitting a bunch of shots,
Speaker 1: and they showed a bunch of fans wearing T shirts.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was Luca Jordan Lloyd,
Speaker 1: So I'm buying one. I'm buying it Jordan Lloyd Luca's shirt.
Speaker 3: Game too, for sure. Where were you when they went
Speaker 3: head to head?
Speaker 1: Do you like the look of everything? Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: all solid, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: It doesn't look like weird to me or boring in
Speaker 4: any way. It kind of looks fresh.
Speaker 3: I thought, Uh, the look of the dots on the
Speaker 3: inside of the arc actually pretty cool. I don't mind
Speaker 3: it at all.
Speaker 4: As for the mascot, its name is Marky Mark because
Speaker 4: the slogan for the whole tournament is like make your mark,
Speaker 4: So the mascot therefore is Marky Mark and I just
Speaker 4: got to know.
Speaker 1: It's asks.
Speaker 3: Are you picking up good vibrations? Can you feel it?
Speaker 2: Feel it? What is that thing?
Speaker 3: What is that thing? It's a bunny. I think it's
Speaker 3: a Pokemon style bunny. I guess. I don't know. He's
Speaker 3: got a molten ball. But Marky Mark? What a name?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sold. You know.
Speaker 1: I did see the hashtag make your mark, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering are people using this hashtag or are people just
Speaker 1: going with the hashtag euro basket?
Speaker 2: I don't I put it out. I checked.
Speaker 1: I think there's two people that have made their mark
Speaker 1: with the hashtag maker Mark.
Speaker 2: That's about it.
Speaker 3: That's it, that's this mark.
Speaker 2: Yet I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they got to maybe they have to pay x
Speaker 1: to get their tweets boosted, but.
Speaker 2: It ain't working so far.
Speaker 4: I mean a fair point by Casey Supersonic here in
Speaker 4: the stream team is the name Marky Mark not copyrighted?
Speaker 4: Did Wahlberg drop the ball on this one? I know
Speaker 4: he wouldn't make the same mistake with Wallberger's when it's
Speaker 4: like came.
Speaker 1: Around, well, you're the only one who said Marky Mark.
Speaker 1: I mean it's called make your mark.
Speaker 4: No, but the name of the mascot is Marky Mark.
Speaker 4: It's really that's really the name. I didn't give it. It
Speaker 4: does sound like what I would call it. That's really
Speaker 4: the name.
Speaker 1: FIBA shows it cool Marky Mark. Yeah, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think that one's sticking. I just I do want to
Speaker 1: share because I'm sure there's some NBA fans that are
Speaker 1: following along. I do want to share every coach or
Speaker 1: executive that I've seen at any of these twelve games.
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers is there watching Yannis, and the broadcasters said
Speaker 1: that Darvin Ham, the Bucks assistant coach, is also there.
Speaker 1: Didn't see him on camera, but apparently they're there. Rob Polenka,
Speaker 1: Jenny Buss, and Kurt Rambis are watching Luka. Doncic Chauncey
Speaker 1: Billups is in Poland watching Denny Avdia. They're all taking
Speaker 1: it in. And I mentioned Jeremy Jaeger. He has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the NDA, but he's also there.
Speaker 2: Apparently.
Speaker 3: You know, I saw he It was Turkey.
Speaker 1: Turkey A yes, yep, turkey A check yah. That's all
Speaker 1: the pronunciations I got for we're learning.
Speaker 4: I also like, I mean, just seeing the advertisements is
Speaker 4: pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: One of them, of course, is for Giannis the Greek
Speaker 4: the Freak seven from Nike Cool. But there was also
Speaker 4: one ad that just said yellow bananas. That's my favorite
Speaker 4: color of banana. They're saying, don't don't buy them before
Speaker 4: they're ripe or as they're ripening. Yes, right, yeah, one more,
Speaker 4: one more round of yellow bananas for me and the boys, please.
Speaker 1: Last couple of notes here. I do want to mention
Speaker 1: Bosnia took care of Cypress. This is Cyprus's first ever
Speaker 1: euro Basket. They're hosting a game. They kind of made
Speaker 1: it close, so respect to them. But Usuf Nurkic was
Speaker 1: the thing that I noticed the most. That guy sweats
Speaker 1: so much. Now we're showing it to you on YouTube,
Speaker 1: it looks fairly sweaty. I don't think my screen grab
Speaker 1: does it justice.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: The maybe I downgraded after I screen grabbed. I downgraded
Speaker 1: the photo pixelation because man, that guy sweats so much.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because the Bosnian head coach two weeks
Speaker 1: ago said quote, he's out of shape and can barely run,
Speaker 1: And it looks like to me that he got in
Speaker 1: shape and ready to play and he's super sweaty because
Speaker 1: he kind of looks skinny, and maybe he'll play for
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz this year or maybe not, who knows,
Speaker 1: but he is on their roster. I just want to
Speaker 1: say that that guy leads the EuroBasket in sweat drops
Speaker 1: per minute. I mean, he is sweating so much at
Speaker 1: any time.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have a sweaty front court because I feel
Speaker 4: like market and he gets pretty wet as well. So
Speaker 4: between the two of them, they've got their hair flopping
Speaker 4: all around. That's how you can tell when these guys
Speaker 4: are working really hard out there, because in that photo,
Speaker 4: Nurkic has Doncich bangs. Like when Lucas played two quarters
Speaker 4: of a game, his hair's flopping over into his face.
Speaker 3: It looks all wet. That's what Nurkic had going on too.
Speaker 4: And I think that's a common look in EuroBasket because
Speaker 4: it feels like there are three haircuts in EuroBasket ponytail,
Speaker 4: bald spot, or a whole bunch of bangs in the
Speaker 4: front of your head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like playing in a baseball hat facing forward.
Speaker 4: But if you're twenty three and under, that's what your
Speaker 4: hair is gonna look.
Speaker 3: Like right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's some tight haircuts going on so far
Speaker 1: in your basket. I mean tight on the sides and
Speaker 1: then just letting the top flow go go slim.
Speaker 2: Jesus, it's happening, Jesus.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But you're never going to see more bald spots than
Speaker 4: in a euro Basket tournament because a lot of these guys,
Speaker 4: you know, hang around later into their careers and if
Speaker 4: they don't go skull a mode, which a few guys are,
Speaker 4: you know, handsomely gray.
Speaker 3: Uh, you got a spot back there, and it's shining.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 1: I saw a bald guy dunk of basketball and I thought, whoa,
Speaker 1: you don't see that too often.
Speaker 2: In euro Basket. That happens, it's a lot, it does.
Speaker 1: I think that's it for our random notes. Touched on
Speaker 1: a ton, that's everything for our show today. Just a
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Speaker 1: about EuroBasket next Thursday, September fourth, after the round robin
Speaker 1: is complete and and the four divisions advance four teams
Speaker 1: per division, so we'll get into the round of sixteen
Speaker 1: that should be should be a competitive sixteen teams that
Speaker 1: are still alive after this twenty four team first round
Speaker 1: where everybody's getting a field, getting a feel and taking
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