WEBVTT - Early EuroBasket Surprises & Questions 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.920 Welcome to No Ducks. We're here for some NBA offseason fun. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.640 We have some basketball to talk about, so rare, so rare. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.880 I'm tas Melice, but today I'm Tasos Melas because we're 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.120 going to talk about the euro Basket with me. It's 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:29.840 the man in the middle, Trey Kirby. Hell A, just 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.080 a solo ao back, just me and Trey right now 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.000 as we get into some EuroBasket fund Skis will join us. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.319 Had a later show maybe for some other EuroBasket fun, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.320 because we'll be back after the round robin is done 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.480 next Thursday. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:46.840 That's the play. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:47.720 That's quick, man. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.360 They get through this early part of the tournament pretty fast. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.080 I suppose playing all the round robin games over the 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.800 course of a week. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:55.800 Good stuff. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.360 Five games seven days about yeah, every team has played 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:02.280 one game so far. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.680 Twelve games. We'll get into. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.800 What you're sort of you've seen Trey like, impressive teams, players, questions, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.840 any random notes. We'll get to those a little bit later. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:18.400 The games haven't been ridiculously great to start, but we've 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.520 seen somebody of the stars already, so that's been fun 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:22.960 exactly right. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.000 We got some MVPs playing, you know, we had Luca 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.039 and Giannis both finished their games to differing results. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.920 We've seen Nikola jokicch. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.240 Play, but you're right, the group stage of the tournament 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.000 still a big spread in talent from a lot. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:40.400 Of these teams. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.160 So we've seen quite a few blowouts, but a lot 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.160 of NBA talent and a few bangers for games. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.400 Yeah, I apologize, I mean, I'm starting it with a 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.560 bit of a DeBie Downer kind of tone, but. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.320 Hey man, this was better basketball today and yesterday than 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.960 any of the other basketball we've seen from NBA players 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:58.800 this summer. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.960 Yeah, that's true. We did get some upset. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.360 So let's start from the team. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.600 Side of things before we get to the individual stars. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.440 What's been the most impressive team you've seen so far? 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.360 Okay, I don't know if this is the most impressive 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.639 team as in they're gonna win the euro Basket Tournament, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.160 But the most impressed I've been by a team is 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:24.720 Georgia today pulling the upset against Espanya. Mamu Keleshvili and 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.400 Gogo bataz Ta over these guys were awesome tasks. I 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.240 didn't realize that Sandro Mamu kelsh Villi was basically the 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.200 Luka Danchitz of Georgia. This guy breaking down people off 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.960 the dribble, finding them with passes. I didn't know he 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.160 had the passing in his bag. He had a massive 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.880 right handed layup late in this game to put things 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.880 away and then go Goa was hilarious making a corner 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.960 three pointer from the right hand side of the court. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.080 A couple of plays later they find him in the 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.440 left hand corner. He knocks down another three and then 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.000 hits the straight up big ball dance in euro Basket. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.280 And here's the great thing. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.560 About Yeah, we're giving you the big balls right here 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.480 on YouTube. If you're watching with us right now, he 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:10.119 pulled it out. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.920 That's right, we have We're going to show you the 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.040 big balls here. There's no ban on big balls on 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.200 no dun said there's no ban on big balls on 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.679 the FOBA broadcast because they ran it back and you 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.200 could hear the announcers. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.840 Say, you can describe that one at home. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.680 But then at home, their Twitter account, which is awesome, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:33.360 posts it celebrating the big balls dance from GOGA. There 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.640 much different response than you get from the NBA. So 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.520 I love to see the personality. This was such a 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:40.320 good game too. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:40.880 Yeah. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.360 Look, I don't really understand. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.720 The ins and outs of the FEBA rankings, but I 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.200 think it was an upset and it was really fun 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.960 to watch. And honestly, Goga and Mamu going back and 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.119 forth together was unbelievable to see these guys be elevated. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.680 From a FEBA perspective, I'm ready to put them up 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:04.640 there with Dennis, with Evan Fournier, with Boyan and bog 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.480 Dan Bogdanovic, guys who just go to another level on 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:08.560 their national teams. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:09.640 These guys look like. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:15.480 Hippin' and I don't know uh Jokich out there for 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.320 the team. Awesome stuff from Goga and Mamu. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.520 No doubt this was an upset. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.719 Spain is the reigning EuroBasket champion from twenty twenty two. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.360 They are not one of the favorites in this tournament, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.719 but to see Sandrew memus Kelishvili do what he did 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:38.960 in those final mill minutes. The great thing about EuroBasket 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.440 is you get the audio going for these coaches and 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.000 the coach. The Georgian coach is pretty simple, dude. He's 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.200 He's a man of few words. A few of them 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.920 are pastu Mamu Pastu. Mamu as simple as that man, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.679 because literally Mamu taking dribble handoffs from the top. Uh, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.000 and he's just playing smart now. He's more of a 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.440 B line straight line nine type of driver. There's no 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.680 doubt about that. He you know, he did his thing 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.359 with Space the Spurs last year, was there for his 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.320 monstrous game that he had with the Spurs, and he'll 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.479 be with the Raptors as a backup center this year. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.920 And you can see why he makes sense when those 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.960 guys make the extra passes, whether it's Brandon Ingram or 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.200 Scottie Barnes or whoever. He's there to bang home threes. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.960 He can do that, and he's decent with the dribble handoffs. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.120 You mentioned the drives he had in key moments. So yeah, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.159 they're overperforming here. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:31.800 Uh. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.800 And they did it against Spain. So it's a fun, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.960 really fun start for this Georgian team. Absolutely a delayed. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.640 It was a little disappointing on the other side not 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.160 to see al Dama ball. I mean, he came out 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.560 and performed at some times, but yeah, I want to 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.440 see a little bit more aggressiveness al Dama because he 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.520 is their number one score now and that's why this 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:56.360 team isn't likely to meddle. But they still have talent, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.000 and it was just a little disappointing not this year 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:00.839 him ball out. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.560 Yeah, Aldama didn't do much. I actually thought that Spain 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.840 was playing their best. Early in the fourth quarter, they 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.080 went on a little bit of a run with Wancho 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.320 Hair flying out like a lion's man. Apparently this guy 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.960 has highlights now all over the place making plays. They 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.800 pulled him out and that's instantly when Georgia went on 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.640 their run. Willie hernan Gomez, I looked it up. Dude 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.479 was first team All Rookie in the NBA in twenty seventeen, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.520 less than ten years ago, and now he's out of 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.400 the league. And watching the way some of these rebounds 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.719 were going to Goga, the wide open shots he was getting, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.400 I was like, oh, I get it now, he just 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.400 moves a lot slower. This Spain team ain't the old 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.200 Spain team. They don't have the perimeter talent and their 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.840 set of brothers, the hernan Gomez is They're not the Gasols. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:47.360 No doubt about that. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.680 I'll move on to another team, which was impressive in 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.640 very much the definition of what a team. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.880 Is the Greeks. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.400 Obviously it's Giannis and that's definitely the most important thing. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.120 But they got performances from so many guys. We watched 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.840 this team in the Olympics last year and they were 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.680 so desperate for a secondary player just to do anything 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.000 out there, and this time it was way different. Now 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.720 they're starting a different backcourt. I think that really helps. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.040 Instead of nikol Athis and Thomas walk Up, they're playing 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.160 Tyler Dorsey and Costa Slucas, an old thirty five year old, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:29.200 and those guys were just efficient at hitting shots. They 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.160 had so many helpers and it wasn't like Dorsey or 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.000 Slucus even hit double digits. They had nobody hit double 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:42.800 digits beside Yannis. But there was just so many guys, Papa, Nicolau, Slucas, Toyopulos, 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.040 we had a Fanasti side to Takompo dribble three pointer 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.000 with a few minutes left. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:49.880 There's so many. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.680 Guys to work around Yannis, who was an absolute machine 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.800 last year when they were the Olympics. He was a monster. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.440 Unfortunately they went one and two in this one. You 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.880 can see that they could be better. Jannis was himself 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.920 I mean his first basket within the first two minutes 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.520 was there's two guys around him and he could have 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.480 passed to somebody. He said, now I'll I'll just use 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.160 my legs to be able to pounce around these guys 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.600 and dunk it got on the break. Gallinari was guarding 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.360 him at some point. Danilo Gallinari, he might be the 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.840 Puerto Rican MVP because he won the MVP in the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.960 Puerto Rican League this summer, but he's too old to 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.400 guard Janis and I think the Italians were a little 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.760 a little too old in general. Other than the who's 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.720 the young guy that they had the Senegali slash Italian player. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:44.199 He was awesome, but they're a little too old. Even 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.840 though Nicomelly was balling again, they just needed some guys. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.240 They had seven threes overall. It wasn't like they were 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.199 taking a ton of threes. But Jannis was efficient himself. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.640 Didn't shoot a three thirty one points for him, fourteen 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.720 of twenty for him, so it was nice to see 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:02.040 them play the way they should play. They were giving 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.880 Yannis space within the arc because they were threatening from 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.080 three point lane, unlike what they had last year. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.959 I was mostly watching Luca versus Poland during this one. Unfortunately, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.000 they were going head to head. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.800 But every time I tuned over to the Greece game, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.720 Yiannis was getting a dunk and then I heard the 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.280 broadcaster say, oh, plan to his strengths today, and that 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.440 certainly seemed like what was going down. Not a lot 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.439 of beef on the inside for the Italians unfortunately. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.240 Yeah, I know they were lacking. He could do it 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.320 against whoever he wants. Saloon Niang as the guy who 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.960 was thinking of from Italy, but otherwise, yeah, they're literally 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:39.440 too small. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:39.760 He was. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.000 I mean, Melli was actually balling for that team, but 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.040 they just they don't have size. That is totally true. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.560 They tried to front him at times that didn't work. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.600 I like the Greeks changing to coast Usumpo. There's three 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.640 a Cumpo's on this team that we're playing. They switched 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.960 to coastas starting in the second half to get some 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.600 some more flticism around Giannis. But that team just reacted well. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.680 Dorsey went from starter to bench to playing really well 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.600 coming off the bench in that second half. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.360 So they really really played well. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.000 Any other teams you want to mention before we get 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.160 to more players or mean, you do you want to 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.400 talk about Luca and the loss. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.200 Here, We'll get to Luca because he was definitely impressive, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.680 But we're talking teams. I thought Turkey looked awesome in 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.400 their win over Latvia. I was maybe expecting a little 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.640 bit more from the Latvians. The crowd was certainly hyped, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.079 but Turkey. If we're talking about teams that look small, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.760 it ain't Turkey. They look like the biggest team out there, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.400 maybe alongside Serbia. But Shengun was incredible. Cheddy Osman was 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.000 giving me sort of like Gershan yabucele vibes, a guy 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.319 who was in the NBA. He has to go away 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:50.720 for a while, but then you see him in an 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.240 international competition. You're like, wait a second here, Cheddy Osmond's 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.360 hoopin can he come back? He shot thirty nine percent 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.000 from three to twenty twenty four. If he's a shoe 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.040 and still a decent slasher, maybe he can play. I 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.560 know they're kind of like in the mix for the 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.000 EuroBasket Championship, but an outside shot. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:10.559 But I was certainly. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.040 Impressed by the way they played because they destroyed Latvia, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.679 and I thought that these were two teams that were 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.200 kind of near each other talent wise, but Shngun definitely 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.960 looked like the all star out there rather than Porzingis. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.040 Yeah, you're totally right. These are two teams that could medal. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:29.480 They're not the favorites. That belongs to Germany of course, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.520 along with Serbia of course, but these two could be 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.960 the bronze medalist, and I think we'll make some I 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.200 feel like the Turkey stole that right to be the 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.800 bronze medalist from Latvia. We'll get to that a little 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:47.640 bit later, just random things that we have decided have changed. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.560 I think that Turkey went and stole it from Latvia 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.080 because I was looking forward to Christaps Porzingis seeing what 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.160 he looked like. He's been talking about how fresh he feels, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.400 and he did, you. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.440 Know some things out there. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.920 The deflection on d came in and used a thunderous 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.720 bang in the post to get some space, but he 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.560 turned out dumped. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.560 He got dunked on. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.640 That was mean. Shae Moose has air. What a frickin 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.240 dunk and he has air? For sure, he has air. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.120 And Porzingis literally was holding his wrist after it. I 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 mentioned how he feels fresh, but he was checking his 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.040 wrist because Hazard gave it to him stared him down after. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.360 So not a great start. But yeah from Turkey, now, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.160 maybe maybe they just got super duper hot. They shot 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.760 sixty percent from three to fifteen of twenty five, a 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:44.480 ridiculous percentage from three you mentioned Jeddi Osman came on 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.640 Sapahi and then the Turkish Shane Larkin who used to 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.480 be in the NBA. I mean he was going to 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.679 that crossover and raising into that three point shot. He 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.319 got past Porzingis and shot over him. So this may 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.680 have been a perfect night. And I may be wrong 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.560 that this team's going to win the bronze medal, but yeah, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.440 they looked ridiculously great in Latvia where they're playing Latvia 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.280 having this home opener for them as that group plays 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.199 their games in Latvia. That was a stolen game by Turkey, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:18.360 so let's move on. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:19.319 Definitely a fun game. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.560 Also, love the sheng gun Dish had one behind his 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:22.840 head going down the lane. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.320 I forget we drops it off too, but yeah, looks. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.440 Beautiful and I do got to give a big shout 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.280 out to my guy Zagers from Latvia. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.640 Nice moment. He scored like eleven straight there in the 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:34.160 second half. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.360 I like to see that guy cooking wearing fifty five 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.600 like white chocolate himself. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.680 Yeah, yeah, I can shoot the three, no doubt. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.880 All right, So let's get to those individual players who 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.079 really impressed you. After one game so far for every 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.959 team in euro Basket. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:49.880 Shout out Lowry Markinen. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.280 Awesome game from him, twenty eight points against Sweden. It 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.400 feels like he's getting most of these on dunks, and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.680 every time he catches the ball he has ahead of steam. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.959 I know that's something Will Hardy ripped off for the jam, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.600 but it happens even more playing. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.240 For the finished team. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.640 That being said, the guy that I love on their team, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.960 Mika muran In. They call him Slim Jesus Task. This 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.280 guy is born in two thousand and seven. I mean 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.480 was that he was born in two thousand and seven. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:16.800 He's still in high school. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:16.960 Bro. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.320 This guy's a five star recruit, but he's playing in 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.400 the fourth quarter of EuroBasket. I think he only had 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.120 five points, but they were five important points. He's got 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.640 his hair flopping all crazy. The finished Matus bozellis. If 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.360 you're asking me, I don't know. I'm ready to buy 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.200 into the hype in this guy when he finally comes 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.080 to the NBA two years from now, I'll over hype 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.000 him from now until then. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.320 Mika Muran in love this guy. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:48.120 Yeah, he's my Jack Harlow. That hair is flowing, no doubt. Yeah, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.960 and yeah, Lowry was awesome. People were calling me out 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.280 because I, you know, put a little video together of 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.200 the guys I'm looking forward to in EuroBasket I didn't 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.680 talk about. Uh listen, he's coming off a bad season 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.960 and maybe NBA is he going to be himself again? Well, yeah, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.640 he looks like it coming into this tournament. He looked 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:13.520 like it. Those curls that he runs, not on his hair, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.760 but that he runs the curl cuts like you mentioned 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.240 that he does with Will Hardy in Utah. He's running them, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.320 whether it's from the corner into the lane or getting 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.280 dribble handoffs up top and that huge jam that he 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.000 had coming down, he looks. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:29.080 He looks awesome. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.200 He had a steal too, So yes, let's see what 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.200 they can do. Obviously they're playing at home in this 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.320 game against Sweden, which was which was fun. All those 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.080 games going to be in Finland, so yeah, great start. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.080 Let's let's get to another guy, do you want to 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:52.960 talk Luca here? Because he was good, but uh, you know, they. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:53.920 Didn't get the job done. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.400 He's got to carry that team pretty hard. It looks 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.520 like thirty four points Luca ended up with. I think 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.120 he had set in the first quarter, and he's the 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.560 rare guy that actually gets an NBA whistle in FOBA games. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.240 I think he took seven free throws in the first quarter, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.640 maybe ended up with like fifteen or sixteen by the 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:11.240 end of the game. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.040 Unreal to see that in a FOBA game. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.920 But they're all over him defensively, Poland they were completely 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.800 locked in. They say, we take away Luca, We're going 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.960 to win this game. They didn't even really take him away, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.120 but they held him under forty. You heard on the 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.160 broadcast throughout the game, Luca's got to score forty or 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.360 more for this team to win. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.320 They gave up close to one hundred points in the loss. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.640 So it just looks like sloping. In the end, there 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.640 we go one oh five. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.720 Not great, but not surprising considering Slovenia does look like 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.920 a Miami Dolphins team. The white and the turquoise an 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:49.920 unusual look for some pretty sedate uniforms. Usually I would 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.800 say at EuroBasket, but Luca I thought looked good. He 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.720 was playing defense, he was hitting his step back threes, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.280 but just not enough with the some of the NBA 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.400 talent around him missing. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.760 For the Slovenian team. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.040 Yeah, he's asked to do a lot. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.680 There's no doubt they were doubling him hard in Poland. Again, 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.760 a home team, a home game for them. They were 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.200 ready to play, they were ready to pounce defensively, while 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:21.520 Slovenia just sort of wasn't. And the Polish team, it 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:26.280 literally has zero NBA talent. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.600 They literally how dare you say that? 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:35.840 When Toronto Raptors NBA champion Jordan Lloyd is carrying this team, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:37.119 he was on fire. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:42.040 He was rediculous. It's unbelievable that he had. Jordan Lloyd 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.719 playing his first game ever for Poland. He's never played 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.400 in Poland, he's never played for a Polish team. He's 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:50.600 played abroad. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:51.159 For several years. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.679 But in February he got a Polish passport and he 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:59.120 just got naturalized as a Polish citizen. Just now in August, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.680 and he's playing his first game and he comes out 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.719 and he's rocking the show. In front of the home crowd. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.320 He got scorching hot, nineteen points in the first half 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.679 for that guy talking trash to everybody, anybody that would listen, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.720 and then he had thirteen in the second half, thirty 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.280 two points overall. This was just a special night shooting 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:25.520 the ball for the entire Polish team. It felt like Ponitka. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.320 He was splashing threes. He hit a few threes, Pluta 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.040 splashing threes. I mean they had fourteen threes. To have 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.840 a hundred points. One hundred and five overall in a 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.480 forty minute game doesn't happen a lot. We've wan now 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.600 watched twelve games, only two teams have reached one hundred points, 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.240 Poland and Germany. A lot of it was just them 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.520 being super duper hot. There's no doubt about that. They're 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.480 playing in front of a home crowd. They were scorching hot. 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.600 But to see Jordan Lloyd do that, yeah, he's a 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.160 Toronto legend. His only time in the NBA was literally 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.280 that little run he got into the playoffs where he 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.919 was that random guy in a suit beside Kawhi Leonard 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.879 after the bounce bounce bounce shot, and then he pretended 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.800 to be Steph Curry and all the practices in the 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.480 NBA finals. That's what he did. And now he's got 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.280 a broad abroad. He's a local Georgia boy. We got 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.360 to get him on the show at some point when 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:22.080 he comes back. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.800 But this is this is cool. Yeah, we're happy we're 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:26.320 getting him on. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.800 This was It was just an odd situation because you've 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.080 got Luke on one team. You don't have an NBA 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.760 player on the other side. Jeremy Sohan hurt his I 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.600 don't know. It was a calf I think recently, so 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.520 he's not even playing there. So you know, Luca was good, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.600 but he wasn't He wasn't excellent. He shot a ton 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.400 of free throws. As you said, they were doubling him 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.040 getting the ball out of his hands. He shot eighteen 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.240 free throws. He also banked home of three. I'm not 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.359 sure if he did it on purpose. I still can't decide. 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.800 I mean, he looked. It was a classic European look. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.200 He hit the three. I don't know what it means. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.320 It was a yeah, maybe I hit that on purpose, 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.879 or maybe I did, or maybe that's my new shot, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.960 or maybe I'll never shoot it again. I still don't 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:16.040 know if he banked that thing home or not, but yeah, 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.679 he did not get enough help, There's no doubt about that. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.679 There's just a lot of clanking going on besides him. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:22.520 It was a one five. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.200