2012 U16 European Championship

[pohani komarac]

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia played with each other on april6th tournament in Sarajevo

Croatia beat BiH 72-67. 97. born Mazalin scored 22, Bozic aded 16 for Croatia. Kelecevic 13, Lazic 12, Smajlovic 9 for BiH

from sure players Croatia missed Arapovic, whille BiH missed 97. born Djedovic and Gacic

Abouth month ago Croatian kids played with each other

Bijeli: Grubišić 6, Šarić 12, Gojan, Jurica 13, Šabić 8, Klarić 3, Prstec 2, Glavan 16, Bešlić 12, Karačić 4, Lončar 6.
Crveni: Dominović 7, Anzulović 6, Palijan 2, Ćaleta 6, Zebić 9, Božić 11, Došen 7, Tomić 12, Bender 6, Vranković 10, Mazalin 28

[sagenas]

Lithuanian roster of 25 players after the last cut was announced:

Margiris Normantas
Audrius Karvelis
Dominykas Zupkauskas
Domantas Pavlovskis
Kasparas Karsauskas
Tautvydas Paliukėnas
Vilius Nausėda
Jokūbas Švambaris
Antanas Krimelis
Ignas Fiodorovas
Justas Vazalis
Raimundas Žuklevičius
Deividas Žemgulis
Mantas Šerkšnas
Tomas Rimša
Tomas Zdanavičius
Mantas Montvila
Aidas Einikis
Matas Budrys
Rokas Mažionis
Martynas Varnas
Edvinas Rupkus
Valentinas Mitalauskas
Mantas Margis
Domantas Sabonis.

[carlo]

Div A championship will be played 19-29 July in Ventspils (Latvia) and Panevezys, Vilnius (Lithuania).
This is the official Fiba site.

Recent tournaments updates:

Riom Tournament (Fra): 1) Ukraine 2) France 3) Russia 4) Great Britain. Ukr-Fra-Rus at the same level.
http://www.tournoibasket.com/?cat=13

Parente Trophy, Benevento (Ita): 1) Serbia 2) Germany 3) Italy 4) Czech Republic. Ser-Ger-Ita at similar level.
http://www.fip.it/news.asp

[carlo]

July 6-8 will be played the Guadalajara International Tournament, with the participation of England, Italy, Turkey and host Spain.

[pohani komarac]

Croatia-Slovenia prep game, scorers only for Slovenia

HRVAŠKA : SLOVENIJA 86:48 (19:4, 21:14, 19:16, 27:14)
Slovenija: Kavaš 4, Janc 11, Sajevic 4, Šlutej 4, Rojko, Grubelič 9, Kodrin 2, Kovačević 4, Zupan, Durnik 4, Medić 2, Vujanič 2

edit: HRVATSKA:
Karačić, Kapusta 2, Koljanin, Došen 2, Dominović 4, Šabić 4, Vučić 15, Mazalin 18, Bender 12, Jurica 3, Lončar 3, Radunić 3, Vranković 7.

[carlo]

Turkey impressive winning Guadalajara tournament:
http://www.eurohopes.com/news/1689/turkey-impress/

[pohani komarac]

friend tells this is selected team.

Roko Dominovic (PG 188 96. Split)
Emir Sabic (PG/SG 188 96. Cedevita)
Leon Tomic (PG/SF 195 96. Cedevita
Luka Bozic (SG 192 96. Bjelovar)
Arian Dosen (SG 188 96. Split)
Marko Jurica (SF 195 96. Zadar)
Lovro Mazalin (SF 200 97. Cibona)
Ivan Karacic (F 200 96. Siroki)
Ivan Vucic (F 195 96. Cedevita)
Dragan Bender (G/F 205 97. Split)
Marko Arapovic (PF/C 208 96. Cibona)
Antonio Vrankovic (C 208 96. Fenix)

I think we have team, despite some injurys of 2 starters Saric and Beslic + Tomic has injured right ankle, that has good chance to be in fight for medals. I expet Mazalin and Arapovic to dominate under basket and they should have good help from from Bender and Vrankovic. If ready all round prospect Tomic should have very good tournament to. With him main outside help he should have in Bozic and Dominovic, but I'm not sure how much they can show at moment. Bozic had sick numbers scoring 50-60, but played in North region wich has very low level of basketball and it's hard to predict how he will do with better competition, whille Dominovic is intresting PG but physicly quite weak at this point. Vucic, Jurica, Sabic sould be able to help. Dosen shouldn't be here.

[tmlouk]

84

Turkey impressive winning Guadalajara tournament:
http://www.eurohopes.com/news/1689/turkey-impress/

But tell me - how can they win against England by only 8 points (84:76)?

[carlo]

Tomorrow the U16 Euro championship starts with some interesting games, such as Italy-Croatia, Russia-Ukraine, Latvia-Spain and Germany-Serbia.
Most recent tournaments showed strong teams like Lithuania, Serbia and Turkey, but there will surely be some surprise.

[pohani komarac]

italy has top pg, fredrico mussini

i never saw serbia, but on their forums people are talking that it's not very talented team

[pohani komarac]

sabonis jr. highlights

looks skilled big man. how tall is he?

[Dreamcatcher]

sabonis jr. highlights

looks skilled big man. how tall is he?

205, it seems.

[carlo]

Italian roster:

Donzelli Daniel (‘96, 1.95, G)
Flaccadori Diego (‘96, 1.90, G)
Lenti Giovanni (‘96, 1.96, F)
Mastellari Martino (‘96, 1.90, F)
Mussini Federico (‘96, 1.79, PG)
Navarini Alberto (‘96, 1.75, PG)
Oliva Pierfrancesco (‘96, 2.00, F)
Picarelli Andrea Gennaro (‘96, 1.90, G)
Rossato Riccardo (‘96, 1.85, PG)
Spera Andrea (‘96, 2.02, F/C)
Trovato Matteo (‘96, 2.00, F/C)
Zucca Dario (‘96, 2.00, F/C)

Backcourt is strong (Mussini and Rossato are the top players), frontcourt is lacking size.

[pimpekaustas]

italy is far psyhical inferior to croatia to stand any chance

anyway, croatia will win another gold, we have very talented team again

[turk-jugoslav]

I think we will play quarter-final.We are not strong enough to beat Spain,Lithuania and Croatia in any youth level.

[carlo]

Eurohopes on Croatia, with Q&A to Marko Arapovic:
http://www.eurohopes.com/news/1702/c...oslavia-steps/

[Dreamcatcher]

All Lithuania games (today against Slovenia) are being translated.

[pohani komarac]

All Lithuania games (today against Slovenia) are being translated.

http://sportacentrs.com/sportacentrs_tv/tv_programma/

also latvian...but is there free stream or it's only on tv?

[Dreamcatcher]

http://tv.lrytas.lt/live/

LRytas TV, as always. It should by the same by Latvian as well.

[pohani komarac]

italy beat us, at end with big difrence. their guards and wings totaly destroyed us by stats. friend tells me mazalin has small ankle injury and played only 2nd half. vlasic with strange rotations. tomic started and didn't return him till 4q hope didn't reinjured his ankle. vlasic used only one big insted tring to tae height advatage with vrankovic and arapovic