2012 U20 European Championship B Division

[pohani komarac]

After disgracfull result last year we have to play in B division this season We must get back in division A, no excuses

Niksa Bavcevic first selection:

Toni Katic (PG 185 92. Split)
Roko Rogic (PG 186 92. Alkar/Cedevita)
Ivan Donat Milin (PG 190 92. USA)
Roko Jurlina (PG/SG 193 93. Borik/Zadar)
Luka Panduric (SG 193 93. Darda/Brod SV.)
Ivan Begic (SG 192 92. Dubrovnik)
Bruno Markulin (SG 195 92. Split)
Andrija Hrkac (SG/SF 198 93. Krizevci)
Henrik Sirko (SF 198. 93. ?)
Marko Ramljak (SF 201 93. Zadar)
Franko Sango (SF 205 92. Zadar
Matej Buovac (SF199 93. USA)
Jere Vucica (SF 202 ?? )
Josip Matic (PF 201 92. Split)
Domagoj Vukovic (PF 207 93. Split)
Stipe Krstanovic (PF 206 93. Hermes/Cibona)
Boris Barac (PF 206 92. Siroki)
Filip Cvjeticanin (PF 206 93. USA)
Dino Repesa (PF 200 92. ?)
Filip Najev (PF/C 205 92. Split)
Josip Mikulic (PF/C 211 93. USA)
Ante Smolic (C 208 93. Zadar)
Petar Madunic (C 213 93. Solin/Split)

[serbianhoops]

Jere Vucica was born in 1992. He spent the season at Sante Fe Commuity College (JuCo), but didn't play a single game. He choose to redshirt his freshman season there. Next season, he will play for NCAA Division 1 program North Alabama with 4 years of eligibility remaining.

Dino Repesa spend the season in Bosnia & Herzegovina at HKK Capljina.

[pohani komarac]

thax

[pohani komarac]

katic, ramljak, najev out because of injury. buovac, mikulic among some other out because of school. 4 ot of 5 starters and one important player

our u-20 curse continiues. it's almost evrey year that we miss 3-6-7 players in this categorie

[pohani komarac]

and without barac...ofical no starting 5...lol

[carlo]

And here's Div B preview.

I've read Slovakia's big Boris Bojanovsky won't be there.

[carlo]

Great Britain NT:

Jesse Chuku, England
Grant Fiorentinos, England
Alisdair Fraser, Scotland
Joe Hart, England
Rema Lascelles, England
Josh Owen-Thomas, England
Lee Reilly, Scotland
Louis Sayers, England
John Stewart, England
Devon van Oostrum, England
Connor Washington, England
Zak Wells, England

http://www.gbbasketball.com/news/2541.php

The squad is led by van Oostrum, who had been selected in the prelim Senior NT.
GBR is in the same Group of Croatia, together with Belarus, Portugal and a strong Denmark team.

[carlo]

In Day1 the favorite teams won, with Poland recording a big win over Netherlands 97-39 and all its players scoring, while Croatia overcame Belarus in a close game, 77-73. Also Belgium, Great Britain (van Oostrum 26pts) and Czech Republic were among the other winning teams.

[carlo]

GBR-Croatia 90-78, D Van Oostrum 27, R Rogic 20.

[pohani komarac]

expected unfortunally. to many players missing

[pohani komarac]

we are being crushed by czech. one more year in b division. what a disgrace

[pohani komarac]

thanks to system competition and czech fair play our medicre team is back in A division

[Joško Poljak Fan]

thanks to system competition and czech fair play our medicre team is back in A division

I can't find an explanation, what exactly happened there? I thought Croatia is already out.

[pohani komarac]

I can't find an explanation, what exactly happened there? I thought Croatia is already out.

competition system and point difrence...we needed + 22 at end over finland. wich is kind unfair as GB beat us. but finlan beat GB and so we got one more chance. czech beat gb and we won over finland by 25.

i like to say big respect for coach bavcevic leading this limited team without full starting 5. great coach by my opinion, but nobady pays atention to him in our basketball and he left to coach in romania. we avreage 17 asists per game, split under him average 19 asists. that's well above averge for europian basketball. his teams are always plesure to watch

[lafa]

Ordinary situation - 3way tie: Croatia +13, GB +9, Finland -22

[euskadi]

competition system and point difrence...we needed + 22 at end over finland. wich is kind unfair as GB beat us. but finlan beat GB and so we got one more chance. czech beat gb and we won over finland by 25.

i like to say big respect for coach bavcevic leading this limited team without full starting 5. great coach by my opinion, but nobady pays atention to him in our basketball and he left to coach in romania. we avreage 17 asists per game, split under him average 19 asists. that's well above averge for europian basketball. his teams are always plesure to watch

why? they have 3 losses in row. they lose both games in 2. round. they lose vs relaxed czech rep. they have no better score then finland and cro and their point difference is not good enough

fair and square

[pohani komarac]

bulgaria-croatia shold be on livescorehunter

[carlo]

Really don't know what happened to Poland...was one of the favorite to be promoted to Div A !

[swagger09]

Really don't know what happened to Poland...was one of the favorite to be promoted to Div A !

They lost twice in a row that happened JK. Saw 2 of their games and it was a matter of bad coaching imo. They didn't use their big guys properly.
pohani komarac, your team was definitely lucky. No offence, but there are 4-5 better teams than this formation of yours
But, the funny thing is that your guys have a fair shot of reaching the final- Bulgaria is quite crippled having 2 important players injured

[pohani komarac]

They lost twice in a row that happened JK. Saw 2 of their games and it was a matter of bad coaching imo. They didn't use their big guys properly.
pohani komarac, your team was definitely lucky. No offence, but there are 4-5 better teams than this formation of yours
But, the funny thing is that your guys have a fair shot of reaching the final- Bulgaria is quite crippled having 2 important players injured

no need for that, i'm well awere how medicore this team is and limited by quality, even for B division standars