U20 EC, division B: Antti Kanervo blasts Azerbaijan netting 43 points - Aug 6, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
U20 Finland - U20 Azerbaijan 118-56
Finland had an easy job against Azerbaijan in the first day of Classification Stage from 17th to 19th position. Azerbaijanis couldn't find a solution how to stop amazing Antti Kanervo (193-G/F-89), who totally smashed them draining 43 points. After this game Finland is a step closer to position number 17 on U20 European Championship division B in Targu Mures while Azerbaijan will most probably end this competition as a last ranked team. [read more]
U20 Finland - U20 Azerbaijan 118-56
Finland had an easy job against Azerbaijan in the first day of Classification Stage from 17th to 19th position. Azerbaijanis couldn't find a solution how to stop amazing Antti Kanervo (193-G/F-89), who totally smashed them draining 43 points. After this game Finland is a step closer to position number 17 on U20 European Championship division B in Targu Mures while Azerbaijan will most probably end this competition as a last ranked team.
Azerbaijan showed the poorest performance on his championship than any other team. This time Azerbaijanis once again finished the with more than 100 points in their basket. As a reminder, just once they avoided this number and it happened against Ireland in Preliminary Round. Finland dominated in the paint finishing the game with 45 boards. At the same time Finish defense looked pretty good which resulted with 28 turnovers by Azerbaijan. Antti Kanervo was on fire during the entire time scoring more than 1/3 points of his team. At the half time Finland already created advantage of 32 points what made this game not so exciting until the very end.
As it was mentioned above, Antti Kanervo was totally the best player of this game. He played 36 minutes shooting 9/12 for FG2, 7/14 for 3-pts and 4/5 FTs. Except of him Juho-Matti Lehtoranta (191-G-89) also shined for the winning side scoring 22 points including 6 boards. Azerbaijan got the most from Anar Hajiyev (198-F-88), who scored 18 points. Amil Hamzayev (200-C-90) was the last player in Azerbaijan with double-digits adding 12 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists. Finland will have a day-off tomorrow while Azerbaijan will meet Switzerland.
U20 Finland - U20 Azerbaijan 118-56 (33-10, 30-21, 35-12, 20-13)
U20 EC, division B: Czech Republic cruises past Azerbaijan in Targu Mures - Aug 6, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
U20 Azerbaijan - U20 Czech Republic 69-104
As it was expected Czech Republic registered an extremely easy win against Azerbaijan, which remains winless yet on U20 European Championship division B. However, despite this victory and score 2-2 Czechs didn't succeed to reach the second position in Preliminary Group B. Thus Czech Republic is placed in Group G of Classification Round from 9th from 16th place together with Great Britain, Ireland and Norway. [read more]
U20 Azerbaijan - U20 Czech Republic 69-104
As it was expected Czech Republic registered an extremely easy win against Azerbaijan, which remains winless yet on U20 European Championship division B. However, despite this victory and score 2-2 Czechs didn't succeed to reach the second position in Preliminary Group B. Thus Czech Republic is placed in Group G of Classification Round from 9th from 16th place together with Great Britain, Ireland and Norway. On the other side Azerbaijan will fight against Finland and Switzerland to avoid the last position on this championship.
Czech Republic was much better team than Azerbaijan during the entire time. Azerbaijan once again struggled a lot with turnovers and its defense while on the other Czechs were in the right mood for this game. Interesting is that six players in Czech Republic added more than 10 points. After 14-25 in the first quarter, Czechs extended lead to fantastic 19-44 at the half way of the second frame. Ten minutes later, after Vojtech Hruban's (197-F-89) lay-up it already was 38-69 and if there was any hope for Azerbaijanis in this game it immediately has gone af.
Vojtech Hruban led his team to this victory netting 20 points. Tomas Macela (179-G-88) and Pavel Harcar (201-F-89) followed him adding 13 points each while Tomas Pomikalek (201-F-89) had 12 points and 7 rebounds. Anar Hajiyev (198-F-88) collected 20 points and 4 rebounds for the loosing side. Azerbaijan also got 15 points and 9 rebounds from Amil Hamzayev (200-C-90). Ramil Babayev (179-G-90) was the last player with double digits in his team scoring 14 points.
U20 EC, division B: Ireland takes it easily over Azerbaijan - Aug 4, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
U20 Ireland - U20 Azerbaijan 80-51
In the battle between two winless teams of Preliminary Group B, Ireland celebrated without any bigger efforts. It means that Ireland improved its score to 1-2 while Azerbaijan dropped on 0-3 on U20 European Championship division B in Targu Mures. With this victory Ireland kept its hope for the next stage alive. It chances for that are not so good but still they exist. [read more]
U20 Ireland - U20 Azerbaijan 80-51
In the battle between two winless teams of Preliminary Group B, Ireland celebrated without any bigger efforts. It means that Ireland improved its score to 1-2 while Azerbaijan dropped on 0-3 on U20 European Championship division B in Targu Mures. With this victory Ireland kept its hope for the next stage alive. It chances for that are not so good but still they exist. Namely, if Ireland succeeds to beat Sweden tomorrow and if Czech Republic looses its two games until the end, Ireland will book a spot for the Qualifying Round. However, it is hard to believe that Azerbaijan is able to beat Czechs in the last round.
The main problem for Azerbaijanis today was a stroke from behind the arc as they made just 2 of 28 attempts, which is just 7.1%. On the other side Ireland recorded 50% making 6 of 12. Keith Anderson (188-G-89) and his teammates had much better beginning as after 10 minutes it already was plus 9 for their team. Azerbaijan entered into the second stanza with attitude which resulted with 20-17 but very soon Ireland created 18-6 run for 38-23 at the half time. Nothing has changed after the breather as Keith Anderson continued with domination at the offensive and for Ireland while on the other side Amil Hamzayev (200-C-90) didn't get a proper help from his teammates. At the half way of the last frame Ireland had unreachable plus 20 in its pocket.
Keith Anderson was the best scorer for the winning team today with 29 points. Hennebry helped Ireland adding 16 points and 4 rebounds while Finn had 13 points. Amil Hamzayev registered double-double in Azerbaijan - 22 points and 10 rebounds. Anar Hajiyev (198-G-88) was behind him with 11 points and 9 boards.
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