What a joy, what a team - Turkey makes it to the final (Photo: FIBA) |
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Spain beat Russia and made it to the semifinals (Photo: FIBA) |
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All-Tournament 1st Team |
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Labovic
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Tepic |
Akyol |
Antelo |
Datome |
Eurobasket.com All-Tournament Awards:
MVP:
Dragan Labovic (208-C/F-87), Serbia/M.
Best Guard:
Cenk Akyol (197-G-87), Turkey
Best Forward:
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87), Spain
Best Center:
Dragan Labovic (208-C/F-87), Serbia/M.
1st Team
Dragan Labovic (208-C/F-87), Serbia/M.
Milenko Tepic (199-G-87), Serbia/M.
Cenk Akyol (197-G-87), Turkey
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87), Spain
Luigi Datome (202-G/F-87), Italy
2nd Team
Xavi Rey (205-C-87), Spain
Vasili Zavorouev (196-G-87), Russia
Aldo Curti (180-G-87), France
Elishay Kadir (195-F-87), Israel
Ernests Kalve (200-F-87), Latvia
Honorable Mention
Milos Teodosic (195-G-87), Serbia/M.
Albert Teruel (197-F-87), Spain
Davide Bruttini (202-F/G-87), Italy
Oguz Savas (208-C-87), Turkey
Yaroslav Korolev (206-G/F-87), Russia
Martynas Gecevicius (194-G-88), Lithuania
Gasper Vidmar (205-C/F-87), Slovenia
Ivan Sirsicevic (204-G/F-87), Croatia
Chavdar Kostov (190-G-88), Bulgaria
Sotiris Manolopoulos (205-C/F-87), Greece
Tim Ohlbrecht (209-C-88), Germany
Kamil Pietras (207-F-88), Poland
Serbia
/ Montenegro is European Champion U18 - July 24, 2005
As it was easy to expect, the
host team of Serbia / Montenegro got gold medal beating in the final
Turkey 78-61. Serbian team deserved that victory completely. They were
definitely the best team thru entire tournament.
Similarly in the final game, Serbia / Montenegro controlled the whole
event from the first minutes. They took early 9-0 lead and never lost
the lead in that game. 6,500 fans had something to celebrate as they had
a proof that Serbia / Montenegro is a cradle of the most talented
youngsters on the continent.
The MVP of the tournament was
Dragan Labovic (208-C/F-87) from Serbia and Montenegro. He lead his
team also this time with 21 points and 6 rebounds. He was helped by
Milenko Tepic (199-G-87) (14 points and 10 reb),
Ivan Paunic (-87) (13) and
Milos Teodosic (195-G-87) (10). The best in Turkish team were
Cenk Akyol (197-G-87) and
Oguz Savas (208-C-87).
In the bronze medal game Italy beat Spain 88-83. But despite early lead
of Italian team, Spain managed to catch up and take the lead at the half
time. However then Italians put their game together and managed to
control the rest of the game. The best for Italy were
Alessandro Piazza (175-G-87) (16),
Luigi Datome (202-G/F-87) (15) and
Davide Bruttini (202-F/G-87) (12). Spanish team was lead by
Sergi Llull (178-G-87) (18) and
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87) (15).
Final:
Serbia
/ Montenegro -
Turkey
78-61 (Labovic 21p+6r, Tepic 15p+10r, Paunic 13, Teodosci
10p+5r+4a, Dasic 4p+6r, Djurkovic 6, Zivcevic 3, Dragovic 2, Stimac 2,
Raduljica 2, Jereminov 0pts+4r+5a, DNP: Mijatovic - Yagmur 16p+5r, Savas
15p+8r, Akyol 13p+7r, Nalga 6p+7r, Altintig 6p+4r, Bayav 3p+5r, Oner 2,
Hacioglu 0, Gorluk 0, Yetim 0, Pacun 0)
3rd Place:
Italy -
Spain
88-83 (Gallinari 24p+5r, Piazza 16p+6a, Datome 15p+4r,
Bruttini 12p+8r, Cuccarolo 11p+5r - Llull 18, Antelo 15p+10r, Teruel
13p+10r, Ribas 13p+4r, Forcada 11)
5th Place:
Russia
-
France
87-85 (Zavoruev 30p+5r, Korolev 14p+5r, Sergeev 11p+4r
- Salmon 20p+6r, Curti 16p+5a, Ajinca 10p+6r)
7th Place:
Israel
-
Latvia
77-53 (Casspi 25p+8r, Ohayon 17p+4r+7a, Levy 9 - Zakis
25p+7r, Kalve 10, Freimanis 7p+7r)
9th Place:
Lithuania -
Slovenia
79-73 (Dilys 21p+6r, Kelys 11p+4a, Gecevicius 10p+4r - Vidmar
27p+13r+4a, Klobucar 15, Brcina 9p+4r)
11th Place:
Croatia -
Bulgaria
96-78 (Drezga 22p+8r, Ugrinoski 15, Tomic 13p+14r+4a -
I.Lilov 29, Kostov 21, L.Lilov 11p+9r)
13th Place:
Greece
-
Germany
78-72 (Frousklias 17, Giannakis 15p+4a, Sigkoukas 13p+7r -
Ohlbrecht 12p+5r, Simon 11p+5a, Fassler 11)
15th Place:
Poland
-
Belgium
74-71 (Jarmakowicz 22p+13r, Dluski 18p+10r+4a, Gabinski
12p+7r - Verbeeck 20, Jeleznov 10, Lambert 9p+5r)
Semifinals:
Serbia / Mont. and Turkey in the final - July 23, 2005
A real horror in th egame
between
Turkey
and
Spain, where Turkish team managed to edge Spanairds by 1 point and
make it to the final where they will face host
Serbia
/ Monten. team, which beat
Italy
in other semifinal game.
But let's go back to the game between Turkey and Spain. Both teams had
equal chances and it was hard to point which of them was a favorite.
Both Turkey and Spain lost only one game in the entire tournament, and
in each case it was to the strongest team of the tournament - host
Serbia / Montenegro.
The game started with a domination of Spaniards. They ended the first
quarter with 9 points lead. 2nd quarter was reflection of the first
one, but it was Turkish team, which won it and ended half time with
42-42 tie. Third quarter was a real roller coaster. It started from
slight lead of Spanish team, then went in the favour of Turkish team,
slipped back to Spaniards and finally Turkey took slight lead in the
center of that part of the game and carried it over till the last break
with 66-63 result. The last quarter was extremely nervous as the teams
knew what they played for and every second could be crucial. Spaniards
easily tied the game with 3-pointer of
Javier Forcada (191-G-88). But then Turkish team had 8-0 run with
good shots of Yagmur, Savas and Goktas. Spanish team tried to catch up,
however Turkish managed to keep slight lead. It was the last minute when
real horror started. Turkish enter final minute with 3 points lead. Best
Spanish player that evening -
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87) - had great jump shot, which put
Spain just 1 point behind (76-77). Spanish team stormed Turkish players
and they missed the shot and Savas fouled
Marc Fernandez (195-G-87) from Spain just 20 seconds before the end
of the game. Fernandez did not miss any of his two free throw shots and
Spain took 1 point lead with just 20 seconds to go. Turkey took
immediately time off. It was Turkish
Oguz Savas (208-C-87), who was the real hero of the evening and with
his perfect jumper, he established the final result for 79-78 for
Turkish team.
Semifinals:
Serbia / Mont. -
Italy
77-64 (Paunic 18p+5r, Tepic 14p+6r, Teodosic 14p+4a, Labovic
12p+17, Dasic 10p+11r - Gallinari 19, Datome 17p+13r, Bruttini 10)
Turkey -
Spain
79-78 (Yagmur 25p+6r, Savas 19p+11r, Bayav 13, Akyol 10p+8a -
Antelo 27p+15r, Teruel 20p+9r, Ribas 10)
5-8th Places:
France -
Israel
77-66 (Salmon 16p+8r, Mbaye 14, Curti 12p+4r+4a - Casspi
15p+5r, Eliahu 14p+4a, Kadir 12p+8r)
Russia -
Latvia
74-64 (Korolev 22p+8r, Sergeev 22p+4r, Sheleketo 12p+5r -
Kalve 22p+7r, Piternieks 10p+9r, Freimanis 9p+7r)
9-12th places:
Croatia -
Lithuania
82-88 (Siriscevic 24, Ugrinoski 19p+8a, Buljan 12p+13r -
Gecevicius 16, Dilys 14p+5r, Labuckas 14p+4r)
Slovenia -
Bulgaria
82-59 (Klobucar 23+5r, Vidmar 13p+13r, Brcina 10p+4r -
I.Lilov 19p+5r, Kostov 13p+4r, Kolev 11)
13-16th places:
Belgium -
Greece
87-91 (Jeleznov 19p+6r, Hockins 14, Guillemyn 13 - Verginis
23p+7r, Noeas 16p+11r, Katiakos 14)
Germany -
Poland
86-58 (Ohlbrecht 19p+9r, Simon 17p+5r, Staiger 16p+5a -
Jarmakowicz 18p+7r, Lapeta 8, Gabinski 7)
Day
6: Spain go to the semis - Jul 22, 2005
In the most interesting game
of Day 5 Spain beat powerful Russia 86-80 and this victory gave thema
ticket to the semifinals. The game was very tense and no team was able
to get significant lead. However 4th quarter belong to Spaniards and
they secured their position in the top 4 teams of the tournament.
Spanish team was lead by trio
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87) (26 points),
Albert Teruel (197-F-87) (19) and
Xavi Rey (205-C-87) (18). The best at Russian side was
Yaroslav Korolev (206-G/F-87) with 18 points.
Quarterfinal Round
Group E:
France -
Latvia
83-58 (Kante 15p+7r, Pellin 14p+4r - Kalve 22p+4r, Sprude
7p+5r)
Italy -
Turkey
69-85 (Datome 20p+10r, Bruttini 14p+7r - Akyol 23p+7a, Bayav
19p+7r)
Group F:
Russia -
Spain
80-86 (Korolev 18p+7r+4a, Urazmanov 14p+4r+4a, Sergeev 14 -
Antelo 26p+14r, Teruel 19p+7r, Rey Sanuy 18p+5r)
Israel -
Serbia
/ Mont.
68-76 (Casspi 15p+6r, Kadir 14p+5r, Ohayon 11p+7r+6a -
Dragovic 19, Tepic 18, Stimac 8p+13r)
Classification Round
Group G:
Germany -
Belgium
77-68 (Ohlbrecht 16p+8r, Lischka 16p+8r - Hockins 16p+6r,
Guillemyn 14)
Slovenia -
Croatia
69-59 (Horvat 27p+4a, Hren 11p+7r - Tomic 17p+6r, Siriscevic
15p+6r)
Group H:
Lithuania -
Greece
101-54 (Gecevicius 30p+6r, Kelys 12 - Manolopoulos 16,
Verginis 12)
Bulgaria -
Poland
90-76 (Kostov 26, Nakov 22 - Pietras 17p+11r, Lapeta 10p+4r)
Day
5: France did not manage to catch up with Italy - Jul 21, 2005
The most tough game was
between Italy and France. Italy tried to stay undefeated in their group,
while France had the last chance to make it to the semifinals. Italian
teams entered last quarter with comfortable 10-points lead, despite the
lead changed during the game few times. French team had a very tough
task to catch up with Italians. They came very close, but Italy managed
to secure 2-points victory. Italy was lead by
Luigi Datome (202-G/F-87) (30 points and 7 rebounds), while the best
player for France was
Adrien Moerman (202-F/C-88) (26 points).
In other game in group E Turkey won important game again Latvia 71-66
and together with Italy they will play in the semifinals.
Group F leader - Serbia / Montenegro - did not have any problems in the
game against Spain, getting easy 70-54 victory. Russia outscored Israel
by 14 points. Both Russia and Spain still have a chance to make it to
the semis. They will face each other in direct game tomorrow. It will be
definitely the most interesting game of the day.
Quarterfinal Round
Group E:
Italy - France
83-81 (Luigi
Datome 30p+7r, Bruttini 19 -
Adrien Moerman 26, Curti 13p+6a)
Turkey - Latvia
71-66 (Akyol 28p+4r, Savas 14p+10r - Kalve 22, Freimanis
18p+11r)
Group F:
Israel - Russia
79-93 (Kadir 34p+4r, Casspi 16p+4r - Zavoruev 32p+6r, Korolev
19p+6r)
Serbia / Mont. - Spain
70-54 (Djurkovic 18p+5r, Labovic 17p+5r - Antelo 19p+10r,
Forcada 7)
Classification Round
Group G:
Croatia seems be mistakenly put in 9-16 places. Many experts thinks they
should play in the quearterfinal round instead. But they had very tough
group in the classifications, and just only two teams could make it to
the quarterfinal round. Unfortunately they were the third one. But
Croatia seems to be the main candidate to take 9th spot in the
tournament.
Slovenia - Germany
68-61 (Horvat 16p+7r, Tomic 14p+5a - Ohlbrecht 18p+14r, Simon
15p+5r+5a)
Croatia - Belgium
94-62 (Siriscevic 25p+4r, Tomic 18p+9r+6a - Verbeeck 13p+4r,
Lamot 13)
Group H:
Lithuania does not impress at all. Surprisingly they have very weak
group of players in that age category. They traditionally belong to the
main favorites in such age tournaments. Not this year...
At the other side Greece is definitely the best team in Group H. They
will try to challenge Croatia for the 9th place.
Bulgaria - Lithuania
78-70 (I.Lilov 21p+10r+4a, Kostov 16p+4r - Gecevicius 17p+4r,
Dilys 15p+6r)
Poland - Greece
66-90 (Pietras 18p+8r, Gabinski 12p+11r - Passalidis 19p+6r,
Manolopoulos 18p+4r)
Day
4: Serbia beats Russia and Turkey defeats France - Jul 19, 2005
The most interesting game of
day 4 was between two candidates for the title: Russia and Serbia /
Montenegro. Host Serbian team confirmed their aspirations for the
championship title defeating Russians 75-70. The game did not disappoint
the fans. Despite early lead by the host team, Russia stayed close for
the whole game, taking the lead on many occasions. The last quarter was
very tough too. Milenko Tepic's 3-pointer gave the lead for Serbia /
Montenegro and they managed to carry it till the end of the game. The
best players for host team were
Dragan Labovic (208-C/F-87) (15 points and 12 rebounds),
Vladimir Dasic (207-F-88) (13) and
Marko Djurkovic (206-C/F-87) (13). Russia was lead by
Vasili Zavorouev (196-G-87) (16).
Another Surprise was in Group E where undefeated France lost to Turkey
54-61. In other games of the quarterfinals round Italy beat Latvia 82-70
and Spain gave no chance to Israel 85-62.
Quarterfinals Round:
Group E:
France -
Turkey
54-61 (Moerman 14p+6r, Curti 8p+5r+4a - Akyol 22p+6r, Yagmur
13, Savas 12p+9r)
Latvia -
Italy
70-82 (Kalve
22p+7r, Piternieks 15p+9r+6a - Penders 10p+6r - Datome 24p+7r,
Frassineti 21p+5r, Bruttini 12p+12r)
Group F:
Spain -
Israel
85-62 (Antelo 16p+14r, Rey 15p+16r, Llull 11p+4r - Kadir
12p+5r, Ohayon 9p+4r+7a, Assaf 7)
Russia -
Serbia
70-75 (Zavoruev 16p+5r+4a, Korolev 11p+7r, Stepanenkov 11p+5r
- Labovic 15p+12r, Djurkovic 13p+6r, Dasic 13)
Classification Round:
Group G:
Belgium -
Slovenia
62-69 (Driesen 19p+6r, Lamot 11, Hockins 10p+4a - Klobucar
21p+4r, Horvat 14, Smajlovic 13)
Germany -
Croatia
68-89 (Ohlbrecht 25p+9r, Fassler 15 - Siriscevic 21p+4r,
Drezga 20p+7r)
Group H:
Lithuania -
Poland
73-69 (Gecevicius 18p+10r, Valukonis 13p+8r - Pietras 25p+5r,
Michalski 10p+7r+4a)
Greece -
Bulgaria
79-72 (Verginis 16p+7r, Toutziarakis 14p+9r - Kostov 21p+9r,
Cholakov 14p+5r+4a)
Preliminary
Round - Day 3: Israeli and Spain won thrillers - Jul 19, 2005
Teams which promoted to the quarterfinals are
already known. In Group A France surprisingly upset favorite Russia
80-71. It seems that Russian were too much focus on following the
victory of their 2-years older countrymen, who just won European
Championships. However both Russia and France already advanced to the
quarterfinal stage, so the game was not such tense. Surprisingly weak
Lithuania lost their 3rd game in a row, this time being edged by Germany
87-84.
In Group B Latvia had to win against Belgium, which did not take them
too much of effort, and Greece supposed to beat leader Spain. However
Spaniards were slightly better edging Greeks by 1 point.
In the toughest Group C, three teams ended with 2-1 record. However only
Italy and Israel made it to the quarterfinals. And the game between
these two teams was the most interesting that day. Israel had to win
this game against higher ranked Italy. They did it after very
spectacular game which was won by Israelis 59-56. The game was
ultimately settled by two
Omri Casspi (200-F-88) free throws as time elapsed.
Hosts Serbia & Montenegro and Turkey advanced from Group D. The top two
met on Sunday with Serbia & Montenegro taking the honours, 71-69, thanks
largely to 18 points from
Nenad Mijatovic (195-G-87).
Oguz Savas (208-C-87) hit a match-high 23 for the Turks and had a
100% shooting record from two-point range. Croatia finished bottom of
the pool following a 69-66 defeat to Poland.
Group A:
Germany -
Lithuania
87-84 (Lischka 26p+10r+6a, Ohlbrecht 20p+10r - Gecevicius
33p+8r, Dilys 12p+5r)
France -
Russia
80-71 (Pellin 17p+6a, Batum 12 - Korolev 15p+13r, Urazmanov
11p+4a)
Group B:
Belgium -
Latvia
64-87 (Verbeeck 15p+8r, Tandt 10 - Kalve 35p+8r, Piternieks
18p+9r)
Spain -
Greece
83-82 (Llull 23p+8r, Antelo 17p+14r - Manolopoulos 22p+4r,
Katiakos 14p+5r)
Group C:
Slovenia -
Bulgaria
54-44 (Lorbek 18p+9r, Smajlovic 8 - L.Lilov 12p+7r, IlIlilov
9)
Italy -
Israel
56-59 (Gallinari 13p+5r, Datome 12p+12r - Kadir 14p+12r,
Dunne 10p+4r)
Group D:
Poland -
Croatia
69-66 (Gabinski 13p+11r, Badenski 10p+8r - Drezga 22, Tomic
13p+11r)
Turkey -
Serbia/Mont.
69-71 (Savas 23p+9r, Yagmur 12p+9r+6a - Mijatovic 18p+5r,
Dasic 12p+5r)
Preliminary
Round - Day 2: Lithuania lost to Russia in preludium of U20 finals later
today - Jul 18, 2005
The most interesting game
(but not the most important) was between Russia and Lithuania. Their
2-years older countrymen will play later today in the final of European
Championships in Russia. But in junior category Russia was way better
than their opponents from Lithuania taking easy ...31 points victory.
Russia will face another undefeated team in Group A France on Sunday.
Spain seems to be in a very good shape as they defeated Belgium 96-71
and counting Greeks lost game to Latvia, Spain become the only
undefeated team in Group B
The same situation in Group C where Italy is the only team with perfect
record after they beat easily Slovenia not allowing them to score even
50 points.
In Group D Turkey and Serbia both are undefeated so far. But they will
face each other later today, so it seems like very interesting game.
The best performance of day two was by Israeli forward
Elishay Kadir (195-F-87), who scored 29 points and added 14
rebounds, when his team outclassed Bulgaria 88-60.
Group A:
Germany -
France 57-79
(Simon 20, Hauer 9p+6r - Curti 14, Cel 11, Salmon 11)
Lithuania -
Russia
63-94 (Petrukonis 15p+6r, Gecevicius 10 - Zavourev 22,
Kashirov 19p+6r, Sheleketo 18p+4r+7a)
Group B:
Latvia -
Greece
81-75 (Kalve 27p+7r, Zakis 22p+10r - Manolopoulos 18p+8r,
Passalidis 16)
Belgium -
Spain 71-96
(Driesen 16, Hockins 14 - Andres Duarte 22p+5r, Antelo 21p+16r)
Group C:
Bulgaria -
Israel
60-88 (Kostov 20, I.Lilov 14 - Kadir 29p+14r, Ohayon
20p+9r+7r)
Slovenia -
Italy
47-62 (Vidmar 10p+10r, Kostomaj 9p+4r - Datome 23p+5r,
Bruttini 16p+10r)
Group D:
Poland -
Turkey
54-83 (Dluski 10p+6r, Halas 10p+4a - Nalga 12p+4r, Akyol 12)
Croatia -
Serbia/Mont.
89-94 (Siriscevic 24p+4r, Tomic 14p+11r - Labovic 27p+11r, Tepic
16p+5r)
Preliminary
Round - Day 1 - Jul 16, 2005
The bigegst surprise of day 1 of European
Championships of Juniors is Lithuanian defeat against France. But is
that a real surprise? When Lithuanians look at their 2-years old
countrymen, who are performing excellently in EC U20 in Moscow, they
cannot count the beginninf of the tournament to the best ones. But at
the other side French team has extremely strong group of players in this
age group. Lithuania's
Martynas Gecevicius (194-G-88) led all scorers with 19 points, while
Aldo Curti (180-G-87) top-scored for France with 13.
The most impressive performance of day 1 was definitely host Serbia and
Montenegro, who outclassed Poland by ...48 points.
Defending champions Spain had huge troubles in a game against Latvia.
But they managed to secure 2-ponts victory which was the smallest
difference in the games today. Latvia was indeed very close, but Brecans
missed the final shot. The best team in Spanish team was
Jose Angel Antelo (203-F/C-87), who had impressive 30 points and 17
rebounds.
The biggest comeback of day 1 was Italian team with an impressive
fourth-quarter fightback to stun Bulgaria who had led 51-41 with 7:11 to
go in the game.
Luigi Datome (202-G/F-87) 's basket with 55 seconds remaining gave
Italy a 56-54, and they stayed in front for the remainder of the game.
Group A:
France -
Lithuania
71-66 (Aldo
Curti (180-G-87) 13p+8a, Moerman 12p+8r, Salmon 8 -
Martynas Gecevicius (194-G-88) 19p+7r, Butkevicius 14p+9r, Kelys
10p+6a)
Russia -
Germany
95-81 (Zavoruev 26p+5r, Korolev 28p+4r+4a, Sheleketo 19p+4r -
Simon 15, Hauer 14, Lischka 13p+12r)
Group B:
Spain -
Latvia
84-82 (Antelo 30+17r, Teruel 20p+11r, Llull 9 - Kalve 20p+7r,
Penders 12, Zakis 12)
Greece -
Belgium
96-67 (Manolopoulos 28p+6r, Verginis 26p+5r, Giannakidis 9 -
Hockins 15p+4r, Linskens 12p+8r, Lambert 11p+10r)
Group C:
Italy -
Bulgaria
60-56 (Gallinari 13p+9r, Frassineti 11, Bruttini 10p+13r -
I.Lilov 15, Kostov 13p+9r, Nakov 11p+8r)
Israel -
Slovenia
66-69 (Casspi 20p+7r, Ohayon 12, Assaf 11 - Horvat 20p+7r,
Lorbek 19p+8r, Klobucar 18)
Group D:
Turkey -
Croatia
82-67 (Akyl 29, Yagmur 19p+4r, Savas 13p+10r - Buljan 18p+5r,
Ugrinoski 10p+5r+8a, Drezga 9p+6r)
Serbia and Montenegro -
Poland
110-62 (Zivcevic 20, Dasic 16p+4r, Djurkovic 15p+4r+4a -
Pietras 12p+5r, Smorawinski 10, Diduszko 10)
