Poland bounced back from their game one deficit, while Greece maintained their lead over Israel as both pre-tournament favorites have reached the finals that will be played on Saturday and next Tuesday. With series shifting to Poland the hosts came out strong and were determined to recover from 15 point deficit they were facing from the first leg of the ... Read More »
Serbia defeated Latvia to advance to the second round as the third team from Group C. With the stakes this game had, both teams played nervously and without any confidence. As a result game between both teams was very poorly executed with many missed open shots. Serbia was 3 of 14 from behind the arc, Latvia 1 of 18. Serbia ... Read More »
Spain defeated Sweden to claim the first place in the group and eliminated Russia, who were seconds short from claiming a spot in the next round. Russia and Italy featured an ending that was very much bizarre. After Prince scored a three pointer to get Russia up by 10 points, Italy’s Dotto scored to get the margin down to 8 ... Read More »
Oldest player on the Latvian National Team, Liene Jansone, announced her retirement from the team following team’s elimination from the tournament. Read More »
Lithuania was eliminated from further contention while Belarus could not fall out of their first place in the group, so this game had no meaning for either team. Belarus head coach Rimantas Grigas pulled for of his starters (Verameyenka, Leuchanka, Snytsina and Likhtarovich) in the first quarter leaving in only the point guard Tarasava. With no pressure to win for ... Read More »
Since there seems to be confusion around everywhere regarding the classification of teams in a three way tie here’s a short explanation. From official basketball rules (page 68): D.1.3 If there are more than two (2) teams in the classification with equal points, a second classification will be established, taking into account only the results of the games between the ... Read More »
In Group A there were several scenarios how teams could have finished the first round. It ended up being the most straightforward scenario with no ties between teams. Ukraine were still alive entering the game, they just needed a big win over Montenegro. At least at the start of the game they managed to be in the fight for the ... Read More »
Spain clinched a spot in the next round following a win over Italy. Judging by first quarter it appeared both teams will be locked in a defensive battle, but that wasn’t to be as Spain went on a 20-6 run that started in the final minute of the first quarter. Elisa Aguilar knocked down three three pointers in that run. ... Read More »
Great Britain literally rebounded to advance to the second round. Two weeks after both teams were even on the boards, the shortest team of the tournament were dominated on the boards by the second shortest team in the tournament. Britain opened a six point lead in the first quarter, extended it to 11 points in the second quarter before Latvia ... Read More »
Belarus was the first team to advance to the second round with a win against Croatia. Both teams were very closely matched in the beginning of the game, then Belarus came out strong with a 16-3 run in the second half to gain a double-digit they would not squander. Belarus thwarted Croatian transition offense, allowing just 4 fast break points ... Read More »
Slovak Republic has stepped in the second round with one foot after defeating Ukraine. Ukraine led in the first thirteen minutes of the game thanks largely to 13 points over that span by Alina Iagupova who came out more aggressive than she did on day one. As Slovak Republic retook the lead they would lead for the remainder of the ... Read More »
MRI in hospital has shown that Czech forward Jana Vesela has sustained a torn ACL that will sideline her at least for the remainder of 2013, iDNES confirms. Read More »
A look back at the first day of EuroBasket Women. In group A the biggest surprise was Ukraine’s ability to make Turkey look like Team USA. Ukraine’s defense gets all the credit in that regard – there were plenty of missed defensive assignments that gave Turkey open looks and they in general were too late/slow in closing out. Ukraine’s rising ... Read More »
Sweden and Italy opened Group B action with pretty bad played game, which at the end presented a thrilling finish. Both teams started the game shooting the ball horrendously – Sweden was sub 30% in the first half, Italy – sub 40%. What kep the game close was offensive boards by Sweden and turnovers for Italy. Italy opened the second ... Read More »
Serbia was outscored 9-24 in the final quarter as they fell to a British side that was fighting with foul trouble throughout the game. Britain held a narrow lead through the first half, but it looked far from comfortable for them – Kim Butler and Chantele Handy both got into foul trouble with 3 fouls for each in the first ... Read More »
Montenegro blew the game against Slovak Republic in the final fifteen minutes of the game. Slovaks matched up very well against Montenegro in the first half of the game. They overcame Montenegro’s aggressivity, evidenced by Montenegro’s advantage in freethrow attempts, with better shooting from the game. In the second half of the game the tides turned. Slovaks committed 13 turnovers ... Read More »
Start in Group D was similar to that of start in Group A. Croatia, an offensive minded team, could not take the lead in the first half as they just allowed Lithuania to score too much by allowing them to get to offensive rebounds. Seven more offense boards resulted in Lithuania getting to attempt six more field goals. Croatia trailed ... Read More »
Bulgaria defeated Poland by 15 points in the first game of their best of two series. Bulgarians opened a double-digit lead in the second quarter and spent the rest of the game successfully defending it. Bulgarians were led by the forward Radostina Dimitrova, who had 22 points on 10 of 15 shooting. Double-digit scoring efforts also for Milena Tomova and ... Read More »
One of Croatian National Team veteran leaders Andja Jelavic is far from being ready to play in a significant role after undergoing ACL surgery six months ago. According to Croatian NT head coach Stipe Bralic he would be happy if she could play about five or six minutes per game. Jelavic’s role on the Croatian National Team is more of ... Read More »
Final group to be previewed is Group A. Read More »
Group B is next on the table as we show no respect to alphabet. Spain Spain is looking to bounce back from their fiasco in 2011 when they were eliminated in the second round of the tournament. Unlike the last time, there is no reason for Spain to be overconfident. Loss in 2011, which finished their five EuroBasket Women medal ... Read More »
We continue previewing of the upcoming tournament with another list. This time it’s the league representation in EuroBasket Women and the clubs with the most players participating. All of the numbers are courtesy of the good folks of Catch & Shoot who took their time to count them. It’s hardly a surprise that Turkey is the league with the most ... Read More »
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