Men's Basketball FIBA European Championship 2022

[NearPup 3,195]

What’s up with Eurobasket having the most random collection of host nations?

[Vektor 3,326]

lol, we beat Slovenia. I am sure they didn't take the match too seriously, but still. 

[Agger 1,664]

Denmark leading after first quarter against  

Not expecting it to hold as no team has been that good in the shooting so far.

[Kiki17 1]

 finally played some solid basketball on both sides of the floor and won pretty easily against Sweden today in Zagreb.

[phelps 7,801]

  On 8/21/2019 at 8:48 PM, NearPup said:

What’s up with Eurobasket having the most random collection of host nations?

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it's to maximize €€€€€ for FIBA (more Countries paying to host and less risk that a big tv market misses out because of poor results in the qualification matches) and to save as much money as possible for the National Federations (less cities and venues involved in each Host Nation)...

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/21/2020 at 8:09 PM, Kiki17 said:

 finally played some solid basketball on both sides of the floor and won pretty easily against Sweden today in Zagreb.

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Welcome!  

[Kiki17 1]

  On 2/21/2020 at 8:33 PM, heywoodu said:

Welcome!  

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Thank you, veteran! 

[Federer91 2,889]

I'm not a basketball fan, but we had a pretty crazy game against Latvia.   

 

2 overtimes, both teams over 100 points, and we won in the end after a comeback, being behind in the 4th quarter. 

 

All these teams not having their best players, gives small teams like us a chance to potential qualification. Otherwise Latvia would have smashed us. 

[rybak 3,239]

Wow, we somehow managed to def  first time since 48 years! This team is going be better and better, even without two important players 

 

But still "Mission Tokyo" seems impossible.

[EupenM 150]

The hosts of a new window of qualifiers: