Makedonas 1,666 Posted June 15, 2023 #41 Share Posted June 15, 2023 TEAM GREECE Dionysia Alexandri Eleni Bosgana Eleanna Christinaki Ioanna Diela Maria Fasoula Zafeirenia Karlafti Pinelopi Pavlopoulou Aikaterina Sotiriou Artemis Spanou Evdokia Stamati Anna Stamolamprou Elena Tsineke The only differences from 2021 are Christinaki, Karlafti, and Stamati in for Anastasopoulou, Louka, and Nikolopoulou. Definitely an upgrade overall. The problem with this team is that we have a weak bench. We will have 6-7 girls playing the whole game as always, and suffer if one of the two tall girls (Fasoula and Spanou) get in foul trouble. Alexandri, Diela, and Karlafti are not good enough for this level and Sotiriou and Stamati are no longer good enough to play more than 5-10 mins per game at this stage in their careers. Even Bosgana and Tsineke are both super young/inexperienced, but they were there in 2021 and have both improved a lot since then so I expect them to have a bigger role with this team. It's so predictable that our starting lineup will be Stamolamprou/Tsineke/Christinaki/Spanou/Fasoula, and Pavlopoulou will also get big minutes. The rest of the team (minus maybe Bosgana) will probably play no more than 5 mins each. It's too bad Chatzileonti was injured as I think she would've been an important addition to this team off the bench. Not sure why Krimili wasn't called up as we could also use her offensively. Perhaps she is injured too. Nikolopoulou only played in the first qualifying window so I think she might be done with the national team. She's only 32 yo so it's not like she's super old or anything, but there must be some issue with the federation or coach. I can't say I'm upset as I always thought she got way more playing time than she deserved, but I still think she could've been used off the bench (meanwhile she was a starter for ~5 or so years). Spyridopoulou also seems to be done which is a shame. She was injured and missed Eurobasket 2021 where we could've used her shooting skills. Now she is 34 yo and hasn't competed with the national team in over two years so I guess she is also done. Meanwhile we have 39 yo Sotiriou and 38 yo Stamati in the team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,805 Posted June 15, 2023 #42 Share Posted June 15, 2023 23 - 18 Q1 Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,805 Posted June 15, 2023 #43 Share Posted June 15, 2023 34 - 41 Q2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,196 Posted June 15, 2023 #44 Share Posted June 15, 2023 That was one very sloppy match from out girls for most of the match, but they showed what they are capable of in Q4. One good quarter was enough against , but we need more of that against . hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,310 Posted June 15, 2023 #45 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I see at one moment the score was 1:21 in the last quarter yeah, the goal is to participate. Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,401 Posted June 15, 2023 #46 Share Posted June 15, 2023 From a ranking perspective, the first 3 games of the tournament have all resulted in "upsets" - with the 3rd ranked team beating the 2nd ranked team in the pool. I am hoping that will be a good omen for as we take on Slovenia later today but given the results from their recent warm-up matches, I've got my doubts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Bun 405 Posted June 15, 2023 #47 Share Posted June 15, 2023 8 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said: From a ranking perspective, the first 3 games of the tournament have all resulted in "upsets" - with the 3rd ranked team beating the 2nd ranked team in the pool. I am hoping that will be a good omen for as we take on Slovenia later today but given the results from their recent warm-up matches, I've got my doubts. I've been unsure on them for a while, but if we can play like we did in the final 2 games of the qualifiers we should be able to reach the quarters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nenad 369 Posted June 15, 2023 #48 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Big win vs Turkey without Crvendakić. On sunday against Hungary for the top place in group and direct quarterfinals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,401 Posted June 15, 2023 #49 Share Posted June 15, 2023 having the kind of collapse we're used to seeing from the cricket team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,401 Posted June 15, 2023 #50 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Much better performance from in the second quarter to narrow the gap 5 points but the last 2 minutes of the 1st quarter might prove very costly for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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