Eurobasket & Tournament Of The Americas

[frenchy]

these two championships will start in few days.
Which teams are your favourites to reach the gold and go to the World championship in Tukey next year ?

The teams (and my picks)
Europe :
Gp A : 1st Greece - 2-Croatia - 3Israel - 4 Macedonia
Greece is a great team with a good chemistry
Gp B : 1st Russia - 2 France 3-Germany 4- Latvia (France still need to win versus Belgium first)
Russia is the 2007 champ
Gp C : 1st Spain - 2 Serbia 3-Slovenia, 4-Great Britain
Spain : Gasol, Rubio, Calderon....nothing to add !!
Gp D : 1st Lithuania, 2Turkey, 3-Poland, 4-Bulgaria
LT : always good during eurobasket !!

Gold : Spain
Silver : Greece
Bronze : Russia
To world cup : France, Serbia, Turkey (host) & Lithuania

America
Gp A : 1-Puerto Rico, 2-Uruguay, 3-Canada, 4-Mexico, 5 US Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico coz Steve Nash won't play for Canada
Gp B : 1- Argentina, 2- Dominicain Rep, 3-Brazil, 4-Panama, 5-Venezuela
Argentina because even without Scola they are the best
Dominican Rep over Brazil because I love the roster : Horford, Villanueva, Ariza & Fcico Garcia

Gold : Dominican Rep (Just a dream)
Silver : Argentina
Bronze : Puerto Rico
To Worl cup : Brazil

For information : Already have their ticket for the WC:
USA (Olympic champs)
Angola (African Champs), Ivory Coast (2nd) & Tunisa (3rd) - Bad luck for Cameroon & Nigeria
Iran (Asian champs), China (2nd) & Jordan (3rd) - I would have loved to see the Filipinos

[George7]

I hope Greece will triumph again like in 2005,as we have a quality roster.
Ok the fact that Papaloukas and Diamantidis are not taking part is a minus but players like Calathes can fill their place succesfully.
Final i predict Greece and Spain(and we will see a great match!)

[Martti.]

I think it'll be Spain in the finals against Lithuania/Greece/Russia, all three have their strengths to make it. In the Americas tournament, it'll be Argentina winning it. Don't see anyone else beating them as there's no USA.

[The X]

On the topic of World Championship qualifiers, New Zealand won Oceania region by beating Australia & is the higher seed at the WC

Source: http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25982041-23769,00.html

[Andrew]

I heard that was on but didn't end up catching it. Sounds like it was the game to miss if you're an Aussie though.