Final: Croatia 🇭🇷 vs Greece 🇬🇷 | Extended Highlights | FIBA OQT 2024 Greece 

Yessir 🇬🇷🎉

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Hahahahahaha, very funny.

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Papa doesn't mean father in greek 😂 It means the priest. It indicates that one member of the family was a priest or his son.

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where's papanikolaou, papaloukas and papa-cologne😂😂

We have a better team than Croatia at this poit of history. Greece has a very good team but not the best. It will be a wonder if they get to the 8 .

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@@RedDefender77 I don't even know who that was.

​@@Veronikas_K45 now you know him

@@ntimance8884 no who is it?

@@ntimance8884 he looks like a homeless guy from Poland.

@@Veronikas_K45 you're just a hater

Of course but NBA way of play is different and European play rrlies on system , and automations and defence, whereas in NBA they try to destroy the defence and only rely on how players run ok empty space without defence. Which does not only produce worse basketball imo but it leads to European players requiring around 2-2.5 years to adapt to such changes of game, and then European players many times dont want to put 2-2.5 years to wait before they are part pf this type of game so they leave NBA. In some ways Euro basketball is more advanced. This is also why European passers in last 2 decades (I will not compare to NBA of 80s ) are better and they appear eveb better when they go to NBA.

you are tight but they would be 10-15min players , and most of them want to play their best years , so they stay in europe , others prefer to be in the nba to belong to the best of the best , and stay on the bench

@@innosanto Too bad most of them can't play defense.

Gary Oldman intensifies...

@@katireei7761 all of that just to get beaten by any team except Japan.

@@Veronikas_K45 I don't think so but so what, still top12 in the world. What's your deal anyway?

@@katireei7761 Greece lacks paint defense and their team seems to rely on two or three players.

@@Veronikas_K45 greece is very good at defense even though they are lacking some heavy bodies, essentially there is not a pure 5 on the Greek roster, only big 4s, but containing Slovenia and Doncic to 58 points and Croatia with Zubac, Saric and Hesonia to 69 shows to anyone who understands the game of basketball that their defense is still solid and their team work when they defend is great.

@@VoltesWithElias lol why are you celebrating It's not yet over. In Olympics other European teams will beat Greece easy.

@@Veronikas_K45Teams are going to struggle beating Greece, however I don’t think Greece is making it far in the Olympics

@@Veronikas_K45 Stick to your kitchen and leave basketball alone. We are facing Canada, Australia and only one team from Europe Spain

@@Veronikas_K45 If I were celebrating you would know about it. I am happy, I'm hardly celebrating. Keep in mind for us Greeks it has been a long 16 years to be back at the Olympics where we belong. So we're happy for sure. As for if other european teams will beat us, we will see. How do you know? We've got Australia and Canada to think about.

I've been saying that, Middleton play great PnR with Giannis too the problem is Lillard is not a great PnR passer

Bucks should just hire Spanoulis as their coach

@@TheGeneral_LUFC we don't care about your life and Nick's life.

@@Veronikas_K45 if you didnt actually care you wouldnt bother yourself to read and reply to this guy's comment. If your life is miserable you dont have to project that to another person that simply shares a fun memory of his life, you are free to move on and and ignore anything you dont care about.

@@giorgosgiorgos661 It doesn't matter if I don't care I say it to her face.

​@@Veronikas_K45we don't care they don't care who cares veronikas cares do you care does he care

@@Veronikas_K45 what a sad and meager existence you possess :) praying for you!

Spanoulis who? Seems like everyone from Greece is saying He's the goat at coaching, and we don't even know who Spanoulis is.

@@Veronikas_K45 you are clueless, congrats 😆

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@@Veronikas_K45 Nobody said Spanoulis is the goat at coaching. He is a new coach but a legendary player in Greece and Europe.

Overrated, probably get beat in the first round.

​@@Veronikas_K45Tell me about your team!

@@Veronikas_K45Comment here to come back to this

@@TheRealCowlick wdym?

Let them hate on Greece you know us Greeks prove everyone wrong with actions not words

No he does not nedd to afjust he played great. The way team plays better is when Guannis plays within the system like he did today. Great game. Dont forget also that the croats have Zubac, Saric and other players that put volume to guard the rim to team adjusts the tactics

USA!

Thanasis is very good player but maybe NBA does not use Thanasis effectively.

It's a good team! But i think the 8th or better is what we can expect!

the other option is to let Giannis and Papagiannis dominate the interior? This was Croatia's best output, and it wasn't enough to beat Greece.

@@vasiliosthomas4883 i mean we have interio defenders so kinda strange tactics..i would let giannis have his 30-35 they are all twos far less deadly then a 3...

The Croatian coach chose to stay in and close the racket in Gianni's efforts. However, this defense zone is applied to small teams that have one player and the rest are backups. Greece has 9 players from the teams that played in the final four and 5 European champions with Panathinaikos. Where are you going, poor thing... you didn't know, didn't you ask?

​@@stelios65100Και τι να έκανε να έπαιζε επιθετική άμυνα? Θα αλώνιζαν ο Αντετοκουμπο ο Καλαθης και πιθανόν και άλλοι.Δεν είχε άλλη επιλογη

@@stelios65100 i mean greece shot >50% from 3 for most of the game and no adjustments...one action that stands out is calates and i think papagiannis where they basically were passing ball from the 3 to the key and then back to calates for an open 3 with zero croatian defenders running to close either one...just confusing tbh...

sobara milas?

Oi paparies? Kala ama tha eine kai o sloukas, tha tous gamisoun olous

@@aslanidismichail7368 Γιατι εχεις καμια αμφιβολια?Η αυστραλια δεν ειναι φοβητρο η Ισπανια περναει μεταβατικο σταδιο δεν ειναι η ομαδα του παρελθοντος κι εμεις εχουμε το μομεντουμ και τους παικτες να κερδισουμε.Μηπως θυμασαι τι εγινε το 2006 στην Ιαπωνια.?Εχουμε καλυτερη η χειροτερη ομαδα απο τοτε?Θα με θυμηθεις αλλωστε το σχολιο υπαρχει....

Spain is very hard team to beat because they play very good aggressive team defence, and play fast offense. It would be hard game. But hardest game would be after US, France. And Serbia. Yeah is good if Sloukas plays.

Ding ding! You won the 1 million dollar question! 🎉🎉

It's actually the 4th. We were in 1996 Atlanta, 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing

@@X-Ternal We also played in Helsinki 1952 and lost both games we played.

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He is recovering from an injury, he has to be careful.

The answer is yes and there are 2 main reasons for that. 1st he is recovering from an injury. And 2nd is the way that defence is played in the fiba stage. Notice how Croatian defence just waits under the basket because there are no defensive 3 second rule. They did that the entire game, closing any possible space for Giannis to do his thing, so he had to settle for midrange shots or pass the ball to an open teamate.

He's got healthy but he hadn't been doing any cardio for 2 months because of his leg.

No he plays very well but this is euro basketball and there is little space plus players follow team plan. Role of Giannis ans Papagiannis was to be costant threat in the rim so that Croatia players invest to guard the rim and so there is more space to others players to shoot. This was main role of Giannis and Papagiannis. Papagiannis would also shoot from perimeter but that is secondary role in the game. Primary is to be threat in the rim so that other teams arranges to put many defenders around the rim.

tall euro guys are late bloomers ,, we in greece were laughing when he went to the nba , much slower heavier , not refined shooting , he is miles better now than in the kings era , and the 3pt shot very consistent ,if he had a sold post play he d be in the nba wit good contract

But this time they also have a top 5 player (in the world).

Yeah and Giannis isn't even aggressive. I mean let's say he has unlucky game but still its like he's just there to have fun and make a score if there's a chance

Spanoulis, Diamantidis, Papaloukas, Sloukas, Galis . They didnt have an nba career but the were legend tier talented in Euroleague SHOW RESPECT PLEASE. IT S NOT A MIRACLE THE ACCOMPLISHMENNTS. THEY ARE INDEED TALENTED

And who had talent in this qualifier? Croatia or Slovenia? LMAO

​@@thanasistagaras3256I don't even know who that players is.

Aμην

Why fear?

You did something wrong and now you need to wash yourself before God, most dangerous people

it will take a miracle to beat THIS usa my friend , thats the whole point , in order to win , us must bring the best of the best , nba role players with a couple of scoring starts like ant , and us is a top 5 team , not a favorite , thats what we all say , not that usa doesnt have the best players , but even THIS team must play focused agianst serbis or france , it wont be a walk in the park