Giannis’ Edge Over Luka, Vezenkov’s Bomb & Philippines’ Miracle | URBONUS 

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That comment on Fajardo... As a Filipino who have not watched PBA in the longest time, I only saw Fajardo play for the first time in the 2014 World Cup. He was then normal-built 24-year-old guy who just came in to the league. I was actually surprised during the game against Greece when he's the only guy from Gilas that went toe-to-toe against the bigs of Greece and their physicality, not even Blatche can. I guess growing up in a farm, doing manual labor and routinely carrying sacks(50 kg) of rice like it's nothing during off-season, help him.

The Gilas Pilipinas team is now thriving and just did the upset against Latvia because they finally got the perfect coach for them, Coach Tim Cone, the GOAT coach of Philippine basketball. After all of the losses, issues and disappointments done by the PH basketball association and incompetence of the former coach, we are now finally on top of the best Asian basketball teams right now.

Because of the previous bad coach, now people call it a miracle. What a joke. If only Coach Tim had been the coach back then, the Philippines would've achieved a tremendous feat. Even Coach Tim won't admit that the previous coach was so bad. That's the reason why we still have a long way to go. These guys (talking in the video) can't even tell what the problem was with the previous Gilas.

Urbonas, you didn't say all that about panathinaikos last year... But now Vezenkov is the problem...

Spanoulis has a great approach about how the team should function and how Giannis can provide the maximum without being the "begining and the end" of our game... For an unexplained reason,I really like Toliopoulos.

Guys fajardo is a 6x time mvp in the philippines league ,Latvia didn't do any scouting.and philippines is the Asian champions too. Fajardo is like the goat of philippine basketballl.

Tim Cone is the Phil Jackson of Philippine Basketball. He proves time and time again that he can make his team win. My hopes are high but still very realistic that we are not at par but not far behind the top teams of the world. Laban Pilipinas. PUSO!!!

Real,Barca,Fener,CSKA,Efes have enormous budgets so many years...Olympiacos is not the problem now because spends serious money this season...

Gilas is running triangle offense, its not just a one one, chaotic style,. It looks chaotic as most of the players are still learning the system.

Thanks for highlighting Pilipinas, I've been following your channel and podcast from here in Manila, should have approached you guys last World Cup😅. We could be 2-0 vs great European teams and it is still weird we are at this level now, hope you could take a look and follow Asian leagues. Lastly hope this will open doors on Filipinos playing in Europe.

Fajardo is slow, if he does not use other tactics other centers will drown him. Looking forward to the semis

If you have the chance to get Vezenkov back, you don’t think twice 😌. About Peters, we really don’t want him to leave especially after such great season

The title is unfortunate, Hellas played very well as a team and Antentokounmpo stayed on the bench for many minutes

Of course the Luka Dončić look-a-like would pick Slovenia. 😅 You have never been in the same room together. Just saying. Slovenia wasn't good against New Zealand. They were getting eliminated by Half Time, and at one point it seemed realistic that New Zealand might advance. Prepelić was the difference maker, and Nebo helped. The rest of them, I am not impressed with any of them. I like the fact that you get that the Rytis thing is all in good fun. It's summer. Let's calm down a bit. Also, points to Augustas for bringing that up. 😁 One thing's for sure. If Vezenkov comes we will see some great Greek Finals in the future. Looking forward to it. If Toronto lets him go, first. Also, it looks like Olympiacos is bringing back their 2022 team, while we are keeping our 2024 team intact. It will be nice.

Gilas needs to win against Brazil because Latvia is waiting for Gilas in the finals. Latvia wants a rematch with Gilas

Gilas Team No NBA player No Euroleague player Coming from a small asian country Has to shake off jetlag (travel 13k to 17k miles) With 3 injured players (these are key players) With only 11 players in the rotation 2 are college players (Quiambao and Amos) 1 college player now playing in Japan (Tamayo) 2 are from high school to B.League Japan (Ramos and Sotto) A real class act! To God be the Glory! Ave Maria!

If FIBA agrees to make Clarkson local, pH will be the best contender on the world stage with a naturalized Justin Brownlee, then they also have the size to compete with European teams. this is just the first step of PH who have just formed their squad.

Giannis is a part of Spanoulis National team and not the other way around like it was with Itoudis. You should be asking yoursels "How are they gonna guard Yiannis not Luka". We got loads of bodies to throw at him who play DEFENCE. What do they got to throw at Yiannis? I 've seen him with my own eyes the day before. He is on his own level above anything you have ever seen and if you ever get the opportunity please grab it. I was looking at him and I honestly missed his spin move. The speed, the strength and the dominance is really on another level guys.

I kinda like when people label philippines as "easy" and get surprised after the game

Luca has to get fit. End of story. Everyone respects him and his skillset but his physique is keeping him back

For Greece, we had an easy group. The real challenge starts now

Thank you basket news from the Philippines! I recently started following euroleague and this podcast was the gateway for it.

These dudes are clearly naive about the Triangle Offense of Gilas. That system is not simple. They just make it look like it cuz they took the time to instill it into their on-court decisions.

I'm from Latvia and I really hope that we played chess and lost to Philippines on purpose to leave Georgia out of the race.😅

I respect your opinion a lot but I thing you have to mention that oly is almost the only team from the contenders that build his team almost a decade year by year with no expensive transfer bombs! Although in the first expensive move who also is a player build by oly you are criticised olympiakos!

"Brate, what was happening?" Lol 😂

Just a thought. Of course there are players overpaid in euroleague but, on the other hand, we should consider that, for example, sasha and sloukas are not paid just because they are top players. they have the greek passport and they are paid to be the leaders of their teams.

I am a fan of Partizan and brother, Kaboklo came to us because of games like this for Brazil, but only in the first game against Bayern in Munich did he play like this. And maybe one more time in a pair with Kaminski when Leday didn't play, everything else was at half throttle ...It's like he has to roll more dice to play well every tenth game.He has nice money in partizan abd didnt play anything.

And again Philippines is being understimated watch and see them beat Brazil

God damn it Urbonas dont underastemate the Greeks :)

Before What Chriss MCollough said Jun Mar Fajardo is a top 3 Center in Asia maybe wrong hes underrated World class Fundamental Center

Luka had a triple double with 30pts, and the best Croatian player had 19pts...again team Basketball won against one man show Luka. Croatia had like 29 point lead at a moment, is it that hard for you guys o give some more credit? and please for the love of God, it is pronounced Zubac not Zubach, like TZ not CH

Its the new Philippine coach that made the difference. (New in a sense, coach Tim Cone just took over the reigns as head coach of the Philippine team) His emphasizes on the T-offence which many said is archaic but he just brought it to a new level. He will have his team do zone defense, if necessary to force opponents to shoot from the arc and hopefully miss a lot, as they plug to seal the penetration lane. The team has lots of surprise adjustments that keep the opponents guessing the Gilas game plan and this confusion makes the opponents perform poorly and in the end, they just give up.

Is there an update for this? Recently Olympiakos was going very high in the Final 4 and Panathinaikos just won Euroleague. Greek team was building something and they just qualified for the Olympics. Giannis is always there. Vassilis Toliopoulos seems to be an up and coming player. With the current success of Greek club teams and National squad, do you see more positive things happening in Greek basketball?

Fajardo is not as skilled as other bigs but hes the strongest Filipino player ,he is naturally strong, clobbers other asian bigs and imports with less effort, thats why he is so dominant in PBA/Asian Tournaments.I think Fajardo is slightly stronger than his twin brother Boban.

"Hey, malaka, just shoot the free throw, what the fuck!" lmao, you've been around Greek fans and it shows hahaha

Philippines basketball players are always good players . They can compete internationally. The only problem was that the coach and politics were involved.

Where can we buy that shirt?

Gilas Pilipinas, LFG!!!!!!

cool shirt 🤩

Next, Olympiakos move, will be to extend Wright’s contract for 3yrs in total.

Because we have new coach with great system Fajardo is strong in the paint Thanks for appreciating fajardo capability i can compared this both fajardo and adam exactly this two very humble Giants Now we can match European basketball back then were horrible dominated

Top teams underestimated the triangle offense that brought the bulls and lakers into multiple championships.

Gotta appreciate the June Mar Fajardo love

would be a miracle if philippines pull it off,brazil has 6 nba players

Yes, Fajardo is the Kraken! And kai Sotto, pair him with someone like a pointguard Yuki Kawamura of the Japanese national team, they will explode!

Goo Gilas 🎉🎉

Greece is looking at Spain, USA and the road to the olympics Final. What did you expect?

Go gilas

Mike Brown completely wasted Vezenkov's talent in Sacramento. Playing him a few minutes here and there. No wonder they didn't make the playoffs.

I guess your comments about PH play style was incorrect. Philippines play street ball type of game under Coach Reyes Dribble Drive Offense, and one on one defense, That's the only play they had for more than 2 decades. Which resulted to hate from PH fans. We're Just happy they manage to get a capable coach , under Coach Tim now we won gold in Asia, manage to qualify for the Olympic semis. That's just shows what's truly wrong which was now Corrected.

Haven't heard anything from Toronto about letting go of Vezenkov. He's still under contract with Toronto for this season with a team option for next season. Toronto would need to either waive Sasha or both parties agree to a buyout before he could sign with Olympiacos. He could try to get the FIBA's letter of clearance, but that's unlikely with him still under contract with Toronto. Buyout seems most likely, but he'd have to give up his whole salary for Toronto to consider it.

GIANNIS 32pts with 11-11 shots. GOAT...Hi from Greece, guys. GREEK FREAK will put a show for Luca...

Philippines will beat Brazil, for sure! Let see...

i cant undertand the point of Oly budget all of a sudden,when so many teams in the past and still are on that road!!Olympiakos was the team with lowest budget in final 8 the last years.U cant just leave Sasha not come back,its about the passports and the level of the player.Also he is gonna be the next leader of this team.Papanikolaou wont get any younger unfortunately.Hopefully he will return and i think its a necessary add on rather than a extravagans

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I stand fir salary cap.. but you guys were not saying the same things when Barcelona, Real and Arnani made expensive signings. Messina was crying "we are a pior team, we have not duch money" and the day after he was signing Mirotic with a huge contract. Also, possibly you haven't seen it yet, I am talking about Croatia - Dominican Rep. game.. whete the refs pushed Croatians to win.. it was just a little push but it changed the game.

You guys wondered why the Filipinos booed the Gilas coach during the World Cup last year. Now you know.

Vazeknov had to come because he is the only greek superstar that can be the leader of Olympiacos for the next 4-5 years. Of course you must pay him and make sacrifices

Bro's looking like Goran Dragic in the thumbnail

Greece vs Slovenia. I feel like they should just let Giannis play against Luka 1 on 1 who wins his team go forward :)

The only way slovenia will win is for giannis to have a bad game, but even if luka has like ridiculous numbers, its still hard for them to beat this greece team.

But Sasha is already a big part of the Oly team construction.....

Im glad Brazil won! Aside from Teamwork of players and coaching staff, the latter especially the Head Coach did their assignment was able to know and understand the Triangle offense which was originally played by Chicago Bulls (mastered by Phil Jackson the Coach)in the likes of Micheal Jordan, Pippen, Steve Kerr and eventually Lakers which was done by Kobi, Oneal (surprisingly didnt know Tim Cone is one of the few coaches who is still use Triangle offense). Kuddos to the coaching staff. Im surprise given your Channel was Basket News obviously about Basketball you don’t have any idea what system the coach and the players in the Philippines were doing. The Coach of Brazil was the only one who knew about it knows it understands it. Im quoting him “Its a highly technical system which takes time to learn and execute. Steve Kerr even complained to Tim Cone when they had a conversation about the triangle that he still knows how to play the system but is having a hard time teaching it to his team because the players cant follow and execute it. Same goes with the Philippine team they came from different teams and leagues they have yet mastered the triangle offense unless you have been a player under tim cones wings. You have to have a high basketball IQ to be able to execute it and the coach of Brazil knows that.

By now you should know why we booed the previous coach. He cannot bring us this results. He only hold on to the possition due to his connections with the federation that is why he was so hated. He also have some bias with several players thats why they dont perform well. And now rumor has it that he wanted to become the federation president.

Urbonus nice comment about the rules missing from European basketball and the absence of salary cap. Very strange that you remembered this at a point where Olympiakos is trying to raise their budget and become like all other title contenders. I am surprised that Barcelona, Madrid, Panathinaikos, CCSKA in the past where all right for you with their huge budgets. I am also surprised that Olympiakos gave you the oppprtunity to speak about teams without emotion that finally they make moves only to win. Really? Is Olympiacos your example for this situation? A team which retains a steady core now for 4 years with middle budget contracts. Is this your goto team to complain about Euroleague teams missing emotion? Pao's situation was ok for you? Think again please about Olympiacos and what this team stands for. you really didn't mention anything about Pao offering Sasha 1,5 million per yean more that what Olympiacos is offering. Are you questioning yourself why Sasha rejected this huge offer? Does this have to anything with emotion? Don't you think? You should also take into account that Sasha has a greek passport. Getting back Sasha is a no brainer for Olympiacos only for this reason alone.

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Good tournament for the Americas. No Venezuela this time! Every America team advanced out of pool play!

I miss Rytis :3

Nice tan Donatas

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You dont like olympiacos budget increase and you think it destroys the competition in euroleague but even with Vezenkovs new contract the 2024-2025 olympiakos budget is less than Panathinaikos Fener and Real budget of 2023-2024. I dont remember to have the same issues last summer.

Peters may play the 3 instead Papanikolaou !

Lets see how salary cap will work from next season and then we will see about contract lot of work should be done... Vezenkof is not 3 offensively in NBA cant play D on 4 also... its 100% EL star player, Olympiakos has the upper hand for Petrusef and Peters...they got new contracts....Oly should only trade them if one of them dont want to stay

Donatas, Augustas...you lack knowledge of the Triangle System of Coach Tim Cone..its an antiquated system but works for Gilas..MJ Bulls and Jackson Lakers utilize some variation on their championship runs..if you do some research you will find it not the typical modern system they run today

Yes luca play well but i dont seen goodplayer with him like goran dragic that can bring the game well if luca wont click i missed those luca dragic even lithuania with valanciunas n mantas kalnietis with sabonis they should be strong the old spain old france that makes those teams loosing,loosing those key player where they cant replace it with an impact on game.😢😢😢

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Worth noting the change in Philippines' coaching finally giving Tim Cone a chance to lead the national team, a triangle offense devotee mentored by Tex Winter himself. He's also a coach that wants to win and cares about the result and not just the experience.

We want the 4rth so desperately...

FAJARDO is a 7x PBA MVP

Brazil surely will win the game against the Philippines because the element of surprise is no longer there.. but not without a bloodied nose. It will be more of a street fight.

Greece is capable of doing the best performance of them and be super dominant and at the same time is capable of being the worst of themselves. The really MVP of greece is Spanoulis on coaching. Thats the big reason I root for Greece. He was passed to the team all of the humbleness and consideration. And of course self confidence. Thats a thing that itoudis didnt manage to pass them. Of courae Luka is Luka, he could win by himself but i think is Greece's time to shine this summer. They have the whole package and i would love see them in Paris. I've missed Greece being a superpower team

The African teams were weak given their superior athleticism. Honest assesment the Filipino guards were way better than the Latvian and Georgian guards. I need Kai Sotto to play like Santi Aldama but taller.

Lithuania 70 % to get the ticket😅

Urbonas still worried???

Spoiler alert from the future, Puerto Rico beats Lithuania convincingly 🤯🇵🇷💪

No is over Guys....Sasha is going to Olympiacos....Mike Batiste(ex Panathinaikos) is the Manager of Raptors NOW and he have the same manager with Vezencof(Manager ''Lotsos'' )...1)4+1 Deal with 17 million Euro to Olympiacos,2)48 hours is the Window after Raptors send him free,3)This window no other NBA Team take him(NBA give Vezencof 6,7$ mil)....Now Peters(Barca)-Mackisick(Monaco)-Petrouchev(RedStar) interest for this Players from Olympiacos...and Olympiacos want to go for a Small Forward (Fournie-Diallo etc)to close the Roster.... DepthChart...1)Wuokap,William-Gos,Evans,Mitrou-Long...2)Dorsey,Vildoza,Larentzakis...3)(???Xplayer),Papanikolaou...4)Vezencof,Petrouchev...5)Miloutinov,Fall,Wright.....Mackisick and Peters i think is out

Oly has played in three consecutive f4s, having the tenth ( or even lower) budget in the Euro league. Based on teamwork, hard defence and the unique offense playstyle of his coach. Given the opportunity Oly lands the best (or one of the best) pf in the league and a player who is considered a part of Oly family. And suddenly there are no rules? Teams spend too much without control leading to unfair competition? Alec Peters is unhappy? Life is not fair? Ok.

Greece pounded Slovenia by 30....not a fun night for Luka. 😂 Croatia barely beat DOM... Probability tells us they will lose to Greece.

Well ph has an easy group so we are expecting this result 😐😐😐😶😶😶

Brazil easy….l Brazil is easy

Mejo Pinoybaiting din to.

lets go PH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luka double double with Turnovers again, no ft no party the referees gives him more than his deserved and nba hasn’t good defenders and he seems better than he really is offensively.

Vezenkov is getting the playing time which he deserves in nba.

Slovenia is playing very badly so far. I hope they show a better performance vs Greece. Greece is a big favorite rn. I got my hopes, because we got Luka, though. :P

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UNfair to the Philippines Brazil lot of NBA players and dirty sports,

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