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Guys, check out the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board - EHCB twitter page and look what they posted on 23rd of June. Vezenkov was on a panel with Raptors head coach Darko Rajaković. Vezenkov's trade to Toronto was announced a week after this was posted. Coincidence? I think not. If there is anyone that can unlock Sasha's full potential in the NBA it's coach Darko! Besides, Olympiacos GM Nikos Lepeniotis came out a few days ago and said: “Sasha Vezenkov is a player of the Toronto Raptors”.
Hey, basketnews, what happened at the FIBA U17. How come you're not doing any videos about it? I thought the Europeans were catching up and the US sucked? What happened to Italy and the others?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
The national team is not built around Antentokounmpo anymore. He plays as much as he's useful for the team. Toliopoulos is almost a copy of Spanoulis, possibly Spanoulis best student
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.
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!!!
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.
Yes and it's actually super interesting to see somebody still do it in 2024. However, definitely not in every possession they manage to settle into it and sometimes it looks more chaotic than set. But the comment was made a bit more for Puerto Rico, than the other mentioned teams. It's just that in these tournaments with little preparation time you don't need to be highly efficient with your systems, you just go and hoop.
@@AugustasSuliauskas I fully agree. I saw that too. There were times that latvia/georgia were able to deny the passing lanes which force brownlee and the rest to just improvise something out of broken play. For Puerto Rico.. they've always been like that as far as i remember, way back during the times of Carlos Arroyo,
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.
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
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.
C'mon that's just filo drama coincide with the hype. That is not how Europe view the game. The filo fans love the game but to the point of fanaticism. They feel entitled over the organization, the coaches and team composition
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!
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.
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.
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.
and in the end of the game they were working together to guarantee Slovenia the first place in the group and screw over Croatia. But it didn't work out😆they will get crushed by Greece.
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.
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.
Just watched his rookie and sophomore highlight And damn how i miss his athleticsm When he was at eu i always debate people that says luka is unathletic, i always said he is athletic. Quick enough and has some hops But now i kinda see him having too big of torso to properly do defensive slides, at times he just hop around like zionon defense
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
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
Hey, I'm aware of the triangle offense and it's actually super interesting to see somebody still do it in 2024. However, definitely not in every possession they manage to settle into it and sometimes it looks more chaotic than set. But the comment was made a bit more for Puerto Rico, than the other mentioned teams. It's just that in these tournaments with little preparation time you don't need to be highly efficient with your systems, you just go and hoop.
@@AugustasSuliauskas Got you. I was just surprised you commented that on Gilas segment, though I'm aware that Puerto Rico and other teams were in the convo. That was the confusing part. This team hasn't been together for a year yet their execution is quite excellent. They will develop in time.
@@callmesmart7233 "Gilas" in Gilas Pilipinas, is a team name for the basketball team of the Philippines who represents their country in these international basketball tournaments.
Philippines basketball players are always good players . They can compete internationally. The only problem was that the coach and politics were involved.
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.
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
lets be honest wala naman nag eexpect na manalo philippines eh... pero maganda pinapakita ng pilipinas hopefully makakuha ng slot sa paris oly pero hindi n ako magtataka kung hindi n maulit ng pinas etonh ganitong run nila against european teams kasi matatagalan ulit sila mag produce ng isang fajardo na local ah at justin na player kung baga eto na ung lineup ng pinas na may legit tayo na center in fajardo na local produce! asan na mga haters ni fajardo na pang pba lang daw? tago kayo noh si jmf na ang pinakamagaling na center na na produce ng pinas in terms of skils with that height at weight
lol eto nanaman ang mga pwetnoy na gusto sambahin sila eh compare naman talaga sa ibang bansa eh mahina naman talaga ang gilas. real talk lang. pero sana patuloy na maganda yung ipakita nila and makaqualify sa olympics
@@Zuetprix kayang mag compete kung may mga players tayo na may heigjt talaga that could play their position center nga lang hirap tayo mag produce eh... kung tinangal mo na si junmar diyan at brownlee olats n yan kaya nga sabi ko mahihirapan na ulit pinas mag compete sa international pag wala ng fajardo at import n justin kasi etong team ng pinas ngayon may height talaga kumpara sa mga nkaraan mga team philiipines na maliliit kaya nga tayo kinakain noon eh kasi nga mallit lineup natin now i ask you gaano ba kadalas mag produce ang pinas ng isang fajardo? na may legit n height at weight para sa center position? at mahirap na ulit mag hanap ng isa pang justin.. ok sabihin natin si clarkson andiyan pero patanda na rin un. kaya nga etong time na eto ang best time na mag compete ang pinas dahil may height mga players ng pinas ngayon at alam gamitin ng coach bigman niya d tulad ni chot na panay wings players ang ginagamit
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Unlike the kind of plays basketball players are doing right now, they execute it like they are in a circus, action packed jump shots which is very common in the streets of the Philippines especially in the prisons a lot of drama make faces flexing of muscles and all. 😂
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.
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.
yea, most likely some kind of buyout (from oly) went on and if you consider the taxes over there... it was probably doable. in other words i don't think vezenkof paid or lost any money to come back. at this point and for the 4 or 5 next years he's gonna be the highest payed player in europe, so.. he'll be ok i think (while playing bball also)
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.😢😢😢
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
No is not the Top Money Contract for Olympiacos History...Josh Childress is 2008 2+1 Years for 21$ Million Dollars(22,5 million Euro back then)....but he play only 2 Years and he go to Phoenix Suns
Donatas, what you say about "ethical problems " doesn't make sense at all.The team is above every single player.This specific team is also known for taking care for the players. Sorry but its the first time that you are 100% no sense.
You call Latvia easy? But yes if you look at it on paper. Latvia and Brazil should roll over Philippines and Cameroon who are much lower ranked teams. The narrative on paper was, Philippines and Cameroon with both 0-2 in the group stages. But in the group stage, Cameroon rolled Basil and Philippines rolled Latvia. There is a saying in the Philippines (bilog ang bola) Translate to the Ball is round. Which means the ball doesn't favor anyone, whoever execute better can win. And winner cannot be fully determined before playing.
@@rafscindaydreamer5616 no not serious. I think the word your looking for is intense. Philippines just made history. It's the talk of the nation and we are supporting our boys to make another.
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Guys, check out the EuroLeague Head Coaches Board - EHCB twitter page and look what they posted on 23rd of June. Vezenkov was on a panel with Raptors head coach Darko Rajaković. Vezenkov's trade to Toronto was announced a week after this was posted. Coincidence? I think not. If there is anyone that can unlock Sasha's full potential in the NBA it's coach Darko! Besides, Olympiacos GM Nikos Lepeniotis came out a few days ago and said: “Sasha Vezenkov is a player of the Toronto Raptors”.
Hey, basketnews, what happened at the FIBA U17. How come you're not doing any videos about it? I thought the Europeans were catching up and the US sucked? What happened to Italy and the others?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
The national team is not built around Antentokounmpo anymore. He plays as much as he's useful for the team. Toliopoulos is almost a copy of Spanoulis, possibly Spanoulis best student
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.
Totally in for supporting PH as indonesian 👏👏
@@sherlock4791you're pinoy lol stop pretending to be an indo 😂
Mate, sorry but your team is trash outside asia
@@rtaparauskas If that can make you sleep better at night, good for you lil bro 👍
Asian teams suck in basetball
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!!!
Urbonas, you didn't say all that about panathinaikos last year... But now Vezenkov is the problem...
Thank you basket news from the Philippines! I recently started following euroleague and this podcast was the gateway for it.
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.
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.
Yes and it's actually super interesting to see somebody still do it in 2024. However, definitely not in every possession they manage to settle into it and sometimes it looks more chaotic than set. But the comment was made a bit more for Puerto Rico, than the other mentioned teams. It's just that in these tournaments with little preparation time you don't need to be highly efficient with your systems, you just go and hoop.
@@AugustasSuliauskas I fully agree. I saw that too. There were times that latvia/georgia were able to deny the passing lanes which force brownlee and the rest to just improvise something out of broken play. For Puerto Rico.. they've always been like that as far as i remember, way back during the times of Carlos Arroyo,
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.
Real,Barca,Fener,CSKA,Efes have enormous budgets so many years...Olympiacos is not the problem now because spends serious money this season...
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
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.
C'mon that's just filo drama coincide with the hype. That is not how Europe view the game.
The filo fans love the game but to the point of fanaticism. They feel entitled over the organization, the coaches and team composition
@@qwynnqueiros9800 Without those fans, Gilas wouldn't have been able to reach these heights. You have no idea!
God damn it Urbonas dont underastemate the Greeks :)
For Greece, we had an easy group. The real challenge starts now
Latvia had an "easy" group as well
@@gabepizzalat got included in the "easy" category i guess 😅
Challenge with Slovenia? Bad team with a player who is base his game o referee
The real challenge starts now in the Final:)
Fajardo is slow, if he does not use other tactics other centers will drown him. Looking forward to the semis
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!
I saw in basketnews website
All of PH players plays local
Korean
Japan
Indonesian
Cant be more asian than that 👏👏lets go gilas
You did not just call a country of 100 million people "a small Asian country"?😂
You would be surprised even some foreign born Filipinos refer to us as Islanders. Lolwut. Like calling Japan or Indonesians islanders
@@diha9004 Yes
Why you call them Gilas and not Philippines national team? Nobody in the world knows what a Gilas is, only you Filipinos
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.
Gilas Pilipinas, LFG!!!!!!
I kinda like when people label philippines as "easy" and get surprised after the game
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.
Jalen Green cant even play for the national team even though he has a phil passport.
@@patrickstarfish420 The reason why Jalen can't play to Gilas is because he already competed under the U18 USA Team.
that's still aloud,as long he didnt play w/ U.S Mens team
AHAHAHAHHAHAHA BS
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.
and in the end of the game they were working together to guarantee Slovenia the first place in the group and screw over Croatia. But it didn't work out😆they will get crushed by Greece.
The title is unfortunate, Hellas played very well as a team and Antentokounmpo stayed on the bench for many minutes
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.
Gilas needs to win against Brazil because Latvia is waiting for Gilas in the finals. Latvia wants a rematch with Gilas
cool shirt 🤩
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.
Itoudis was good coach and good team but they didnt show focus and maybe they needed some more time to build the focus.
"Brate, what was happening?" Lol 😂
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.😅
Luca has to get fit. End of story. Everyone respects him and his skillset but his physique is keeping him back
True. He's got a Jokic like body.
Just watched his rookie and sophomore highlight
And damn how i miss his athleticsm
When he was at eu i always debate people that says luka is unathletic, i always said he is athletic. Quick enough and has some hops
But now i kinda see him having too big of torso to properly do defensive slides, at times he just hop around like zionon defense
He reminded me of Fanis Christodoulou yesterday. He follows his steps in his physical condition.
Go gilas
Top teams underestimated the triangle offense that brought the bulls and lakers into multiple championships.
Before What Chriss MCollough said Jun Mar Fajardo is a top 3 Center in Asia maybe wrong hes underrated World class Fundamental Center
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
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.
would be a miracle if philippines pull it off,brazil has 6 nba players
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.
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!
And the only team who went to F4 3 times in a row and lost them all😂
@@whattodrink9257 it is another discation! You have serious problems my friend if you answer that way to my comment!
Gotta appreciate the June Mar Fajardo love
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?
Greece is looking at Spain, USA and the road to the olympics Final. What did you expect?
Goo Gilas 🎉🎉
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.
Hey, I'm aware of the triangle offense and it's actually super interesting to see somebody still do it in 2024. However, definitely not in every possession they manage to settle into it and sometimes it looks more chaotic than set. But the comment was made a bit more for Puerto Rico, than the other mentioned teams. It's just that in these tournaments with little preparation time you don't need to be highly efficient with your systems, you just go and hoop.
@@AugustasSuliauskas Got you. I was just surprised you commented that on Gilas segment, though I'm aware that Puerto Rico and other teams were in the convo. That was the confusing part.
This team hasn't been together for a year yet their execution is quite excellent. They will develop in time.
wtf is a gilas
@@callmesmart7233 wtf is a Google?
@@callmesmart7233 "Gilas" in Gilas Pilipinas, is a team name for the basketball team of the Philippines who represents their country in these international basketball tournaments.
Philippines basketball players are always good players . They can compete internationally. The only problem was that the coach and politics were involved.
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!
Next, Olympiakos move, will be to extend Wright’s contract for 3yrs in total.
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.
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
And again Philippines is being understimated watch and see them beat Brazil
lets be honest wala naman nag eexpect na manalo philippines eh... pero maganda pinapakita ng pilipinas hopefully makakuha ng slot sa paris oly pero hindi n ako magtataka kung hindi n maulit ng pinas etonh ganitong run nila against european teams kasi matatagalan ulit sila mag produce ng isang fajardo na local ah at justin na player
kung baga eto na ung lineup ng pinas na may legit tayo na center in fajardo na local produce! asan na mga haters ni fajardo na pang pba lang daw? tago kayo noh si jmf na ang pinakamagaling na center na
na produce ng pinas in terms of skils with that height at weight
lol eto nanaman ang mga pwetnoy na gusto sambahin sila eh compare naman talaga sa ibang bansa eh mahina naman talaga ang gilas. real talk lang. pero sana patuloy na maganda yung ipakita nila and makaqualify sa olympics
@@harvestmoon4968Puro kayo ganyan nakakasawa na kaya naman talagang manalo ng pilipinas coach lang talaga ang problema pati mga bobong hater
@@Zuetprix kayang mag compete kung may mga players tayo na may heigjt talaga that could play their position center nga lang hirap tayo mag produce eh... kung tinangal mo na si junmar diyan at brownlee olats n yan kaya nga sabi ko mahihirapan na ulit pinas mag compete sa international pag wala ng fajardo at import n justin kasi etong team ng pinas ngayon may height talaga kumpara sa mga nkaraan mga team philiipines na maliliit kaya nga tayo kinakain noon eh kasi nga mallit lineup natin now i ask you gaano ba kadalas mag produce ang pinas ng isang fajardo? na may legit n height at weight para sa center position? at mahirap na ulit mag hanap ng isa pang justin.. ok sabihin natin si clarkson andiyan pero patanda na rin un. kaya nga etong time na eto ang best time na mag compete ang pinas dahil may height mga players ng pinas ngayon at alam gamitin ng coach bigman niya d tulad ni chot na panay wings players ang ginagamit
@@harvestmoon4968 Bat naman tatanggalin eh player natin yan? Same lang sa brazil yan mga guard lang nila gumagawa pero pag nadepensahan na wala na
Nice tan Donatas
GIANNIS 32pts with 11-11 shots. GOAT...Hi from Greece, guys. GREEK FREAK will put a show for Luca...
I miss Rytis :3
"Hey, malaka, just shoot the free throw, what the fuck!"
lmao, you've been around Greek fans and it shows hahaha
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lets go PH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greece vs Slovenia.
I feel like they should just let Giannis play against Luka 1 on 1 who wins his team go forward :)
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.
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.
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
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.....
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.
You guys wondered why the Filipinos booed the Gilas coach during the World Cup last year. Now you know.
Some Lithuanian names sound Greek or vice-versa... Like Loukas Luka ,Sloukas etc
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.
Unlike the kind of plays basketball players are doing right now, they execute it like they are in a circus, action packed jump shots which is very common in the streets of the Philippines especially in the prisons a lot of drama make faces flexing of muscles and all. 😂
We want the 4rth so desperately...
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.
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.
He got released
Now we wait 48 hours because any other nba team can get him for the same contract just like petrusev
yea, most likely some kind of buyout (from oly) went on and if you consider the taxes over there... it was probably doable. in other words i don't think vezenkof paid or lost any money to come back. at this point and for the 4 or 5 next years he's gonna be the highest payed player in europe, so.. he'll be ok i think (while playing bball also)
Peters may play the 3 instead Papanikolaou !
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.
Bro's looking like Goran Dragic in the thumbnail
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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
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
Coach is the leader of the team. But if you talk players, Olympiacos has Milutinov, Walkup, Papanikolaou, Laretzakis.
He is Bulgarian actually
True he is! But raised in Cyprus and since very young in Greece! We consider him 💙🤍 Greek too! With all due Respect to Bulgarian friends.
Where can we buy that shirt?
Good tournament for the Americas. No Venezuela this time! Every America team advanced out of pool play!
Urbonas still worried???
FAJARDO is a 7x PBA MVP
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
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
Itoudis had no Giannis, no Calathes, and lost Mitoglou very soon....you cant compare that easy....but still VSpan is making a very good Job for sure !
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.
Spoiler alert from the future, Puerto Rico beats Lithuania convincingly 🤯🇵🇷💪
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.😢😢😢
Lithuania 70 % to get the ticket😅
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.
Vezenkov is getting the playing time which he deserves in nba.
4:47 😂
Mejo Pinoybaiting din to.
Peru itong channel nato ang legit talaga kasi matagal na sila at may legit basketball website that i would assume nakabase sa Lithuania.
nah they still think Gilas is trash lol
Greece pounded Slovenia by 30....not a fun night for Luka. 😂
Croatia barely beat DOM... Probability tells us they will lose to Greece.
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.
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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
When you have Luka or Giannis...you always have a hope. :)
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.
Stop capping oly has big budget +20mln for salaries is there budget and it is big budget
Real Madrid: 42,000,000
Panathinaikos: 35,000,000
Milano: 33,000,000
Monaco: 27,500,000
Barcelona: 26,000,000
Fenerbahce: 25,000,000
Bayern: 24,500,000
Maccabi Tel Aviv: 22,300,000
Olympiacos: 22,000,000
Asvel: 21,000,000
Anadolu Efes: 20,000,000
Partizan: 20,000,000
Valencia: 18,000,000
Virtus: 16,000,000
Baskonia: 16,000,000
Crvena Zvezda: 15,800,000
Alba: 15,000,000
Zalgiris: 13,000,000
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.
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
No is not the Top Money Contract for Olympiacos History...Josh Childress is 2008 2+1 Years for 21$ Million Dollars(22,5 million Euro back then)....but he play only 2 Years and he go to Phoenix Suns
Brazil easy….l
Brazil is easy
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Donatas, what you say about "ethical problems " doesn't make sense at all.The team is above every single player.This specific team is also known for taking care for the players. Sorry but its the first time that you are 100% no sense.
Well ph has an easy group so we are expecting this result 😐😐😐😶😶😶
You call Latvia easy?
But yes if you look at it on paper. Latvia and Brazil should roll over Philippines and Cameroon who are much lower ranked teams.
The narrative on paper was, Philippines and Cameroon with both 0-2 in the group stages.
But in the group stage, Cameroon rolled Basil and Philippines rolled Latvia.
There is a saying in the Philippines (bilog ang bola)
Translate to the Ball is round. Which means the ball doesn't favor anyone, whoever execute better can win. And winner cannot be fully determined before playing.
@@redheartnorvus8997 hey why so serious
@@rafscindaydreamer5616 no not serious. I think the word your looking for is intense. Philippines just made history. It's the talk of the nation and we are supporting our boys to make another.