B (3:51)

Oh wow. An old photo of me with cash on my face. Yeah, we, I guess. And all anything any basketball league says can be deemed as legitimate. Like if they said, hey, this is the biggest basketball upset forever, it's kind of, I mean it's big. But literally in euro basket in 2022, the Serbs won every single game in the round robin. That opening week they're unbeaten and then they go and play Italy and Italy beats them because they are. We're kind of playing five out and that's what I thought could happen again. And that's what the finish did. I don't even care that Larry Markkanen had a bad shooting night. It wasn't all that efficient. But the guy just brought it. That team brought it. And watching Serbia in that first preliminary round, you could see they didn't have it. Especially with bogged down out. Larry Markinen on the first possession had Jokic out on the perimeter and he went right by him, ready for a left handed dunk. And he missed, but it didn't matter because he just kept fighting. A minute later he had a put back dunk, then he missed a shot, put back miss. Then he had missed it again and then he got another put back. So he was just going at it. Then he had a four point play. Did he mean to bank home a three and get fell at the same time? Probably not, but he was just going at it and he had the step backs in the mid post. He had 14 points in the. In the first half because he was really just going hard. This team got up on Serbia, I mean, right away, 11, 1, 13, 3, 16, 5, 29. They were bringing it. And the Serbs came back. Abramovich, our buddy, who got injured in the last game, but he did come out. He was playing hard. Their double bigs kind of did their thing, rebounding. Micic, who looked old last game, had a huge deep three. He's going to Israel next year. He ain't even coming to the NBA. But they. They all fought back. And then you mentioned that Valtanen, who sealed it at the end for Finland. This guy is definitely a role player who you wouldn't think would put up eight points in the last two minutes. And just going at Jokic, literally, literally Adam, under two minutes left. I got Jokic. I'll do this. I mean, he. He went. Adam, he set up marketing. Then he hit a three with two minutes left that he tipped it in. Then he hit another three, so he went crazy. But you just look at Serbia in the preliminary round and. And you look at the numbers of this game. Finland had 20 offensive rebounds on 44 misses. So you're basically getting an offensive rebound every second miss. I mean, do you want it more? Yeah, they did. And the Serbs just didn't look like it. They didn't look like themselves. So, you know, the. The Serbs just weren't themselves. They were in cruise control every now.

A (6:36)

And they were chilling. They were hitting some threes early on, and they kind of got into settling mode. I thought down the stretch especially, jokic was great. 33 points in 34 minutes, but he also had to play 34 minutes, and there were times when he was a target defensively for the Finnish team. You're right, Baltanin. It seemed like the two threes he hit late in this game, he was like, oh, you're really going to give me this shot? Because he jab stepped into it. Jokic didn't move. So I was like, fine, I'll take it. If you're not going to step out, hit a couple of them. And you know when you're watching the highlights back, there is a lot of number 15 in Serbia looking on as these baskets are happening. It ain't Jokic's fault that they lost, but he was on the receiving end of a lot of these buckets from the Finnish team. That was just fun to watch. I love this guy. Miran and Mika Miran, and we're calling him slim Jesus. He's 18 years old, literally. He should be in a high school classroom right now. School is back in session. Get this guy a book. But it seems like he knows everything on the basketball court. He plays like he's 36 years old. 0 fear in this guy. When he gets out on the fast break, you're getting a highlight for sure. And then, like I said, he's going to get a taunting technical almost every single game. You would think it's the first time he's ever scored. Every time he scores.

B (7:49)

You mentioned everything. Everybody loves that guy just because he looks cool and yeah, I, I really liked to see in these, in these single elimination games, anything can happen. So we mentioned that. Valton. Nobody on this side of the Atlantic, nobody knows Elias Fountain, really. I mean, he went to Arizona State. I looked him up, but he is really strictly a role guy. But to see him, not just because the ball was rotating, but because he could do a step jab and step back and hit it in Jokic's face. I mean, that's. These are all big moments. And Finland can win a big game like this. And people shut me up because I didn't talk about Markkanen leading into this tournament as a guy to watch. And bang, he showed up. Not efficient. I think he's like one for nine from three. Who cares? He kind of. He led the way for this team and they all had it. They all had it going on. Let's move on to Italy, Slovenia, where Luka also showing up. What a monster. The best Luka Doncic defensive game I've ever seen. That ain't misinformation. I want Eurobasket to tweet that. Is it real? Can you measure it? No. That's why it's true. Luka Doncic was awesome. They just schooled Italy from the get go.

A (9:06)

Yeah, they had Luka Doncic and that was really the only difference in this game. 42 of the 84 points for Slovenia came at the hands of Luka Doncic. Only one assist and he got it early on. A beautiful pass from basically half court out of the pick and roll. Don't know how it got through, but when you see Luka put up a 42 point game with one assist, you know he's out there trying to score. He was dripping wet. Afterwards, he tried to give Rudy Fernandez a hug and Rudy wouldn't take it because the guy was way too sweaty, which means he was working hard. That's how you can always tell with Luka. If his hair is down on his face, you know, he's putting an effort in out there, but he looks like the best player in the world right now, especially since Serbia got bounced early. You can clearly claim it's Luka, but he looks like there's nobody who can figure out a way to guard him here. He talked about getting. He had easy guarding early on, scored some baskets. I think he had 22 in the first quarter. So then they started doubling him and guess what? He only had eight in the third quarter or the second quarter. So just a mild 30 at halftime. I guess you could say that Italy shut him down in the second half. Only 12 points, and it kind of looked like they were coming back. A nice little boost by the Italians in the fourth quarter. Quarter they had some momentum when Fontechio hit that crazy shot from the corner to pull within one. But then Luca just kept going to the line. Italy couldn't get a stop without falling, and Slovenia was able to knock down some free throws and get a comfortable win on the back of Luca. He's going up against the German team, I believe, next. That's going to be a huge test for him. But in a single game elimination tournament, like the duke could have 50 and then you're going home. That's exactly what happened to Italy.

B (10:42)

Yeah, he was sweaty. He was going at it. I don't know if it was hot in Riga, Latvia, in that arena, because I think the. The crew chief, actually Matthew Lee Calio, he's from Canada. That man was wet, too. I don't know what it is about the. The ref jerseys during Eurobasket, but it looked like he had a bib, like he was ready to eat, like it was just a sweat bib that he had going on. And I don't know, maybe they should ask the NBA for their jerseys, but either way, Luca was awesome and sweating because he was really giving it on the defensive end. I mentioned that and I think like you said, he was 30 points in the first half and 12 in the second half. He had to slow down defensively as well. I mean, the first possession he was posted by Melly. He was getting out in front of that post, in front of that post op. And then the second one as well. He stole both times. He was trying to make steals, like all game. He was really fighting hard and he was getting hit as well. He banged knees early in this game. He went to the locker room after the first quarter. He sat with 2.3 seconds left in the second quarter just to get him more rest. But he was classic. Luca, I mean, literally stepped back threes and whoever's face they, they tried to throw Simone Fontechio because he's kind of his size at him, nothing really worked. He was just on fire. He was yapping with the referees. He was just Classic Luca out there. I mean, they Eurobasket should make a montage of all the times he bickers at referees because he was. He does it so well. He's just, he's a natural at it, you know, like he's bringing the ball up.

A (12:14)

Yeah, he does complain, what you're saying. He complains all the time. But guess what? He still gets foul calls he's taking. He took 16 free throws in this game, made 15 of them. I mentioned on our first show, he's the only guy who still gets NBA file calls in fiba. But he's the best guy out there, so you kind of understand why.

B (12:31)

Yeah, I just, I admire how he does it, like to start a possession while he's off the ball, while he's, you know, asking for a foul on the miss, like during plays, after plays. He just, he's really good at it. But yes, he just gets it done after the game. Yeah. And there was clips of you mentioned Rudy Fernandez and Jorge Garbajosa who are part of the, the Spanish Basketball Federation. And you could just see Rudy just doing the. What. What is this guy? I mean, they're just. Spain's done, but they're just taking in this game. Jorge Garbajosa didn't have much of a reaction because I don't think he reacts to anything. But they just were watching this guy do it and Simone tried to give it to him and they all tried to, to get back into this game. But that a weird four on one that turned it into an offensive foul for Italy in the third quarter when they were down nine, it would have been seven as they were trying to come back. That hurt. But yeah, they got into such a big hole and that's what happens in these 40 minute games. They were down 2911 after the first quarter and couldn't fight back against that dude. We will see him against, as you said, Germany on Wednesday. Tough one for Luca, but it'll be fun.

A (13:42)

Yeah, should be an awesome game. And I mean Italy did a good job to get back in the game. They just didn't have Luca and Slovenia did. And I think going forward, Italy will no longer have Danilo Gallinari pulling in. Nick Vuchevic retiring immediately after the loss here. So he's done, Vuch is done. I think Scaro, the coach from Spain, retired After they got bounced before the round of 16, too. So, you know, a new era in Eurobasket.

B (14:10)

People just want to party, I guess, and just say, I'm done. I'm gonna. I'm gonna enjoy myself after my last game. Let's have some fun. Let's move on to this next game. I gotta be honest, I was definitely cheering on for Greece. I was with all those Greek fans that made the. I guess it's like I did the. The Google maps. It's like 30 hours from Greece to drive Tilafia. It's a three hour flight if they're in that kind of mood. But I was, I was sharing with them. But this was, I think, the worst game of these two days that we watched here. These eight games. Greece took care of business. Giannis was a monster, dropping 37, getting out to his. His classic self. He just looks so great. You're. I'll. We'll get to Greece and how they freed him up and they did a great job. But maybe this, because this was game eight of eight. But why was this Dudsville Trey, or is this just me?

A (15:03)

No, you're right. This one was kind of a snooze alert. But it was the last game out of eight of them. Like you're saying, we saw some amazing upsets earlier in the weekend, and this was coming off of a 42 pointer from Luka Doncic that was close to the end. And this one was close to the end, too. But much like the Slovenia game, one team had an NBA MVP candidate and the other team didn't.37 for Giannis. The only other guy who even made an impact to me was Samodorov. Seven points, four offensive rebounds. This guy was all over the place. Anytime Greece missed, it seemed like they were getting the ball back off the offensive rebound. And when it came down to it, they could just throw it up to Giannis and he would dunk it pretty easily. So nice for the Greek team to pull off the win here.

B (15:48)

Yeah, it wasn't all that exciting. I. I liked how they didn't go to Giannis right away on the first possession because Costa Slucas, the, The oldie, he brought it up and they just left him wide open. And they could have run a play for Giannis, but he said, all right, you're giving me that space, I'm gonna hit that shot. He stepped into it. He stepped on the line and he hit a shot. Instead of running a play for Giannis and making them a predictable team, which is what I think Israel did On. On the other side, Denny Avdio was taken out by Costas Papa Nakalu, as our man Eric Reed used to call him. At the Miami Heat, when Kosas Papa Nicolao was in the NBA, we made a video of Eric Reed saying, Kostas Papa Nakalu. He was. He did a great job of fronting of dia, not letting him catch the ball. And the first seven minutes, Abdia, who's had a great tournament, he didn't get anywhere close to the rim. It took him till late in the first quarter to get there. And I thought part of it was that part of it was not playing. Roman Sorkin, who was really good for this team, he didn't start. I mean, he was playing like 30 minutes a game through the early part of this tournament. They decided, I guess, not to play him against Giannis. They thought it could work. It worked for Lithuania. We'll get to that. Jonas Valentuna sitting for them. But it didn't work here. And they just had no flow. Absolutely no flow. They were dropping balls all over the place. Like first in the first half. Greece shot 2 of 11 from three, still up nine throughout the whole game. They shot 4 of 25 from three, 6 of 12 from the free throw line. They weren't that good. But it doesn't matter because Giannis was literally kicking ass. And I think it really just helped getting him that space. Others were drawing some attention, and he was. He was dancing out there. The Euro step was really happening here in the Eurobasket transition. The baseline spins. He was just on fire. Yeah. While Israel couldn't do it. They complained so much about fouls and that Denny wasn't getting the touches, but not.

A (17:49)

Not in a good way. Like Luca. Like how they were complaining.

B (17:53)

Yeah, Luca, you're right. I hate how Luca complains. But today. No, you was cool. No, today was cool. I know. Like, NBA don't like. Don't like seeing it every game. Today. Today they had. I mean, he's skilled. He's a skilled complainer. I didn't think Israel really had it, or. I don't think they had as much reason to complain. Although what they should get in Eurobasket is the Hawkeye camera. We saw it last year in the NBA. It could have helped out. Giannis had a. A put back that they were wondering was that after the shot clock, and, man, it was so close. They need the fricking Hawkeye. And they gave him those two points. That hurt. That hurt. Israel. I see this question here. Why is Israel in the Euros from Garen Luke, that's a great question. No one knows. No one ever knows why your Israel is playing in every is in both the Euro League and the Euro basket. No one knows. But the Greeks took care of business and they were gone right quick. This was a one. You just had to run Giannis out there and yeah, Israel did not have it going.

A (19:01)

Yeah, Israel made 26 shots in the game, Giannis made 18. So it was basically Giannis versus the Israeli team. And guess what? Giannis is better than every single player they've got. So they can substant withstand the Greek team shooting 4 for 25 from 3. They didn't get any free throw attempts. Like you're saying 6 of 12 at the line, but also 18 offensive rebounds. So when they missed, Giannis got the board and put it back in.

B (19:26)

My last note has nothing to do with basketball and is only for the basketball media geeks. I will say a Greek player, Panayotis Kaliazakis, Kalia Zakis. He looks like a young Joseph Kisharo of the score. There needs to be a split screen of young Joe Kisharo and Kalia Zakis. I don't know if it's the size of their nose or what it is, but they look so similar. That's it. Okay, moving on. Let's get to Germany, Portugal. Because Germany is the freaking favorite in this tournament and they look like it against Portugal. Although this was close until the fourth quarter when they really turned it on.

A (20:07)

Yeah, this was like a 10 point game going into the fourth quarter and somehow it ended up being a 337 fourth quarter for Germany. They end up winning by 30. But I thought Portugal played pretty well. I thought they were staying in the game. I thought they were playing a little bit more under control than the German team was. But maybe it was just a matter of Germany not making their open shots because once Maudo Lo started getting hot in the fourth quarter, it really was over in an avalanche. So I don't know what the Germanic word for avalanche is, but I'm sure it sounds awesome and I'm sure they were screaming it as they happened. Germany looked like they were in danger of an upset, but then in that last quarter you're like, oh right, they're a well oiled offensive machine. They got every sort of shot they want, want. I think Franz ended up with only 16 points, but he has been incredible in this tournament averaging 20 a game on 60% shooting and it feels like if he gets the ball with a step in transition, it's going to be a Dunk or a layup at the rim because he looks like the biggest, fastest guy out there when he's running the wing.

B (21:10)

I'm going to believe what two stream teamers are saying because it is. It's not coming from one person, it's coming from two. Well, it's coming down from three. The. The Germanic word for avalanche is la vine or levine or something like that.

A (21:25)

Great.

B (21:26)

Cool.

A (21:28)

That's what it was.

B (21:30)

Yeah. Cool story, bro. Yeah. Mao low. What a great name. And you just see l. O on the back of the guy's jersey. Yeah, he came in and he changed the game in the fourth quarter. They won the fourth quarter 33 7. And that guy comes in splash threes. He's a backup point guard. Boom, boom, boom, boom. He hit four threes overall. They just have enough because they are so deep. He is just a guy you would never really scout for. I imagine too much anyway. But yeah, you mentioned all the other guys and Franz and Tristan da Silva. Actually, speaking of their depth, I made a note because Franz Wagner has Franz on the back of his name. Tristan da Silva has Tristan on the back of his name. Will there ever be a point where NBA players have the option, I'm gonna put my first name on my jersey. Think that'll ever happen? Because it could mean dolla dollar bills. Like it could mean a kid sitting there says, whoa, I'm gonna print my first name on my jersey. Or. Or, you know, just that kind of thing. Open it up a little bit. Or is that too gimmicky? Like to actually put first name. I don't want to go.

A (22:46)

They should do it. They should do it. They should do it. For when teams release their city edition jerseys, you should be able to pick whatever is on the back of your jersey. We've had something similar. I think it was the heat versus the nets. Played one game with nicknames on the back. Ray Allen had Shuttlesworth on the back of his jersey. Lebron had King James. So it has happened. You can even go further back to Pete Maravich wearing pistol with quotation marks around it. That's sick. When you can put extra punctuation on the back of a jersey, I say go for it. Because if we're going to have these ridiculous jerseys, why don't you just go to the next level and throw a Nikola on the back of it Or a Thomas Smart?

B (23:26)

Yeah. If you isolate it just for city edition jerseys, that can make sense. You don't have to do it all the time. And there's. You see, we're showing you here, Franz had with Franz on the back of his jersey and people saying here, oh, Nene used to do that. Well, he changed his name and literally got rid of the rest of his name. So that was his name. Like he was, you know, Ronaldo or Neymar or Pele or something.

A (23:53)

Fred, I always love that guy who played for Brazil. It said Fred on the back of his jersey.

B (23:58)

It's a great name. If Fred Van Vliet came to a game. Fred on the back of Jersey City edition. Do it NBA. All right, we will see Germany versus Slovenia on Wednesday. And again we'll be back after the last game on Wednesday. Those two, Germany, Slovenia, Finland, Georgia and the couple quarterfinals on the Tuesday before that where Lithuania will be a part of one, taking on Greece because they went into Latvia. Went into Riga, Latvia and won. This was a fun, fun game. It was a great start to this game for Lithuania. Their fans traveled. It was a blast. As I said, Jonas Valachun is coming off the bench. Obviously Latvia was into it. Good fight. What'd you think of this game, Trey?

A (24:45)

Yeah, good fight by the Latvian team. Like you're saying, the crowd was completely insane for this one. Porzingis played great, 34 points, 19 boards. But it was Arnitz Velika who was the story for the Lithuanian team. Stepping in for the injured Jacobitis, I believe. I think they call this guy the baby face killer. They also call him the Baltic Mamba. And then of course people thought he was Alex Caruso, reincarnated. 21 points and 12 assists for Valitzka. And it was awesome because a few of the assists were like, you know, Lithuanian system assists where I pass it to the top of key, top of the key. There's a guy coming and cutting up, hitting an easy three. But then there was a bunch of assists where he's beaten his guy off the dribble in pick and roll and finding amazing passes where you're not even seeing a guy come open. He was in complete control of the game and that was the difference for Lithuania. A little disappointing, I think for Lavia to not get any sort of performance from their backcourt in the way that the Lithuanian team did. But a major step up in performance by Alex Karuskovitz.

B (25:52)

Karuskovitz. He did it, man. Yeah, you're right. The back court was a little disappointing. There was the. We're showing you the Photoshop of the that people were doing. Not a great Photoshop, but we'll say that's a big ass Letuva jersey that Alex Caruso has on him. He's just, just chilling there. But they didn't get anything from the backcourt, Zagers, Archer, Zagos, who's usually awesome, 3 of 12. And he had some passing, you know, some because he, that's what he does. He had five assists. But even though Kristaps Porzingis was out there, he was into it pregame it, it looked like the most expressive, emotive Kristaps I've seen. I mean, he was so into this game. All those Lithuanian fans were there for their team and, and all of the Latvian fans obviously there for them. He was into it and he got, he got to work. I mean he had it off the ball block like doing his post work. He, he missed a shot from mid range and winning, got the miss and put it back. And then he did the same thing with a missed three point shot. It bounced up so high off the rim that he went and dunked that like he was getting after it. 4 threes, 34 points, 19 freaking rebounds was fantastic, but they just didn't get enough from their backcourt. And you mentioned Velichka, he. 21 points, 12 assists with two Bellis. Those two guys, they, they were key. I think they just were in, as you said, in their system. And Tubellis was really good. Apparently this is his first Euro basket. I was unaware of that, but he had key buckets early or. And to end the 3rd, early 4th, 18 points, 12 rebounds for that lefty. And I mentioned, as I said, Jonas coming off the bench. And it worked. I mean, they, they, they thought, I think, to keep their switching defensively as much as part of their system as possible. And Jonas might be a little too slow and offensively just keep everybody moving instead of having that guy as a focus in the post. And it worked. He only played 947, had nine points. Even though he's a legend. Yeah, he had no problem doing that, I imagine. So. Very, very fun game.

A (28:04)

Yeah, yeah, we love jv, but he is slowness Valentunas and Porzingis has legitimately incredible range, especially in a Eurobasket tournament where it looks like he's pulling up from half court on some of his three. So smart move by the Lithuanian coach to go with their more mobile guys to try and do something against Porzingis. It didn't necessarily work, but at least the strategy makes sense and it makes.

B (28:26)

Sense for both of the teams of those guys coming into the NBA to be excited. Chris Esportsing is looking way more like himself for the Atlanta Hawks. While even though Valentrin is coming off the bench. That's what he's going to be doing for the Denver Nuggets and he did it well. He did it well throughout this this tournament and he had no problem coming off the bench in a couple games. He did it versus Sweden as well. All right, let's move on to France. Georgia where Georgia upset France. Although France didn't look like themselves throughout the early part of this tournament without Wemby, they needed more from some of their guys. They're deep but they're super young and Georgia took care of it.

A (29:07)

Trey yeah, I saw after the game Mamu said too bad Wemby wasn't here because we would have beat him if he was playing anyways and maybe they would have. Mamu had a pretty solid game, 14 points and 11 rebounds. But we talked about how France has good depth on the wing and they've got some good young big guys, but maybe their backcourt was going to be their Achilles heel and it ended up being their achilles heel. Baldwin 24 points for the Georgian team tournication. Galia 24 points as well. I thought they both completely outplayed the French backcourt and it was Shanghalia early he hit a rondo the the announcers couldn't believe it and then later on Kamar Baldwin was just getting hot on the step back three and then once they had to respect the jumper it was easy pickings getting into the lane. France went 6 of 36 from 3. Their team isn't the team that we're going to see from France down the line, but some good experience for those guys. Georgia has been one of the most fun teams to watch because I didn't think it was just Mamu taking over. Goga had an okay game. He got pulled. He got very angry in the first half but then they just needed him to rebound later on so he came in and rebounded while the guards took over. That was the difference was the backcourt.

B (30:21)

Yeah, you're right, France didn't have it. While Kamar Baldwin comes in creating his own threes, he he didn't need any help and he had 14 first half points. Even the late real real key bucket with 340 left hit the D cell. He was the best guard in this game, no doubt while France couldn't get enough from Isaiah Cordonier. Be great to have him in the NBA because I know we're losers and nerds and we look at the spelling and we've never had a an Isaiah spelled the way he does it. I s A I, A, that's it. And he was a second round pick, but never, never made it to the NBA other than that. I mean, they were. Look, the thing is with this team, they, they go through Yabuseli over and over and over again and he was doing a lot. He, he was their guy. But they just couldn't get enough from Bil Koulibaly, who was silent in this game.

A (31:19)

He had a stinker of a tournament, if we're being quite honest. This guy was awesome in the Olympic tournament last summer. Played major fourth quarter minutes in the loss to the U.S. and I think he was like six points per game, didn't score at all. And he just looked kind of lost on the court after a pretty solid start. I think he had a really good game in their very first game, but it was like the first game. Yeah, exactly. You could tell he was just the best wing athlete on the court. Every time he caught the ball, he was able to put it down and get to the hoop. Once the competition stepped up a little bit, Koulibaly was invisible.

B (31:54)

Yeah, I don't know if it's the environment just being in, in Lafayette elimination round because it felt like him and Zachary reesache, who's, who's 20. His first run when he stepped on the floor coming off the bench, it was a bad one. I mean, he just pushed a Georgian to get a, a foul and then he missed two threes, he missed a putback and then another foul and then he went to the bench. I mean, it was, it was bad. He got better as the game went on. He got better than what Kulabali did, but it felt like Kulabali in the first game was coming into his own a little bit. But in this game, I mean, he really could have had to steal the first possession, but he just wasn't, wasn't mentally there, whatever was going on. Now he got a, a butt screen by Shingalia where it hit his hip and he was holding his, his hip a little bit. And he did shut down Mamu, who I would give him the MVP just because he talks so much and I, I like hearing him talk and I want to see him on the Raptors as a backup. But Kubali just, just wasn't all mentally there. And that was, that was a problem for France. I mean, as I said, they were relying on Yabu. They had guys out there in Kouli and Cor and Maladone and you'd think a Kobo or Francisco would come on and help out, but they didn't it was just. It was more a good defensive effort from Jatay, but no real great offensive. Like you mentioned the Shanghalia Rondo ball fake and you mentioned. Or you said his name with a great pronunciation. Can you give me that again? Because I don't know how to pronounce this.

A (33:30)

Shangalia. Wasn't he a one time Brooklyn net? I'm not mistaken. He probably has a ringer profile written about him. He had three or four good games. So that's enough. In the first quarter of this game, in the first quarter, not five minutes in, one announcer says to the other, just want to say, Jeff, the Georgian team has some great beards. Jeff replies, they do. It felt to me like other guy was legitimately impressed by the beards that the Georgian team was playing with. But I'm sure he had seen them at some point. It couldn't have been their first thing.

B (34:06)

I don't know. Yeah, it seemed like to me those guys were also doing multiple games a day and I think they're a little. A little tired. Jeff and the other guy whose name was never said, what is the other.

A (34:20)

Guy always says Jeff.

B (34:22)

Yeah, he does. You see what they're running here. Jeff and the other guy will never say his name. And I thought he kind of sounded like Jim Peterson, who was the Timberwolves analyst.

A (34:31)

He does.

B (34:32)

And I'm googling, is Jim Peterson in Latvia? Is he doing the Euro basket? And he was in France. He was close, but I don't think that was Jim. No one knows what that guy's name is. I couldn't find that guy's name. And he. All he was saying was, I think Jeff asked him, you know, what are you going to do after this tournament? You're going to go out, you're gonna have some fun. And he said, oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna go walk and see the streets. I think he was just done working. That's. That's really no good story there. That's all I got to say about that. All right, moving on to Turkey because we were looking forward to Turkey going into the elimination round. And they took care of Sweden, although again got close. But Alper and Changun, awesome Turkey. Looking like a real squad from one to the bench.

A (35:19)

Trey, please task. Call him Daddy. Shengun. 24 points, 16 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks. I didn't necessarily think this was Shen Goon's best game. Just 8 for 16, 16 from the field, but he made a ton of big plays down the stretch. After The Swedes made a pretty decent comeback in the fourth quarter. It was shen good getting busy on the offensive glass or creating for others. He is kind of the definition of the Euro step right now. I feel like every single one of his baskets in the lane is him sidestepping a guy as he's rumbling down. I would probably, if they, if they put it to a vote right now, I would vote for Sengun as MVP of the tournament so far. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Turkey pull off an upset and win this whole tournament. They're completely clicking right now and they're all just riding on the back of Daddy Sengun.

B (36:09)

Yeah, you're, you're totally right. I would definitely think about it. I, I think Giannis has missed two games. If we're going to get into the, the, the, the finer print here and think about. Luca, obviously was great. The fans out there calling MVP for like basically anybody out there is hilarious. They're chanting MVP literally for anybody. But Changun has been so, so good, especially because he had such a great game against Jokic. I mean, he's shaking defenders. You mentioned. Yeah, the Euro step that he's, he's dropping guys when doubles are coming for him. He's so ready. The assists are so high. He had a great pass to Ursan Osmani when he's playing the two man game with Shane Larkin. So they're just, they're just clicking. The only thing not clicking for him is the opening tip pass that he's trying every game, which is fun. Like he just tries to hammer it. He's. That's a slap. Like you go get it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But those guys, I couldn't believe watching again. Sweden was hanging in. It was the fourth quarter, but JD Osman was so awesome in this game. He had his first four three pointers in this game. He had 17 points. Adam Bona coming off the bench, did not expect this from him, but three big blocks off the bench and under two minutes left yet his last one was, it was a huge one. So he's going to be coming off the bench for the 76ers. I think he's, he's growing more into that type of role. And Shane Larkin, as I said, that guy plays almost every minute when he's out there for this team, like literally almost every minute and he does his job out there. So this team is, is looking like a strong squad. Going up against Poland in their quarterfinal game mainly because of Sengun, but then everybody else falls in Line.

A (37:53)

Yeah, they've just got a really solid lineup and like you're saying they are a little bit of Thibodeau ball where they're starting five plays, heavy, heavy minutes. And that even went up at the start of the knockout phase. But you know, it's only another week of Euro basket. So if Shane Larkin is comfortable going 37 minutes, able to still produce late in games, that's probably how they're going to roll. Those minutes probably get even bigger and bigger once they get into like the semifinals and finals. Wouldn't be surprising to see guys playing 38, 39, 40 minutes even.

B (38:24)

Yeah, yeah. And that's what Lin does. I will say about Sweden, they're 14 going into this game, so it's a pretty big win for them, I think, to keep it fairly close till the end. And I'm pretty sold by guys being their FIBA cells and even I'm not like super sold on Pelly Larson contributing to the Miami Heat this come coming season. But he had a good tournament, so that's it.

A (38:49)

That's solid. It was a solid.

B (38:50)

He was solid. Speaking of solid guys, our last quarterfinal or I should say last game of the round of 16 that we're gonna get to Poland beaten Bosnia. Our man Jordan Lloyd being Jordan Lloyd again, 28 points to take out Bosnia as they move on to the quarterfinals. Great, great showing for Poland thus far.

A (39:13)

Yeah. And I think Jordan Lloyd's probably an all tournament team guy, at least if they do two teams, he's certainly on there. Maybe you got Schroeder and Luka ahead of him as guards, but outside of that, I don't think there's anybody on par with what Jordan Lloyd's been able to do for them. Like you said, 28 points, only one assist. He was out there looking to score. I thought Panitka had a really solid, solid game as well. 19 points, 11 boards. They got a solid one two punch. And I just feel like Poland has been taking care of business. They haven't had any crazy wins, I don't think so far, but every single night, or I guess for us it's an afternoon. They go out there and they look like a quality team who knows how to play well together.

B (39:53)

I see this note here and I guess it's correct. Sorry. Going back to the jerseys, we talked about the first names being on the jerseys and Bim Bambino saying that, hey, they've got the the front of their or their first names on the back of their jerseys because their brothers are on the team like Franz and Mo Wagner and Tristan and Oscar De Silva. So what happens? I guess they both. There was a Mo. I guess Mo had his. On his name or on his jersey last year. Right.

A (40:26)

Did say Moritz. I feel like.

B (40:27)

Oh, Morgan. Yeah. Anyway, although I like this. This note here. This is Skeets chiming in that Jordan Lloyd needs Jordan on the back of his jersey right now.

A (40:40)

He's playing like a Jordan right now, scoring like crazy. Had a huge block off the glass as well. He's found where he fits in, I believe. You know, he was kind of a bit dude for the Raptors in the little cup of coffee he had, but looks like an absolute star. He's the new Ronde Hollis Jefferson as far as I'm concerned.

B (41:00)

That's. That's a great comparison. I think Jordan Lloyd needs to be asked by somebody out there in Europe if he thinks that Kawhi was paid off by the Clippers, were they circumventing the salary cap? Because you know Kawhi, you know him. Give us the details. Jordan Lloyd, what's going on with Steve Ballmer as we show you a clip here on YouTube of Steve Ballmer given some thigh rubs years ago at a Clippers game. That was a weird one. But this dude, I will say this is his first appearance as a Polish player. I mean, he. He's never played in Poland. Is he somehow circumventing the rules to be able to play for Poland? Just making that up. You basically can naturalize a lot of players. But, yeah, he was awesome, man. The. The Ronde Hollis Jefferson. That's a good one because we may be seeing peak Jordan Lloyd right now, but he's. He's playing. He's playing so well. It will be interesting to see them against Turkey because Poland's playing at a really high level. Their entire team, they've got. They got so many guys helping out, but Turkey is playing so, so well. So that side of the bracket of those two with Lithuania and Greece, as we show you here on YouTube what the bracket is. Lithuanian, Greece, Turkey and Poland on one side and on the other it's Germany, Slovenia, which should be a freaking great game. And Finland and Georgia as your last quarterfinal. So those are the eight teams again. They happen on Tuesday. Wednesday. We will be back to talk about it on Wednesday. Anything else to add, basketball wise, Trey.

A (42:47)

Do you feel confident in the Greece, Lithuania game? There ain't nobody to match up with Giannis for the Lithuanian team? I don't think they're going to start, Jonas. In this case, I don't necessarily know who could handle him. But it's also tough to beat a team like Lithuania basically single handedly. But maybe Giannis can do it.

B (43:08)

Yeah, no, it's. It's a toss up whether the Greeks get something out from. From their guards a little bit because they did get some. They got to get some a little bit more because Lithuania is getting plenty from their guards. So coin flip for me. Turkey, I think should be the favorite in the other one.

A (43:27)

Poland is like you're saying they're, they're a deep team and they play as a team as well. I think that's a pretty solid matchup. Turkey and Poland and you know, the Germany vs Slovenia game is kind of similar to Greece. Lithuania. Can one guy beat a great team and then I'm hyped for Finland versus Georgia. These are like the two Cinderella teams. It's kind of unfortunate they have to meet against each other so early. It'd be awesome if they could somehow find a way to meet up like in the semifinals. But that one should be pretty fun to watch. I think I would. I think I would favor Finland just because the five out offense may be a little tough for guys like Goga and whoever their other big dude who comes off the bench for Georgia is. He's not the quickest dude as well. He's got some gray in the hair like me and you. So I think I'm favoring Finland in that one.

B (44:15)

That's a good call. And whatever happens, it's totally cool and totally right. If Euro basket tweets, that is the biggest win for Finland in their Euro basket history. Or Euro Georgia. Same thing. Same thing. No matter who wins. I think it is the biggest win for them going into the semifinals and literally up for winning a medal that would be huge for both those countries. That's it for us. We'll be back on Wednesday to talk about those quarterfinal games. If you haven't seen our latest episode of Jurassic Pals, it's Jurassic World. Fallen Kingdom. People seem to like it.

A (44:55)

Had some friends show me they're not the movie. I gotta watch Fallen Kingdom this weekend and they're tuning in and watching it and they're feeling similar to how we did looking back.

B (45:06)

Yeah. Because part of it is kind of like we were talking about eight games in two days. We were taking in a lot of Jurassic Parks and maybe that changed our flavor of that movie because now that I see, I see here on YouTube, I see the, the, the Photoshop, the screen grab of them sitting against the. Was it the kitchen counter where the dinosaurs around the corner. I'm like, yeah, that was fun. But, you know. Yeah, that's just me being nostalgic.

A (45:37)

Museum. Yeah, maybe. I mean, we watched a lot of them, recorded a lot of them at the same time, so then this weekend, when I saw Jurassic park was playing on tnt, I was like, I can't watch Jurassic park again. But then guess what? I turned it back on, and it was at the T. Rex at the fence scene. I felt like it was perfect timing and I was 100% back in. So what? Maybe Fallen Kingdom is good. Maybe it is if you spread it out a little bit. I'm not dipping in right now to see, but maybe, just maybe, tune into the podcast to find out.

B (46:11)

All right, that's it for us. Unless. Well, I'm gonna go watch something on tnt. You never know what movies they're throwing up on tnt. And they're always good. They're always good. So that's where I'm going right now. But for now, Clipper Bros, you heard it here first.

A (46:26)

Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And remember, this was the greatest Eurobasket podcast of the century.

B (46:35)

That is correct. Hopefully we top it on Wednesday after the quarterfinals. See everybody.