Two years ago, due to the refusal of Ukraine, which had no time for basketball, EuroBasket had to be held in a hurry according to a new formula. Group tournament games were held in four countries, one of which was trusted by the playoffs. European basketball officials liked the idea so much that they decided to hold EuroBasket 2017 in the same way.
Every year a new stadium
They left one more know-how from two years ago: the owners of the groups were allowed to take one team without a draw, which could attract fans to the stands. Surprisingly, Turkey chose not neighboring Greece and Lithuania, which does not always send huge troops of fans to EuroBaskets, but Russia. On the one hand, it's good: there will be no need to fly to the playoffs. Only in this playoffs still need to get.
The author of these notes comes to Istanbul for the third time and always finds himself in the new sports palace. The decisive matches of EuroBasket-2001 were held at the arena named after the journalist Abdi Ipekci. He was not a basketball columnist. He died defending democratic ideals. For the 2010 World Cup, a huge sports palace was built in the largest metropolis, which received the name of the local sports functionary Sinan Erdem. It will host the EuroBasket 2017 playoff matches, and the group stage was entrusted to host the Fenerbahce Arena. It is located in the Asian part of Istanbul, and it took an hour and a half to get to it from the airport. By the start of the playoffs will have to look for a hotel closer. After all, Sinan Erdem Arena is located in the European part.
Whether it will be necessary depends on the team of Sergei Bazarevich. No one undertakes to predict how the Russian team will play at EuroBasket. On the one hand, there are seven experienced fighters in the roster, led by NBA center Timofey Mozgov, who played in the overseas league Alexei Shved and made his debut in the national team also at EuroBasket 2005 by Vitaly Fridzon. On the other hand, there are certain problems with the imbalance between the “little ones” and the “big ones”. Bazarevich refused the services of Maxim Kolyushkin and Stanislav Ilnitsky, but took the Kulagin brothers to Turkey. Well, at least Dmitry was enchanting with Vasily Karasev, first at Triumph, and then at Zenit, before settling firmly on the bench at CSKA. Mikhail has only the same shop in his track record.
Crimean Tatar with an altered passport
Most likely, Bazarevich wants to bet on the variability in the attack with a light five. It will be difficult to resist the Serbs, who have three skillful centers in the application with a height of 2.10. Although the vice-champions of the Olympics also missed many stars. From the squad that played in Rio, only five people came to the EuroBasket. Moreover, only Bogdan Bogdanovich can be attributed to the leaders of the Olympic team.
The Russian team will meet with the Serbs on the second game day of the tournament. Bazarevich's EuroBasket team will start with a battle with the hosts. If the competitions were not held in Turkey, the national team of this country could safely be considered an outsider. Local NBA stars led by Ersan Ilyasova did not come to the home championship. Although only local functionaries have the audacity to call a Crimean Tatar who grew up in Bukhara a Turk. The guy was persuaded to stay on the banks of the Bosphorus after the tour of the youth team of Uzbekistan, which included the tall Arsen Ilyasov. His documents were redone, rejuvenating him by three years and indicating the city of Eskesehir as his place of birth. Surprisingly, the FIBA functionaries did not object to the eastern cunning.
They counted on Ilyasova very much, but in the winter he changed the club in the NBA and said that he was neither physically nor mentally ready to help his native Turkish team. This was not the last trouble for the owners. The center Amer Oshik did not come either, and in the control game with the Montenegrin national team, the naturalized American Bobby Dixon received an unpleasant injury, pulling first Karsiyaka and then Fenerbahce to victories in the Turkish championship and European cups.
The American was naturalized before EuroBasket 2015, where he became one of the leaders of the Turkish national team. They planned to enter the home championship under the name of Ali Muhammad. Only the injury turned out to be so serious that until the last moment the coach Ufuk Sarika could not decide. All the other teams that came to Istanbul have already submitted applications, and the hosts all doubted whether to include Ali Dixonovich Muhammad in it. Furious support from the fans (Fenerbahce basketball fans stand out even against the general Turkish background) and “home” refereeing for the hosts are guaranteed, but with the current roster, this may not even be enough to defeat the Russian team.
Skating rink in Belgium?
The national team of Latvia also appears to be a serious contender. "Big" from the NBA Kristaps Porzingis and Davis Bertans can easily "eat" one Mozgov. The potential of Janis Timma, who captained at Zenit last season, is well known. coaching staff The Latvian national team, headed by Ainars Bagatskis, even went for the naturalization of the American "baby", although earlier in the proud Baltic republic they did not want to hear about it. Moreover, if the Turks took "their", Dixon, who has long been playing in the national championship, then Roland Smith, who hardly appeared in Riga, will play for the Latvian national team. He plays in the Spanish Championship for Fuenlabrada.
Group D will also feature Belgium and Great Britain. These teams don't have NBA players or European basketball stars on their rosters. The British brought six debutants to EuroBasket. I won’t risk it just to say that Bazarevich’s squad will go over these rivals like a skating rink.
The head coach of the Russian national team Sergei Bazarevich is not too happy to meet with the hosts. “The physical condition of the team is pretty good,” TASS quotes Bazarevich. - I'm not happy that we got a team with the most strong support- Team Turkey. I know this country firsthand, and I coached and played there. They have historically placed high in tournaments while playing at home. I don’t formulate the task for the tournament for myself. You need to leave the group. From the fourth place, of course, it will not be very good. In the playoffs, the Russian team is capable of beating anyone in a single game.
The Russian team can do everything. And take any opponent to the playoffs, and lose to a nominal outsider in the group. That's the kind of team we have.
Istanbul
Calendar. Group stage
1st round. September 1. Russia - Turkey (21.00*), Belgium - Great Britain, Serbia - Latvia
2nd round. 2 September. Russia - Serbia (17.00), Latvia - Belgium, Great Britain - Turkey
3rd round. 4 September. Russia - Belgium (17.00), Latvia - Great Britain, Serbia - Turkey
4th round. September 5th. Russia - Latvia (14.15), Great Britain - Serbia, Turkey - Belgium
5th round. September 7th. Russia - Great Britain (14.30), Belgium - Serbia, Latvia - Turkey
Forecast "Sports Day by Day":
Serbia and Latvia will share the first two places, while Russia and Turkey will compete for the third place. Belgium and Great Britain are ours to win. Moreover, on group stage only with these opponents will Bazarevich's team have matches after the day of rest. For one of the oldest teams, such a bonus will not be superfluous. Predicting the performance of our team in the playoffs is very difficult. The main thing is not to get into the 1/8 finals against the Spaniards from the cross group C. All the other representatives of this six of the Russian team are tough.
Poll: Can the sensational success of the Russian team at the European Championship 2017 affect domestic basketball?
The victory of the Russian team at EuroBasket 2007 will not be forgotten by any fan who watched Kirilenko, Holden and company in front of the TV. The Spaniards' golden throw into the basket blocked many Olympic impressions. It seemed that the next morning the country woke up sick with basketball. Alas, the virus passed without much consequences for professional clubs. The choice of domestic basketball players is still meager. Legionnaires still set the tone in elite division whatever it's called. Young Russians are going to the NBA longer than they stay in American training camps. Don't victories change anything? Here are the opinions of our permanent experts.
Anton Ponkrashov, UNICS defender, European champion - 2007: After EuroBasket-2007 we also thought that everything would change...
Living in Russia, it's hard to predict. After winning the EuroBasket-2007 gold, the guys at one of the last meetings of the team also discussed that now a lot will change. We thought that after our victory it would be much better, but the changes as such did not happen. Of course, I want to believe in the best. I note that now basketball is much more broadcast on television. It is much easier to see the national team than in the old days, when only selected games were given to the general public. Now there is a positive trend in terms of coverage of basketball. Perhaps this will help support the success of our guys at EuroBasket 2017. When parents see the broadcasts, they may have a real incentive to bring their child to a sports school and send it to basketball.
Andrey Fetisov, Zenit breeder: They began to play more often on street playgrounds
The victory at EuroBasket 2007 caused a surge of interest in basketball. I personally felt it while working in the SDYUSSHOR No. 1 of the Kalinin region and in other basketball areas. The youth went to basketball. More and more people were playing on the street. The high-profile successes of the national team increase the mass character of this sport, but they do not have an immediate impact on professional leagues. For modern Russian players, triumph with the national team, unfortunately, is not a dream, as it was in our days. And anyway the game is leading Russian clubs based on foreign legionnaires.
Stanislav Ryzhov, agent: Home World Cup better wins away
You have asked a difficult question! It is more difficult to answer than to give a forecast for the performances of the Russian team. I'm afraid that the specific result of EuroBasket 2017 has no direct connection with the popularity of basketball. Perhaps the gold will somehow affect, but the first place of the Russian team will be a huge sensation. On the other hand, a failure at EuroBasket won't scare those fans away. Russian basketball which are available. I will make another point. A strong EuroBasket performance will increase Russia's chances of securing the right to host the 2023 Men's World Championship, which is to be decided in December. As far as I remember, the RSE headed by Andrey Kirilenko is seriously interested in this project. Home World Cup - this will be a real breakthrough and an opportunity to popularize basketball. Such an event, of course, covers the achievements of the team somewhere on the road. Have I noticed the payoff from winning EuroBasket 2007? It is better to ask people from outside about this. Are they interested in basketball? Such things are difficult to feel from the inside.
The results of the men's EuroBasket (European Basketball Championship) 2017. All the results of the championship. Tournament results.
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All results of the men's EuroBasket 2017. The final position of the teams:
Group stage
Group A (Helsinki, Finland)
31.08. Slovenia - Poland 90:81
31.08. Iceland - Greece 61:90
31.08. France - Finland 84:86
02.09. Poland - Iceland 91:61
02.09. Greece - France 87:95
02.09. Finland - Slovenia 78:81
03.09. France - Iceland 115:79
03.09. Slovenia - Greece 78:72
03.09. Finland - Poland 90:87
05.09. Iceland - Slovenia 75:102
05.09. Poland - France 78:75
05.09. Greece - Finland 77:89
06.09. Slovenia - France 95:78
06.09. Greece - Poland 95:77
06.09. Finland - Iceland 83:79
Group B (Tel Aviv, Israel)
31.08. Germany - Ukraine 75:63
31.08. Lithuania - Georgia 77:79
31.08. Italy - Israel 69:48
02.09. Georgia - Germany 57:67
02.09. Ukraine - Italy 66:78
02.09. Israel - Lithuania 73:88
03.09. Georgia - Ukraine 81:88
03.09. Lithuania - Italy 78:73
03.09. Germany - Israel 80:82
05.09. Ukraine - Lithuania 62:94
05.09. Italy - Germany 55:61
05.09. Israel - Georgia 91:104
06.09. Germany - Lithuania 72:89
06.09. Georgia - Italy 69:71
06.09. Israel - Ukraine 64:88
Group C (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
01.09. Hungary - Croatia 58:67
01.09. Spain - Montenegro 99:60
01.09. Romania - Czech Republic 68:83
02.09. Montenegro - Hungary 72:48
02.09. Czech Republic - Spain 56:93
02.09. Croatia - Romania 74:58
04.09. Hungary - Czech Republic 85:73
04.09. Montenegro - Croatia 72:76
04.09. Spain - Romania 91:50
05.09. Czech Republic - Montenegro 75:88
05.09. Croatia - Spain 73:79
05.09. Romania - Hungary 71:80
07.09. Czech Republic - Croatia 69:107
07.09. Hungary - Spain 64:87
07.09. Montenegro - Romania 86:69
GroupD(Istanbul, Turkey)
01.09. Belgium - Great Britain 103:90
01.09. Serbia - Latvia 92:82
01.09. Turkey - Russia 73:76
02.09. Latvia - Belgium 92:64
02.09. Russia- Serbia 75:72
02.09. UK - Turkey 70:84
04.09. Latvia-UK 97:92
04.09. Belgium - Russia 67:76
04.09. Serbia - Turkey 80:74
05.09. Russia- Latvia 69:84
05.09. UK - Serbia 82:68
05.09. Turkey - Belgium 78:65
07.09. Russia- UK 82:70
07.09. Belgium - Serbia 54:74
07.09. Latvia - Turkey 89:79
Tournament tables can be seen on the presented photos.
The 4 best teams from each group advanced to the 1/8 finals.
1/8 finals
· 09.. Slovenia - Ukraine 79:55
09.09. Germany - France 84:81
09.09. Finland - Italy 57:70
09.09. Lithuania - Greece 64:77
10.09. Latvia - Montenegro 100:68
10.09. Serbia - Hungary 86:78
10.09. Spain - Turkey 73:56
10.09. Croatia - Russia 78:101
1/4 finals
12.09. Germany - Spain 72:84
12.09. Slovenia - Latvia 103:97
13.09. Greece - Russia 69:74
13.09. Italy - Serbia 67:83
Semi-finals
14.09. Spain - Slovenia 72:92
15.09. Russia- Serbia 79:87
Match for 3rd place
17.09. Spain - Russia 93:85
The final
17.09. Slovenia - Serbia 93:85
The final position of the places:
1st place - Slovenia
2nd place - Serbia
3rd place - Spain
4th place - Russia
Most Valuable Player: Goran Dragic (Slovenia)
Top scorer: Alexey Shved - 219 points
Symbolic five of EuroBasket 2017:
Goran Dragic, Luka Doncic (both from Slovenia), Alexey Shved (Russia), Bogdan Bogdanovich (Serbia), Pau Gasol (Spain)
There is such a common phrase: "There is a first time for everything." I would very much not like that in a couple of weeks they would say so about the Russian team. At the European Championships, she can give any result. From gold in 2007 to a humiliating 21st place in a three-year-old tournament. - quite another matter. Here we have already been taught that the result will certainly be. Six times participated - six times got into the final round. And every time with a new coach. Now the seventh helmsman, 51-year-old Sergei Bazarevich, who has long dreamed of leading the national team, is entering the business. He was finally approached. Now it's time to show the product in person. "Sport Day by Day" highlighted two key moments of the fleeting qualifying tournament for the European Championship - 2017.
Order Kirilenko
Petersburg is a special city for Andrey Kirilenko. It was here that he was fashioned into a Russian basketball star. A week ago, on the banks of the Neva, Kirilenko was re-elected president of the RSE. It's time to share plans for the future. “We have one desire: for both teams to get to the 2020 Olympics,” Kirilenko said. Let's leave the girls alone. They have their own European Championship and their own selection, where Evgenia Belyakova and the company confidently crack down on all rivals. Four matches - four wins. The team of Alexander Vasin is unlikely to miss a ticket to the final. And it will be in good standing.
You can’t say the same about Bazarevich’s team yet. There are four matches ahead that will decide whether she will play in the European Championship. If not, then you won’t have to wander around idle either. In the late autumn of 2017, selection for the 2019 World Championships will begin (now this tournament has been shifted to odd years), where the winners of the first Olympic tickets will be determined.
But first you need to get to the World Cup itself. For 32 European teams offered 12 trips. Anyone who does not play at EuroBasket 2017 will most likely be put into a difficult group. Like a weak team. If the Russian team does not want to create unnecessary problems, it is necessary to pass the qualification of the European Championship with a bang and finally make some noise at the tournament itself. Our latest results, 21st and 17th places, are not at all conducive to a trip to Tokyo.
Will Bazarevich succeed?
They were shown under the leadership of Vasily Karasev and Evgeny Pashutin - two of the three promising Russian coaches are considered to be. The third is Sergey Bazarevich. He never hid that he wants to steer the main team of the country, but his turn has come just now. At a meeting of the executive committee of the RFB, Bazarevich was elected unanimously. So they believe him. Will not be removed at the first failure. And Bazarevich himself is unlikely to run away from the national team, as his predecessor did. The one that almost failed the selection for the previous EuroBasket. Pashutin's team even managed to lose to Switzerland, but then corrected itself by pulling out a difficult match in Italy. Bazarevich does not seem to be waiting for such a rollercoaster. His team has played well in friendly matches, and Sweden and Bosnia are unlikely to create serious problems. Especially in Perm and Krasnodar, where our team will play home matches. “This is absolutely inconvenient for us, but good for Russia,” Sergey Bazarevich did not pretend to be honest. “We have a big country, and basketball should be everywhere.” Preferably in combination with a decent team.
|Opinion
Former head coach of the Russian national team Stanislav Eremin: Shved's injury helped Karasev
Of course, I expect that the Russian team will be the favorite for the debut qualifying match against Bosnia. The opponent is weakened by injuries, and native walls will help our team. Perm is a sacred place for Russian basketball. First official game season - time to show maximum concentration. The coaching staff of Sergei Bazarevich should eliminate the slightest nervousness in the team's actions. I like the style of the new steering team. I like his aggressive basketball with a quick transition to the attack, a tendency to encourage players to take initiative in making decisions.
Unfortunately, the summer friendly matches did not sufficiently show the capabilities of the Russian team, since its rivals left much to be desired. I would like to see stronger sparring partners. It is clear that Bazarevich prefers to freely rotate the composition, not focusing on seven or eight main players. In the summer, he tested many young guys. I would like to see how they will open up in the national team. I noticed how Dmitry Kulagin matured. A bit of boyishness remains in his game, and yet Dima is growing up. Becomes more serious and collected. Although Timofey Mozgov looked heavy in summer games, this powerful center will certainly remain a key figure in the EuroBasket qualifiers.
It is curious how Sergei Karasev revealed himself after the injury of Alexei Shved. While the Khimki defender was healthy, Karasev Jr. noticeably shied away. As soon as his direct competitor left, Sergey began to act much more successfully. I'm worried about the position of the point guard. Dmitry Khvostov plays with dignity, but needs support. Sergey Bykov looked weak in the first summer games, but he flashed in St. Petersburg at the match against Finland. I would like to believe that the position of the "first number" will not sag, and the Russian team will win its group. Of course, Bazarevich's team needs to fight for the first place and not think about the chances to climb to the EuroBasket from the second place. Despite the injuries of Shved and Vitaly Fridzon, the Russian team has good chances to achieve the goal.
| By the way
The leader of Bosnia did not dare to fly to Perm
The national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina arrived in Perm for the first match of the EuroBasket 2017 qualification without two leading players. Naturalized American point guard Alex Renfro has announced that he will miss the entire qualifying tournament"for personal reasons". Heavy forward "Milwaukee", the captain and main trump card of the Bosnians Mirza Teletovic will perform only in home games. After his illness, doctors do not recommend long-distance flights for him. Thus, the choice of Perm brought good luck to the Russians. If Sergei Bazarevich's team had played in Moscow or St. Petersburg, Teletovich might have risked his health and bought a ticket for a flight.
At the start of the EuroBasket, the Russian team beat one of the four hosts of the tournament - the Turks (76:73). On Saturday, the team of Sergei Bazarevich is waiting for an even more serious test - a match against the Serbs, the silver medalists of the 2016 Olympics.
The promised full house at the Fenerbahce Arena did not happen. The upper tier was filled almost to capacity, and the most expensive tickets were still not sold out. In the sports palace, which can accommodate 10.5 thousand spectators, three small islands with Russian fans were formed. A group of six people stood out with earflaps, very relevant with the Istanbul "+30". The second was decorated by a girl in a kokoshnik, who attracted the attention of photographers. The third not only hung out the Russian tricolor, but also marked its residence - Irkutsk.
The President of the RSE came to the game in a white T-shirt without identification marks. If someone did not know the Russian NBA star by sight, then they would hardly classify Andrei Kirilenko as a VIP. What a difference - the Turkish star of the overseas league Hido Turkoglu! In a strict suit, with the badge of the Turkish Basketball Federation on the lapel, the long-term leader of the national team who ended his career did not even need an additional introduction.
The Russian team was the first to warm up. The appearance of the owners was greeted with a roar. Just to call it powerful would be a strong exaggeration. In the EuroBasket 2001 final, the Turks were greeted in such a way that seismic stations on both banks of the Bosphorus had to record vibrations. In the opening, fears that the “sixth player” of the hosts would influence our top five did not come true. Yes, they greeted each attack of Sergei Bazarevich's wards with a whistle, and their own were escorted to the assault on the ring with the sounds of a small orchestra that had taken its place on the podium. But in general, no big deal. It even pissed ours off.
Before the start of the meeting, Erdogan came to greet the judges. No, not the president of Turkey, but an assistant to the head coach of the national team named Ertugrul. The captain of the Turkish national team, Sedi Osman, did not consider it superfluous to greet the trio of referees. The courtesy of the hosts had no effect on the work of the referees.
Bazarevich surprised everyone
The starting five of the Russian national team surprised everyone. The match was started by three "kids", each of which could take on the functions of both a playmaker and an attacking defender. Actually, Alexei Shved, Dmitry Khvostov and Dmitry Kulagin did just that. Together with this trio, Andrei Vorontsevich and Vladimir Ivlev entered the starting five. The hosts were leading at first, but their maximum lead was only four points. Then the Shved adjusted the sight, having thrown two three-pointers in the first quarter, and with the advent of Timofey Mozgov on the court, the Russian team began to dominate under both shields. On offense, most often they just delivered the ball to the Brooklyn center, and he either put it in the basket or forced opponents to foul.
In the middle of the second quarter, for the first time in a match, the Russian team achieved a double-digit difference in the score - 25:15. Either our guys calmed down, or Mikhail Kulagin entered the game not in the best way, but the Turks reduced the gap to "-6". Bazarevich took a time-out in a timely manner, but Shved blundered in two attacks. Only on the third attempt did he put his “three”. Very timely, because the hosts have already reduced the gap to "-3".
However, it was felt that the game had reached a turning point. The Turks, having caught the courage, stepped up the pressure, and with the score of 31:27, Bazarevich returned Mozgov to the court. True, the Swede left to rest. The main sniper of the Russian team returned to the game with the score 36:30. In this segment, Nikita Kurbanov became an anti-hero. He first made an extremely offensive loss, and then fouled on a three-point shot. Much to the break, the Russian team won only three points. In fact, the game started all over again.
How to stop Mozgov?
At the beginning of the third quarter, the teams seemed to be competing in the number of inaccurate passes and losses. The hosts took Shved very tightly, but to do the same with Mozgov, a couple of other Mozgovs were needed. There are such guys in the Serbian national team, but the Turks have a huge problem with the centers. Due to maximum concentration and dedication, the hosts did not let the Russian team go into the lead. In the 26th minute, what Fenerbahce Arena dreamed of happened: the hosts equalized the score. Bazarevich immediately took a timeout and replaced Shved, who was too carried away by individual actions.
Only the Turks have already caught the courage, and the audience began to wail so that the stands swayed. An attempt to put pressure on the judges ended with a technical foul on the Turkish bench and four points scored by the Russian team in one attack. And on last seconds quarter arbitrators were not afraid to punish the hosts with a foul on the Swede with a three-point throw. Before the final quarter ours were leading - 55:51.
The Turks continued to put pressure on the verge of a foul, the Swede smeared from uncomfortable positions, and it was not possible to bring the ball to Mozgov. Ahead loomed validol ending. Bazarevich again tried to play with an easy five, releasing Vorontsevich and Antonov in the positions of the “big” ones, but there was no turning point. Moreover, the Turkish team took the lead - 58:57. After that, both teams alternately took the lead until the very valid ending.
It began two minutes before the end of the fourth quarter with an equal score from an unprepared long-range shot by the Shved. Then Mozgov scored one of two free kicks. With "-1" the Turkish coach took his first time out. The Russian team did not go well in attack. It's good that the owners did not succeed either. At the right moment, the Swede scored a "three". Moreover, we managed to defend ourselves. The Turks were forced to foul on Vitaly Fridzone 12 seconds before the siren. An experienced sniper does not miss in such situations. With a fairly comfortable advantage of six points, the only thing left was not to make mistakes.
Fridzon made this happen by fouling Cedi Osman's three-point shot. It's good that the guy playing in the NBA made one miss from the free throw. But Vitaly redeemed himself by scoring two out of two. "Three" Osman has not saved the hosts. The Russian national team started EuroBasket with a victory!
European Basketball Championship 2017: results
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Belgium - UK - 103:90 (24:26, 30:27, 19:14, 30:23)
Serbia - Latvia - 92:82 (21:24, 24:23, 20:13, 27:22)
2nd round. 2 September. Russia - Serbia (17.00), Latvia - Belgium, Turkey - Great Britain