Comments on: 2010 FIBA Worlds wild card draw a Europe-heavy slam dunk? http://www.ballineurope.com/european-basketball/2010-fiba-worlds-wild-card-draw-a-europe-heavy-slam-dunk/ We speak basketball Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Mid-Afternoon Milk Mustache, featuring Yao’s words of wisdom | Stacheketball, an NBA Blog http://www.ballineurope.com/european-basketball/2010-fiba-worlds-wild-card-draw-a-europe-heavy-slam-dunk/#comment-25486 The Mid-Afternoon Milk Mustache, featuring Yao’s words of wisdom | Stacheketball, an NBA Blog Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:42:54 +0000 http://www.ballineurope.com/?p=5335#comment-25486 [...] The Imperial: Os Davis gives a primer on which teams we could see occupy the wild card spots in the upcoming FIBA World Championship. [Ball in Europe] [...] [...] The Imperial: Os Davis gives a primer on which teams we could see occupy the wild card spots in the upcoming FIBA World Championship. [Ball in Europe] [...]

]]> By: Maku http://www.ballineurope.com/european-basketball/2010-fiba-worlds-wild-card-draw-a-europe-heavy-slam-dunk/#comment-25477 Maku Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:56:17 +0000 http://www.ballineurope.com/?p=5335#comment-25477 My humble opinion: 2 european teams: Lithuania (a must) & Great Britain (thinking of the Olympics...) One Asian: Lebanon One African: Egypt These two last countries are rather near from Turkey geographically and they give presence to different continents (of course, I haven't taken into account how much money the countries can put at Fiba's disposal... My humble opinion:

2 european teams: Lithuania (a must) & Great Britain (thinking of the Olympics…)
One Asian: Lebanon
One African: Egypt

These two last countries are rather near from Turkey geographically and they give presence to different continents

(of course, I haven’t taken into account how much money the countries can put at Fiba’s disposal…

]]> By: AM http://www.ballineurope.com/european-basketball/2010-fiba-worlds-wild-card-draw-a-europe-heavy-slam-dunk/#comment-25468 AM Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:34:52 +0000 http://www.ballineurope.com/?p=5335#comment-25468 Well... Putting Germany in right away, and not putting Lithuania can be explained ONLY by marketing reasons, or, to use a simple language - MONEY. Both teams tied for 11th place in Eurobasket09, whereas Lithuania took 4th at Olympics08 and 3rd in Eurobasket07. Overall, since 2003 Lithuania has been showing top sporting results, Eurobasket 03 - 1st, Olympics 04 - 4th, Eurobasket 05 - 5th, WorldCup 06 - 7th, Eurobasket 07 - 3rd, Olympics 08 - 4th and, of course the fatal last Eurobasket. Not even to mention that FIBA requires a fee for giving a wildcard. Some people would call it selling a wildcard. So, my question is - where have the ideals of sport been lost? Well…
Putting Germany in right away, and not putting Lithuania can be explained ONLY by marketing reasons, or, to use a simple language – MONEY. Both teams tied for 11th place in Eurobasket09, whereas Lithuania took 4th at Olympics08 and 3rd in Eurobasket07. Overall, since 2003 Lithuania has been showing top sporting results, Eurobasket 03 – 1st, Olympics 04 – 4th, Eurobasket 05 – 5th, WorldCup 06 – 7th, Eurobasket 07 – 3rd, Olympics 08 – 4th and, of course the fatal last Eurobasket.
Not even to mention that FIBA requires a fee for giving a wildcard. Some people would call it selling a wildcard.
So, my question is – where have the ideals of sport been lost?

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