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Croatia get Shved-ed as Russia advance

Just when it looked like Sergey Bazarevich had made a tactical blunder, Alexey Shved proved his coach more than right by utterly taking over the game in the third quarter. Emmet Ryan on how Russia put their foot down when they lightened the load to sweep past Croatia and into the quarter finals of EuroBasket […]

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EuroBasket 2017: Group C preview

It’s almost time for Eurobasket so BallinEurope is breaking down each of the groups over the next few days. Rather than going team by team which, to be honest, would take way too long, we’re going group by group to preview the battles ahead in the opening stages. By process of following the alphabet, we’re […]

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Rio 2016 – Euro post-mortem and prognosis

The Olympics have come and gone with two medals being snagged by European nations, Emmet Ryan looks back at how all five performed and what to expect from them in the next couple of international cycles Five teams enjoyed and endured five very different rides through Rio but, in the end, the two that brought […]

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Rio Quarter Finals – Croatia and Serbia, the rising suns

Serbia are meant to be ahead of Croatia in the development cycle but both see Wednesday’s Olympic quarter final clash as a big chance for a medal this week, writes Emmet Ryan We’ve been over this territory with Croatia already. This is a team playing with house money and now they are in a game […]

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Rio Day 1 and 2 – Let’s all over-react to Dario

On a pair of days where everything was over-analysed, one play in particular got social media in a frenzy. Emmet Ryan on Dario’s block and the rest of what happened Throughout Croatia’s comeback win over Spain, the trend on social media was to react way too much into Dario Saric’s poor scoring performance for the […]

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Croatia head to Rio with house money

The potential of Croatia’s national team hasn’t been a secret but most of that generation is too young to be relevant in Rio, Emmet Ryan looks at how a side somewhat ahead of schedule has a free run in these Olympics Croatia looks like it is going to be great, like proper fantastic. In Dario […]

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EuroBasket 2015: Group C preview

What’s this? An actual basketball piece. It’s been a week but Emmet Ryan needed time. We’re going to break down the runers and riders in Group C now…and then do Group D tomorrow morning with a hangover Venue: Arena Zagreb Capacity: 16,500 Is Oguz Savas playing here?: No Your contenders Croatia are your hosts and […]

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Draft Profile: Mario Hezonja

With the 2015 NBA Draft just a few weeks away, BallinEurope’s Sam Chadwick is breaking down the Europeans in contention to hear their names called on 25 June. First up it’s Mario Hezonja of Croatia and FC Barcelona. Vital Stats: Position: Shooting Guard/Small Forward Height: 1.98m Date of birth: 25/Feb/1995 Country: Croatia Current club: FC […]

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Basketball World Cup of Beer: Quarter Finals – Part 2

We are in the latter stages of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer. It began with 24 beers, one for each of the nations in the FIBA World Cup of Basketball. Now we’re down to the elite eight. It’s time to find out our first two semi-finalists. Here are your match-ups on day two […]

6 years ago 1 More

FIBA World Cup Preview – Group B

We’re going group by group with what you need to know to enjoy the 2014 FIBA World Cup of Basketball. Today we’re looking at Group B. The teams Argentina Qualified: Third place at the 2013 FIBA Americas championship. No Manu Ginobili in this team and while still a threat to make the knockout stages, there […]

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Basketball World Cup of Beer: Round 2 – Part 1

We’ve reached the knockout stages of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer. The 24 nations from each of the nations in the FIBA World Cup of Basketball are each represented by a beer. Now only 16 remain. Today we’ll see 8 of those become 4 in our first set of second round match-ups. Here […]

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Basketball World Cup of Beer – Group B

We continue the first round of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer with Group B today. After France cantered to top spot in Group A yesterday, here’s hoping for a higher standard of competition. On second thoughts, don’t get your hopes up too high. Today we’re going through Group B and, ummm, well at […]

6 years ago 1 More
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