Four days ago, jokiki and his Serbia did not enter the European Cup top eight. Today it was Luca donchich and his Slovenian team. They lost to Poland with 87-90 and did not enter the semi-final. In this way, all the champions of the last European Cup were eliminated.
The European Cup has now become the graveyard of NBA superstars.
There is still Gobel left. If you agree to call him a superstar, he is at least NBA All-Star and the best defensive player. However, Gobel and his French team were almost blocked outside the semi-final gate. In the match with Italy, they were 7 points behind in the last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter, but they resisted the strong pressure and entered the top four with 93-85.
However, the defeat of three MVP stars, including letters, jokiki and Luca, really showed the intensity and cruelty of the European Cup. The letter and the Greek team lost because the attack technique of the letter was still defective. Jokiki and Serbia lost because they were too light and didn’t take Italy in their eyes. Luca and the defending champion lost to Poland, more because Luca was too tired and injured at a young age.
This game of Lucca 15 5, only 14+11+7. Before the match, his feet were wrapped with ice pack, and he held his waist all the time. After the match, he said that the third quarter was closed.
Luca is only 23 years old. Almost 10 days later, the NBA training camp for the new season will begin.
This is a ups and downs of the tug of war, the score back and forth range, in the European Cup is extremely rare.
The two teams clenched the score in the first quarter, but entered the second quarter. The Polish team made some counterattacks after catching mistakes. The magic of three points was to play a wave of 15-1 first, and then expanded the advantage to 23 points. At the end of the first half, poland’s leading edge is still as high as 19 points.
The Slovenian team showed its decline in the first half, but the Polish team was very aggressive. They scored 9 three points. The team made only 3 mistakes and scored 58 points in two sections. However, in the third quarter, Luca led the team to kill back. On the contrary, the Polish team began to be inaccurate, and they couldn’t even throw three points desperately. In the third quarter, the 3-point goal was 0 in 11, and mistakes quickly climbed to double digits. The Slovenian team played a wave of 26-6. After entering the fourth quarter, it led the Polish team with 4 points.
God gave them the last 5 minutes of decisive battle, starting from 76-76. The Polish team first passed the foreign aid Slott to bonitka and threw it into the three points, while Luca lost both penalties on the free throw line. In the last 3 minutes, Luca fouled bonitka and graduated from 5 criminals, the leader on the court became Goran Dragic and finally failed to recover the defeat.
Is the Polish team so strong now? Look at their ranking of the International Basketball Federation, which was the 13th before the European Cup.
Now this Polish team, compared with the Polish team who defeated the Chinese team in the World Cup in 2019, has changed by half, but the core lineup at that time has not changed. The leader of little layslott is Captain bonitka, there are French power forward Elon Cher inside. Slote and Cher are both old and 35 years old, but three years ago, the 18-year-old large center balcherowski was three years older.
In fact, the Polish team also has a future star Sohan. This year, the 9th rookie in the first round of NBA, gave up the European Cup for the new season. Bonitka is the core, leader and spiritual pillar of the team. He also has a younger brother who plays the defender. Because the two brothers are incompatible, bonitka did not enter the national team. Therefore, the current Polish team mainly relies on the lineup of the World Cup three years ago.
Bonitka had many disasters in 2022, but he didn’t expect to be popular in the European Cup. In recent years, he has been playing for the Saint Petersburg Zenit team in Russia. At the beginning of the year, due to the bleeding from the nasal cavity, the doctor on the operating table said that he might die without treatment. Finally, after returning to the game, Russia and Ukraine fought again. First, he returned to Russia, resisting the pressure of public opinion, and was publicly criticized by gothat. In the Champions League, bonitka was also in a low state.
However, in the first world war against Slovenia, he played 26+16+10 large three pairs. In the history of the European Cup, only four people had this achievement.
In the semi-finals, will the Cinderella Tour of Poland continue? Their opponent will be France. Another group of semi-finals was hosted by Germany to Spain.
The loss of the Slovenian team can be summarized as three major reasons:
First, Luca’s injuries and fatigue affected his performance. In this European Cup, Luca’s state fluctuated obviously. In the first three battles, the shooting was not accurate, 3 out of 22 in 3 points. In the next three matches, Luca played a super high level, taking 36, 47 and 35 points respectively, but 8 into 4 this 15 5, free throw 4 1.
Second, the attention to the Polish team was not enough, and the first half was slow and hot. Although Poland ranks not low in the world, after all, there have been no outstanding achievements since 1997. Except for the top eight in the 2019 World Cup, in fact, in addition to this, they have not scored the top eight in international competitions of any level. Coach Sekulic warned the players before the match that there was no weak brigade in the European Cup. The Polish team was very good. There were three prominent players bonitka, Slote and balcherowski. However, coaches usually say this before a big battle, which is often regarded as a formal high-sounding language. The enthusiasm of fighting on the court can be seen. The Polish team broke their 9 goals and bonitka grabbed 16 rebounds.
Third, JELLEND · Goran Dragic was injured, with only 7 people mainly rotating on the court. In fact, there were 11 people enrolled in this game in Slovenia, which were mainly played by seven people, Lucca, Goran Goran Dragic, Qian Cha, Blazic, Toby, Muriqui and pripelic. The injured Luca had many fouls and many mistakes. The six mistakes in the whole game were the most since the beginning of the European Cup.
Luca’s continuous rotation throughout the year makes people worry about whether his body is excessively consumed.
Weight is one of his major advantages, and he has the upper hand in the confrontation in the same position, and his weight does not drag down the speed during the defense hours. However, his role, role and utilization rate in the national team are similar to those in the Mavericks, and he has a huge risk of injury.
Goran Dragic had already announced that he would withdraw from the national team and no longer play international games, but he still went to the battle for the European Cup, with an average of nearly 15 points per game, which could reduce Luca’s burden. But after all, he is 36 years old. Since the fourth session of the group match, he has played for more than 30 minutes in a row, playing 40 minutes against France and 37 minutes against Poland.
In addition to Luca’s main control, in fact, the Slovenian team brought four control guards. In addition to Goran Dragic, there were Samar, lupnick and Nikolich, but the coach did not trust them. Luca now has no successor.
This situation is a bit like being in the Mavericks. Bronson did not supplement his staff after leaving. I don’t know if he will talk to little black Schroder this time (see “whether the Lakers want Schroder to sign back”).
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