Che men's basketball schedule results. Russian “Globtrotters” in Istanbul The Russian national team victoriously completed the EuroBasket group tournament
There is such a common phrase: “There is a first time for everything.” I really wouldn’t like to see that said about the Russian national team in a couple of weeks. At the European Championships she can achieve any result. From gold in 2007 to a humiliating 21st place at the tournament three years ago.
- a completely different matter. Here we have already been taught that there will certainly be a result. Participated six times - six times reached the final round. And each time with a new coach. Now the seventh helmsman is taking over - 51-year-old Sergei Bazarevich, who has long dreamed of leading the national team. They finally met him halfway. Now it's time to show off the product. “Sport Day by Day” highlighted two key moments of the short-lived qualifying tournament for the 2017 European Championship.
Kirilenko's order
St. Petersburg is a special city for Andrei Kirilenko. It was here that he was molded into a Russian basketball star. A week ago, on the banks of the Neva, Kirilenko was re-elected president of the RFB. It's time to share plans for the future. “We have one desire: for both teams to qualify for 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 deal with all their rivals. Four matches - four victories. Alexander Vasin's team is unlikely to miss out on a spot in the finals. And he will be in good standing there.
You can’t say the same about Bazarevich’s team yet. There are four matches ahead that will decide whether she will play at the European Championships. If not, then you won’t have to hang around idle either. In late autumn 2017, selection for the 2019 World Championships will begin (this tournament has now been shifted to odd-numbered years), where the winners of the first Olympic berths will be determined.
But first we need to get to the World Championship itself. 12 trips have been offered to 32 European teams. Anyone who does not play at EuroBasket 2017 will probably be put in a difficult group. Like a weak team. If the Russian team does not want to create unnecessary problems for itself, it needs to pass the European Championship qualification 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.
They were shown under the leadership of Vasily Karasev and Evgeny Pashutin - believed to be two of the three promising Russian coaches. The third is Sergei Bazarevich. He has never hidden the fact that he wants to lead the main team in the country, but his turn has only come now. At a meeting of the executive committee of the RFB, Bazarevich was elected unanimously. This means they believe him. They won't remove you the first time you fail. And Bazarevich himself is unlikely to run away from the national team, as his predecessor did. The same 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 doesn’t seem to be in for such a roller coaster. His team performed 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,” Sergei Bazarevich did not prevaricate. “We have a big country, and there should be basketball 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 in the debut qualifying match against Bosnia. The opponent is weakened by injuries, and our team will be helped by our native walls. Perm is a holy place for Russian basketball. The first official game of the season is the time to show maximum concentration. Sergei Bazarevich's coaching staff must eliminate the slightest nervousness in the team's actions. I like the style of the new team helmsman. I like his aggressive basketball with a quick transition to attack and his tendency to encourage players’ initiative in decision-making.
Unfortunately, the summer friendly matches did not sufficiently show the capabilities of the Russian national team, since its opponents left much to be desired. I would like to see stronger sparring partners. It is clear that Bazarevich prefers to freely rotate the squad, without getting hung up on seven or eight main players. In the summer he tested many young guys.
It’s interesting how Sergei Karasev opened up after Alexey Shved’s injury. While the Khimki defender was healthy, Karasev Jr. noticeably faded. As soon as his direct competitor dropped out, Sergei began to act much more successfully. I'm worried about the point guard position. Dmitry Khvostov plays decently, but needs support. Sergei Bykov looked weak in the first summer games, but he showed off in St. Petersburg in the match against Finland. I would like to believe that the position of the “number one” will not sag, and the Russian team will win its group. Of course, Bazarevich’s team needs to fight for first place and not think about the chances of qualifying for EuroBasket from second place. Despite the injuries to Shved and Vitaly Fridzon, the Russian team has a good chance of achieving its goal.
|By the way
The leader of Bosnia did not dare to fly to Perm
The Bosnia and Herzegovina national team arrived in Perm for the first EuroBasket 2017 qualifying match without two leading players. Naturalized American point guard Alex Renfro announced that he will miss the entire qualifying tournament “for personal reasons.” Milwaukee power forward, captain and main trump card of the Bosnians Mirza Teletovic will perform only in home matches. 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 national team had played in Moscow or St. Petersburg, Teletovich might have risked his health and taken a flight ticket.
The 2017 European Women's Basketball Championship will take place in the Czech Republic. The best basketball players in Europe will compete in Prague and Hradec Kralove from June 16 to 25.
Sixteen teams take part in the European Women's Basketball Championship, which are divided into four groups:
Group A: Hungary, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Spain
Group B: Belarus, Türkiye, Slovakia, Italy
Group C: Serbia, Slovenia, France, Greece
Group D: Latvia, Belgium, Montenegro, Russia
The winner of each group advances directly to the quarter-finals, while the second and third places in each group will play in the 1/8 finals.
2017 European Women's Basketball Championship schedule:
13:30 Belarus - Italy 60:80 (16:18, 12:20, 12:26, 20:16)
13:30 Belgium- Montenegro 66:64 (25:13, 15:18, 12:15, 14:18)
16:00 Latvia - Russia 59:71 (17:12, 7:22, 19:19, 16:18)
16:00 Türkiye- Slovakia 69:58 (26:18, 19:15, 11:12, 13:13)
19:00 Serbia - Greece 60:69 (11:19, 19:16,21:18, 9:16)
21:30 Hungary - Spain 48:62 (8:18, 13:12, 10:13, 17:19)
21:30 Slovenia - France 68:70 (9:18, 24:16, 15:14, 20:22)
13:30 Slovakia- Belarus 68:59 (15:16, 17:17, 19:11, 17:15)
13:30 Montenegro - Latvia 55:76 (23:15, 14:23, 12:14, 6:24)
16:00 Russia - Belgium 75:76 FROM (15:29, 17:17, 17:15, 19:7, 7:8)
19:00 Greece - Slovenia 56:59 (14:12, 19:11, 14:21, 9:15)
19:00 Czech Republic - Hungary 70:74 (20:24, 18:14, 12:17, 20:19)
21:30 Italy - Türkiye 53:54 (17:12, 13:18, 12:15, 11:9)
21:30 France - Serbia 73:57 (15:19, 18:15, 19:9, 21:14)
13:30 Latvia - Belgium 58:62 (10:16, 23:19, 18:9, 7:18)
16:00 Belarus - Türkiye 74:88 (14:20, 23:27, 11:19, 26:22)
16:00 Serbia- Slovenia 88:69 (21:30, 23:11, 18:17, 26:11)
19:00 Montenegro - Russia 54:78 (18:21, 16:17, 15:19, 5:21)
19:00 Czech- Spain 67:63 (17:17, 11:12, 17:15, 22:19)
21:30 Slovakia - Italy 61:68 (12:16, 18:17, 13:22, 18:13)
21:30 France- Greece 70:63 (14:19, 21:11, 14:22, 21:11)
Playoffs:
1/8 finals
(25) 19:00 Ukraine - Slovakia 68:82 (16:22, 13:12, 27:23, 12:25)
(26) 19:00 Serbia - Latvia 70:75 (12:24, 20:10, 19:19, 19:22)
(27) 21:30 Italy- Hungary 49:48 (12:14, 17:7, 5:19, 15:8)
(28) 21:30 Russia - Greece 58:62 (15:19, 17:9, 4:22, 22:12)
1/4 finals
(32) 13:30 Belgium- Italy 79:66 (27:13, 19:20, 11:22, 22:11)
(30) 16:00 Türkiye - Greece 55:84 (15:10, 15:26, 10:21, 15:27)
(29) 19:00 Spain- Latvia 67:47 (27:12, 11:10, 12:14, 17:11)
(31) 21:30 France- Slovakia 67:40 (21:6, 18:18, 11:8, 17:8)
1/2 finals
19:00 Spain- Belgium 68:52 (20:11, 16:10, 16:12, 16:19)
21:30 Greece - France 55:77 (17:23, 13:12, 17:17, 8:25)
19:00 Match for 3rd place. Belgium- Greece 78:45 (24:15, 16:14, 21:7, 17:9)
21:30 Final. Spain- France 71:55 (21:18, 18:12, 17:10, 15:15)
Two years ago, due to the refusal of Ukraine, which had no time for basketball, the EuroBasket had to be hastily held according to a new formula. The group tournament games took place in four countries, one of which was assigned to 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 another know-how from two years ago: the group owners were allowed to take one team without drawing lots, 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 the EuroBaskets, but Russia. On the one hand, it’s good: you won’t have to fly to the playoffs. We still need to get into this playoffs.
The author of these notes comes to Istanbul for the third time and always ends up in the new sports palace. The decisive matches of EuroBasket 2001 took place in the arena named after the journalist Abdi Ipekchi. He wasn't a basketball commentator. He died defending democratic ideals. For the 2010 World Cup, a huge sports palace was built in the largest metropolis, named after local sports functionary Sinan Erdem. It will host the EuroBasket 2017 playoff matches, and the group stage was entrusted to be hosted by Fenerbahçe Arena. It is located in the Asian part of Istanbul, and it took an hour and a half to get there from the airport. By the start of the playoffs you 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 Sergei Bazarevich’s squad. No one can predict how the Russian national team will play at the EuroBasket. On the one hand, the roster includes seven proven fighters, led by NBA center Timofey Mozgov, Alexey Shved, who played in the overseas league, and Vitaly Fridzon, who made his debut with the national team back at EuroBasket 2005. 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, Dmitry at least had a blast with Vasily Karasev, first at Triumph and then at Zenit, before settling firmly on the bench at CSKA. Mikhail has only the same shop on his record.
Crimean Tatar with an altered passport
Most likely, Bazarevich wants to rely on variability in the attack with a light five. It will be difficult to resist the Serbs, who have three skilled centers with a height of 2.10. Although the Olympic vice-champions were also missing many stars. From the squad that played in Rio, only five people came to EuroBasket. Moreover, only Bogdan Bogdanovich can be considered the leader 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 begin with a battle with the hosts. If the competitions were not held in Turkey, the national team of this country could easily 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 a tour of the Uzbekistan youth team, which included the tall Arsen Ilyasov. His documents were changed, making him three years younger and indicating the city of Eskesehir as his place of birth. Surprisingly, FIBA functionaries did not object to the eastern treachery.
They really counted on Ilyasova, but in the winter he changed his club to 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. Center Amer Oshik also did not arrive, and in the control game with the Montenegro national team, naturalized American Bobby Dixon, who first pulled Karsiyaka and then Fenerbahce to victories in the Turkish championship and European competition, received an unpleasant injury.
The American was naturalized before EuroBasket 2015, where he became one of the leaders of the Turkish team. They planned to enter the home championship under the name Ali Muhammad. Only the injury turned out to be so serious that until the last moment coach Ufuk Sarika could not make up his mind. All the other teams that came to Istanbul had already submitted applications, and the owners still doubted whether to include Ali Diksonovich Muhammad in it. Fierce support from the fans (fans of the basketball team Fenerbahçe stand out even against the general Turkish background) and “home” refereeing are guaranteed to the hosts, but with the current squad this may not be enough even to defeat the Russian team.
Rolling around Belgium?
The Latvian national team also seems to be a serious rival. NBA bigs Kristaps Porzingis and Davis Bertans can easily eat Mozgov alone. The potential of Janis Timma, who captained Zenit last season, is well known. The coaching staff of the Latvian national team, led by Ainars Bagatskis, even went as far as naturalizing the American “baby,” although previously the proud Baltic republic did not want to hear about it. Moreover, if the Turks took “one of their own”, Dixon, who has been playing in the national championship for a long time, then Roland Smith, who hardly even appeared in Riga, will play for the Latvian national team. He plays in the Spanish Championship for Fuenlabrada.
Belgium and Great Britain will also play in Group D. These teams have neither NBA players nor European basketball stars on their rosters. The British brought six debutants to EuroBasket. I just won’t risk saying that Bazarevich’s squad will crush these opponents like a steamroller.
Head coach of the Russian national team Sergei Bazarevich is not too happy about the meeting with the hosts. “The physical condition of the team is quite good,” TASS quotes Bazarevich. - I’m not happy that we came across a team with the strongest support - the Turkish team. I know this country firsthand, I coached and played there. Historically, they have placed highly in tournaments while playing at home. I don’t formulate a goal for the tournament for myself. You need to leave the group. From fourth place, of course, it won't be very good. In the playoffs, the Russian team is capable of beating anyone in a single game.”
The Russian team can do anything. And take any opponent to the playoffs, and lose to the nominal outsider in the group. That's the kind of team we have.
Istanbul
Calendar. Group stage
1st round. September 1. Russia - Türkiye (21.00*), Belgium - Great Britain, Serbia - Latvia
2nd round. September 2. Russia - Serbia (17.00), Latvia - Belgium, UK - Türkiye
3rd round. 4 September. Russia - Belgium (17.00), Latvia - Great Britain, Serbia - Türkiye
4th round. September 5. Russia - Latvia (14.15), Great Britain - Serbia, Türkiye - Belgium
5th round. September 7. Russia - Great Britain (14.30), Belgium - Serbia, Latvia - Türkiye
Forecast "Sports Day by Day":
Serbia and Latvia will share the first two places, and Russia and Türkiye will compete for third place. We must defeat Belgium and Great Britain. Moreover, at the group stage, Bazarevich’s team will have matches only with these opponents after a day of rest. For one of the oldest teams, such a bonus would not be out of place. It is very difficult to predict our team's performance in the playoffs. The main thing is not to get into the 1/8 finals against the Spaniards from cross-over group C. All the other representatives of this six of the Russian team are tough.
Poll: Can the sensational success of the Russian national team at the 2017 European Championship affect domestic basketball?
The victory of the Russian national 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 shot in the basket overshadowed many Olympic impressions. It seemed that the next morning the country woke up sick with basketball. Alas, the virus passed without any special consequences for professional clubs. The choice of domestic basketball players is still scarce. Legionnaires still set the tone in the elite division, whatever it is called. Young Russians are going to the NBA longer than they are staying in American training camps. Don't victories really change anything? Here are the opinions of our regular experts.
Anton Ponkrashov, UNICS defender, European champion - 2007: After EuroBasket 2007, we also thought that everything would change...
Living in Russia, it is difficult to predict. After winning EuroBasket 2007 gold, the guys also discussed at one of the last team meetings that now a lot will change. We thought that after our victory it would be much better, but there were no changes as such. Of course, I want to believe in the best. I note that basketball is now broadcast on television much more. It is much easier to see the national team than in previous times, when the mass public only saw select games. Now there is a positive trend in terms of basketball coverage. 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 enroll them in basketball.
Andrey Fetisov, Zenit selector: They started playing more often on street courts
The victory at EuroBasket 2007 caused a surge of interest in basketball. I personally felt it while working at Sports School No. 1 of the Kalininsky District and in other basketball areas. Young people started playing basketball. They began to play more often on street venues. The great successes of the national team increase the popularity of this sport, but 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 in any case, the game of leading Russian clubs is based on foreign players.
Stanislav Ryzhov, agent: Home World Cup is better than away victories
You asked a difficult question! It is more difficult to answer than to give a forecast for the performance of the Russian national team. I’m afraid that the specific result of EuroBasket 2017 has no direct connection with the popularity of basketball. Perhaps the gold will have some impact, but the first place for the Russian team will be a huge sensation. On the other hand, failure at the EuroBasket will not scare away those fans of Russian basketball who are available. Let me note another point. A strong performance at EuroBasket will increase Russia's chances of securing the right to host the 2023 Men's World Cup, a decision on which is due to be made in December. As far as I remember, the RFB, led by Andrei Kirilenko, is seriously interested in this project. A home World Cup would be a real breakthrough and an opportunity to popularize basketball. Such an event will undoubtedly cover the achievements of the national team somewhere on the road. Did I notice the impact of winning EuroBasket 2007? It’s better to ask outsiders about this. Are they interested in basketball? Such things are difficult to feel from the inside.
In the final match of the EuroBasket group tournament, the Russian team met with the Great Britain team. Basketball in Foggy Albion is second in popularity even to hockey, not to mention football or rugby. For a long time they could not even assemble a single British team. The teams of Scotland and Wales generally preferred to play in the third division of European basketball with such formidable opponents as the teams of Moldova and San Marino.
How to pacify jumping guys?
Before the home Olympics, in order not to lose face, the British searched all over the world for players with the necessary passports. Even NBA star Luol Deng, who is considered the most underrated player in the world's strongest league, was persuaded to play. The British played well at the London Olympics, but since then they have been unable to gather the strongest players under the banner of the national team. So they brought to Istanbul a rather motley group of foreign players playing in the championships of Germany, Greece, Spain and France, two basketball players from the Scottish Glasgow Rocks and defender Kyle Johnson from the London Lightning team. True, this “London” is based in Canada.
The British lost all four previous matches in Istanbul, and even a sensation in the meeting with the Russian team would not have helped them stay at the EuroBasket. They could only slam the door. Sergei Bazarevich's team definitely needed a victory in order to take first place in the group with the help of the Turkish team.
The rest day was beneficial for our players. The satiety with basketball, which was noticeable at the end of the match with the Latvian team, has gone away. The team looked fresh, and our opponents did not pose any serious challenges to our basketball players. In the starting five, along with Andrei Vorontsevich, were the classic “third” and “fifth” numbers Nikita Kurbanov and Timofey Mozgov. The UK team is dominated by dark-skinned jumping guys. So Sergei Bazarevich decided to release more “big ones”.
The fans chanted: “Don’t relax!”
The British looked good in attack. Especially Murray. Just don't think that tennis player Andy has changed his sporting specialization, but in Scotland it is a popular surname. So Garrett Murray found a place in the British team. The British didn't play defense at all. They allowed our team to shoot from behind the arc without resistance, deliver the ball under Mozgov’s shield, and play combinations with a free player getting a shot.
In such a game, Alexey Shved and his partners feel at ease. By the big break, the Russian team scored 9 three-pointers with a 53 percent hit rate. True, we won by only 12 points. At certain moments, Russian basketball players played to the public. Bazarevich even raised his voice to stop this “Harlem Globetrotters”. Spectacular things can be done at “+30” a minute before the final siren.
Russian fans also provided assistance in educational work to the coaching staff. They chanted: “Don’t relax!” Moreover, they helped Vorontsevich return to the game, for whom not everything worked out at first. But by the big break, Andrei had three “threes” to his credit. The same as the Swede.
In the third quarter, the British improved their defense a little. In any case, they didn’t allow Mozgov to score slam dunks like in the NBA. Taking into account the fact that not all long-range shots were successful, as in the first half, the advantage of the Russian team began to melt away. The fans again chanted: “Don’t relax!”, and Bazarevich, with the score 54:48, took a time out and released such proven fighters as Semyon Antonov and Vitaly Fridzon onto the court. The British, meanwhile, reduced the gap to three points. Now they have started making long shots.
Kirilenko refused the mascot
The Swede was seated on the bench, and the Globetrotters stopped. The Russian team improved in defense, began to value the ball in attack, and Mozgov grabbed rebounds on the opponent’s backboard several times. By the last break, Bazarevich’s team led with a difference of only “+7”. Although she could have already removed all questions about the winner of the match.
The fan sector was even forced to adjust the instructions. Now the stands were chanting: “Let’s play calmly!” But what kind of peace is there when the Swede’s shots didn’t go well?! Five and a half minutes before the siren with the score 64:60, Bazarevich was again forced to take a time out.
There was no calm. Vorontsevich's technical foul cost the Russian team dearly. In one attack, the British scored 5 points and reduced the gap to a minimum. At this difficult moment, Shved’s “three” came to the rescue. Two minutes before the end of regulation time, the British coach took a time out to explain how to win back the five-point deficit. At this time, the EuroBasket mascot was trying to persuade Andrei Kirilenko to shoot... at the basket of the Russian team. The RFB President did not show the British what to do in the end.
But Bazarevich explained how to defend himself.
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In general, a completely valid ending was avoided. They even ensured a double-digit difference in the score by the final siren. True, by this time the Russians were no longer demonstrating Globetrotters-style feints.
results
Europe championship. Men. Group tournament. Group D (Istanbul, Türkiye).
4th round. Russia - Great Britain - 82:70 (23:16, 20:15, 18:23, 21:16)
Kurbanov 11 Murray 10
Vorontsevich 6 Clark 21
Mozgov 11 Olaseni 19
Khvostov 5 Okereafor 5
Swede 30 Johnson 7
Fridzon 14 Mockford 2
Zubkov 5 Nelson 4
D. Kulagin 0 Boateng 2
Antonov 0 Akhara 0
Russian basketball players made it to the 1/8 of the 2018 European Championship.
The group stage of the 2017 Basketball World Cup is now in full swing. Based on the results of the matches played, the first leaders in their groups have already been determined. And Russia managed to lead Group D. On September 1, our basketball players beat the Turkish team with a score of 76:73, on September 2 they beat the Serbian team with a score of 75:72, and yesterday they beat Belgium with a score of 67:76. Today they will have a match with the Latvian national team. And on September 7, our basketball players will play with the British team.
Tournament table, game schedule, results of matches of the European Basketball Championship 2017:
The Slovenes are in the lead in Group A. Along with them, Finland, France, Poland, Greece and Iceland also fell into this group. Lithuania currently occupies first place in Group B. Next come Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia and Israel. Spain is in first place in Group C. Next come Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, the Czech Republic and Romania.
Playoffs of the European Basketball Championship 2017
It is already known that in the 1/8 Russia will have to play with the team that will take fourth place in Group C. This could be the Czech Republic, Montenegro or Hungary. And, according to experts, Bazarevich’s team can cope with any of these teams. Let's hope that the analysts' forecasts will come true and our team will return home with the winner's cup.
