Blogging Through the Euroleague Final Four (Day 2)

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Frequent updates from the biggest stage of European basketball--the Euroleague Final Four in Athens.

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[jwfish6]

disappointing loss for fmp...but looking at the stats shows they played 5 vs 1 today...really wish musli or dekic would have stepped up but i guess its hard to blame them for being 2 years younger....very talented trio for zalgris

[Srle]

Not worried. Like you said they are too young. They will show their quality this year on European Championship. Plus 89 generation its not Serbia's best generation(have in mind this is only FMP junior team). And also this was FMP second tournament. It was to many games but still great success. First and second place. Macvan was great in both tournaments. All in all great accomplishment for FMP.

[jwfish6]

defintetely...such an impressive junior team for such an average senior team...its hard to understand how a small club like that can compete with teams with so much money such as CSKA and Zalgris and all the spanish teams

this is an even weaker generation for the russians of all the countries, or atleast cska's russians.

[jwfish6]

i would say that cepukaitis and macvan are deserving to be in the 89 rankings

[tamaska]

defintetely...such an impressive junior team for such an average senior team...its hard to understand how a small club like that can compete with teams with so much money such as CSKA and Zalgris and all the spanish teams

this is an even weaker generation for the russians of all the countries, or atleast cska's russians.

Putting CSKA and Zalgiris in same line while talking about budget is just wrong..lol

CSKA basketball school has bigger budget than some of 1st Russian league teams. They gathering best prospect from all over country, bringing them to Moscow, signing long term contracts, they live in hotels, they getting best threatment.

Zalgiris schools core of players are from Kaunas, with 360,000 thousands population.
Cepukaitis and Janavicius are from Alytus, but already signed contract with Zalgiris.
We have one Estonian too

FMP are living from rising prospect and selling them imo, theyr like farm and i agree they have top program in Europe.

I dont think Zalgiris school has big budget (Zalgiris teams budget is about 4 mln Euro)..Spanish teams schools has biger definately...i mean they actualy buying prospects from Zalgiris so it means something, so its all about program and not budget.

[Genjuro]

i would say that cepukaitis and macvan are deserving to be in the 89 rankings
I don't think we will be updating the 1989 rankings until the European Junior Championship to be played this summer. Perhaps only if someone splashes with very good NBA potential, something that Cepukaitis and Macvan sadly don't enjoy.

disappointing loss for fmp...but looking at the stats shows they played 5 vs 1 today...really wish musli or dekic would have stepped up but i guess its hard to blame them for being 2 years younger....very talented trio for zalgris
Dekic has very good potential, but he's not ready to seriously help FMP's junior team. Musli also struggles offensively against junior players; he needs to figure out how to score on bigger and stronger rivals, but it's just a matter of time.