Pre-tournament schedule

As compiled by LAT from what has been announced by 3 teams so far.

May 12-13 in Poland
Poland - Hungary play twice

May 18-21 in Great Britain
Great Britain, Cuba, Germany, Latvia play each other

May 21-22 in Poland
Poland - Ukraine play twice

May 27-29 in Lithuania
Lithuania, Finland and Ukraine play each other

May 27-29 in Czech Republic
Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Poland play each other

May 27-29 in France
France, Belgium, Greece, Israel play each other

May 29 in Great Britain
Great Britain - Atlanta Dream

June 2-3 in Czech Republic
Czech Republic - France play twice

June 3-6 in Greece
Greece, Israel, Japan play each other

June 4-5 in Lithuania
Lithuania - Latvia play twice

June 8-9 in Czech Republic
Czech Republic - Croatia play twice

June 9-11 in Latvia
Latvia, Great Britain, Slovak Republic, team X play each other

June 10-11 in Poland
Poland - Lithuania play twice

June 10-12 in France
France, Belarus, Canada, Russia play each other

JohnyK wrote:May 19-22 in Great Britain
Latvia - Cuba
Great Britain - Germany
Latvia - Germany
Great Britain - Cuba
Latvia - Great Britain
Germany - Cuba
followed by 1st and 3rd place games

Is there a press release or anything for that tournament somewhere? Or something more specific than 'Great Britain' for the venue? Don't remember seeing anything about it over here.

According to Latvian NT manager it's in some place called Guildford.

Ah okay, that probably means Surrey Sports Park where we beat the Ukraine in a qualifier last year. Holds about 1,000 and we actually filled it for that game. South-West of London, but takes at least an hour to get out there from the capital, just in case anyone is insane enough to be thinking of coming over here for the games.

Even being based in the UK, it is easy for me to get to Riga than Guildford

Schedule has been updated with games in Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania. Courtesy of LAT.

JohnyK wrote:According to Latvian NT manager it's in some place called Guildford.

Looks like there's been a scheduling change and that tournament is going to be in Surrey and will start a day earlier than previously reported.
http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/newsid/46336/arti.asp

Surrey Sports Park is based in Guildford.

Poland - Hungary 69:70 (13:19, 20:14, 18:26, 18:11)
Poland: Mowlik 16, Żurowska 14, Szott 11, Pawlak 9, Babicka 7, Czarnecka 5, Tłumak 3, Gulak-Lipka 2, Chomać 2, Idczak 0, Tomiałowicz 0

Poland - Hungary 58:49 (halftime 33:25)
Poland: Gulak-Lipka 9, Tłumak 8, Skobel 7, Żurowska 7, Krężel 7, Pietrzak 5, Mowlik 5, Kaczmarczyk 4, Dźwigalska 4, Szott 2, Czarnecka 0, Babicka 0.

The GB/Latvia/Cuba/Germany tournament got reduced to three days, by the way (19-21). I should be there for most of it, with a bit of luck.

That's because Cuba has withdrawn from it (according to Latvian NT manager). Although it says they're trying to find a replacement.

Well according to hersey427 on a different forum (presumably the same hersey427 who's also a member here), the reason it's down to three days is that Cuba aren't showing up until the Thursday. Hadn't heard any suggestions elsewhere that they weren't coming at all.

Seems like you were correct and the Latvian manager jumped the gun with making conclusions.

Box scores for GB 60-70 Germany: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/GBGer05192011230.asp
and Latvia 60-73 Cuba: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/CyberSports%20for%20Basketball%20V5LatCub05192011800.asp

Slovak Republic - Romania 73:65 (17:10,17:16,24:18,15:21)
Slovak Republic: Kupčíková 13, Vyňuchalová 10, Mišurová 8, Michulková 7, Palušná 6, Podešvová 10, Brezániová 8, Lukačovičová 7, Tetemondová 2, Ábelová 2, Jurčenková 0, Kmeťová 0
Romania: Meszárošová 13, Paranova 11

Slovak Republic - Romania 79:40 (16:10, 26:19, 13:5, 24:6)
Slovak Republic: Michulková 15, Kupčíková 8, Podešvová 6, Vyňuchalová 5, Mišurová 3, Palušná 12, Ábelová 8, Lukačovičová 7, Kmeťová 7, Jurčenková 6, Brezániová 2
Romania: Pavelová 11, Diaconuová 7

GB 54-61 Cuba: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/CyberSports%20for%20Basketball%20V5GBCub052011700.asp

Latvia 56-78 Germany: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/Latvia%20%20v%20Germany%20200LatGer05202011230.asp

So oddly enough, even after cutting it to three days, we get a 'final' and a 'third-place playoff' tomorrow, because there are two teams at 2-0, and two at 0-2.

The way Latvia has played in previous two games judging by the numbers should result in another loss in the third one, too.
With that amount of TO's from our "star PG", she would probably be cut from almost any WNBA training camp.

Cuba 58-51 Germany: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/CyberSports%20for%20Basketball%20V5GerCub05212011100.asp

GB 67-64 Latvia: http://www.cybersportsusa.com/webgames/webgame.asp?File=../livegames/Unknown/CyberSports%20for%20Basketball%20V5GBLat05212011430.asp

So at least we snuck one win, although admittedly over a pretty thoroughly mediocre Latvia team. Not very impressed by your girls JohnyK, sorry. They seem relatively organised and everything, just not that much talent on the roster. Babkina made one or two decent plays but nothing that excited me as indicating real WNBA potential.

Not terribly relevant in the EuroBasket section of a European site, but Cuba were surprisingly good even without some of their mainstays from previous tournaments. Their #7, point guard Oyanaisis Gelis Gonzalez, was especially impressive (and looked like she might actually help some WNBA teams).

The new German coach has got them playing solid, organised basketball (far more impressive than when I saw them last year), and they look like they'll be a decent bet to make it through the AQR into the EuroBasket Women finals. Breitreiner didn't play in the last two games after lighting us up in the first one though, and it'll hurt them if she's picked up an injury.

I'll put my GB comments in the GB thread.

Richyyy wrote:So at least we snuck one win, although admittedly over a pretty thoroughly mediocre Latvia team. Not very impressed by your girls JohnyK, sorry. They seem relatively organised and everything, just not that much talent on the roster. Babkina made one or two decent plays but nothing that excited me as indicating real WNBA potential.

To be fair, according to some players afterwards, they couldn't have played worse during those 3 days and I tend to believe them. I'm still pretty positive we'll whoop your asses on June 9.

Kepez Tournament 25-27 May in Antalya

25 May
17:00 Montenegro - GB
19:15 Turkey - Crotia

26 May
17:00 Crotia - Montenegro
19:15 GB - Turkey

27 May
16:00 GB - Crotia
18:15 Turkey - Montenegro

P.S: local time

Any chance of online streams for that tournament in Turkey or am I being wildly over-optimistic?

The game versus Atlanta Dream becomes more and more a major blowout. Now GB will play 3 games and travel to the other side of the continent with just a day in hand.

Richyyy wrote:Any chance of online streams for that tournament in Turkey or am I being wildly over-optimistic?

Nothing in the Turkish Basketball Federation press release mentioning any of the game being televised. Besides I doubt anyone would want their opponents have an easy way to obtain footage of their new plays and stuff.

Poland - Ukraine 67:71 (20:24, 19:19, 14:16, 14:12)

Poland: Justyna Żurowska 15, Anna Pietrzak 12, Agnieszka Kaczmarczyk 7, Aleksandra Chomać 7, Agnieszka Szott 7, Agnieszka Skobel 7, Olivia Tomiałowicz 4, Emilia Tłumak 4, Katarzyna Krężel 2, Weronika Idczak 2, Joanna Czarnecka 0, Katarzyna Dźwigalska 0.

Ukraine: Maryna Sazonenko 14, Ganna Zarycka 12, Ljubow Alioszkina 10.

Box Scores

Poland - Ukraine 81:83
Poland - Ukraine 67:71

Turkey 81-68 Croatia

Turkey:
Nevin Nevlin 15 points and 11 reb
Bahar Caglar 14 points and 6 reb
Saziye İvegin 14 points
Yasemin Horasan 12 points
Croatia
Sandra Mandır 12 points
Ana Lelas 12 points
Iva Sliskovic 10 points and 6 reb
Anda Jelavic 7 points and 9 asists

GB 80-58 Montenegro

GB:
Kim Butler 17 points and 6 reb
Lauren Thomas-Johnson 15 points
Chantelle Handy 10 points

Montenegro:
Anna De Forge 15 points
Jelena Dublevic 17 points
Iva Perovanovic 10 points

Tomorrow
17:00 Croatia- Montenegro
19:15 GB - Turkey

P.S: Local Time