[Semi-Final 2] Russia - Lithuania

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My reply is late but I couldn't post before. The worst game for Lithuania in Eurobasket. Everybody is criticising competition format which obviously cost us a place in the final <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thudown.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thudown:' /> Our players were sleepy from the start and Russia used that. It is absolutely stupid when a team that won all games in first two stages has to play 3 games in 3 days. We had a very exhausting game against Croatia in quarter-finals and we play Russia in the semis after 20 hours! While Russia had 2 days to rest. There are two large arenas in Madrid and could someone give me a serious reason why quarter finals couldn't be played the same day? I was very angry after the game but we can't change what's already happened. I just hope that we will see some changes in 2009. We deserved to be in the final at least.