Quarter Final 2: Lithuania vs FYROM

[ZEUS]

FYROM played really well. They distribute the ball nicely, they play tenacious D. Bo is the man but the other players do their part. I quite like them as a team.

Their fans on the other hand are a complete joke. I wanted Lithuania to win for obvious reasons but it adds salt to the wound that we gave their trashy fans the satisfaction of victory.

45 seconds into the game there was already a fight when they wanted to role out a massive flag which would have been over the top of 2 sections of Lithuanian fans. Needless to say the Lithuanians were having none of it so the Macedonians started throwing punches. At half time the Macedonians appeared to be getting into fights with themselves and then attacked security.

I give security a ton of credit for how well they handled the situation. With that said there was a small batch of Macedonians sitting near me mixed in with the rest of the Lithuanians who were singing and cheering but were civilized.

Its pretty crazy to juxtapose the relaxed security behind the Spanish and Slovenian fans in the first game to the intense security in the second game.

In any event Lithuania MUST beat Slovenia today to qualify for the olympic qualification tournament. We won't be satisfied with that but failing to do so would make this Eurobasket a total disaster for Lithuania and would send Kemzura packing.

I bet the Skopjan fans wanted to pull off some political propagandistic bullshit with their giant flag too. Not atypical of a uber nationalist, borderline fascist 'country'. As regards the game, as we say in Greek, Lithuania put out its own eyes. The win was in Lithuanian hands all along. Why oh why was the last attack a 3 point shot?! Lithuania should have just gone for a quick basket to put themselves ahead and that most likely would have been the end of the game. Mistakes like that get paid for.