FINAL: Turkey-USA

[Black Urum]

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Hello to everyone <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



I was searching for some opinions during/after the gold metal match and i found this forum and thread..Maybe it's not necessary but i feel that i have to say something about general..



In my opinion,a lot of ZEUS's ideas are right..Referees aren't good,we clearly say they were bad from the first match until the last one..They made a lot of mistakes for every team..But,i can't say they protected Turkey or USA..



If we say about team's quality,Turkey had some good players..I can't say perfect for them just good..From my point of view,Turkoglu lost his balance after Orlando..Ilyasova should learn a lot of things about critical games..He made nothing at last two games against Serbia and USA..But it wasn't strange for me,i believe you couldn't read news about here..They lost their motivation after Serbia game..With Erden and Yılmaz they could play better but we all saw Durant dominated this tournament and no one could stop him..Seems like he will be a legendary player without devastating ego..Again,congratulations to USA,they deserved gold medal <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Main weakness of Turkey players,they're so emotional..If you're talking about yourself as professional,you have to be strong against all possible circumstances..I have same idea with ZEUS about being host..We couldn't come here if we had to play in another country..It's not about referees or another factors only about team players..



Please forgive me,i'll join some comments later,i have to work <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



And my five attractive players;

Bourousis,Jasaitis,Durant,Erden,Teodosic



Cheers,

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Hey man, this is a great post, probably the best firs post for a long time.



I don't agree about your players, that being emotional is bad. It is because they are so emotional that they took so much strength from the home fans and made it so far with so hard defence.



If you put same players, same state of mind, in another country in same games against same teams I don't think they would make it to the final, so we that last year in Poland.



Also it is a traditional strength of the Turkish teams, as we saw from Eurobasket 2001.



Hedo ever since I remember him (from 2000 final four) always is bad in critical games... as for Ilyasova he is playing a for small team (like Banvit of NBA), so he hasn't got too much experience in such games, but he will be a great FIBA players for years to come.