FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008

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GER – Demirel blow for Germany



HAGEN (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men) - Germany’s bid to reach the Beijing Games became a little more complicated on Friday when guard Mithat Demirel withdrew from the squad for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament because of an eye injury.



Demirel got hurt in an April 6 game against Göttingen and has not fully recovered, forcing him to pull out of the training camp in Mallorca – the site of Germany’s first training camp.



Germany coach Dirk Bauermann had earlier lost Johannes Herber because he is still not fully recovered from the serious knee injury he went down with in October.



Herber’s Alba Berlin teammate, center Patrick Femerling, has been given an extra week off since Alba played deep into the campaign and won the German BBL play-off finals.



Germany will take on Cape Verde and New Zealand in Group B of next month’s FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Athens.

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It starts today.



New Zealand vs Cape Verde 13:00

South Korea vs Slovenia 15:30

Croatia vs Cameroon 19:30

Greece vs Lebanon 22:00

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New Zealand 77:50 Cape Verde (21:4, 21:16, 18:12, 17:18)



New Zealand: Kirk Penney 25, Craig Bradshaw 14, Pero Cameron 13, Lindsay Tait 7, Nick Horvath 5, Michael Fitchett 4, Ben Hill 3, Mika Vukona 2, Jeremy Kench 2, Alex Pledger 2.



Cape Verde: Jeff Xavier 22, Avey Oliver 9, Tony Barros 8, Rodrigo Mascarenhas 8, Mario Correia 2, Pedro Cipriano 1.



South Korea 76:88 Slovenia (17:24, 20:29, 21:16, 18:19)



South Korea: Joo-Sung Kim 21, Young-Sam Jung 18, Min-Soo Kim 14, Hee-Jung Jo0 6, Ho-Young Yoon 5, Byung-Hyun Kang 4, Sekeun Oh 4, Kwang-Jae Lee 3, Hee-Jong Yang 1.



Slovenia: Rasho Nesterovic 26, Uros Slokar 12, Goran Dragic 11, Miha Zupan 11, Sani Becirovic 9, Jaka Lakovic 7, Domen Lorbek 5, Dragisa Drobnjak 4, Emir Preldzic 2, Nebejsa Joksimovic 1.

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After losing to Croatia, the Cameroon are considering to leave the pre-Olympic tournament due to economic problems... Boumtje Boumtje: "We're tired of it".

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Croatia 93:79 Cameroon (19:16, 26:9, 20:28, 28:26)



Croatia: Kus 2, Popovic 17, Rozic 7, Prkacin 12, Tomas 22, Planinic 12, Nicevic 2, Markota 5, Banic 12, Barac 2.



Cameroon: Makanda 11, Bitee 14, Ndongo 8, Nana 24, Ekanga Ehawa 7, Bouli 3, Vouvang 4, Boumtje Boumtje 8.



Greece 119:62 Lebanon (32:17, 22:10, 32:14, 33:21)



Greece: Papaloukas 10, Bouroussis 13, Zisis 9, Spanoulis 9, Vassilopoulos 8, Fotsis 14, Printezis 10, Gliniadakis 6, Tsartsaris 15, Diamantidis 12, Schortsianitis 9, Pelekanos 4.



Lebanon: Mahmoud 7, Fahed 9, Beshara-Feghali 12, Samaha 8, Fakheddine 6, Tawbe 6, El Khatib 14.

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All twelve Greek players scored... <!-- s -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/blink.gif[/img]<!-- s -->

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Everyone expected Greece to win but at that margin? Well done. The real fight should begin in the knock-out stages.

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Slovenia vs Canada live now [url="http://http"]here[/url]

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Slovenia 86:70 Canada (27:22, 14:12, 23:15, 22:21)



Slovenia: Lakovic 19, Klobucar 3, Becirovic 15, Nesterovic 14, Dragic 3, Slokar 10, Joskimovic 4, Preldzic 8, Lorbek 8, Drobnjak 2.



Canada: Anderson 9, Dalembert 4, Famutini 5, English 5, Barrett 16, Rautins 3, Thomas 10, Brempong 2, Kendall 7, Anthony 9.



Cape Verde 68:104 Germany (11:34, 13:25, 16:22, 28:23)



Cape Verde: Xavier 21, Gomes 9, Faty 2, Correia 4, Monteiro Robalo 6, Houtman 3, Lima 5, Cipriano 6, Oliver 1, Barros 3, Salomao Mascarenhas 8.



Germany: Ohlbrecht 8, Zwiener 11, Schultze 9, Garrett 9, Wysocki 6, Hamann 5, Greene 8, Roller 8, Kaman 10, Femerling 8, Nowitzki 16, Jagla 6.

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Lebanon 54:94 Brazil (8:27, 13:21, 16:25, 17:21)



Lebanon: Rony Fahed 15, Omar El Turk 11, Ali Mahmoud 7, Mazen Mneimneh 6, Brian Beshara-Feghali 5, Sabah Khoury 3, Fadi El Khatib 3, Ali Fakhreddine 2, Hussein Tawbe 2.



Brazil: Marcelinho Huertas 17, Rafael Araujo 16, Murilo 14, Tiago Splitter 9, Eduardo Magalhaes Machado 9, Ricardo Probst 8, Alex Garcia 7, Marcelo Machado 5, Marcus 5, Fulvio 2, Jonathan 2.

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Slovenia is out of the Olympics <!-- s -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/ohmy.gif[/img]<!-- s --> Puerto Rico won 70-81.

Slovenia always has such strong teams and they always fail when it matters... It must really be a psychological issue.

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I was surprised too. Both teams are good but I still expected Slovenia to win this one. It's possible that we won't see three European teams coming from Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

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Germany 78:65 Brazil (14:13, 31:13, 17:13, 26:16)



Germany: Dirk Nowitzki 20, Pascal Roller 15, Demond Greene 14, Chris Kaman 12, Konrad Wysocki 10, Steffen Hamann 5, Robert Garrett 2.



Brazil: Tiago Splitter 16, Marcelo Machado 11, Marcelinho Huertas 9, Alex Garcia 8, J.P. Batista 8, Duda 7, Jonathan 4, Rafael Araujo 2.



Semi-finals



Greece or New Zealand vs. Puerto Rico

Germany vs. Croatia

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Croatia 76:70 Germany (24:14, 12:17, 11:17, 29: 22)



Croatia: Marko Tomas 21, Nikola Prkacin 10, Davor Kus 9.

Germany: Dirk Nowitzki 30, Chris Kaman 12, Steffen Hamann 10.



Puerto Rico 63:88 Greece (11:19, 24:29, 15:20, 13:20)



Puerto Rico: Jose Barea 16.

Greece: Dimitris Diamantidis 15, Vasilis Spanoulis 14, Sofoklis Schortsianitis 13, Kostas Tsartsaris 11, Ioannis Bouroussis 10, Panagiotis Vassilopoulos 10.



Greece looking very good so far. With Sofo back they can do achieve great results.



Today Puerto Rico and Germany will figth for the last ticket to Beijing.

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Germany is in! Congrats!

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