Articles are of no interest. I have my own thoughts, the reason God gave us our personal cognitive processes. I draw my own conclusions and that's that. I don't need stats or subjective articles to influence my thought process and perception. Games should be looked at individually, period!
Pana put up a decent fight today, but as I analyzed a few days ago, weren't up to the task. Their three point shooting was totally atrocious and let them down as it did in game 4. That's not good enough for a team of this calibre. The refs tried to take out DD by giving non-existent fouls against him early on. A poor and obvious effort by these fools. Barcas zone defence did nothing today relative to Pana's poor shooting. But this very poor team of Pana took it to 5 games, which also indicates how crappy Barcelona truly is when push comes to shove. They won't win the f4, in fact I'll send them a box of Kleenex for their effort!!
As for Oly, I have no doubts they ARE the superior team. They need to be on their toes as Turkish Airlines want a Turkish team in the f4, and the refereeing will definitely be biased against Oly. Home court advantage will see them through though, and without a doubt. They need to blast in there and finish this game off by the third period, and ultimately go defend their title in London. They have a good team, though vulnerable at position 5 which Hines can miraculously cover with all the injuries plagued by Oly's C's. Goodbye Efes!! <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
Pana put up a decent fight today, but as I analyzed a few days ago, weren't up to the task. Their three point shooting was totally atrocious and let them down as it did in game 4. That's not good enough for a team of this calibre. The refs tried to take out DD by giving non-existent fouls against him early on. A poor and obvious effort by these fools. Barcas zone defence did nothing today relative to Pana's poor shooting. But this very poor team of Pana took it to 5 games, which also indicates how crappy Barcelona truly is when push comes to shove. They won't win the f4, in fact I'll send them a box of Kleenex for their effort!!
As for Oly, I have no doubts they ARE the superior team. They need to be on their toes as Turkish Airlines want a Turkish team in the f4, and the refereeing will definitely be biased against Oly. Home court advantage will see them through though, and without a doubt. They need to blast in there and finish this game off by the third period, and ultimately go defend their title in London. They have a good team, though vulnerable at position 5 which Hines can miraculously cover with all the injuries plagued by Oly's C's. Goodbye Efes!! <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />