Basketball
Ukraine Poland. Prediction and announcement for EuroBasket 1/8 final match
The Ukraine-Poland meeting will be held on Sunday, September 11 in Berlin. The fight starts at 13.00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.
After the third round of the EuroBasket group stage, the Ukraine national team took part in the play-offs of the tournament and were slowly preparing for the relegation matches in Berlin, Germany. And on Sunday, our team will play its main game in the continental championship, and the rivals of the wards of Ainars Bagatskis will be the Polish team.
Such a 1/8 final pair was formed after the end of the fights in groups C and D. In the final round, Ukraine lost to Croatia by an acceptable margin and finished in second place in the six C (however, at the end of the final). In the match, it was noteworthy that the Croatians were not openly against this ranking) and the Polish national team was expected to lose to Serbia and fall to third place in group D.
The Polish team seems like a very suitable competitor for our team. The Ukrainians avoided a meeting with the very strong Serbs in 1/8 and parted ways with the Finnish national team playing basketball, which was quite difficult for us (Estonia will not let you lie), with a clear emphasis on the three-pointers. A strong player on their roster from the NBA. The national teams of Poland and Ukraine are in the same weight categories and our basketball players can count on reaching the quarterfinals.
Our geographic neighbors have a long history of performing at major tournaments, but the best pages were written a long time ago. The Polish national team participated in six Olympic Games (last time in 1980) and even took fourth place in the 1936 tournament. At the continental championships, the Poles have three bronze medals (1939, 1965, 1967) and one silver medal (1963). The Poles didn’t have much success at the last European Championship and their best result in the 21st century was ninth place at home at EuroBasket-2009. However, Poland did very well at the 2019 World Cup in China. Then, the white-reds took the last eighth place, leaving enough strong teams behind.
Thanks in large part to the baggage of this successful team, today’s rivals are still leaving. The list of our neighbors at the current EuroBasket is exactly 50% similar to the roster of the tournament in China three years ago. Also, all the main players like Mateusz Ponitka, AJ Slaughter, Alexander Balcerowski, Michal Sokolowski are in the ranks. The Polish talent pool could have been even stronger, but the young potential Jeremy Sohan (9th in the 2022 draft and a very promising basketball player) did not come to the tournament.
Overall, the full composition of the Polish national team at EuroBasket 2022 is as follows:
advocates: AJ Slaughter (Gran Canaria, Spain), Lukas Kolenda (Shlensk), Michal Michalak (Metropolitan, France), Jakub Garbach (Island Wielkopolski), Jakub Schenk (Tour, France)
Striker: Jaroslav Ziskowski (Trefl Sopot), Michal Sokolowski (Treviso, Italy), Aaron Chel (Torun), Mateusz Ponitka (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Alexander Dzeiva (Shlensk)
Centre: Alexander Balcerowski (Gran Canaria, Spain), Dominik Olezniczak (Gravelin, France)
The biggest contribution to team success is probably made by the four leaders of the Polish team. The team’s top sniper is Michal Sokolowski, averaging 12.2 points per game. Next up is naturalized American AJ Slaughter, who averaged 12 points per game with 38.2% on 3-pointers. He is followed by the main tall man of the team, Alexander Baltserovski, filling the piggy bank with an average of 11.8 points per game. True, he also does not get a lot of rebounds – 4.2 per game, the same number for defender Michal Sokolovsky. Mateusz Ponitka closes this foursome with 11.4 points, but at the same time, the Polish player does a lot of work on defense and is the team’s best assistant (6.4 assists).
Poland played five matches at EuroBasket 2022. In them, our neighbors won three victories and suffered two defeats. Moreover, in addition to the logical failure in the match with Serbia, the Poles suffered a uniform defeat from Finland. The full list of results from our competitors today is as follows:
09/02/2022. Poland – Czech Republic – 99:84
09/03/2022. Finland – Poland – 59:89
09/05/2022. Poland – Israel – 85:76
09/06/2022. Netherlands – Poland – 69:75
09/08/2022 Serbia – Poland – 96:69
It is worth noting that the national teams of Ukraine and Poland played a friendly match before the start of the EuroBasket. At the preparatory tournament in Turkey on August 12, the wards of Ainars Bagatskis beat the white-red – 88:60. And then Alexei Len did not play in our team, but the Poles also did not have a naturalized American AJ Slaughter.
Of course, this match will be the most important for the “blue-yellows” in the tournament. This victory will allow Ainars Bagatskis team to become one of the top eight teams in Europe and will be on par with Latvian head coach Mike according to the Ukraine team’s final result in EuroBaskets. Fratello himself. The opponent is not easy, but quite feasible. All that remains is to wish our men to come together and show their basketball. If they play the same as most of the group stage, our team will be on their way to the continental championship.
Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team
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Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
Basketball
NBA. Boston’s crazy comeback, Mikhailyuk’s failure with Utah
7 games of the NBA regular season were played on the night of December 22-23. Golden State beat Orlando, Boston beat Orlando with a comeback, Detroit beat Portland and other games.
NBO. Regular season. Matches are on December 23.
Cleveland – Charlotte – 139:132 (33:36, 37:27, 34:32, 35:37)
Cleveland: Mitchell (30), Garland (27+10 assists), Wade (14+7 rebounds), Allen (12), Tyson (0) – start; Hunter (27), Bryant (10), Lonzo Ball (6+7 assists), Tomlin (5), Merrill (4), Porter (2), Proctor (2).
Charlotte: LaMelo Ball (23+9 assists), Knippel (20), Miller (20), Bridges (17), Plumlee (5) – start; Mann (13), Green (10), McNealy (7), James (7), Diabate (5+14 rebounds + 6 steals), Connaughton (3), Hall (2).
Boston – Indiana – 103:95 (26:35, 17:26, 31:21, 29:13)
Boston: Brown (31+9 rebounds), White (19), Pritchard (11), Queta (8+8 rebounds), Mynott (2) – starter; Simons (11), Garza (6+9 rebounds), Gauser (6), Gonzalez (6+11 rebounds), Scheierman (3).
Indiana: Siakam (25), Nembhard (20+7 assists), Maturin (16+9 rebounds), Thompson (13), Huff (3) – start; Jackson (9), Furphy (3), Matthews (2), Walker (2), Jones (2), Jackson (0), Wiseman (0), Peter (0).
New Orleans – Dallas – 119:113 (36:34, 21:29, 22:24, 40:26)
New Orleans: Bay (19+7 rebounds), Queen (19+11 rebounds + 6 assists), Fiers (12), Murphy (11), Jones (9) – start; Williamson (24+9 rebounds), Poole (14), Alvarado (6), Matkovic (5), Peavy (0).
Dallas: Davis (35+17 rebounds), Flegg (16+6 assists), Marshall (15+6 assists), Washington (8+8 rebounds), Nembhard (4+8 assists+5 losses) – starter; Thompson (20), Williams (4), Hardy (4), Caleb Martin (4), Gafford (3).
Denver -Utah – 135:112 (40:15, 29:31, 34:38, 32:28)
Denver: J. Murray (27), K. Johnson (20), Watson (20), Jokic (14 + 13 rebounds + 13 assists), Jones (3) – start; Hardaway (21), B. Brown (15), Valanciunas (12+11 rebounds), Pickett (3), Strother (0), Nagy (0), Tyson (0).
Utah: Markkanen (27+8 rebounds), George (20+8 rebounds + 7 assists), Nurkic (17+14 rebounds + 6 assists), Bailey (10), Mikhailyuk (6) – start; Sensabaugh (14), Clayton (6), Filippovski (5), Hendricks (5), Collier (2+9 assists), Williams (0).
Oklahoma -Memphis – 119:103 (31:28, 36:26, 17:19, 35:30)
Oklahoma: Gilgeous-Alexander (31+10 rebounds + 8 assists + 5 turnovers), Jaylen Williams (24), Dort (13), Carlson (11), Wallace (8) – starter; Mitchell (16+9 rebounds), K. Williams (11), Joe (5), Barnhizer (0), Youngblood (0).
Memphis: Coward (16+8 rebounds + 6 assists), Spencer (14+8 assists), Wells (12+5 losses), Jaren Jackson (11), Landale (11+10 rebounds) – start; Caldwell-Pope (16), Aldama (9+7 rebounds), Prosper (8), Jackson (6), Koloko (0).
Golden State – Orlando – 120:97 (26:30, 32:27, 31:26, 31:14)
Golden State: Curry (26+6 assists), Butler (21), Moody (20), Dr. Green (9+7 rebounds), Post (8+12 rebounds) – start; Podzemskie (16), Payton (7), Melton (4), Jackson-Davis (4), Hield (3), Spencer (2), Santos (0), Richard (0).
Orlando’s: Banchero (21 + 12 rebounds + 7 assists), Bane (20), Black (19), Carter (9), Jones (7) – start; Richardson (11), Penda (5), Bitadze (2), Howard (2), Isaac (1), Kane (0).
Portland – of Detroit – 102:110 (26:30, 25:31, 27:34, 24:15)
Portland: Sharpe (25+5 tackles + 8 tackles for loss), Avdija (18+8 rebounds + 9 assists), Clingan (17+10 rebounds), Kamara (8), Murray (5) – start; Sissoko (16), R. Williams (8), Love (5), Rith (0), Rooper (0).
of Detroit: Durent (26+10 rebounds), Thompson (18+12 rebounds), D. Robinson (15), Cunningham (14+9 assists + 5 losses), Harris (12) – start; Ivey (11), Green (6), Jenkins (5), Stewart (3), LeVert (0), Rod (0).
Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
NBA
Forbes named the most valuable sports team of 2025
Version Forbes announced its annual ranking of the world’s most expensive sports teams.
NFL franchise Dallas Cowboys, estimated to be worth $13 billion, has led the pack for the ninth year in a row.
While NBA Golden State Warriors ranked second with a valuation of $11 billion, another representative of American football, Los Angeles Rams (10.5 billion), was in the top three.
The top 10, as last year, includes only American teams from the NFL and NBA. There are seven NFL clubs in the top 10 overall, which Forbes analysts attribute to the league’s large-scale television contracts.
Among football clubs, Real Madrid remains the most expensive – the Spanish giant ranked only 20th with a value of $6.75 billion.
Also in the top 50 are Manchester United (24th, 6.6 billion), Barcelona (42nd, 5.65 billion) and Liverpool (48th, 5.4 billion). In total, only four football clubs are represented in the top 50 rankings.
Formula 1 representatives also returned to the list – Ferrari (26th place) and Mercedes (34th).
The 20 most valuable sports teams in the world according to Forbes
- 1. Dallas Cowboys (American football) – $13 billion
- 2. Golden State Warriors (basketball) – $11 billion
- 3. Los Angeles Rams (American football) – $10.5 billion
- 4. New York Giants (American football) – $10.1 billion
- 5. Los Angeles Lakers (basketball) – $10 billion
- 6. New York Knicks (basketball) – $9.75 billion
- 7. New England Patriots (American football) – $9 billion
- 8. San Francisco 49ers (American football) – $8.6 billion
- 9. Philadelphia Eagles (American football) – $8.3 billion
- 10. Chicago Bears (American football) – $8.2 billion
- 11. New York Yankees (baseball) – $8.2 billion
- 12. New York Jets (American football) – $8.1 billion
- 13. Las Vegas Raiders (American football) – $7.7 billion
- 14. Washington Commanders (American football) – $7.6 billion
- 15. Los Angeles Clippers (basketball) – $7.5 billion
- 16. Miami Dolphins (American football) – $7.5 billion
- 17. Houston Texans (American football) – $7.4 billion
- 18. Denver Broncos (American football) – $6.8 billion
- 19. Los Angeles Dodgers (baseball) – $6.8 billion
- 20. Real Madrid (soccer) – $6.75 billion
Source: Sport UA
I am a sports journalist who has written for various websites and magazines. I currently work as an author at Sportish, a news website that covers sports news. My main focus is writing about soccer, rugby and other sports in the world.
Basketball
The coach of the Super League club threatened the team with a squad change
On December 20-21, Niko-Basket lost two home matches to Dnepr and Zaporozhye in the eighth round of the Super League and therefore finished the calendar year in 9th place in the standings with 4 wins in 14 matches.
Head coach of the team after the defeat of Zaporozhye (67:78) Valentin Berestnev He listed the reasons for the team’s unsuccessful results as follows:
“Counting the first, third and fourth quarters, we won by one point each. We lost the entire game in the second quarter. We had a 7-point lead in the second quarter, but we finished with minus 9. We lost the fight, lost the rebounds, made childish mistakes. This caused the opponent to get over the shock of being behind 12:19 and the game turned in another direction.
We could not find a leader who could do what Lovings and Lishchina did. Eisa scored almost 30 points per game, surpassing our fourth point.
I would like to thank our fans who supported us until the end. They said warm and kind words to us after the match. This is our first year playing in the Super League. Most of the players have no experience of playing in the Super League: Max (Grischuk), Vitaly (Volodin), Bodya (Likhoy). Zaitsev, Safonov and Garbar have experience. Kabanov has little experience. This is a difficult season for them, which will show who will advance to the Super League level and who will not.
Therefore, I would like to thank our fans once again. There were two alarms today. Yesterday we finished the match three hours later than planned. Despite this, people stayed and supported us. We are very grateful for this support.
We train six times a week, twice a day to improve our game. I believe that we will overcome this situation and have a team that will compete for Super League awards, become a strong middle team and beat everyone at home, just like 10-15 years ago.
Most of the guys have no experience, so mistakes are made. Not technical, tactical. There is a lack of a leader who will take responsibility in difficult times. Now we are looking for such a player in the team. If we can’t find it, we will face three foreign players like most other teams. If our audience likes it.”
Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
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