Basketball
Spain has problems and very serious free throws
Early elimination of Spanish teams – For the first time in its history, it has not surpassed the first phase – EuroBasket 2025 That meant a huge disappointment for all Spanish fans.
Goodbye, based solely on basketball standards, would be explained for multiple reasons, as logically.
But one of them, perhaps the most visible to the viewer’s eyes, is surprising. scar.
According to the specialists, the most “trained” game factor is the launch where the player stops and always stops from the same position and distance, so it’s 4.60 meters from the line to the hoop.
The problem comes from afar
nevertheless In preparation He has already given several alarm signs that are recognized even by Sergio Scariolo himself. His numerous errors since the free kick caused the issues to be highlighted and worsened during the championship.
Naturally, the Spanish team has ended their participation in the continental tournament. Teams with the worst percentage of free throws of 24 participants, sad 60% successSweden (60.9%), Bosnia (62.1%), Portugal (63.8%), or even Belgium (64.5%) are below.
In addition to the aforementioned Bosnia, other selections surrounded by Group C, such as Greece itself (18th, 68.2%) and Georgia (17th, 70%), are also the worst pitchers of the championship, but not at a lower level as in Spain.
And the reality is that No one has failed as much as the Spanish team.not percentages or total releases. He made a mistake along the way as he started 110 free throws in the tournament and only won 66. 44 pitch.
Reviews, games per game, find out Spain started losing to Eurobasket Georgia (83-69) and Poor 46.2% (6/13) Free throw and win Bosnia (88-67), “Desert Oasis” of the mistake: 81.3%, Thanks to the notable 13/16.
But when it seemed like the Spaniard’s mental block from the HR line was over, Before Cyprus they returned to a walk: 59.1% (13/22) Success despite a bulky victory over one of the tournament’s hosts (91-47).
Identical numbers -59.1% and 13/22- Spaniard signed earlier Italyin that case they sacrificed the victory on them as they fell to a tight 67-63, but left most of the options to go to the 16th round of the Eurobasket.
And in the final duel Greecea duel with “life and death”, and despite being somewhat intounned from the 4.60-meter line, Scario’s thing has returned. Don’t reach 60% success (56.8%)I’m off the road Failed to start 16 (21/37), many of them at the final moments of a desperate party determined in favour of the 90-86 Greeks.
Up to 7 players under 50%
The most worrying thing for the Spanish team is that the mistake was not a problem with one or two players. Up to 7 template members completed the tournament with success of less than 50%.
They stand out – to be an a priori, good free throw pitcher – 33% (1/3) for Darío Brizuela or 40% (2/5) for Santi Yustameanwhile Xabier López-Aróstegui (5/10), Joel Para (4/8) Sergio de Larea (4/8) has achieved 50% success in “scraping.”
Individual analysis is required Hernangomez brothersin most cases, two of the players who came to the line, at the same time, a more false charm shows themselves throughout the Eurobasket.
Barca Willie is Spanish that started the most free throws (19) and the most failed (10), Ends with worry 47.4% success.
Some people get worse without considering the 4/4 signing Bosnia. 5/15 Played in 4 other games. Or the same thing, 33% success.
A very similar scenario finds when analyzing the number of Juancho. Hernangomez’s youngest is aware of the recognition after the exclusion of Spain, but has not tasted it since making a great season with Panatinaicos at any time in the tournament.
And above all, this has been verified from the HR line. 7/15 (46.5%), Like Willie, some numbers that will descend if you don’t consider 3/4 against Bosnia (4/11 and 36%).
Furthermore, in the case of Juancho, it has since become much more prominent in the “popular”. Yesterday, I failed three consecutive free throws against Italy 0/3, with no 13 seconds at the end There are 88-84 on the scoreboard.
Some green buds
But not everything is bad news for Spain since the free kick. The 12 youngest, selected by Sergio Scariolo Mario Sun Supery (2019) was the best pitcher from the HR line thanks to his epic 91.7% success (11/12).
In fact, Gonzaga University’s future base does not exist in the classification of better free throw pitchers. Because, although the minimum number of trials had not been reached, in percentage terms, it ended in the third position, only surpassing France’s 93.8%. Sylvain Francisco 93.3 of the Belgian Emmanuel Recomte.
They also signed some notable numbers Jaime Pradera (80% and 8/10) and Santi Aldama (76.5% and 13/17). It’s simply right, bad, within general dynamics Josep Puerto2/3 (67%). Yankoba Simah He did not start a free kick during his small participation in the Eurobasket.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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Paris Nizhny Novgorod beat Zenit St. Petersburg in an away match of the VTB United League regular season.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 99:89 (18:13 27:21, 27:28, 27:27) in favor of the guests. The most productive player of the meeting was the basketball player of the Nizhny Novgorod team Isaiah Washington – 28 points. Zenit has 18 points from Levi Randolph. Andrey Martyuk also scored a double-double for the St. Petersburg team (12 points and 12 rebounds).
The Nizhny Novgorod team defeated Zenit in St. Petersburg for the first time since October 2019, the league press service reports.
Paris Nizhny Novgorod is in ninth place in the standings, Zenit is fourth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban defeated Moscow MBA-MAI in an away match of the VTB United League.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 107:82 (27:24, 26:22, 27:17, 27:19). The most productive player of the match was Lokomotiv-Kuban basketball player Patrick Miller, who scored 23 points. MBA-MAI has 17 points from Maxim Barashkov.
Lokomotiv-Kuban (14 wins/8 losses) is in fifth position in the VTB United League standings, MBA-MAI (10/10) is sixth.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the TV channels of the Match group, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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Basketball
A stadium in Europe was drowned in Russian flags. The vile prank of the Balts did not go unanswered
Photo: © RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
A beautiful gesture from the fraternal people.
Sanctions against Russian athletes are gradually being eased, but for the most part they are still in effect. Today, there is a growing understanding in the global sports community that without our athletes, international competitions lose a lot.
An important point in this situation is not only the political will of individual officials, but also the opinion of ordinary citizens of Western countries. Often ordinary people show much more common sense than officials.
Fans of the European club hung Russian flags in the stands to support our athletes in a difficult situation.
Reply to Lithuanians
In April 2022, the moral panic around everything Russian was at its peak. It is not surprising that in European countries every public event was used to make one or another statement on a topic. The Baltic states, traditionally unfriendly towards Russia, especially tried.
Thus, during the Euroleague basketball match between the Lithuanian Zalgiris and the Serbian Red Star in Kaunas, local fans staged a political provocation: during the game, NATO flags appeared in the stands, and spectators began shouting insulting words at the Serbian basketball players.
The reason was that the Serbian side has always supported Russia in international conflicts. Before the match, the Crvena Zvezda basketball players followed this tradition and refused to be photographed with an anti-Russian banner, as the Zalgiris players did. If now the Olympic principle of political neutrality of sport is gradually being remembered, then in the West they preferred to hypocritically remain silent about it when it came to Russia.
Some time later, when Crvena was already playing a home match with the Turkish club Anadolu Efes, Serbian fans unfurled Russian flags in the stands, as well as banners with crossed out emblems of NATO and the European Union. Ordinary people of Serbia have shown that they are unequivocally on the side of the fraternal people.
Consistent support
Fans of Red Star, a club that has teams in many sports, have generally always had close ties to Russia. For example, the friendship between the fan movements of the Belgrade club and Moscow Spartak is well known. Football fans from Serbia have also expressed support for the Russians more than once. Back in 2017, during the match between Crvena and Krasnodar in the Europa League, flags with the Russian coat of arms were raised at the Rajko Mitić stadium.
Russian flags appear regularly at matches of the Serbian football championship. The most interesting thing is that it is very easy to get a tricolor in the Balkan country: just buy a Serbian flag and turn it over – and there you have the Russian flag. The fans, of course, take advantage of this opportunity.
In February 2025, we again watched the basketball confrontation between Red Star and Zalgiris in the Euroleague. This time, all the stands of the arena in Belgrade were painted in the colors of the Russian flag, and the fans sang “Katyusha” and MakSim’s song “Do You Know” – the unofficial anthem of Moscow Spartak.
“These Russian songs and banners were a reminder of the strong ties between the Serbian and Russian peoples that have lasted for centuries, and they also show an even stronger relationship between the fans of Red Star and Spartak Moscow,” a spokesman for the Serbian team told Sport24.
The longer Russian clubs and national teams remain suspended from international competition, the more the global sports community sees the absurdity of these sanctions – especially against the backdrop of double standards that apply when it comes to other countries.
Source: Sportbox
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