BigDirty

Found a box score, he played 9:27, hab 1 rebound and was 1-5 from the field.

Efes (27-3 last season) played against Beykoz (9-21 last season) in the first Turkish Cup elimination game, they won 81-60. Top scorers for Efes were Drew Nicholas with 27 points and Andre Hutson with 17 points. Cenk scored 3 points, I don't know how many minutes he played. Efes' next game is today/tomorrow (depending on your timezone) against Karsiyaka (12-18 last season), it's another Turkish Cup game.

Beykoz: Clarence Gilbert 8, Erdal Bibo, Gregory Grays 8, Levant Bilgin 3, Umut Tinay 2, Cem Coskun 16, Umut Görür 2, Chris Burgess 10, Caner Öner 8, Alper Yilmaz 3

Efes: Drew Nicholas 27, Cenk Akyol 3, Kenny Gregory 2, Mustafa Abi 2, Bora Hun Pacun, Kerem Gönlüm 2, Rashad Wright 4, Serkan Erdogan 6, Ermal Kurtoglu 9, Ender Arslan 9, Andre Hutson 17

What?

14th in points allowed

21st in total yards allowed

25th in avg. per play allowed

23rd in % allowed

29th in avg. per pass allowed

12th in passing yards allowed

22nd in avg. per rush allowed

23rd in rushing yards allowed

29th in interceptions

18th in sacks

20th in forced fumbles

They were very good in the first game. Good in the second game. One half good, one half bad in the third game. Below average to bad in the fourth game.

Falcons won!

Passing game was good.

Running game was absymal, 3.1 average.

Defense was kinda below average and sometimes really bad.

Texans managed the clock very bad at the end and a big thank you goes to K.Brown, you're superb.

I think there are a couple of factors:

1) Playcalling, we quite often use 4-5 receivers this year, last season it seemed that we had a maximum of 3 on the field. More receivers -> bigger chance that one will be open.

2) Trust, after our receivers dropped so many easy balls you could see that the criminal had no trust in them to make tough catches. Joey on the other trusts them.

3) Running game sucks -> more passes -> more chances for receivers.

4) Horn, the young guys never had a vet (that was actually good) to get advice from (kinda like the Hawks). I'm sure that it was Horn who gave Roddy the tip that he has to hold on to the ball to make a catch.

5) Since Joey can't run, he makes lots of dumpoffs when the other guy would've tried to run.

6) Joey's throws are softer which seems to be good for Jenkins and White.

Our passing game is looking good again this game, but we need to make some good runs, cause it seems like that our defenses can't stop their passing game either, so it would be helpful if we could run down some clock. 23-16 right now, I'm confident that we'll win if we score this drive.

Andre Davis just owned Chris Houston pretty bad for a touchdown. 7-3 for the Texans right now.

Falcons running game still not working. Jenkins made a nice run after a short catch.

Brett Favre just broke the TD record, congrats to him.

One thing is for certain with this team, they will find ways to lose.

good:

- passing game

- defense 1st half

- Roddy White is a different player so far this season

- only one sack allowed

- Mort is back and 100%

- Norwood made some nice plays

bad:

- defense 2nd half

- that snap/hold

- no turnovers forced

- 2 fumbles

- penalties, penalties, penalties

(- playcalling sometimes, like that run on 3rd & 9 in the red zone)

I expect at least 4 interceptions in this game. Hopefully the stream will work later, cause they're showing CIN-SEA over here.

So Adobozz is your 2nd account or what?

Link

Falcons have signed Leftwich to a two year contract worth $7 million. Good move, he's not the answer for our QB position but he can do better than Joey or at least give us a capable backup.

7th place game

France 74-88 Slovenia

Diawara 7 pts

Parker 31 pts, 4 ast, 4 reb

Diaw 0 pts, 4 reb, 0-3 fg, 25 min

Turiaf 13 pts, 8 reb, 3 blk

Nesterovic 19 pts, 8 reb

5th place game

Croatia 71-80 Germany

Markota DNP

Nowitzki 31 pts, 4 ast, 12 reb

3rd place game

Greece 69-78 Lithuania

Songaila 2 pts, 4 reb, 1-7 fg, 18 min

Kleiza 13 pts, 8 reb

Jasikevicius 11 pts, 5 ast

final

Spain 59-60 Russia

JR Holden made the deciding jumper with 2 seconds left.

Gasol 14 pts, 3 ast, 14 reb, 5 to, 4-13 fg

Navarro 0 pts, 0-5 fg, 17 min

Calderon 15 pts, 4 reb

Rodriguez 0 pts, 0-1 fg, 2 min

Garbajosa 8 pts, 6 reb, 18 min

Kirilenko 17 pts, 5 reb

Khryapa 7 pts, 4 ast, 12 reb, 4 to

MVP

Andrei Kirilenko (RUS)

All Tournament Team

Jose Calderon (SPA)

Ramunas Siskauskas (LIT)

Andrei Kirilenko (RUS)

Dirk Nowitzki (GER)

Pau Gasol (SPA)

points

Nowitzki (GER) 24.0

Parker (FRA) 20.1

Türkoglu (TUR) 19.2

Gasol (SPA) 18.8

Kirilenko (RUS) 18.0

rebounds

Green (ISR) 9.3

Nowitzki (GER) 8.7

Kirilenko (RUS) 8.6

Khryapa (RUS) 7.8

Okur (TUR) 7.7

assists

Jasikevicius (LIT) 5.6

Tapiro (ISR) 5.0

Lakovic (SLO) 4.3

Bulleri (ITA) 4.0

Khryapa (RUS) 3.2

This game was so winnable.

The defense was good against a rather weak Jags offense, Abraham played very good.

The offense looked passable in some drives, but still too many sacks. Who was the guy in Roddy White's jersey today?

I hope that kicker will be cut tomorrow or even better today.

quarter-finals

Russia 75-71 France

Kirilenko 6 pts, 6 reb, 4 blk, 7 stl, 2-11 fg

Khryapa 16 pts, 6 ast, 7 reb, 4 to

Diawara 5 pts, 4 reb

Parker 15 pts, 3 ast

Diaw 17 pts, 6 reb, 5 to

Turiaf 8 pts, 7 reb

Spain 83-55 Germany

Hey the first quarter was close.

Gasol 7 pts, 5 reb

Navarro 12 pts, 14 min

Calderon 17 pts, 22 min

Rodriguez 1 pts, 8 min

Garbajosa 7 pts, 1 reb, 17 min

Nowitzki 11 pts, 6 reb, 4-10 fg

Lithuania 74-72 Croatia

Songaila 20 pts, 7 reb, 24 min

Kleiza 19 pts, 9 reb

Jasikevicius 6 pts, 8 ast, 3 reb, 5 to

Markota 5 pts

Slovenia 62-63 Greece

Nesterovic 16 pts, 11 reb, 5 blk

semi-finals

Spain 82-77 Greece

Gasol 23 pts, 6 reb, 3 blk, 4 to

Navarro 23 pts, 4 reb

Calderon 18 pts, 3 ast, 4 to

Rodriguez DNP

Garbajosa 6 pts, 4 ast, 5 reb, 0-5 fg

Russia 86-74 Lithuania

Kirilenko 29 pts, 8 reb, 3 blk, 3 stl, 4 to

Khryapa 15 pts, 4 ast, 5 reb

Songaila 8 pts, 6 reb

Kleiza 5 pts, 5 reb

Jasikevicius 5 pts, 3 ast, 4 reb, 5 to, 2-10 fg

5th to 8th place

France 69-86 Croatia

Diawara 5 pts

Parker 18 pts, 5 reb, 3 stl

Diaw 11 pts, 5 ast, 5 reb

Turiaf 6 pts, 2 reb, 8 min

Markota 6 pts

Germany 69-65 Slovenia

Didn't watch it, soccer was on.

Nowitzki 28 pts, 10 reb, 9-25 fg

Nesterovic 13 pts, 9 reb

Croatia 70-83 Russia

Markota 7 pts, 3 reb

Kirilenko 20 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast

Khryapa 8 pts, 8 reb, 3-10 FG

Greece 85-67 Portugal

Spain 99-73 Israel

Gasol 26 pts, 7 reb, 18 min

Navarro DNP

Calderon 15 pts, 18 min

Rodriguez 2 ast, 0-4 FG, 10 min

Garbajosa 12 pts, 2 reb

Germany 67-58 Italy

Man this game was ugly. Both teams shot below 40% no one except Belinelli was hitting shots. Dirk sucked this game, but Herber and Jagla stepped up, otherwise this would've been Dirk's last national team game. The future doesn't look pretty for team Germany, but it thankfully seems like a new coach will direct the team then. If Belinelli wouldn't have been injured during the game, then Italy would've had a very good chance to win this.

Nowitzki 15 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast, 5-19 FG

Belinelli 25 pts, 29 min

Bargnani 10 pts, 6 reb, 3-12 FG

France 85-64 Turkey

Diawara 10 pts

Parker 6 pts, 3 reb, 2-8 FG

Diaw 18 pts, 5 reb, 4 to

Turiaf 4 pts, 4 reb, 8 min

Akyol 4 pts, 2 reb, 16 min

Okur 5 pts, 6 reb

Türkoglu 9 pts, 4 reb

Slovenia 61-80 Lithuania

Nesterovic 4 pts, 5 reb

Songaila 17 pts, 4 reb

Kleiza 6 pts, 7 reb

Jasikevicius 2 pts, 3 reb, 15 min

The quarter-finals are:

Russia - France

Spain - Germany

Lithuania - Croatia

Slovenia - Greece

The stat leaders after the qualifying round:

Points

Nowitzki (GER) 24.3

Gasol (SPA) 20.8

Parker (FRA) 19.5

Türkoglu (TUR) 19.2

Gurovic (SER) 19.0

Rebounds

Biedrins (LAT) 10.0

Kirilenko (RUS) 9.7

Green (ISR) 9.3

Milicic (SER) 9.3

Nowitzki (GER) 8.3

Assists

Jasikevicius (LIT) 5.7

Tapiro (ISR) 5.0

Koszarek (POL) 4.3

Bulleri (ITA) 4.0

Skele (LAT) 4.0

I tried it for the PS3, in my opinion it is much better than last year's version, but still not impressive. The graphics look nice and the gameplay is better, but it still has some flaws. I'll definately wait till both Live and 2K are out to make my decision on which one to buy.

I also wrote a review about the demo in my blog. *cheapplug*

Portugal 94-85 Israel

Greece 81-78 Croatia

Markota 2 pts, 2 reb, 11 min

Russia 69-81 Spain

Kirilenko 21 pts, 4 reb, 4 to

Khryapa 14 pts, 11 reb, 3 ast, 5 to

Gasol 13 pts, 9 reb

Navarro 15 pts, 19 min

Calderon 17 pts, 4 ast

Rodriguez DNP

Garbajosa 11 pts, 3 reb

Italy 84-75 Turkey

Belinelli 17, pts, 4 ast, 3 reb

Bargnani 12 pts, 6 reb

Akyol 1 pts, 5 reb, 0-0 FG, 14 min

Okur 10 pts, 9 reb

Türkoglu 34 pts, 4 ast, 6 reb

Lithuania 88-73 France

Songaila 17 pts, 7 reb

Kleiza 2 pts, 3 reb, 20 min

Jasikevicius 14 pts, 7 ast

Diawara 8 pts, 3-10 FG

Parker 11 pts, 6 ast

Diaw 6 pts, 7 reb, 3 to, 2-8 FG

Turiaf 2 pts, 3 reb

Germany 47-77 Slovenia

Whew, luckily for me I forgot that the game was on, it would've been painful to watch that. Germany was 17-60 from the field.

Nowitzki 16 pts, 8 reb, 7-18 FG, 23 min

Nesterovic 13 pts, 7 reb

Minny offense 10

Harrington -14

The Falcons offense is in for a looong season.

Didn't the coaches say that they want to give Norwoord a bigger part? Then why let they run him only 5 times, while the struggling Dunn got it 22 times?

I was also kinda shocked that we didn't try to score with 1 minute left in the first half.

6 sacks for the Vikes, but all those "smart" people said, that all the sacks happened only because of Vick.

On the positive side the defense looked ok, they didn't make big plays, but they held the Vikings to ten points and if it wasn't for that lucky Peterson TD it would've been 3, but then again the Vikings passing attack might be worse than ours.

Qualifying round day 1 results:

Portugal 65-78 Russia

Kirilenko 16 pts, 3 ast, 4 reb

Khryapa 11 pts, 11 reb, 4 stl

Israel 80-75 Croatia

Markota 5 pts, 7 reb

Spain 76-58 Greece

Gasol 15 pts, 5 ast, 5 reb

Navarro 7 pts

Calderon 4 pts

Rodriguez 1 ast, 5 min

Garbajosa 0 pts, 4 reb, 22 min

France 78-66 Germany

This was a very competitive match at the beginning and Germany could have easily won this game, if they had a good coach. Bauermann is such an idiot, it was 28-28 and then France pulled away to 43-30 and he didn't even think about taking a timeout, Germany never really recovered from that run. Nobody on France can really shoot the lights out, but hey we don't have to zone against them all the time, we'll try to beat them in their own game, cause the win will be much sweeter then, what we didn't win? Well, we tried, nobody can ask for more.

Diawara 5 pts, 3 ast

Parker 23 pts, 3 ast, 5 reb

Diaw 7 pts, 10 reb, 1 MONSTERblock

Turiaf 11 pts

Nowitzki 28 pts, 6 reb

Italy 74-79 Lithuania

Belinelli 9 pts

Bargnani 15 pts, 7 reb

Songaila 8 pts, 4 reb

Kleiza 8 pts, 9 reb

Jasikevicius 13 pts, 4 ast, 3 reb, 7 to

Turkey 51-66 Slovenia

Akyol DNP

Okur 14 pts, 6 reb

Türkoglu 17 pts, 8 reb

Nesterovic 13 pts, 6 reb

Already posted in the EuroBasket thread.

I wonder if he was messed up before or if all that time sitting on the Pistons bench and then drinking a lot at night messed him up.

Ok, my friend confirmed that Darko really said these things plus a couple of other things which weren't very nice either. Guess Darko has some growing up to do.

Darko Milicic got fined 10.000€ for these comments after the game against Greece:

Reportedly he said:

My best friend is from Serbia, I'll ask him later if that is exactly what he said or maybe MW24 can translate.

He's a 6'9/6'10 forward and is over 30 years old. He currently plays for Prokom in Poland (together with Travis Best and Ruben Wolkowyski), in the past he played for Joventut in Spain, Unics in Russia, Partizan, Crvena Zvezda (pretty unsual for a player to have played for Partizan and Crvena Zvezda, they're fierce rivals) and Vojvodina in Serbia. He did make this basket yesterday to send Serbia-Greece into overtime:

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Since he was born in 1975/1976 (I've found both as his birthdate) I doubt that he'll ever play in the NBA and most likely he wouldn't be good enough anyway.

Profile from the tournament site:

Israel 87-83 Serbia

Jaric 11 pts, 6 ast

Milicic 18 pts, 13 reb

Hmm, seems like Serbia's talents aren't as hungry as I thought, now they're eliminated.

Russia 61-53 Greece

Kirilenko 12 pts, 17 reb, 5 to, 4-16 FG

Khryapa 13 pts, 5 reb

Portugal 77-67 Latvia

Biedrins 14 pts, 18 reb, 3 blk

Yay, Helmanis is eliminated.

Croatia 85-84 Spain

Markota 6 pts, 14 min

Gasol 26 pts, 4 reb

Navarro DNP

Calderon 10 pts, 3 ast

Rodriguez 0-1 FG, 4 min

Garbajosa 8 pts, 1 reb

Lithuania 84-80 Germany

Songaila 11 pts, 3 reb

Kleiza 10 pts, 1 reb

Jasikevicius 15 pts, 10 ast, 4 reb

Nowitzki 28 pts, 9 reb

Czech Republic 72-80 Turkey

Cenk DNP

Okur 16 pts, 10 reb

Türkoglu 22 pts, 3 ast, 5 reb, 5 to

Czech Republic is eliminated.

Slovenia 67-66 France

Nesterovic 12 pts, 4 reb

Diawara 2 pts, 18 min

Parker 25 pts, 0 ast, 34 min

Diaw 6 pts, 4 reb, 2-7 FG

Turiaf 13 pts, 5 reb

Poland 70-79 Italy

Belinelli 20 pts

Bargnani 19 pts, 7 reb, 5 to, 3-9 2FG, 3-5 3FG

Poland is eliminated.

Tournament leaders after the preliminary round.

points

Nowitzki (GER) 29.0

Parker (FRA) 25.7

Gasol (SPA) 23.7

Gurovic (SER) 19.0

Türkoglu (TUR) 18.3

rebounds

Kirilenko (RUS) 14.0

Biedrins (LAT) 10.0

Milicic (SER) 9.3

Green (ISR) 9.0

Okulaja (GER) 9.0

assists

Jasikevicius (LIT) 7.0

Bulleri (ITA) 5.3

Koszarek (POL) 4.3

Lakovic (SLO) 4.0

Skele (LAT) 4.0

Day 2 results and stats:

Russia 90-56 Israel

Kirilenko 17 pts, 5 ast, 13 reb

Khryapa 6 pts, 5 ast

Greece 68-67 Serbia

Jaric 18 pts, 6 reb

Milicic 17 pts, 6 reb

Croatia 90-68 Portugal

Markota 13 pts

Spain 93-77 Latvia

Gasol 26 pts, 9 reb, 26 min

Navarro DNP

Calderon 14 pts, 5 reb

Rodriguez 0 pts, 2 ast, 9 min

Garbajosa 10 pts

Biedrins 17 pts, 5 reb

Lithuania 95-75 Czech Republic

Songaila 6 pts

Kleiza 14 pts, 4 reb

Jasikevicius 10 pts, 4 ast, 23 min

Germany 79-49 Turkey

I watched that game and Turkey never had a chance. They play like they really don't care, they made 50% of their FTs and especially Okur sucked big time.

Shortly after Akyol came in, he made an offensive foul and then nearly a second one, he looked very nervous, the commentator said that he suffered from burnout and took a one month break before the tournament and now has problems keeping up with the rest of the team.

Türkoglu & Okur don't ride in the teambus, they have their own car and while the others train, they're in the weight room, I never heard something like this, why does the coach allow that? Their team spirit is non-existing.

Nowitzki 24 pts, 6 reb

Akyol 3 pts, 1-3 FG, 10 min

Okur 5 pts, 5 reb, 1-8 FG

Türkoglu 15 pts

France 69-62 Italy

Diawara 0 pts, 3 reb, 3 to, 21 min

Parker 36 pts

Diaw 9 pts, 7 reb

Turiaf 3 pts, 3 reb

Belinelli 15 pts, 3 reb

Bargnani 16 pts, 3 reb, 6 to

Slovenia 70-52 Poland

Nesterovic 11 pts, 12 reb

When has he displayed his rebounding ability at the NBA level? In fact Solo out rebounded him this year! I don't get it