Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 01:13:39 05/03/04
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On May 02, 2004 at 18:39:34, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On May 02, 2004 at 17:22:55, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On May 02, 2004 at 10:23:04, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>On May 01, 2004 at 16:55:12, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>Maccabi Tel-Aviv just won the European basketball championship final with an >>>>unbelievable victory of 118:74. I'm so happy that nothing can make me angry now, >>>>not even the rantings of someone like you! >>> >>>118 - 74 ?? >>> >>>What kind of championship is it when the second best team gets blown out by 40 >>>points? >> >>It was amazing. The opponent team, Skipper Bolognia from Italy, had defeated >>Maccabi in one of the games in the preliminary rounds with 15 successful >>3-pointers. So Maccabi was prepared for a very tough match. >> >>But just as the game started, Maccabi got a 10 point advantage in a few minutes. >>Maccabi's defense was astounding, there was nothing Skipper could do. In the >>last quarter when Maccabi was leading with 40 point gap, the crowd (10,000) >>started singing the national anthem as the game continued! >> >>In the history of European basketball championship, never the gap in the final >>game was more than 16 points. Yesterday Maccabi won with 44 points gap. >> >>Interestingly, Maccabi was almost knocked out in the preliminary round. In the >>last game, when Maccabi needed a victory to reach the final-four, it faced >>Zalgiris from Lithuania, with their legendary Arvydas Sabonis. Less than 10 >>seconds to the end of the game, Zalgiris was leading with 6 points. Maccabi >>attacked and scored 3 points. Zalgiris attacked and after Maccabi's foul and got >>two free throws 3 seconds to the end of the game. First throw.. out. Second >>throw.. out again. 2 seconds left to the end of the game... a long pass and >>Maccabi scores 3 points, and draws the game (and easily wins in extra time). If >>this is not a miracle, then I don't know what a miracle is :) > >6 points in 10 seconds is pretty rare. I seem to remember hearing about Reggie >Miller doing something like that, once. I'm glad to see basketball is taking >off in Europe. I don't particularly like American football or baseball - they >are just too slow paced for me. The only problem I have with basketball is that >height is so important, and I'm only 6 feet tall. > >anthony > > >>>I don't think even LA-NJ two years ago was that lopsided. >>> >>>anthony Basketball is quite big in Europe, probably #2 after soccer. Played way differently though, a lot of outside shooting & fancy passing, much less defense, much less physical play, and much much less talk :-) US style basketball is only possible until you're let's say 28 or so. After that, you need two or three days to recover from the beating. Then tennis & golf start to look better. Vas
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