Eurobasket Slovenia: Greece vs Turkey pre-match stats and analysis

Greece plays against Turkey in a death match where Turkey can be eliminated from Eurobasket Slovenia 2013. In first two games Greece has two victories and Turkey two defeats. Greece scored 79,5 points in average while Turkey only 65,0 points. Greece allows her opponents to score 61,0 points in average, almost the scoring average of Turkey, while Turkey allows opponents to score 75,5,  close to scoring of Greece. By scores only the most possible result seems 77-63 for Greece but the lack of Spanoulis and the rivalry of the two teams may lower the score. A weakness of the Greek team in the first two games is free throws percentage with a low of 62,0% which can be crucial in the forthcoming games. But even 62% free throws percentage seems high for Turkey which has the lowest percentage in the tournament with 55,8%. Greece is also bad in turnovers with average 17,5 turnovers per game while Turkey makes lower turnovers with an average of 12,0 per game. The lack of Spanoulis though won't alter much the style of play for the Greek national team since their opponents make 25,5 fouls per game which is the highest number in the tournament. This high number of won fouls is result of Trinchieri's rotating system which makes full use of the bench depth of Greece. To sum up, Greece has a leading position before the game but we expect Turkey to higher its shooting percentages at this game. Greece will depend on its rotating system to wear Turkey with fouls and in such a crucial game poor free throws percentages won't help the weaker Turkey. If percentages and averages play basketball then Greece will win Turkey with 5-10 points and a score about 77-63.

Greece wins Sweden in Eurobasket Slovenia first day

Greece wins Sweden with 79-51 in Eurobasket Slovenia first day. For Greece all twelve players scored which shows the type of basketball that Greece prefers. Spanoulis scored 12 points and Mavrokefalidis gained 9 rebounds for Greece while for Sweden Taylor scored 16 points and Kjellbom gained 5 rebounds.Sweden finished the game with 36% shot accuracy and Greece with 57.4% shooting accuracy.

Olympiacos BC roster 2013-2014

Olympiacos BC roster 2013-2014
(update with the addition of Jamario Moon and the release of Jamario Moon)
(update with November transfer of Kavvadas and December release of Mavroeidis )
(update with the addition of Giorgi Shermadini) 

#4 Petway, Brent
#5 Law, Acie

#6 Dunston, Bryant

#7 Spanoulis, Vassilis (C)
#8 Perperoglou, Stratos

#9 Papapetrou, Ioannis

 #10 Sloukas, Kostas

#11 Mavroeidis, Dimitrios

#12 Simmons, Cedric

#13 Lojeski, Matt

#14 Begić, Mirza

#15 Printezis, Georgios

#16 Agravanis, Dimitrios

#17 Mantzaris, Vangelis 

#19 Katsivelis, Dimitrios
# Kavvadas, Vasilis
# Mardy Collins

#Giorgi Shermadini

 Oldest player is the captain Vassilis Spanoulis, born on 7 August 1982, aged 31 years old.

Youngest player is Dimitris Agravanis, born on December 20 1994, aged 18 years old.

Shortest player is Kostas Sloukas with a height of 190 centimeters (6 ft 3 in).

Tallest player is Mirza Begić with a height of 221 centimeters (7 ft 3 in).

Olympiacos has 10 players from Greece, 5 players from USA, 1 from Cyprus and 1 from Slovenia, a total of 17 players from 4 countries and 2 continents.

All Greek Basketball League 2013-2014 team rosters here.

Greece roster for FIBA EuroBasket Slovenia 2013

After Andrea Trinchieri decided to cut Ian Vougioukas the roster of the Greek national team for the FIBA EuroBasket Slovenia 2013 is complete.

Kostas Sloukas
Vassilis Spanoulis
Nikos Zisis
Stratos Perperoglou
Michael Bramos
Ioannis Bourousis
Antonis Fotsis
Kostas Papanikolaou
Loukas Mavrokefalidis
Georgios Printezis
Kostas Kaimakoglou
Vasileios Kavvadas

Vassilis Spanoulis on twitter

Vassilis Spanoulis, 30 guard, created his personal account on Twitter today.

His account is vassilis7span and his first tweet was in Greek with a photo from his children: "All day with them! Like quadruple training!"

Spanoulis in last season won the Euroleague with Olympiacos and also won the title of Euroleague's MVP for the third time and second year in a row.