Eurobasket 2022: Group Stage Analysis - Scoring Power

Yesterday evening, with Spain-Greece and Poland-Belgium, the group stage of Eurobasket 2025. We have the sixteen teams that have qualified in the round of 16 and that from tomorrow morning they will find themselves in Riga, in Latvia, for the direct elimination phase. It is the hottest phase, more interesting and where the tension will certainly not fail. This is because – precisely having started with direct elimination – the errors are paid and the results of the matches escape predictions and any technical discourse.
But before throwing ourselves headlong on what will happen in Riga in the next few days, we can only look back and analyze what happened in the four groups of the “itinerant” Eurobasket that we are experiencing in recent weeks. In addition to Riga, in Katowice (Poland), in Tampere (Finland) and Limassol (Cyprus), we had the opportunity to see the national teams at the work give us different food for thought.
We can say that this is more than ever the Eurobasket of the so -called “bomber”, of the scorers: those players capable of catalyzing the attention of the defenses and still holding the weight of the attack of their team alone.
And then, for this reason, we ask ourselves how much this factor can affect – for better or for worse – in the economies of the different national teams.
As in every area, there are different cases depending on the situations. What is certain is that among the first ten top scorer Of the EuroBasket 2025 group stage, there are nine players NBA. The only exception is Jordan Loyd (naturalized) who is making the fortunes of the Poland And it is one of the pins of the monk of Vassilis Spanoulis. The others are all first -rate NBA players. There are stars, MVP of Regular Season (Luka Doncic) and even two MVP of the Finals (Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic).
At this moment there are three teams that stand out on all the others. First of all the two unbeaten, Germania e Türkiyeand then complete it Serbia. In common these teams have the fact that they have both NBA superstar and first -rate players of the Euroleague in their roster. Are well trained national teams (Alex Mumbru, Ergin Ataman e Svetislav Pesic) with excellent offensive production, made of sharing of possessions and readings. The most striking case is undoubtedly that of Germany which is traveling to 105.8 media points per game with five double -digit players (Dennis Schroder, Franz Wagner, Daniel Theis, Tristan da Silva e Andreas Obst) e Maodo lo A 9
Similar speech can be done for the Türkiye. The star is Alperen Sengungreat wing of Houston Rockets. Absolute phenomenon overseas, let alone here. Leader on the pitch, absolute driver who needs so much ball in his hand but who Atheman convinced him to share with other great interpreters of this sport. Let’s talk about the samples like Cedi Osman and above all Shane Larkin that in these weeks seems to have returned to that of the “golden age“. In general, Turkey produces 91.8 points on average.
The Serbia It is a little worse and against Atama’s team has lost the last match at heart -pounding with 86.8 per race.
The Pesic national team is a little more fluctuating and had to undergo some hitch linked to injuries, in particular the ailments of Vasilija Micic (still far from its best version) e Aleksa Avramovicvery useful in the production of the offensive game.
Needless to say, the fulcrum is Nikola Jokic. The ace of Denver Nuggets But it is not a pure scorer, so much so that it becomes the protagonist even in rebounds and assists.
And this totality of the game we see it perhaps only in two other elements, completely different for characteristics and roles within one’s national team.
On the one hand the Go to Guy par excellence, Luka Doncicon the other, a cyborg like Giannis antetokounmpo.
The handyman of the Slovenia It is probably the only real diamond tip of your team. The number one man, and probably also at the same time second and third violin. Best bucking the group stage, but also the author of a triple double (fourth man to succeed in the history of Eurobasket) against Belgium.
In this case, however, the presence of such a cumbersome player did not always pay positive divides. Slovenia had a not simple journey and Luka Doncic has not always been a positive factor. For the opponents (e Italy will be the next one) It is probably easier to prepare the games against an opponent who you already know what the only real point of reference and solution will be.
The other that we mentioned is Giannis antetokounmpo. We were lucky enough to see him closely to Limassol, home of group C of Italy and also of the Greece.
The star of Milwaukee Bucks It is the example of how decisive a player can be for one national. He played three out of five games, jumping the one (which does not text) against Cyprus and the one against Bosnia Herzegovina. Precisely in the latter without Giannis, Greece (albeit full of talented) managed to lose complicating the journey. Antetokounmpo – such as Doncic and Jokic – is also an all -round player. Physically very strong, statuary and formidable player. In one against one towards iron it is impossible to mark for anyone.
Although the defeat against Bosnia has arrived, however, coach Spanoulis’s Greece can count on important “high” Euroleague players such as Kostas sloukas, Dino mitouglou, Kostas Papanikolaou e Tyler Dorsey. So compared to Slovenia it can be said not to be “star-dependent”.
Then there is Lauri Markkanen which is the centerpiece of the whole Finlandia. The audience of Tampere has finally been able to see one of the stars of the national sport live and closely. The long of the Utah jazz He is the absolute driver of a team that cannot count on many other individualities and therefore almost naturally is the great designated scorer.
A little different speech instead for the guard of Israel Deni Avdi by force to Portland Trail Blazers That Around him he has Role Players who play in Euroleague and have important international experiences.
E tallbasket? The blue bomber is clearly Simone Fontecchiofresh from signature with i Miami Heat. However, Abruzzo is not experiencing a Eurobasket of large numbers, if not the mega performance against Bosnia in which he recorded the absolute record of points (39) of a blue player in a continental review.
In conclusion, therefore, the question remains: pays dividing to have a great achievement in the team? The answer we feel we are giving, however trivial may be, is that it can pay up to a certain point.
In European basketball or Fiba what matters is the team context. A single player – albeit out of category compared to the average standards of the competition – never pays. For this reason, the great favorites are those teams like Germany and Türkiye who have very prominent elements, but are flanked by value companions and capable of making the difference.