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Eurobasket 2011 Preview – can France break the duck?

The 2011 edition will be held in Lithuania from 31st August through to 18th September.

Once again, many pundits are predicting a Spanish armada.

Spain have been the most dominant European basketball team of the last five years: 2009 Euroleague Champions, 2007 runners-up, 2008 Olympic silver medallists and 2006 World Champions.

They still have the shell of the squad that has led them to this success including Pau Gasol, Rudy Fernandez, Juan Carlos Navarro, Jose Calderon, Marc Gasol and Ricky Rubio.

However, the Spanish will have their toughest assignment yet to take out gold at the Zalgiris Arena come September 18 with a number of nations fielding full strength and experienced line-ups in spite of insurance issues with their NBA players due to the current lockout.

Most of the biggest NBA names in Europe will take part in the tournament, notably Spain’s Gasol brothers, Serge Ibaka, and Rubio; Dirk Nowitzki (Mavericks/Germany); Ben Gordon and Luol Deng (Great Britain); Hedo Turkoglu (Turkey); Tony Parker and Joakim Noah (France); and Danilo Gallinari (Italy).

The six teams that appear to be in the best position to take out the title are Spain, Serbia, France, Greece, 2010 World Championship silver medallists Turkey and the hosts Lithuania. Unfortunately for Germany, they’ll need more than the ‘Dirkus Circus’ to really contend against some of these teams.

The Serbian national team will be one of the youngest and fastest in the tournament with no player in their squad over the age of 28. They will be lead by the experience of former Boston Celtic Nenad Krstic.

However, their backcourt of Milos Teodosic, Aleksander Rasic and Nemanja Bjelica will be where they are most dangerous, with all three players having great court vision, deadly outside shooting and interchangeability in the one, two and three positions.

Greece have one of the best team systems in world basketball and possess a great inside-out game. They will be lead once again by Antonis Fotsis who along with Nikos Zisis, are the only survivors from the 2005 Eurobasket championship-winning team.

With their experience along with a good mix of youth including Denver Nugget Kosta Koufos, expect Greece to be one of the most dangerous teams in the tournament.

Turkey were the surprise packet of world basketball as hosts of the 2010 World Championships, where they went on an eight-game undefeated run, knocking off some of the most dangerous teams in the tournament like Russia, Greece, China, France and Serbia on their way to the silver medal at the hands of the United States.

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