Euro Basket Provides Plenty of Drama
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
2.2 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
With too much time left until the beginning of the NBA season Trysta has turned to this summer's Euro Basket. Luckily, this national team tournament has provided plenty of excitement. Tensions rise between the Greek National Team and the Milwaukee Bucks following a game in which Giannis went down with an ankle injury. Luca continues to go nuclear for defending champion Slovenia, and tempers flared between Turkey and Georgia leaving 76ers star Furkan Korkmaz on the wrong end of a brawl.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | So it's the offseason for a lot of NBA players, but if you're from Europe, the grind is real. |
| 0:12.6 | The grind is in full swing. |
| 0:15.4 | Eurobasket, 2022, going on right now. |
| 0:18.8 | And if you don't know what that is, you probably don't have a favorite |
| 0:21.5 | European basketball player of note on the team that you root for. |
| 0:25.3 | Because it's very, extremely important to them. |
| 0:29.9 | Think about it as like a World Cup for European Hoopers, where various nations line up and play each other every four years in a tournament, |
| 0:40.1 | and you've got these group stages, and then you've got a knockout tournament to decide the winner, right? |
| 0:45.1 | So very similar to soccer. |
| 0:46.7 | 24 nations line up, and they play five games each in eight days. |
| 0:51.5 | Then the tourney runs for a week with the top four teams from each of the |
| 0:55.7 | four groups playing a 16 team tournament to decide the winner. And it's like a winner go home, |
| 1:02.7 | March Madness, single game elimination thing. Who's the defending champion? I think you know. |
| 1:08.5 | It's Slovenia. It is. It's Luca. He's the best. Eurobasket, though. Great opportunity for NBA fans to watch their favorite players. They very much care about. I want to go in four years from now. I'm going to try to go. I'm going to have a summer of hoops. I'm going to go to all those little janky proams. I'm going to go to Eurobasket. I'm literally just going to take three months for hoops. |
| 1:36.0 | But how do we know how much people love to watch these people play in a different types of competition? |
| 1:37.2 | Well, just see their reaction when Janus or Luca skips a game. |
| 1:42.2 | These people overseas are irate. |
| 1:45.0 | This is their chance to see not only their favorite player, |
| 1:48.6 | but their favorite player from their country representing. |
| 1:52.2 | The nation's collectively meltdown. |
| 1:54.4 | It's just a huge deal. |
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