BU commit: Dwayne Lautier-Ogunele....

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the Lithuanian squad has Domantas Sabonis- one of the top U20 players in the world who plays at Gonzaga..

No U20 player anywhere in all of Europe has had more than 27 rebounds in any game in the past four years ...
Until today when Domantas Sabonis had 18 pts & 28 rebounds!!!

http://u20men.fibaeurope.com/en/gameID_11587-F-9-3.html

Domantas Sabonis just finished his freshman season at Gonzaga - some schools really missed on this kid..

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In a bit of an upset, Poland knocks off Slovenia at the U20's. thus...
it looks now like Great Britain will face Poland Friday -

Great Britain has not played Poland at the U20 competition but they did play a couple weeks earlier at the tuneup tourney in Spain..
and Great Britain actually beat Poland handily, 78-58...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=825113306&postcount=58

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Great Britain...will play ..on Friday at 21:00 .... it could be Poland instead ..

Great Britain vs. Poland in their bracket semi now underway...
very low scoring thus far...
6 minutes remain in 1st period & score is..
Great Britain 9 - Poland 6

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Poland hits 3 long treys in a row to jump out to a 22-17 lead after 1 quarter

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here's something interesting I noted...

right now DLO has played just 2 minutes but the international stats show a +/- statistic similar to what hockey fans might know

basically it's a tabulation of how your team has done score-wise for the time you were in there...so even if you make a difference without scoring and your team plays better when you are in - the +/- stat shows this.

Anyway - in almost every game DLO has a very good +/-
right now, in this game, his team trails by 5 but DLO has a +/- of +7 - clearly they play better and outplay Poland while he's in there...
He is one of their top 5-6 scorers, but he helps in other ways, also...especially defensively.
The ONLY other couple players with a positive +/- are at +2...nobody else even close to DLO's +7

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early 3rd qtr
GB 34 - Poland 33

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game in OT a little more than a minute left
Poland 85 - GB 82

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85-84 with 10 sec to go

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Final Poland 86 - GB 84
tough loss for the Brits...

now they play Russia tomorrow at 14:00 (7am our time) for 3-4th place in the Classification Championship round

stats show too many turnovers & too many fouls

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Last game in Europe for the British U20's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCj5HTAIVt8

http://live.fibaeurope.com/www/Game.aspx?acc=1&gameID=69487&lng=en

Britain 24 - Russia 21 early in 2nd qtr as DLO scoers on a fast break layup

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nice lead as they head to halftime
Great Britain 43 - Russia 31, DLO has 3 pts, an assist and some solid defense playing on the point against the Russians' PG

the big difference this game is Britain has only 5 turnovers in the 1st half (DLO none) and they have otherwise been very turnover-prone.

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Great Britain chose to play their very BEST game a little too late..
they are currently clobbering Russia by 25!!

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Final score
Great Britain 86 - Russia 62
DLO had 5 pts, 4 reb 2 asst
Britain's captain Luke Nelson had 26!
Wonder if he's kept his college eligibility!

Britain goes home after a 3-5 run with several close games - finishing in 16th place
DLO ought to now be heading to the US

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Here's how the U20's turned out

1st....Spain & Serbia are currently playing for the Championship
2nd... " " "
3rd Turkey
4th France
5th Latvia
6th Czech Republic
7th Lithuania
8th Belgium
9th Italy
10th Israel
11th Ukraine
12th Germany
13th Slovenia
14th Poland
15th Russia
16th Great Britain
17th Croatia
18th Greece
19th Bosnia-Herzegovinia
20th Bulgaria


Great Britain's performance:
07.07.2015 vs TUR [L] 57-59
08.07.2015 vs SLO [L] 72-80
09.07.2015 vs GER [L] 53-64
11.07.2015 vs LTU [L] 49-56
13.07.2015 vs CRO [W] 68-64
14.07.2015 vs BUL [W] 77-51
15.07.2015 vs RUS [L] 73-80
17.07.2015 vs POL [L] 84-86
19.07.2015 vs RUS [W] 86-62