Skip to content  Eurobasket Day 6: Turkey vs. Spain, Russia vs.
Slovenia; Ukraine vs. Belgium  September 6, 2011  Thrilling
finishes for Russia and Turkey. Thrilling finish for Ukraine as
well seeing as how they, you know, won. At the same time, less
than stellar nights from our boys despite big games the night
before. I don’t know how much fatigue is a factor here given
that all the teams were playing their 5th game in 6 nights, but
it seemed like everyone–players and coaches–were constantly
annoyed and much more prone to dramatically throwing their hands
up in the air and incredulously staring at the refs when they
didn’t get calls.  Turkey vs. Spain  Enes Kanter had a tough
time going up against Marc Gasol. His first four possessions in
the game went like this: got scored on, missed shot, didn’t
touch the ball, called for foul. I could count on one hand the
number of times he touched the ball in the first half, and that
was including an inbounds pass.  Enes didn’t get his usual
second half start. For three