2008 Albert Schweitzer Tournament Recap  Sun, 04/06/2008 -
8:57am  By Simon Dresden  The 2008 Albert Schweitzer Tournament
was for some reason depleted of it's usual talent level from the
past. The US team apparently was affected by the McDonald's game
taking place at the same time, Russia only sent a second unit,
and European powerhouses Lithuania and Serbia didn't bother to
show at all. Of the teams that attended, most were missing their
star players like Spain's Ricky Rubio who had to bigger fish to
fry with his pro team than dominating his age group once again.
This development made it difficult to follow the early rounds as
it quickly became apparent there was a great divide between the
teams that had a real chance to win it all and those who didn't.
Four teams were destined from the beginning to make a run at the
crown. Those were Greece and Turkey, who brought arguably their
best squads. Australia, which was not the most talented team out
there, but due to the fact that they live and train together in