Vikktor Sanikidze Leads Georgia

[pineflatt]

.....To Final European Championship Division B final

link:http://mamuli.net/geosports/sppro/bp...&vjob=vsub,171

Sanikidze Leads Georgia To Final


Viktor Sanikidze (San Antonio Spurs) carried Georgia into the final of the Ostchem U20 European Championship Division B with a dominant performance in his side's 74-63 semi-final defeat of Finland.

Sanikidze tallied 27 points and 14 points for Georgia, who earn promotion to Divison B in 2007.

A cat and mouse game saw Finland lead 14-15 at the end of the first quarter with 10 points from Petteri Koponen.

However Georgia lead at the half thanks to 13 and 7 rebounds from Sanikidze and 14 points from Iraki Sakvarelidze. 11 first half turnovers from Finland also added to their woes and Georgia led 41-34 at the start of the third quarter.

With 6 mins to go in the third a long three from Jari Vanttaja narrowed the Georgian lead to 48-41 but the red team replied immediately with a three of their own, however, the Finns narrowed the gap closer to 55-50 at the end of the third.

By now Koponen had moved on to 15 points and Sanikidze led all players with 20 points and 10 rebounds

The last quarter was much like the first, with both teams turning the ball over and making a number of long range jumpers. The Finns who had been one of the surprises of the tournament struggled with foul trouble losing their point guard Vuori with 5 minutes remaining.

With 90 seconds left the Georgians clung to a 69-59 lead. A pair of free throws put them up by two more with less than a minute to go . The Finns challenge was over and Georgia ran out 74-63 winners.

Georgia will take on FYROM in Sunday's final.

[usckk]

Nice.

[timvp]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45802

That is the thread where the Viktor Sanikidze discussion has been going on.

[Solid D]

There is also a pretty healthy discussion and game by game report from the FIBA U20 B Division tournament in the link below.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...13#post1123613

[spvrs]

What's this obsession with not starting new threads here?

Why would I want to look through 193 pages of summer league stuff to find the 8 posts on VS?

[Solid D]

What's this obsession with not starting new threads here?

Why would I want to look through 193 pages of summer league stuff to find the 8 posts on VS?

The link was posted, in this case, to provide additional information and discussion opportunity rather than to discourage.

I'm not sure why you would want to look through 193 pages of summer league stuff, therefore the link was presented with a direct link into the Sanikidze FIBA U20 pages, skipping the earlier pages.

[texasqb2]

I agree, it's annoying to get all this links to other threads, just let their be duplicate threads

[Solid D]

I agree, it's annoying to get all this links to other threads, just let their be duplicate threads

I can see how you might have that perspective if you post here once every three days texasqb2 and have 190 posts total.

The purpose of posting a link in this particular thread was for benefit of those who hadn't spent enough time in here to recognize there were FIBA U20 Sanikidze updates in such an odd place as a Summer League thread.

[spvrs]

I for one often read here. I see an interesting article posted and about 50% of the time someone posts another url like the guy spammed or something. Almost everytime I hadn't read it.

Usually the thread referenced is some massive thread that has degenerated at some point somewhere to talk about the new topic. If this is how it's set up then I would have to keep track of every page on every thread (which is like a 1% signal to noise)

Maybe you don't do that, somepeople do.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

They provided you with a direct link to the discussion that was relevant. What's the problem?

Those of us who post here a little more often appreciate consolidated discussions on particular topics.

[picnroll]

There's more useful and interesting information about Sanikidze on the other two threads than on this one, that's for sure.

[TDMVPDPOY]

ibtl?

[spvrs]

There's more useful and interesting information about Sanikidze on the other two threads than on this one, that's for sure.

The same thread was linked to twice.

Why don't we just have ten threads:
#Big Thread 1
#Big Thread 2
..

The people won't get confused by the names.

[Kori Ellis]

If you are offended by being linked to information about the same subject, just don't click the link.

There's a lot of good information in that other thread about Sanikidze play in the last week. Solid D just thought you might want to read it. He linked directly to the Sanikdize discussion.

[timvp]

I guess Spurs fans haven't quite recovered from the Maverick loss.