{"id":37138,"date":"2011-07-05T03:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37138"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T10:33:37","slug":"a-huge-moment-for-turkey-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/05\/a-huge-moment-for-turkey-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201chuge moment\u201d for Turkey against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EuroBasket Women: A \u201chuge moment\u201d for Turkey against Russia<\/p>\n<p>Russia, Turkey, latest news, womens basketball<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37141\" title=\"womenbasket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/womenbasket.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" \/>If there were any doubt that Turkey is experiencing a bona fide golden age of basketball, look no further than the FIBA EuroBasket Women championship match tonight. The unheralded Team Turkey will take on pre-tournament favorites\/historically dominant Russia in Lodz tonight.<\/p>\n<p>At stake is an automatic bid in the 2012 Olympic Games, but one can\u2019t help imagining both of these sides to be playing in London next year: The losing team is already set to play in the Olympic qualifying round, along with Croatia, the Czech Republic and France.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey overcame defending champions France in the semifinal in a 66-62 overtime thriller, leading to what center Nevin Nevlin calls \u201ca huge moment for Turkish basketball. It\u2019s history. We\u2019re part of it. We\u2019re very proud and we know 70 million people back home are proud of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upstarts will have to find a way to disassemble the Russian machine, however, but this edition of the team appears not quite as fearsome as some from EuroBasket tourneys past. While Team Russia has gone 6-2 in the tournament overall, two of those Ws came in squeakers over Slovakia and Britain, two teams the Russians were supposed to have well outclassed. On the other hand, Russia did claim an emphatic 80-65 win over Turkey on day three of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>via BallinEurope, the European Basketball news site \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb EuroBasket Women: A \u201chuge moment\u201d for Turkey against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroBasket Women: A \u201chuge moment\u201d for Turkey against Russia Russia, Turkey, latest news, womens basketball If there were any doubt that Turkey is experiencing a bona fide golden age of basketball, look no further than the FIBA EuroBasket Women championship match tonight. The unheralded Team Turkey will take on pre-tournament favorites\/historically dominant Russia in Lodz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":37141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[5931,6264],"class_list":["post-37138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-basketball","tag-women-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}