News: FIBA World Cup

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  1. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  2. JG

    JG Member+

    Jun 27, 1999
    Love that Finland essentially bought their "wild card" spot by having the Angry Birds people agree to give FIBA in-game advertising. Turkey did it the old fashioned way, apparently paying 1.6 million euros.
     
  3. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    let the market decide.

    I guess their reward was to be placed in the USA group.
     
  4. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  5. Waliatiger

    Waliatiger Member+

    Jul 1, 2013
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    This and the Olympics should be a U23 tournament were you can select 5 overage players. The USA has proved once again were best in the world. Let the young guns have there time. If it's still played with the current rules have team USA just send u23 players.
     
  6. EPJr

    EPJr Member+

    Los Angeles FC
    United States
    Mar 21, 2009
    Richmond VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  7. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If this is the best the world can do against the USA, this tournament is really pathetic.

    The USA has won all of matches by at least 20 points or more.

    Why does the rest of the world even bother trying to play this sport? The world at large should stick to soccer because that's the only team sport in which they will have a prayer at all.
     
  8. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The Indians kick some ass at cricket.
     
  9. EPJr

    EPJr Member+

    Los Angeles FC
    United States
    Mar 21, 2009
    Richmond VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The 2014 @FIBA Basketball World Cup Gold Medal Game is set:
    USA vs. SERBIA
    Sunday at 3pm/et on ESPN2!
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  10. BMxJoga

    BMxJoga Member

    Feb 27, 2010
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Peru
    Anybody watching? Serbia is playing pretty well.
     
  11. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Usually teams keep it respectable in the first half, it is usually in the 3rd quarter that the USA starts to blow teams away.
     
  12. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks for the jinx. USA with a 13-0 run
     
  13. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Too much depth. While everyone keeps trying to sell this as a USA B team, with young inexperienced players, their bench is still better than most team's starting lineups.
     
  14. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's already a 20+ point lead in the 2nd quarter against Serbia.

    What a joke tournament. Is this seriously the best the rest of the planet can do in basketball? The US is barely even trying.
     
  15. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    That's not even remotely accurate.
     
  16. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And now a 36 point lead.

    What. A. Joke.
     
  17. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why are you watching?
     
  18. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Although I'm complaining about the lack of competitiveness, it's still fun to watch the USA completely rout other countries in international sports.
     
  19. zohee

    zohee Member+

    May 28, 2011
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Nat'l Team:
    Slovenia
    Just like they did in June and July, right? That Group stage trophy sure was something else.

    You could expect the result. After Spain went out, the only team that could pose a slight challenge were France. Outside of those two teams, you can't expect much success against such an athletic team as the USA.
     
  20. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wow that was about as good an effort as Serbia put out today.
     
  21. BMxJoga

    BMxJoga Member

    Feb 27, 2010
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Peru
    Apart from the talent there is just too much athleticism for the US that other teams can't match.
     
  22. zohee

    zohee Member+

    May 28, 2011
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Nat'l Team:
    Slovenia
    Right and you can't expect more from them. The result was to be expected. Like I said, only Spain and maybe France could've posed a challenge to a team that is as good as the USA.
     
  23. Hararea

    Hararea Member+

    Jan 21, 2005
    There's got to be more to it than that. We haven't seen a US team mow down opponents like this since the mid-90s. It won its last three games by an average of 36 points (vs 14 pts in 2010).

    I don't follow closely enough to know what has changed, but there are a lot of countries that need to go back to the drawing board.
     
  24. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
    Club:
    FC Metalist Kharkiv
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Talent is dispersed too much across Europe. There's one or two good players in each country, but not five and certainly not ten. Spain and Argentina were able to field a full five man roster of solid to great nba players. They were able to hang with the us and beat them on their day when things went right for them.

    Additionally with the growth of soccer in this country international play is becoming much more attractive to nba players. It's no longer a duty, but it's become a fun and prideful thing to take part of. Players on showing up much more prepared and motivated than in th early part of last decade.

    It's going to be very hard for anybody to beat the US in Rio and the next World Cup. Argentina have almost nobody coming up. Spain don't have elite players to replace the gasol bros. no team really looks capable of fielding a deep enough side to really challenge motivated deep US squad.
     
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  25. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If this was a Ryder Cup type game Europe would have a chance. But as Corona said a bunch of separate nations have a very small chance.

    USA vs. Spain would have been nice to see but I still suspect the usa would have won by 15+
     
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