FIBA Worlds thread

I have to say that the FIBA event was way too late in the summer. I've completely lost interest. Football started. School is starting. I've got work. No time for this kind of thing.

 

I literally haven't watched 1 usa game. I watched france play the other day, and will watch Spain. The only interest I have in it is because of nice/claver

 

Faried da real mvp

 

The U.S. is frustrated by the officiating. Which of the 3 is making the bad calls?

Small crowd. Why build new buildings for these events?

 

They are good for more than just fiba. Helps expand the game in Spain as well.

Also the USA should be able to play 5 on 8 until they face Spain.

 

Not with all these bad calls. 49-42 halftime, many Americans in foul trouble.

 

Here's the problem: Slovenia wasn't playing Alabama on American soil. It's not remotely a big deal that Cousins didn't know where Slovenia was, but it's stupid to pretend that he had a good point. It was mildly amusing is all.

 

This is a pretty cool shot:

 

I wonder if Alabama would only be down 49-42 at the half to the US?

 

Why is Kenneth Faried repeatedly the MVP for the US team? My assumption is that they force a ton of turnovers and he gets offensive rebounds which together add up to a lot of garbage points. Because he's not this good really, is he? This is just making Nolan Smith all the more painful.

If I'm right, though, the way to get the US in trouble is to slow down the pace and not turn the ball over. Oh, and have someone like Serge Ibaka to stick on Kenneth Faried.

 

Derrick Rose's best play of his career was on Dragic!

[video=youtube;t71IqHJOqgE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t71IqHJOqgE[/video]

 

He usually dominates in All-Star games as well.

 

Yawn. He's one of the best rat ball players in the world. Team USA plays rat ball. So yes, he might be the MVP. It's when teams actually run plays that he becomes more pedestrian. He lost his starting job last year for at least a while to our previously maligned PF (Hickson).

 

Yeah, that's basically what I was trying to say. You just said it better.

 

I'll concede he was a smart ass, and I'm impressed because I didn't think he was that smart.

 

So Slovenia and their dip shit reporter are now history after a 43pt beatdown by USA

It's the most points that Team USA has scored in a game this tournament.

USA! USA! USA!

 

It was just the perfect response to a stupid question

 

Actually I would go with Cousins on this one, the place where the games are played is irrelevant in this case. Slovenia is about as relevant to his daily life as Alabama is to most European's daily life. Like everything else in the world - you have to choose what to focus on, and to assume that he needs to know the geographical location of a small European country is absurd and elitist. Good on him.

 

really?

 

Why? He's traveling abroad, most people would want to know a bit about where they're going to. If the analogy is being made between the USA and the EU, then traveling to Europe means finding out about Europe.

True, but pointless. This is not his "daily life", this is a basketball game AGAINST SLOVENIA. So Slovenia is fairly relevant I would say.

"Absurd and elitist"? Wow. "I'm ignorant, and to assume that I should be otherwise is absurd and elitist." What happened to curiosity? How about saying, "no I don't - could you tell me?" Or would that be a sign of unmanliness? Or simply unAmericanness?