Kinda makes me wish Marjanovic was on a team that didn't have so many big men so he could've had a chance to play more. Like Hamed Haddadi for Iran, say.
Cutting a game to 40 mins effectively reduces the current cumulative season load by about 14 games without taking away any (direct) revenue. Sure ad time will be slightly lower but maybe they can find a workaround to this. NBA historians and people who care about counting stats will prolly be the only ones against it.
USA should have invited Higgins, Clyburn and Kyle Hines for this tournament. They are more used to this style of play.
You're probably right, but the Knicks are the Knicks and Malik Monk is a flashier player. (Plus Ntilikina was a Phil Jackson acquisition.) (Hornets give up Monk just to dump salary. Hornets have the sorriest set of contracts. The real reason this trade wouldn't happen is nobody's taking on Batum's salary, but he's still just 30 and his playmaking skill is what we wanted from Evan Turner and never really got. And how can you not love this guy? (That's a rhetorical question - I'm well aware how most on this board can not.))
Genuinely have no clue as to who's going to win in the semifinals. All four teams have a shot. Spain should probably be fave, but you can't count any of the others out.
If you could sign one player not currently in the NBA for the Blazers, whom would it be? Campazzo's the obvious choice, but he's not necessarily a great fit. Jovic would be good, and I'm also intrigued by Ponitka, as he seems to be a do-everything forward with good athleticism, and he's the best player on perhaps the biggest surprise team in the tournament (and the best without a single NBA player). I also honestly wouldn't mind getting Claver back...
Ponitka though is not a special player for Euroleague level, he is average so those games are not really his "real" value. As I have stated again i would really like getting Poirier and Micic. They haven't shown their skills as one has Gobert in front of him and the other is at his best when being the primary ball handler which is impossible with Bogdanovic and Jokic. This is why Jovic is a better fit for this Serbia team, just plays his D and has very low usage. My answer from those in the tournament would be Campazzo or Calathes though. Both really elite Euroleague players.
I understand how people could feel the way you do but no preseason games don't count as losing and neither do friendlies. To the US these games aren't taken seriously nor do they matter. Those weren't "official" games.
Didn't those games decide some spots for the World Cup? In rest of world we count those games as official although we did not use our A team as well. It is kind of a fact, not choice. European Champions Slovenia got eliminated in those games.
