FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 – (Aug. 25 - Sept. 10)

Post #181 » by **Mavrelous** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 10:55 am

Serbians destroyed Canada who went into foul trouble very early, interesting the whistle difference, I thought CAN was even more physical against Slovenia.
Regardless of officiating, in each of the 2 games the better team won, Serbia is well coached, well oiled machine, Bogi and Mulitonov are studs, Serbias defense wreaked havoc on CAN offense, especially in non-SGA minutes who was in foul trouble.

Archx · Post #182 » by **Archx** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 11:33 am

Mavrelous wrote:Serbians destroyed Canada who went into foul trouble very early, interesting the whistle difference, I thought CAN was even more physical against Slovenia.
Regardless of officiating, in each of the 2 games the better team won, Serbia is well coached, well oiled machine, Bogi and Mulitonov are studs, Serbias defense wreaked havoc on CAN offense, especially in non-SGA minutes who was in foul trouble.

Yep. Serbia is well rounded and a much deeper team than ours. They also have a coach who knows what he is doing lol. We have one guy who is entire offensive system and Canada used that to their advantage with a lot of help from refs. They couldn't do that vs Serbia and SGA finally faced a proper defense aswell. People have no clue that Luka plays mostly 1v5 all the time because we are that short on players.

41Dirk41 · Post #183 » by **41Dirk41** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 11:35 am

Mavrelous wrote:Serbians destroyed Canada who went into foul trouble very early, interesting the whistle difference, I thought CAN was even more physical against Slovenia.
Regardless of officiating, in each of the 2 games the better team won, Serbia is well coached, well oiled machine, Bogi and Mulitonov are studs, Serbias defense wreaked havoc on CAN offense, especially in non-SGA minutes who was in foul trouble.

A team with Dwight Powell starter can't win.
Simple as that....Milutinov feasted all game long :lol:

Great game by Serbia team. Bogi fantastic.

Archx · Post #184 » by **Archx** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 11:39 am

41Dirk41 wrote:A team with Dwight Powell starter can't win.
Simple as that....Milutinov feasted all game long

Eyyy, i will not tolerate any slander against Mavs future HOF starting center. :box:

Bob8 · Post #185 » by **Bob8** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 11:39 am

Mavrelous wrote:Serbians destroyed Canada who went into foul trouble very early, interesting the whistle difference, I thought CAN was even more physical against Slovenia.
Regardless of officiating, in each of the 2 games the better team won, Serbia is well coached, well oiled machine, Bogi and Mulitonov are studs, Serbias defense wreaked havoc on CAN offense, especially in non-SGA minutes who was in foul trouble.

Brooks have 2 Pf against Slovenia, holding Luka the whole game and 4 against Serbia early in 3rd. That's a big difference. Sure Serbia is better team than Slovenia, but Canadian only advantage is aggression, referees took that away and they looked pretty average team.

Post #186 » by **Mavrelous** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 11:46 am

Bob8 wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:Serbians destroyed Canada who went into foul trouble very early, interesting the whistle difference, I thought CAN was even more physical against Slovenia.
Regardless of officiating, in each of the 2 games the better team won, Serbia is well coached, well oiled machine, Bogi and Mulitonov are studs, Serbias defense wreaked havoc on CAN offense, especially in non-SGA minutes who was in foul trouble.

Brooks have 2 Pf against Slovenia, holding Luka the whole game and 4 against Serbia early in 3rd. That's a big difference. Sure Serbia is better team than Slovenia, but Canadian only advantage is aggression, referees took that away and they looked pretty average team.

And length, and athleticism, great fastbreak team, they are very "American" in their makeup as a team, and even w/o aggrssion they have very good defender on the perimeter, all of Brooks, Dort, NAW and SGA are good to great defenders, Prepelic punched 2 levels above his weight (Slovenians should stop calling their team garbage, their players played their heart out), and still Slovenia was down double digits.
I think the officiating was a scandal, I love the fact Luka plays for Slovenia, I respect him more for it, but just to punish FIBA, I'd skip a tournament, and watch their ratings drop for it...

41Dirk41 · Post #187 » by **41Dirk41** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 2:51 pm

Germany is for real... What a game.

FIBA coach are way better than NBA. Confirmed. Again.

dirkules_41 · Post #188 » by **dirkules_41** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 2:52 pm

Wooohooo! Go Wagners!

Post #189 » by **Mavrelous** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 3:11 pm

OBST!!!

Post #190 » by **Mavrelous** » Fri Sep 8, 2023 3:17 pm

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Archx · Post #191 » by **Archx** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 10:38 am

41Dirk41 wrote:

Sorry mate, we tried our best to lose but Italy just didn't want to win :-?

41Dirk41 · Post #192 » by **41Dirk41** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 11:12 am

Archx wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:

Sorry mate, we tried our best to lose but Italy just didn't want to win

Italy is too weak and without an offensive leader... 8th place is the best.

Unfortunately Luka didn't make a triple double :banghead:

dirkules_41 · Post #193 » by **dirkules_41** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 11:55 am

41Dirk41 wrote:
Archx wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:

Sorry mate, we tried our best to lose but Italy just didn't want to win

Italy is too weak and without an offensive leader... 8th place is the best.

Unfortunately Luka didn't make a triple double

He tried his best with 9 TO though.

Archx · Post #194 » by **Archx** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 12:19 pm

41Dirk41 wrote:
Archx wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:

Sorry mate, we tried our best to lose but Italy just didn't want to win

Italy is too weak and without an offensive leader... 8th place is the best.

Unfortunately Luka didn't make a triple double

Heh.. yeah wouldn't look that good with 9 TO's added. But he also didn't look too much motivated. Whole team was so up and down, Italy had every right to win as well

Archx · Post #195 » by **Archx** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 12:23 pm

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I feel like he also didn't have that good of a tournament but still...

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41Dirk41 · Post #196 » by **41Dirk41** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 4:49 pm

Great tournament by the Laser, 12+4 with 38% from 3.

5th Place for Latvia. Well done.

Post #197 » by **Mavrelous** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 4:54 pm

Archx wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:
Archx wrote:
Sorry mate, we tried our best to lose but Italy just didn't want to win

Italy is too weak and without an offensive leader... 8th place is the best.

Unfortunately Luka didn't make a triple double

Heh.. yeah wouldn't look that good with 9 TO's added. But he also didn't look too much motivated. Whole team was so up and down, Italy had every right to win as well

Luka was better than the Eurobasket last year, but much worse than Tokyo where he was in God mode except against France.
Vibes are much better than after Poland game despite the ejection

Archx · Post #198 » by **Archx** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 5:06 pm

Mavrelous wrote:
Archx wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:

Italy is too weak and without an offensive leader... 8th place is the best.

Unfortunately Luka didn't make a triple double

Heh.. yeah wouldn't look that good with 9 TO's added. But he also didn't look too much motivated. Whole team was so up and down, Italy had every right to win as well

Luka was better than the Eurobasket last year, but much worse than Tokyo where he was in God mode except against France.
Vibes are much better than after Poland game despite the ejection

Yeah he had quite good stats in this tournament overall but i still felt he was far from being himself. It's like an extra punch in his game was missing.

BliscoSantos · Post #199 » by **BliscoSantos** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 5:15 pm

What's up with Luka and his leg injury...he said it's still not healed...how is that possible?? He had a lot of time off before the world cup...what kind of a poor medical team do the Mavs have ?? This is your franchise Player,you should order every test possible if something isn't right

ejs78 · Post #200 » by **ejs78** » Sat Sep 9, 2023 5:46 pm

BliscoSantos wrote:What's up with Luka and his leg injury...he said it's still not healed...how is that possible?? He had a lot of time off before the world cup...what kind of a poor medical team do the Mavs have ?? This is your franchise Player,you should order every test possible if something isn't right

Last I checked Casey Smith was still on the team so that would lead me to believe the staff is still pretty good unless he's fallen off a cliff.