TheFutureMM wrote:Thing is, if you lose in the quarters, you end up playing a full bracket for spots 5 - 8. It looks like DR is going to make the quarters (good for them btw) but also doesn't mean we necessarily need to make the semis to get past them.
Again not ideal, for us to lose in the quarters, but also doesn't mean the Olympic bid is done 100%.
Also, in other news, the fact that we ended up beating France by more than 20 points is just such a blessing. FIBA's convoluted rankings system considers so many things, but one of them is the margin of victory (I didn't realize this until this AM as I thought it only mattered for that specific tournament). We stand to jump quite a bit in the rankings if we also beat Spain in R2 by a similar margin.
Yeah we really got get our rank up so we stop getting such difficult paths in these tournaments. One of the reasons we should take tournaments like the Americup more seriously.
