Team Canada Basketball Thread V2.0

BilboBanginz · Post #2201 » by **BilboBanginz** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:14 pm

Cory coming to the team so late is another one of many reasons why being placed in the death group is really unfortunate. His first competitive games in 3 weeks will be Australia and Lithuania, the two highest stakes games Canada has played since they embarrassed themselves vs. Venezuela. Makes me wish we had Senegal first.

Mattd97 · Post #2202 » by **Mattd97** » Wed Aug 21, 2019 11:14 pm

BilboBanginz wrote:Cory coming to the team so late is another one of many reasons why being placed in the death group is really unfortunate. His first competitive games in 3 weeks will be Australia and Lithuania, the two highest stakes games Canada has played since they embarrassed themselves vs. Venezuela. Makes me wish we had Senegal first.

The France game the next year was the last important game, and we played very well.

Also, I try to erase that Venezuela game from my mind

And1Skip · Post #2203 » by **And1Skip** » Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:55 pm

Australia is definitely beatable regardless of the 4-5 NBA Players they have in their rotation. They're just not good defensively because they are so slow and lack lateral quickness. There's only so much good defensive centres like Baynes and Bogut can do as the last line of defence when everyone else can't keep their guys in front of them. I'm already conceding to Lithuania as one of the top 2 in the group to advance, but I'm looking for Canada to beat Australia and Senegal to be the 2nd team.

And also, I never knew who he was before, but Australia's coach is really bad (I think their fans think so too). Nurse can get any combination of players to play good defence. For Canada to do well, they need to rely on defence and hot 3pt shooting from open 3's generated by Nurse's offence.

Jstock12 · Post #2204 » by **Jstock12** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 12:02 pm

And1Skip wrote:I'm already conceding to Lithuania as one of the top 2 in the group to advance, but I'm looking for Canada to beat Australia and Senegal to be the 2nd team.

I think you're overrating Lithuania. As a Lithuanian, I really don't think we're any better than Australia or Canada at this point, at least judging from the exhibition games. We're just not playing like a well oiled machine at all, making tons of turnovers and aside from Sabonis/JV we really lack talent (backcourt especially). If I had to rate everyone's chances to win the group, I'd give Australia 40% (they're known to perform way better when it actually matters), Canada 30%, Lithuania around 25%, and Senegal 5%.

frumble · Post #2205 » by **frumble** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 1:02 pm

Point spreads for the opening Group H games:
Australia 5.5 over Canada
Lithuania 26 over Senegal

https://www.bovada.lv/sports/basketball/fiba-world-cup/group-h

BilboBanginz · Post #2206 » by **BilboBanginz** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 1:57 pm

FIBA Youtube has created some Team Profile videos:

Canada:

Watch on YouTube

and the competition..

Australia:

Watch on YouTube

Lithuania:

Watch on YouTube

Senegal:

Watch on YouTube

PoundTown · Post #2207 » by **PoundTown** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:32 pm

Jstock12 wrote:
And1Skip wrote:I'm already conceding to Lithuania as one of the top 2 in the group to advance, but I'm looking for Canada to beat Australia and Senegal to be the 2nd team.

I think you're overrating Lithuania. As a Lithuanian, I really don't think we're any better than Australia or Canada at this point, at least judging from the exhibition games. We're just not playing like a well oiled machine at all, making tons of turnovers and aside from Sabonis/JV we really lack talent (backcourt especially). If I had to rate everyone's chances to win the group, I'd give Australia 40% (they're known to perform way better when it actually matters), Canada 30%, Lithuania around 25%, and Senegal 5%.

We have one guy that can match up with your bigs, but I imagine double teams will be in effect, especially when it's only JV or Sabonis on the floor at once. Canada's biggest strength right now is Nick Nurse. If Cory makes his way out, we definitely have Lithuania in the back court department along with Pangos.

WellYouKnow · Post #2208 » by **WellYouKnow** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 1:13 am

Tomorrow is the deadline for the 12 man roster right?

Should be interesting to see what happens. Is Nembhard done? Is Heslip gonna show up? Is Keane ok to play?

Hopefully one of Keane or Nembhard is ok because it would be pretty huge to lose both imo

If they all can't go can we even field a full team?

Pangos Scrubb
Cory Best Notice
Ejim Scrubb
Wiltjer Brissett
Birch Klassen

That's 11. Am I missing anyone ?

frumble · Post #2209 » by **frumble** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:48 am

WellYouKnow wrote:Tomorrow is the deadline for the 12 man roster right?

Should be interesting to see what happens. Is Nembhard done? Is Heslip gonna show up? Is Keane ok to play?

Hopefully one of Keane or Nembhard is ok because it would be pretty huge to lose both imo

If they all can't go can we even field a full team?

Pangos Scrubb
Cory Best Notice
Ejim Scrubb
Wiltjer Brissett
Birch Klassen

That's 11. Am I missing anyone ?

No, you aren't missing anyone.
We need two of the four missing/injured guards (Joseph, Heslip, Keane, and Nembhard) to get to 12.

RaptorHusky · Post #2210 » by **RaptorHusky** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:24 am

And1Skip wrote:Australia is definitely beatable regardless of the 4-5 NBA Players they have in their rotation. They're just not good defensively because they are so slow and lack lateral quickness. There's only so much good defensive centres like Baynes and Bogut can do as the last line of defence when everyone else can't keep their guys in front of them. I'm already conceding to Lithuania as one of the top 2 in the group to advance, but I'm looking for Canada to beat Australia and Senegal to be the 2nd team.

And also, I never knew who he was before, but Australia's coach is really bad (I think their fans think so too). Nurse can get any combination of players to play good defence. For Canada to do well, they need to rely on defence and hot 3pt shooting from open 3's generated by Nurse's offence.

In the meantime, Australia makes USAB look like G-League team

Jstock12 · Post #2211 » by **Jstock12** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:26 am

Australia up by 3 points against the USA with 42 seconds to go.

Jcity08 · Post #2212 » by **Jcity08** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 6:34 am

Damn Australia really got one over on US.

BilboBanginz · Post #2213 » by **BilboBanginz** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:19 am

Now USA's gonna go for the jugular against us on Monday.

DaFroMan · Post #2214 » by **DaFroMan** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:07 pm

May this be a nice reminder to Canada...do not let patty mills get going.

https://youtu.be/s7zjhaFTgKM

Mattd97 · Post #2215 » by **Mattd97** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 1:22 pm

I wonder if you could go back in time and show the canadians this USA roster, if theyd change their minds and play. Probably not. But theyd be contenders

Kenter16 · Post #2216 » by **Kenter16** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 2:28 pm

DaFroMan wrote:May this be a nice reminder to Canada...do not let patty mills get going.

https://youtu.be/s7zjhaFTgKM

Exactly why we need Cory to show up. He's the best defender we have.

PoundTown · Post #2217 » by **PoundTown** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:22 pm

Kenter16 wrote:
DaFroMan wrote:May this be a nice reminder to Canada...do not let patty mills get going.

https://youtu.be/s7zjhaFTgKM

Exactly why we need Cory to show up. He's the best defender we have.

He's probably a top 10 defender at the point guard position in the world. Cory can give guys like Kyrie a challenge, let alone Patty Mills. We aren't beating Australia without Cory.

lexxus · Post #2218 » by **lexxus** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:58 pm

Stll no news if Cory is coming for the world cup? ****. I hope he plays. Our chances gets bigger if he's going to play especially on this death group.

DreamTeam09 · Post #2219 » by **DreamTeam09** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:05 pm

Hasn't it already been posted that cojo is not coming

Mattd97 · Post #2220 » by **Mattd97** » Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:43 pm

DreamTeam09 wrote:Hasn't it already been posted that cojo is not coming

Only by Doug Smith. Nurse keeps saying hes coming