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Nene will play with the brazilian national team next Monday in DC. I saw some games of him and yesterday He helps in Brazil won against Argentina. He was listed last game as a DNP with his foot isssues, but yesterday He looked ok, sometimes Argentina calls triple team over him.

Any chance of Brizilian team against US?

Starting 5:
PG – Marcelinho Huertas (Barcelona – Spain)
SG – Alex Garcia (Brasilia- Bra – Former Spurs and NOH)
SF – marquinhos (Flmaengo-Bra – Former NOH)
PF – Anderson Varejão (Cavs)
C – Nene (Wizards)

Bench:
Tiago Spliter (Spurs)
Leandro Brabosa (Pacers)
Marcelo Machado
Larry Taylor
Guilherme Giovanoni

DNP - foot issues -- exactly what I was worried about.

But he came back yesterday. He played few minutes because this play:
http://globoesporte.globo.com/basquete/ ... -four.html
Video in the beging of the news.

padovani31 wrote:Nene will play with the brazilian national team next Monday in DC. I saw some games of him and yesterday He helps in Brazil won against Argentina. He was listed last game as a DNP with his foot isssues, but yesterday He looked ok, sometimes Argentina calls triple team over him.

Any chance of Brizilian team against US?

Starting 5:
PG – Marcelinho Huertas (Barcelona – Spain)
SG – Alex Garcia (Brasilia- Bra – Former Spurs and NOH)
SF – marquinhos (Flmaengo-Bra – Former NOH)
PF – Anderson Varejão (Cavs)
C – Nene (Wizards)

Bench:
Tiago Spliter (Spurs)
Leandro Brabosa (Pacers)
Marcelo Machado
Larry Taylor
Guilherme Giovanoni

Noooo

This has been my main concern over the Nene trade - whether he can stay healthy throughout his contract. I know everyone deserves the right to represent for their country, but I think he should just rest before the foot injury becomes more serious. His NBA career is more important.

Nene always has injuries

Yeah heard Buckhantz mention this during the Summer League game. Nene & Brazil vs Team USA at Verizon Center, man I hadn't heard about that, I'd like to check that out!

This is FIBA Basketball!!
Lets go Brazil!!

The crowd is LIVE!

Nene looks good. Stopped a Lebron drive then forced KD to air ball a jump shot.

What channel was this on?

Did anyone else see any of it & can anyone give anymore Nene recap?

Espn2. Only caught a part of the game but Nene looked quick and mobile on the defensive end. No signs of any foot issues although I missed the first half..

Nene looked pretty good on defensive end. As the starting sf of Brazil was DNP, most part of time Nene guard Durant and Melo. Carmelo: 1-7 FG / FG Durant: 5-13 FG. ON offense Brazil did not work in the paint, so Nene was 3/7 FG, but probably in Olimpics he´ll be more agressive.

Actually today Nene did not have problems with his foot, despite he missed some friendly matches in Brazil last couple of weeks.

As brazilian i think we can win US on Olimpics with MArquinhos guarding James most part of the game.

Nene looked fine... if he has a foot issue, it wasn't there today. He had a couple good moves with his feet and looked explosive on his one finish where faked and got Kobe up in the air with a dunk.

Thanks padovan & fah

The replay is on right now on NBATV.

DMVleGeND wrote:The replay is on right now on NBATV.

Thanks for the heads up. 5:15 in the 3rd right now so there is still some game to watch if anyone is up.

FAH1223 wrote:Nene looked fine... if he has a foot issue, it wasn't there today. He had a couple good moves with his feet and looked explosive on his one finish where faked and got Kobe up in the air with a dunk.

+1

To me the story is the US team is no Dream Team. They might come back with a silver or worse because they have no inside team. I didn't see Davis, but I think they could have used a burly, nasty guy off the bench behind Chandler. Cousins IMO might be a better fit than Harden on this team.

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