2024 Olympic BASKETBALL Thread (Pt.3)

[AussieCeltic]

Started watching in the third. Lots of technical difficulties or is it just my broadcast? They seem to constantly lise the feed and just fill it same highlight footage.

Mine is fine

[durden_tyler]

Ugh not 50 year old Fernandez and against own teammate too. Must be karma for all the Spanish flopping. LOL


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[AussieCeltic]

Giannis with the poster

[Pachinko_]

You made so many excuses for Giannis' horrific defense after that loss to Germany in 2022, and now again. He is playing horrendously awful defense, and is the worst player on the court by far on defense. It is ridiculous to defend that and make excuses for him. He has the physical tools to be playing great defense and instead he's not even giving a 1% effort.

Dude I'm not gonna blame a loss on the only Greek player we will remember from this generation, I'm not a psycho.

[r0drig0lac]

Giannis...

[LuDux1]

... Fernambiid?

[Wooderson]

Calathes single handedly tanking Greece offense. Spanoulis is a HORRID coach.

[Buckets22]

Low IQ Euroleague guards have no idea how to play against zone defense

[RookieStar]

Pardom my ignorance my Euro bros, but the announcer kept sayibg Hernangomez but the jersey name says Guer? What up with that?

[Buckets22]

Pardom my ignorance my Euro bros, but the announcer kept sayibg Hernangomez but the jersey name says Guer? What up with that?

Paying homage to his moms surname, his brother has Hernangomez on the jersey, also helpful not to get them confused

[Buckets22]

Greek Child: Mommy, mommy I want American guard in our team - points at Lorenzo Brown.
Mom: But we have American guards at home - Calathes and Walkup.
Child: ...

[Pachinko_]

Hats off to Spain's legends. They are the Champions of Europe for a reason.

[txusto]

I said It Saturday: never underestimate the heart of a champion, and the worst Spanish Team of the last 2 decades still is the European Champion.

[G R E Y]

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Wow this is going to be a bloodbath to the end and we're getting to witness all of it.

I like NBA PO format fine but seeing the impact of every point mattering is also a thrill.

Big win for Spain.

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[durden_tyler]

That’s 1-1 for the opening game. Thanks to a sucky 2nd half it still went under!


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[Mirotic12]

Dude I'm not gonna blame a loss on the only Greek player we will remember from this generation, I'm not a psycho.

Then you are not being objective. Giannis' defense in this game was beyond pathetic. He didn't put a good effort on defense on a single possession the entire game. Not trying on a single defense is just ludicrous.

Giannis' defense in this game was considerably worse than Austin Reaves' defense against Lithuania last year at the World Cup. And people from all over the world on social media were clowning Reaves over it. Reaves' defense in that game was actually quite a bit better than Giannis' defense in this game.

And Reaves has the excuse that he doesn't have the physical tools to play defense. Giannis has all the needed physical tools to play really good defense. He simply chose to give a 0% effort on defense the entire game.

[UcanUwill]

Calathes single handedly tanking Greece offense. Spanoulis is a HORRID coach.

Calathes and Walkup should just not play together. Toliopoulos is least known player of theirs, but he should play more, he is seriously the only guard of theirs who is a shooter. I guess Larenzakis can shoot in theory but even he is mediocre at best.

Spain instantly put 2-3 zone when Walkup subbed Toliopoulos, and that was the game. Why put up two non shooting guards when you are trailing with few minutes left? This Greek team is brutal.

[Pachinko_]

Dude I'm not gonna blame a loss on the only Greek player we will remember from this generation, I'm not a psycho.

Then you are not being objective

TF are you talking about. The guy is the only reason we're even in the Olympics. He should be in Milwaukee rehabbing his knee and instead he showed up to play with a bald guy and be coached by another bald guy.

And you want me to blame the fact that Greece has produced zero players on him.
You carry on man, I'm not interested.

[Mirotic12]

Brown and Walkup are an advertisement for all teams to not use naturalized players.

Brown looks like a one hit wonder with Spain. One good tournament, then absolutely nothing in the two tournaments since then. He can't guard anyone, he doesn't provide hardly any scoring threat, and Spain's offense moves too slow and is too predictable when he has the ball.

Walkup is the worst player at the entire Olympics so far. There are many Greek guards they could have chosen that would have played better than him, and I don't mean Kostas Sloukas and Tyler Dorsey, who chose not to play. But among just guys that were not selected.

I would have liked to have seen Stelios Poulianitis selected for guard instead of Walkup or Moraitis. He's a much better scorer and shooter than Walkup, has much deeper shooting range than Walkup, is a better ball handler than Walkup, and he's a better man to man defender than Walkup. He's just a better player than Walkup and also Moraitis. Moraitis. Moraitis is nothing but a hustle and energy player.

Elijah Mitrou Long would also be a better choice than either Walkup or Moraitis.

Unfortunately, some of the things that have long plagued Greece's federation still rear their ugly heads.....like having Walkup on the team, pretty obviously just because he's an Olympiacos player. Having Moraitis on the team, just because he's a Panathinaikos player.

At least Giannis' brothers got injured, otherwise it would have been worse with also having to have them on the team to appease Giannis, even though neither of them can do much of anything basketball wise, other than dunk and foul people. The team would have been worse on offense if they played.

But Walkup would never be on the team if he wasn't an Olympiacos player, and the same with Moraitis and Panathinaikos.

The stans of those teams and the media hacks of those teams, and a certain ownership, with their endless complaints on social media about which team, Panathinaikos or Olympiacos, "has more players on the national team" is such a cancer. Without that stupid outside pressure on the federation to have a certain number of players from both club teams on the national team, Greece would have better guards than Walkup and Moraitis on the team.

If they insisted on a player from Olympiacos to appease, then even someone like Naz Mitrou-Long would have been a better pick than Walkup or Moraitis. Naz Mitrou Long isn't very good either, but he can at least bring the ball up the court adequately against pressure and knock down some open shots, neither of which Walkup has ever really shown he can consistently do at any time in his career.

[Mirotic12]

Dude I'm not gonna blame a loss on the only Greek player we will remember from this generation, I'm not a psycho.

Then you are not being objective

TF are you talking about. The guy is the only reason we're even in the Olympics. He should be in Milwaukee rehabbing his knee and instead he showed up to play with a bald guy and be coached by another bald guy.

And you want me to blame the fact that Greece has produced zero players on him.
You carry on man, I'm not interested.

There is no excuse for a player of Giannis' physical talent to refuse to play defense in such an important game. Spain's players had a picnic all day against him, just like Germany's players did last year.

There's never been a player on Greece's senior team at a major tournament, that ever played with such a lack of effort on defense as Giannis did today. Greek media and social media used to get on Bourousis really hard and attack him for supposedly taking off some possessions on defense, and at his absolute worst game ever on defense, he never played that bad on D as Giannis did today, not even close to that bad.

So just because Giannis is one of the top 3 or so best players in the world, he gets to not have to try at all for an entire game on defense, and even if the team loses that game, he can't be criticized for his lack of effort on D? And doing so is what, "hating"?