2024 Olympic BASKETBALL Thread (pt.4.2: Quarterfinals are set!)

[UcanUwill]

He is still only 20, relax. Also, prime Pau had Navarro and Calderon, France only has Fournier at perimeter and he only creates for himself anyhow. I just hope Victor grows out of his softness, he needs to be in the paint far more often.

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I think he wanted to quote my comment

LoL yeah, sorry, I qouted Pau comparison comment.

[Edrees]

Jokic deserves better.

300m? Really?

Mans always fat out of shape and as a result getting his hamstrings smashed.

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Nuggets should trade Murray for Shroeder then, if FIBA play translates to NBA play as you suggest here Shroeder would be Jokic's equal superstar to pair with.

[levon]

Gobert spotted doing the money sign to refs, but this time with pride and approval

[Jadoogar]

unbelievably disappointing from Canada. I only saw the France game against Japan and i thought they looked terrible. I don't want to whine about the refs, France is playing in front of their home crowd, canada should have been better prepared.

The team is too imbalanced right now, we really need some quality bigs.

[Bank Shot]

I'm pretty confident Canada was losing to Germany anyway, but what a brutal showing. Murray is going to make like 200M more than he should in his career due to who he gets to play off of.

[vado]

Well that game was obviously rigged

[Sedale Threatt]

1-9 FGs, 2 points for Brooks ... very satisfying

[durden_tyler]

Sga and a bunch of choke artists. Nembhard should’ve got more minutes, esp after his carry job last game.

i was wondering this too. i think they did the 3 guard lineup there late in the 2nd half but it was a little too late.

[canada_dry]

Jokic deserves better.

300m? Really?

Mans always fat out of shape and as a result getting his hamstrings smashed.

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Nuggets should trade Murray for Shroeder then, if FIBA play translates to NBA play as you suggest here Shroeder would be Jokic's equal superstar to pair with.

Hes a fat boy. You're not being as smart as you think you are.

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[FreeBird23]

I have no horse in this race but you guys crying about refs is pathetic.
Canada was terrible, a lot of fouls not called on both sides.

[canada_dry]

Cant complain about refs because canada didn't deserve to win...

But that was a little suspicious, no? Like if we played better and still lost...id be beside myself.



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[UcanUwill]

Is FIBA box score broken, or how the hell Murray has EFF of +1?

He is 3/13 with 7 points, 3 TOS and 2 fouls. Where did EFF points come from? Man, I am not mathing today.

[Hellcrooner]

ref cheaters = out

Result fixing cheatres= Both out.


now go brazil!!!! make my day!

[durden_tyler]

Sga and a bunch of choke artists. Nembhard should’ve got more minutes, esp after his carry job last game.

i was wondering this too. i think they did the 3 guard lineup there late in the 2nd half but it was a little too late.

[nikster]

I'm pretty confident Canada was losing to Germany anyway, but what a brutal showing. Murray is going to make like 200M more than he should in his career due to who he gets to play off of.

Yeah I thought Germany would be tougher. Still would have had a chance to medal even with a loss to Germany

[levon]

I have no horse in this race but you guys crying about refs is pathetic.
Canada was terrible, a lot of fouls not called on both sides.

Yup, but you could argue that France was also terrible and one team was artifically buoyed more than the other. It's like the basketball equivalent of a mistrial.

[Pacernation]

Only watched the fourth and I can't believe that everybody is blaming the refs on this one. Maybe they favoured France in the first quarters but it was pretty even in the 4th in my opinion. Shai missing 2 fts that would've cut it to 3 points and playing Murray all those minutes when all he did was missing shots and losing the ball while guarding nobody were the key to this loss. Canada had it's chance and blew it while old man Fournier was making clutch shot after clutch shot. I gotta say I like our chances against this French team. We might be the underdog but they are not better than our squad so let's see if we can withstand their homecrowd. Let's go!

[G R E Y]

You can continue to whine but France is just outplaying you guys on offense. i thought Canada was a good defensive team but they lost that today.

France really is not lol

There has been probably 12 bad calls favoring France today.

Does not change the fact that this is not the Canada's quality we've seen in the group stages.

That's the challenge, beauty, and pain of single eliminations. Feels like Canada peaked earlier and France had yet to hit their stride. France also had an excellent game plan to go bruising inside. They were not intimidated or bullied by Canada's big guards either.

[DrPampiloni]

Refs helping France secure a 2nd win these Olympics

They secured the first as well

For as much as I agree on France getting all the homecooking y'all accuse them of, I think we should set the record straight on the fact that this was their 3rd win of the tournament, not 2nd. They beat Brazil in the opener.

[JasonStern]

'Merica needs to annex Canada. They can keep Queubec. SGA deserves better than to be torched by Evan Fournier.