Mirotic12 wrote:UcanUwill wrote:And more you said it wasn't...
I mean obviously if you take 12 olympic team rosters and out of the pool make 12 equal talent teams, those teams will be better than taking 32 WC team players and making 32 teams out of that pool.
DO you disagree with that?
If you take teams that make both OLympics and WC usually, they have far more declines to particiapte when its WC, not OLympics. FACT. Teams that qulify for Olympics always saw WC as secondary global tournament. But do you disagree with that also?
If we are talking, which tournament will have more interesting player, WC will win because it has 32 teams, not 12 teams. So, is that what makes it stronger?
What exactly makes it stronger? I at least provided clear statements why Olympics is better, you provided none and just change the talking point when I ask for one.
I know that you are a troll, but you such genuelly sound like you believe in this, its amazing, I just like seeing how you got nothing. Several RGM posters agreed with you, thats even better than FIBA agreeing with you
All of this "more popular", "more prestigious", blah, blah, who cares? How is that in any way at all in the least bit relevant to the issue at hand. Newsflash, it isn't at all relevant.
The World Cup is a HIGHER LEVEL OF COMPETITION. Period. The Olympics being "more prestigious' has absolutely jack squat zero of anything to do with that. Plenty of things in the world are more popular, or more "prestigious" than things they are worse than.
Like every product type or good in the world, has some thing that are super popular and even "prestigious", and yet at the same time are of inferior quality compared to other brands of goods and products. Do you think that the most popular or most "prestigious" car is always the most dependable car, etc.? The movie with the biggest budget that is made by the biggest studio, that grosses the most money is always the best movie made in terms of its quality? Come on, get serious please.
Man this is really not that hard of a concept to grasp. It's really not. This is absolutely a childish argument that "more popular" (in certain countries only) or "more prestigious" (in certain countries only), or considered more "relevant" (in certain countries only), means that always equates to the highest level of quality.
That is a very childish viewpoint, and it's comically absurd.
I agree that more popular doesnt mean it better by default. THat would mean Bay's Transformers are best movies ever...
But here, it is very important, because pool of players we get firstly, and secondly, the title recognition.
Just look at the players we will miss in WC. SAbonis already out, Most USA top talent just lol at idea to play in this. Question mark over Canada. Hopefully Giannis, Jokic and Luka play, they probably will, but we will see. Australia usually has strong teams in both tournaments, but cant say the same about Argentina. Lesser players like Sloukas, Grigonis and many many more are out too. Olympics is LIFE experience, something even biggest athelte can brag about, that they were part of it. But FIBA world cup? Outside FIBA fans like us, no one will ever care about that, and thats why more entitled players skipping those all the time.
ANd Second, Recognition as I said. Spain are current world champions, but it seems like people barely even care. Do some of you even know Spain are defending World Champion name? Argentina 2004 was 19 years ago now, and people still care about that and remember that. As a Lithuanian fan, I would much much rather win Olympic gold than WC gold, seriously, this suppose to be about the same value, but its not at all the same, Olympic gold is just worth so much more.
DId I wish it was other way around? Yes, of course, I mean WC is simply Basketball tournament, its a celebration of Basketball as sport. Where in OLympics, BB is just one of 200+ other events... Like why we should care that much, it all just loses in a shuffle? But we all care because simply FIBA WC is just not relevant. I like it a lot, but its a hipster thing, its a background tournament that most sports fans arent even aware is happening. Olympics is still biggest event in the world when it happens.
(opportunism at its finest)
