FIBA World Cup 2023 (FIRST thread)

Pachinko_ · Post #601 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 12:08 pm

jk31 wrote:Basketball is even behind something here which I do not even know what it is. What the hell is Tobogganing? I have never heard of that here in germany.

sledding I guess. I'm sure theres a German word for it

jk31 · Post #602 » by **jk31** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 12:11 pm

Pachinko_ wrote:
jk31 wrote:Basketball is even behind something here which I do not even know what it is. What the hell is Tobogganing? I have never heard of that here in germany.

sledding I guess. I'm sure theres a German word for it

thats its own sport? I thought that would fall under the term "bobsledding" too which is present in this list.

Pachinko_ · Post #603 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 12:26 pm

I don't know dude, I'm Greek and Australian, I havent seen snow since I was 10 LOL

Swuul · Post #604 » by **Swuul** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 1:13 pm

jk31 wrote: What the hell is Tobogganing? I have never heard of that here in germany.

A sport related with bobsleigh (bobsleigh are used on iced tracks, toboggans on snowy tracks). Originally from Canada, spread to USA in the late 19th century where it became hugely popular before WW2 (was then later all but forgotten in USA, as downhill skiing took its place and role). After WW2 American soldiers stationed in Bavaria and Austria brought the sports to Europe, and for some lord knows why reason it became popular with german-speaking people in the Alps region.

https://www.britannica.com/sports/tobogganing

jk31 · Post #605 » by **jk31** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 1:36 pm

Swuul wrote:
jk31 wrote: What the hell is Tobogganing? I have never heard of that here in germany.

A sport related with bobsleigh (bobsleigh are used on iced tracks, toboggans on snowy tracks). Originally from Canada, spread to USA in the late 19th century where it became hugely popular before WW2 (was then later all but forgotten in USA, as downhill skiing took its place and role). After WW2 American soldiers stationed in Bavaria and Austria brought the sports to Europe, and for some lord knows why reason it became popular with german-speaking people in the Alps region.

https://www.britannica.com/sports/tobogganing

i am 30 years old and from germany and I really have never heard of sledding on snow as a sports before

sure, sledding for fun, especially as children. but as a sports?!

Pachinko_ · Post #606 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 2:00 pm

Ι'd never heard of biathlon before... cross-country skiing and rifle shooting apparently.
Biathlon stadium in Germany:

Pachinko_ · Post #607 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 2:06 pm

jk31 wrote:
Swuul wrote:
jk31 wrote: What the hell is Tobogganing? I have never heard of that here in germany.

A sport related with bobsleigh (bobsleigh are used on iced tracks, toboggans on snowy tracks). Originally from Canada, spread to USA in the late 19th century where it became hugely popular before WW2 (was then later all but forgotten in USA, as downhill skiing took its place and role). After WW2 American soldiers stationed in Bavaria and Austria brought the sports to Europe, and for some lord knows why reason it became popular with german-speaking people in the Alps region.

https://www.britannica.com/sports/tobogganing

i am 30 years old and from germany and I really have never heard of sledding on snow as a sports before sure, sledding for fun, especially as children. but as a sports?!

I read a bit about it, they do it naked as well

Anything to avoid playing basketball :lol:

UcanUwill · Post #608 » by **UcanUwill** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 2:14 pm

Pachinko_ wrote:Ι'd never heard of biathlon before... cross-country skiing and rifle shooting apparently.
Biathlon stadium in Germany:

I hear about Biathlon all the time, and I kind off know what it is, but not exactly.

Pachinko_ · Post #609 » by **Pachinko_** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 2:16 pm

northern europeans are weird

-Luke- · Post #610 » by **-Luke-** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 2:31 pm

It's pretty weird that Basketball didn't become more popular in Germany when Dirk was one of the best in the world. A lot of non-football sports get super popular for a while when Germans are good (like tennis - during Becker/Graf era, Formula 1, ski jumping, cycling during Jan Ullrich/Telekom era,...), but not basketball. As I recall it it was even more popular after MJ's first comeback than in the Dirk era. I played table tennis for almost two decades and where I'm from even that is way more popular than basketball.

lambchop · Post #611 » by **lambchop** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 4:30 pm

-Luke- wrote:It's pretty weird that Basketball didn't become more popular in Germany when Dirk was one of the best in the world. A lot of non-football sports get super popular for a while when Germans are good (like tennis - during Becker/Graf era, Formula 1, ski jumping, cycling during Jan Ullrich/Telekom era,...), but not basketball. As I recall it it was even more popular after MJ's first comeback than in the Dirk era. I played table tennis for almost two decades and where I'm from even that is way more popular than basketball.

I think it's also because German league teams didn't feature many German players anyway and the product was wack compared to other sports. In addition, many Germans rejected the game due to the rules. The stuff like timeouts, travels, 4 quarters etc. were and still are too much for most Germans to process.

lambchop · Post #612 » by **lambchop** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 4:34 pm

jezzerinho wrote:
jk31 wrote:
lambchop wrote:It's crazy how Dirk was surrounded by scrubs and now the team can't even get two NBA role players (kleber and Hartenstein) to join the team due to personal feuds, egos, lack of interest etc.

and you know what is even more crazy? that even without kleber and hartenstein, we are still able to bring two NBA players at the frontcourt with Mo Wagner and Daniel Theis.

Feel like i read somewhere that Hartenstein was an absolutely unbearable piece of work to be in a team with.

Do i remember right? What's the deal there?

Yea he basically got voted off the youth national teams by other youth players and given that his personality hasn't changed since then, he simply isn't an option for them. He'd probably have to apologize and show willingness to fit in for them to even consider him.

I can still remember how his dad used to delete the footage whenever guys played well against him cause they were worried about his draft stock getting hurt.

bravor · Post #613 » by **bravor** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 9:44 pm

For the fun of it, even though it's meaningless, Gobert scored the first 3 ptr of his career against Montenegro tonight.

Lockdown504090 · Post #614 » by **Lockdown504090** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 10:08 pm

Read on Twitter

?s=46&t=X9mumPGLsRqqzpaDgtqZBg

Rudy for 3!!!
Looks decent

Johnny Tomala · Post #615 » by **Johnny Tomala** » Wed Aug 2, 2023 11:41 pm

https://basketnews.com/news-192815-jamal-murray-doutbful-for-fiba-basketball-world-cup-2023.html

Hopefully Murray plays for Canada.

Johnny Tomala · Post #616 » by **Johnny Tomala** » Thu Aug 3, 2023 1:00 am

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvddVeWp5nd/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Murray will play in the FIBA World Cup.

durden_tyler · Post #617 » by **durden_tyler** » Thu Aug 3, 2023 4:40 am

Johnny Tomala wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvddVeWp5nd/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Murray will play in the FIBA World Cup.

This is great news!

Pachinko_ · Post #618 » by **Pachinko_** » Thu Aug 3, 2023 4:57 am

New look Greece was surprisingly not bad against Luka's Slovenia

samwana · Post #619 » by **samwana** » Thu Aug 3, 2023 5:50 am

-Luke- wrote:It's pretty weird that Basketball didn't become more popular in Germany when Dirk was one of the best in the world. A lot of non-football sports get super popular for a while when Germans are good (like tennis - during Becker/Graf era, Formula 1, ski jumping, cycling during Jan Ullrich/Telekom era,...), but not basketball. As I recall it it was even more popular after MJ's first comeback than in the Dirk era. I played table tennis for almost two decades and where I'm from even that is way more popular than basketball.

German tv doesn't show basketball. It is soccer soccer soccer and some wintersports.
Schoolsport doesn't really do basketball either, there are hardly any basketballcourts outside either. Basketball has no lobby here in Germany at all.

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lambchop · Post #620 » by **lambchop** » Thu Aug 3, 2023 6:06 am

Lockdown504090 wrote:

Read on Twitter
?s=46&t=X9mumPGLsRqqzpaDgtqZBg

Rudy for 3!!!
Looks decent

Him shooting it with 14 seconds left on the shot clock up by 2 points makes me think it's something he worked on.