FIBA World Cup Discussion (Aug. 25-Sep. 10)

[thinktank]

Not a Dominant game from Ant but my word, down the stretch he was incredible on both ends.

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He was indeed dominant when it mattered.

His defense has been pretty incredible.

[Calinks]

Anyone know where we can get a replay? NBA TV should be covering this stuff.

[Klomp]

So I'm educating myself on the tournament format.

First is Group Play. Everyone plays the other three teams in their group, and the top two teams from each group advance.

Group A: Angola, Dominican Republic, Italy, Philippines
Group B: China, Puerto Rico, Serbia, South Sudan
Group C: United States, Greece, Jordan, New Zealand
Group D: Egypt, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro
Group E: Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan
Group F: Cape Verde, Georgia, Slovenia, Venezuela
Group G: Brazil, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
Group H: Canada, France, Latvia, Lebanon

From there, we go to the last 8 in a bracket, but there are still loser's brackets ("classification rounds") as well as you go along.

[KATKlownFeet]

So I'm educating myself on the tournament format.

First is Group Play. Everyone plays the other three teams in their group, and the top two teams from each group advance.

Group A: Angola, Dominican Republic, Italy, Philippines
Group B: China, Puerto Rico, Serbia, South Sudan
Group C: United States, Greece, Jordan, New Zealand
Group D: Egypt, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro
Group E: Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan
Group F: Cape Verde, Georgia, Slovenia, Venezuela
Group G: Brazil, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
Group H: Canada, France, Lebanon, Lithuania

From there, we go to the last 8 in a bracket, but there are still loser's brackets ("classification rounds") as well as you go along.

You have Lithuania listed in Group D and Group H. Are you sure about that?

[thinktank]

So I'm educating myself on the tournament format.

First is Group Play. Everyone plays the other three teams in their group, and the top two teams from each group advance.

Group A: Angola, Dominican Republic, Italy, Philippines
Group B: China, Puerto Rico, Serbia, South Sudan
Group C: United States, Greece, Jordan, New Zealand
Group D: Egypt, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro
Group E: Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan
Group F: Cape Verde, Georgia, Slovenia, Venezuela
Group G: Brazil, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
Group H: Canada, France, Lebanon, Lithuania

From there, we go to the last 8 in a bracket, but there are still loser's brackets ("classification rounds") as well as you go along.

You have Lithuania listed in Group D and Group H. Are you sure about that?

What are the bolded teams?

I see it: wolves players!

[Klomp]

You have Lithuania listed in Group D and Group H. Are you sure about that?

Thank you for catching that! Group H is Latvia. Brain working faster than my fingers.

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[minimus]

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Two things: first, NAW has been hitting some impressively clean threes. Second, he is not playing at PG in Canada national team.

[Calinks]

Bleh. I heard there was a game today, I looked up the time this morning and I saw it say it was Saturday at 7am. I go meh and exit out. Now I see it was today I guess they were just giving the local time of where the game is played or something. Its annoying to me how little coverage these games get. They are so easy to miss if you aren't hounding them down. I wish NBA TV or a FIBA app or something was out there broadcasting games and making them easier to track. I have to drill down and double check time zones, availability, etc cause its easy to screw up if you don't pay a lot of attention.

[m2002brian]

Bleh. I heard there was a game today, I looked up the time this morning and I saw it say it was Saturday at 7am. I go meh and exit out. Now I see it was today I guess they were just giving the local time of where the game is played or something. Its annoying to me how little coverage these games get. They are so easy to miss if you aren't hounding them down. I wish NBA TV or a FIBA app or something was out there broadcasting games and making them easier to track. I have to drill down and double check time zones, availability, etc cause its easy to screw up if you don't pay a lot of attention.

Next game:
Sunday August 20th
Vs. Germany @ 11am Minnesota time on FOX

[Klomp]

Bleh. I heard there was a game today, I looked up the time this morning and I saw it say it was Saturday at 7am. I go meh and exit out. Now I see it was today I guess they were just giving the local time of where the game is played or something. Its annoying to me how little coverage these games get. They are so easy to miss if you aren't hounding them down. I wish NBA TV or a FIBA app or something was out there broadcasting games and making them easier to track. I have to drill down and double check time zones, availability, etc cause its easy to screw up if you don't pay a lot of attention.

Ant put on a show!

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[BlacJacMac]

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I love Luka, but his eyebrows always remind me of that eagle on the Muppet Show.

Also loved that he finished with “Go Wolves”

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All those NBA players on Team Canada, and Towns beat them. People forget just how good this KAT is.

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[Calinks]

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All those NBA players on Team Canada, and Towns beat them. People forget just how good this KAT is.

I would really love to see us use KAT more like that on offense. This is what I think he needed to do against he Nuggets, just be a menace on the perimeter. Maybe Gordon was shutting that type of play down or something but I would have loved to see Towns really make those bigs come out to guard him and make them run around. He has such a great shooting touch if he gets hot it would be an absolute nightmare. Seemed like we barely had him firing off from three.