FIBA World Cup 2023 part 2 SEMIS (USA vs GERMANY : SERBIA vs CANADA) poll added

[Dino-Might]

From the exhibition play, Germany looked like the best team outside of North America coming into this World Cup.

When Canada played Germany twice and then played Spain, I thought Germany definitely looked a step above Spain.

Looking like it will be Canada and Australia meeting in the quarterfinals.

[durden_tyler]

Okay so France and Australia losses means we’ll have a more interesting KO round

[UcanUwill]

Weird challenge, don’t know where they thought the unsportsmanlike was going to be

And now its costing them to challenge the out of bounds.

Was it me, or it looked like ref really forced them into challenge? Their coach seemed so blindsided there. Better than Italy game, where ref accepted a challenge and then remembered he can't actually change a no call, so he said - my bad. I swear FIBA refs....

[AussieCeltic]

Weird challenge, don’t know where they thought the unsportsmanlike was going to be

And now its costing them to challenge the out of bounds.

Was it me, or it looked like ref really forced them into challenge? Their coach seemed so blindsided there. Better than Italy game, where ref accepted a challenge and then remembered he can't actually change a no call, so he said - my bad. I swear FIBA refs....

No the coach wanted to challenge but the ref said you have to make the signal.

[G R E Y]

Mills was scoring well through a lot of the game, but his handle was too loose on those last drives

It's never been the tightest but yeah the TOs cumulatively were a bad factor.

End of game play or two gets most attention but really it was all the plays throughout the game that led up to the end of game situation. Every play counts, and there were too many TOs and missed bunnies and wasted opportunities with slow starts to Qs.

[Buckets22]

Clear foul on that Giddey heave.

LOL no ref will ever call that.

I think they didnt call it because of the bogus step out of bounds play on Schroeder a bit earlier.

Lebanon - Canada is a slaughter, will leave TV with the audio on and go fix lunch before Angola - Philippines. I bet this one will be amazing game.

[Sofia]

Germany deserved to win but there seemed to be a pretty serious officiating error at the end, if I’m not mistaken?

Schroeder is out of bounds with 23.6 seconds left, change of possession side ball. Australia inbounds but is only given 14 seconds on the shot clock instead of a full 24 for change of possession. Instead of being able to use a full clock, Patty notices with 6 seconds left on shot clock (15 on game clock) and takes a bad contested drive that results in a turnover.

[durden_tyler]

Weird challenge, don’t know where they thought the unsportsmanlike was going to be

And now its costing them to challenge the out of bounds.

Was it me, or it looked like ref really forced them into challenge? Their coach seemed so blindsided there. Better than Italy game, where ref accepted a challenge and then remembered he can't actually change a no call, so he said - my bad. I swear FIBA refs....

I think the coach did not understand what he was saying (specifically which call to challenge) maybe he thought it was the foul and not the upgrade

[Fencer reregistered]

Lucky Australia with the foul call on Theis and the out of bounds call. Crunchtime. Go Germany.

Foul call on Theis?

As a Celtics fan, I used to hear that a LOT.

[UcanUwill]

And now its costing them to challenge the out of bounds.

Was it me, or it looked like ref really forced them into challenge? Their coach seemed so blindsided there. Better than Italy game, where ref accepted a challenge and then remembered he can't actually change a no call, so he said - my bad. I swear FIBA refs....

No the coach wanted to challenge but the ref said you have to make the signal.

Yes, but moments before, ref came to him, explained there was a foul it seemed and kind off asked (suggested), do you want a challenge? But maybe it did look that way cause they cut to them then.
Could have called a foul in Giddey, but I doubt he makes all 3

[Buckets22]

Germany deserved to win but they’re seemed to be a pretty serious officiating error at the end, if I’m not mistaken?

Schroeder is out of bounds with 23.6 seconds left, change of possession side ball. Australia inbounds but is only given 14 seconds on the shot clock instead of a full 24 for change of possession. Instead of being able to use a full clock, Patty notices with 6 seconds left on shot clock (15 on game clock) and takes a bad contested drive that results in a turnover.

I think it is because the out of bounds was in the German back court/front court for Australia?
The rulebook: https://www.fiba.basketball/documents/official-basketball-rules/current.pdf explains it on 29.2.2...for some reason I cannot copy and paste from the pdf...

[G R E Y]

So world #3, 4, 5 in varying degrees of trouble.

[dirkules_41]

Clear foul on that Giddey heave.

LOL no ref will ever call that.

It’s been called plenty of times. I’ve seen it in FIBA and in NBA. We didn’t deserve to win but a foul is a foul

Randomly desperately launching yourself into someone isn't a foul in FIBA or the NBA or even in remote outback NT.

[Mavrelous]

The sizable Lebanese Canadian community will not be happy with what team Canada did to team Lebanon, have some mercy...

[Buckets22]

Lebanon has quite a few chonkers on their team...

[Sofia]

Germany deserved to win but they’re seemed to be a pretty serious officiating error at the end, if I’m not mistaken?

Schroeder is out of bounds with 23.6 seconds left, change of possession side ball. Australia inbounds but is only given 14 seconds on the shot clock instead of a full 24 for change of possession. Instead of being able to use a full clock, Patty notices with 6 seconds left on shot clock (15 on game clock) and takes a bad contested drive that results in a turnover.

I think it is because the out of bounds was in the German back court/front court for Australia?
The rulebook: https://www.fiba.basketball/documents/official-basketball-rules/current.pdf explains it on 29.2.2...for some reason I cannot copy and paste from the pdf...

Ah of course, back court v front court.

Thanks, I hate it.

[Buckets22]

Leonel Paulo with quite a few stinker plays in a row. Father time clock ringing.

[durden_tyler]

Angola missing key players or are they the worst from the African contingent?

[Buckets22]

Angola missing key players or are they the worst from the African contingent?

Their best guards retired and there is no replacement for them - Olímpio Cipriano, Morais, Almeida off the top of my head.

Tho Fernandes with a SICK slam on the fast break.\


I wonder how strict Angola is on giving out passports, throw in a US guard in there and they will cook.

[Dino-Might]

So world #3, 4, 5 in varying degrees of trouble.

Not sure how Argentina is still in that #4 spot but that should change soon. At this point, they are just living off past glories. The current team are not even in the conversation.