2024 Olympic BASKETBALL Thread (Pt.3)

[God Squad]

Win or lose, I'm thinking this is gonna be a good game.

[azcatz11]

Something I was thinking about as I was driving… (don’t know if it’s been brought up yet and not interested in searching through all the threads)

If Team USA is the Avengers, who is each member?

Lebron= Captain America
Steph= Iron Man
KD= Thor
Joel Embiid= Hulk
Ant man= Spiderman
Jrue Holiday= Dr. Strange
Jason Tatum= Black Panther
Booker=Black Widow
AD=Vision
Bam=War Machine
Halliburton= Ant Man
Derrick White=Hawkeye
Kawhi=Scarlet Witch

Thoughts?

All good, except Embiid should be Ant Man-- he shrinks during the big moments.

Glad we are on the same side today!

[Mirotic12]

He only notices the negative things for the most part. He tries to be objective but that Euro bias always comes out. i've come to understand his perspective-- hate everything NBA. LOL

Untrue and incorrect.

[durden_tyler]

Going to catch this Canada Spain matchup.

Seems like they have to be one of USA biggest opponent. They have good wing defenders in Dort & Brooks and then the scoring they have as well with Murray, SGA and Barrett. Imagine they had Wiggins & Edey on the bench for depth too.

Talent is there indeed. And they don't play like the usual soft Euro teams so that's a plus.

[Doranku]

Jamal splitting the double into the spoonfed dime to Powell was niiiiice

[Mirotic12]

Talent is there indeed. And they don't play like the usual soft Euro teams so that's a plus.

The teams that are the most physical and play the hardest defense are "soft"...

[God Squad]

Say what you want about Dillion Brooks, but the guy plays with a swagger.

[durden_tyler]

Canada is starting to pull away.

[Hellcrooner]

reffing is a disgrace.

[Meeksology]

It's so remarkable that rudy friggin fernandez is still playing ball

[CharityStripe34]

man, it really felt that Greece had 7.5 players and half of them are in that hair loss age
proud of them for fighting till the end

Calathes had brain loss as well. Walkup finally had a solid game. That third quarter was brutal. Gianni barely touched the ball.

Now have to hope Canada blows out Spain? All the point differential stuff is confusing.

It was an elimination game for Greece. This is what Calathes has done his entire FIBA career in elimination games. He's been doing the same thing in elimination games for the last 15 years. For years and years, he got away with it without any criticism from almost of the Greek media and fans, because of all the stans of a certain Greek club team backing him to such absurd levels.

It's just weird though that many years after he left that club team, he still gets defended so much in the Greek media and by many Greek fans. I guess it's just because he never signed with another certain Greek club, because then in that case, Greek social media and some certain Greek sports media would be calling for his head to roll, even if he was having spectacular performances in every game he played.

The inter-club politics are so stupid when it comes to that seeping through to the national team play. Calathes was washed before the Eurobasket two years ago. Sloukas should've started, but I digress as that is in the past.

[God Squad]

SGA is very special in his scoring.

[Doranku]

SGA is very special in his scoring.

He is one of the most unguardable players I've seen in a while.

[durden_tyler]

Talent is there indeed. And they don't play like the usual soft Euro teams so that's a plus.

The teams that are the most physical and play the hardest defense are "soft"...

Oops sorry. Giannis is a tough SOB i’ll give you that.


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[whitehops]

there's undoubtedly more talent on the US team but man i think canada stacks up well against them with the old "there's only one ball" adage. they have incredible perimeter defense with brooks, dort, SGA and nembhart so no matter what action the US would run there's very good/elite defenders to stem those actions.

i think with that defense and SGA leading the offense they have a puncher's chance at gold.

[durden_tyler]

Canada knows their pt differential the way they are playing.

i think they want that 23+ pt win for them to have a shot at the overall #2 spot.


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[KGtabake]

Just to set the record straight here, since as usual, just stating facts in these discussions gets you labeled [paraphrasing] "a troll", "a Euro homer", "an NBA hater", "nuts", "crazy", etc.

Giannis did in fact have a horrendous game on defense against Spain, and it was so bad that Basket News felt they needed to write an article about it, after they did their post game video breakdown analysis.

Again, for posting mere objective analysis and facts here, you will get labeled as a troll, a nut job, a hater, a Euro lover, etc. It's just ridiculous and absurd that such a great and huge basketball forum like this one, has such attack posts against objective game analysis.

You made post after post about Giannis’s bad defense and about Walkup being the worst player in the tournament but haven’t made a post today about Giannis being the best player on the court and Walkup being Greece’s 2nd best player by a mile without whom it would have lost.

Weird.

What's weird is Giannis not playing defense on a single possession in an entire game, and if someone pointed that out, they got attacked and incorrectly accused of being all sorts of bad things. That happening on such a serious basketball forum is extremely weird.

You being the worst poster on the forum isn't weird though. It's a standard.

[Mamba Mentality]

SGA and Dort are clamping on the perimeter.

[Mamba Mentality]

Spain is nowhere near as talented as Canada, but man are they resilient. Everytime it looks like Canada is about to make a push, someone on Spain hits a big triple.

[Mamba81p]

So Greece are.locked in that 3rd spot, but they should advance, unless south sudan loses by 1 or beat Serbia somehow