Official FIBA World Championship Thread (and long preview)

[Sinant]

So Angola and then Russia/France.

Could have been a lot worse.

[swe_suns]

greece - serbia rematch is a possibility

[Ced]

Thanks for the link. So we get Russia (if we beat France) or Turkey (if we lose to France).

If we went on to beat Russia, we have to play the US. If we go on and beat Turkey, we have to play Slovenia. Either route is tough.

I hope we win. Russia are playing well, but they are beatable. Turkey are pretty much unbeatable.

[Sinant]

Russia is much easier than Turkey. At least you'd get to the quarter finals.

[Infamous]

greece now cant play spain or usa
they can play them only in the final

smart bastards lol

bball gods will get them..lol

New Zealand is 14 up against France. If they win, Greece plays against Spain, talk about backfire.

[Sinant]

I hope Croatia beats Brazil.

Brazil-Argentina Round of 16.

[Ced]

Russia is much easier than Turkey. At least you'd get to the quarter finals.

At this rate, the US look beatable, too. Our major weakness is guarding post players. Actually, we may also have problems containing Westbrook and Rose.

[Sinant]

Russia is much easier than Turkey. At least you'd get to the quarter finals.

At this rate, the US look beatable, too. Our major weakness is guarding post players. Actually, we may also have problems containing Westbrook and Rose.

The US mailed it in these past few games, they let the bench play chuck-a-ball against bad competition. You shouldn't expect that US team to show up in the quarter finals.

I'd be very surprised if NZ beat them. Then again, anything can happen in FIBA.

[Point forward]

Man, that China - Turkey game is hard to watch. Turkey 66 - China 25 , and China is so rattled that they just shoot 3s and don't dare to play post D in fear of getting posterised!

[schnakenpopanz]

if there is a 3 way tie in the standings how do the calculate the outcome?
looks like spain, new zeeland and france are going 3-2

[Ced]

if there is a 3 way tie in the standings how do the calculate the outcome?
looks like spain, new zeeland and france are going 3-2

New Zealand

By the way, Kirk Penney is making the tournament team.

[Stretch82]

Turkey's looking to alley-oop it on almost every possession

[schnakenpopanz]

here are the results between them:
fra - nzl ?
nzl - spa 84:101
spa - fra 66:72

spa 1-1 167:156 +11
fra 1-0 72:66 +6
nzl 0-1 84:101 -17

new zealand has to win by 12 i suppose.

[Infamous]

if there is a 3 way tie in the standings how do the calculate the outcome?
looks like spain, new zeeland and france are going 3-2

New Zealand

By the way, Kirk Penney is making the tournament team.

Not if they're out next round.

here are the results between them:
fra - nzl ?
nzl - spa 84:101
spa - fra 66:72

spa 1-1 167:156 +11
fra 1-0 72:66 +6
nzl 0-1 84:101 -17

new zealand has to win by 12 i suppose.

N. Zealand has to win by about 28 points in order to be second. It looks like Spain will be second (thus playing with Greece) if N. Zealand wins (up 15 with one quarter to play). If N. Zealand wins by more than 12 or so they will be third.

[senfono]

if NZ wins by less than 28 points, Spain is 2nd

[Point forward]

LOL at the Zealand fans doing the Haka

[Nico Kolya]

is NZ wins, Spain will play russia i think. definitely not greece, greece will play the 3rd place team in group D

[saritasbora]

LoL @ Greece and France trying to loose their games on purpose to avoid stronger opponents.

[schnakenpopanz]

you are wrong. if nzl wins its greece vs spain haha!

[Infamous]

is NZ wins, Spain will play russia i think. definitely not greece, greece will play the 3rd place team in group D

Greece will play the 2nd place team on group D, probably Spain, NZ up 11 with 3 minutes to go.