FIBA WORLD CUP 2019 | SPAIN are new WORLD CHAMPIONS

a-French-Fan · Post #1901 » by **a-French-Fan** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:45 am

I finally saw France-Lithuania.

After seing JV free-throw with Gobert hitting the ball and the rim, after reading all posts here; I felt bad for Lithuania.

But after watching the whole game, and especially the 3rd quarter, I feel good.
How the coach may say they could not défend?! When you see in the second half no calls for JV's defense help with body, Kalnietis pushing at lEast twice in the back... Lithuanian's coach can't complain!
And two actions keep them into the game at third: Kalnietis on Albicy, it was a true offensive foul, no way to contest , but Albicy had a technical for flopping. And then Seibutis cutting De Colo's run deserved an unsport foul.
To be honnest, I think De Colo was lucky at the end of the first half, but Kalnietis did **** when hé came and pushed him in the back.

I regret that a lot for people spoke without watching the whole game, I regret that FIBA recognized the last mistake, but not Albicy's flopping at least, or Even all other mistakes. The way they communicated let think for everyone who did not see the game "ok France did not deserve to win, it's a scandal, but France still go to quarter, while Lithuania unfairly go Home".

MirzaIsGod · Post #1902 » by **MirzaIsGod** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:49 am

Do they only use the point differential from the 2nd round for the tie breaker? Whats the deal if greece, czech rep and brazil end up with the same points?

Gooner · Post #1903 » by **Gooner** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:50 am

peZt wrote:
Gooner wrote:
The Rodzilla wrote:
is that some sort of 'the secret' positive thinking thing? like basketball players wish they were taller and imagine it everyday so it happens

i just thought that tall people decided to play basketball

Yes, but regular tall people are like 6'3", 6'4", in basketball terms, that's short. You don't see many 6'10"-6'11" guys walking down the street. I've never seen anyone that tall outside of basketball, and I'm from Croatia where people are quite tall.

Correlation and Causation dude. Basketball doesn't make people grow, it's just that tall kids tend to play Basketball.

Would many of those kids grow to 6'8" and taller, if they didn't play basketball?

Beorn · Post #1904 » by **Beorn** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:54 am

Thanasis is a bad ****

Gooner · Post #1905 » by **Gooner** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:54 am

Czechs are choking.

MirzaIsGod · Post #1906 » by **MirzaIsGod** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:56 am

MirzaIsGod wrote:Do they only use the point differential from the 2nd round for the tie breaker? Whats the deal if greece, czech rep and brazil end up with the same points?

Commentator just answered my question. Greece need to win by at least 12 points to go trough. Gonna be a good 4th Q

TheDiesel36 · Post #1907 » by **TheDiesel36** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:56 am

How come there is exactly one!! guy that is playing with real heart out there.. And yeah we are choking big time

burek3 · Post #1908 » by **burek3** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:00 am

This game shows how much Greece broke their back for the USA.

burek3 · Post #1909 » by **burek3** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:05 am

stoo wrote:
burek3 wrote:
Gooner wrote:
Yes, but regular tall people are like 6'3", 6'4", in basketball terms, that's short. You don't see many 6'10"-6'11" guys walking down the street. I've never seen anyone that tall outside of basketball, and I'm from Croatia where people are quite tall.

That just means that tall people tend to play basketball, not that if people start playing basketball they suddenly start growing.

It means both.. U r not gonna grow from 5'9 to 6'5 if u start playing basketball, but u will gain at least 1-2 inches, and probably 2 or 3

Absolute nonsense. Otherwise we would be seeing millions of 6'5+ Filipino basketball players around but we don't now do we.

Beorn · Post #1910 » by **Beorn** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:08 am

THIS IS A **** ROBBERY

TheDiesel36 · Post #1911 » by **TheDiesel36** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:11 am

Beorn wrote:THIS IS A **** ROBBERY

Well, I can get behind every defensive foul call on Greece, but these offensive fouls on Giannis were straight BS

Gooner · Post #1912 » by **Gooner** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:11 am

Balvin is a revelation of the world cup. Czechs getting cheap free throws, that could save them.

peZt · Post #1913 » by **peZt** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:11 am

Gooner wrote:
peZt wrote:
Gooner wrote:
Yes, but regular tall people are like 6'3", 6'4", in basketball terms, that's short. You don't see many 6'10"-6'11" guys walking down the street. I've never seen anyone that tall outside of basketball, and I'm from Croatia where people are quite tall.

Correlation and Causation dude. Basketball doesn't make people grow, it's just that tall kids tend to play Basketball.

Would many of those kids grow to 6'8" and taller, if they didn't play basketball?

Yes they would

TheDiesel36 · Post #1914 » by **TheDiesel36** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:14 am

Gooner wrote:Balvin is a revelation of the world cup. Czechs getting cheap free throws, that could save them.

I dont believe that we are actually making them under pressure

Gooner · Post #1915 » by **Gooner** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:15 am

peZt wrote:
Gooner wrote:
peZt wrote:

Correlation and Causation dude. Basketball doesn't make people grow, it's just that tall kids tend to play Basketball.

Would many of those kids grow to 6'8" and taller, if they didn't play basketball?

Yes they would

Why don't we see people that tall outside of basketball then? You think every giant plays basketball?

Gooner · Post #1916 » by **Gooner** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:16 am

TheDiesel36 wrote:
Beorn wrote:THIS IS A **** ROBBERY

Well, I can get behind every defensive foul call on Greece, but these offensive fouls on Giannis were straight BS

The contact on his drive was excessive as usual, good in my opinion.

TheDiesel36 · Post #1917 » by **TheDiesel36** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:19 am

Gooner wrote:
TheDiesel36 wrote:
Beorn wrote:THIS IS A **** ROBBERY

Well, I can get behind every defensive foul call on Greece, but these offensive fouls on Giannis were straight BS

The contact on his drive was excessive as usual, good in my opinion.

That kind of contact usually results in a no call in Intl ball or at least Im accustomed to being like that.

EmperorLocky · Post #1918 » by **EmperorLocky** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:21 am

Gooner wrote:
TheDiesel36 wrote:
Beorn wrote:THIS IS A **** ROBBERY

Well, I can get behind every defensive foul call on Greece, but these offensive fouls on Giannis were straight BS

The contact on his drive was excessive as usual, good in my opinion.

Agreed. I honestly thought he was going to be gone on his previous drive and surprised to see the blocking call on that one.

Greece aren't done yet still down 5 with 90 seconds to go. Giannis will learn from this though as he won't get the calls in FIBA putting his head down and running through opponents.

Beorn · Post #1919 » by **Beorn** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:23 am

Yeah, they took a wrong decision even the instant replay

Bob8 · Post #1920 » by **Bob8** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:25 am

Gooner wrote:
peZt wrote:
Gooner wrote:
Would many of those kids grow to 6'8" and taller, if they didn't play basketball?

Yes they would

Why don't we see people that tall outside of basketball then? You think every giant plays basketball?

You can see tall people in volleyball, handball...even goalkeepers and some central defenders in football are very tall. Meaning tall people are doing sports, where being tall is advantage. Being tall is of course crucial especially in basketball.