FIBA WORLD CUP 2019 | SPAIN are new WORLD CHAMPIONS

Bolivar · Post #2601 » by **Bolivar** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:57 pm

Middle Child wrote:This is what happens when you send the Celtics to represent the country.

Ouch

Nice one France 8-)

m1chal · Post #2602 » by **m1chal** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:57 pm

What a surprise. Well done France!

PS. Does it mean Poland is as good as the US? Both teams lost in the quarters :-D

seorang · Post #2603 » by **seorang** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:58 pm

yeahM8 wrote:aussie wagon going to fill up quick.

whos on?

lez go strayaaaaa

OZZIE OZZIE OZZIE OI OI OI

The Rodzilla · Post #2604 » by **The Rodzilla** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:58 pm

Australia beat france and france beat usa, so this means Australia is better than everyone

a-French-Fan · Post #2605 » by **a-French-Fan** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:58 pm

Putain que ça fait du bien!!! Allez les Français on se lâche en français maintenant ^^

CalOrl11 · Post #2606 » by **CalOrl11** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:58 pm

Fournier has had a great world cup

Hroz · Post #2607 » by **Hroz** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:59 pm

Let's move on the Australia vs Czech Rep

sunsbg · Post #2608 » by **sunsbg** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:59 pm

Both Serbia and USA lost by 10. :lol:

minami · Post #2609 » by **minami** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:59 pm

Magnifique.

reload141 · Post #2610 » by **reload141** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

Great play by Kemba, throwing the game to send everyone home, especially knowing Tatum comes back next game and didn’t want to risk it.

What a team player he is.

Lakafanfoeva · Post #2611 » by **Lakafanfoeva** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

The game has passed coach Pop , plain and simple! Your telling me that Rudy Gobert has been destroying you all game and your counter is to go small and put Jaylen Brown on him ? How many dunks and tip ins did Gobert have in the second half ? All while Plumlee, Lopez, and Turner didn’t see a SINGLE minute in the fourth quarter ? No way... someone please get coach Pop out of there!!!

Pipp33 · Post #2612 » by **Pipp33** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

Jacobkowal wrote:Damn. No good center is what killed us. We had no answer for Gobert, he was outstanding setting screens and defending the paint.

Brown played well again. I think he is in for a huge year.

But everyone tells us what a young stud Turner is???? What was the USA’s reason against Turkey?? Turner and Lopez were better than their C’s, but they only won that game because Turkey choked on their last 4 FT’s. They have not played as a team all tournament and NBA iso ball will not work against the better international teams in FIBA games.

nedleeds · Post #2613 » by **nedleeds** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

KG Leonard wrote:
CelticsLV wrote:
asdfgh wrote:Why is Pop playing small ball against Gobert? Makes absolutely no sense!

Small ball helped them to make that 17 point swing until Kemba was inserted.
Yeah Kemba playing iso hero ball in 4th ruined the game for USA. Mitchell was destroying France in third, Brown, Smart was playing well. He came in when they led with 7 points and he never passed again...

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Barnes was awful also. His travel and black hole offense is real bad in FIBA. If you are going to play Kemba you need a pick and roll partner, that's all Kemba does. HE ran the most in the league. Barnes isn't a pick and roll partner, he's an ISO chucker.

Hornet Mania · Post #2614 » by **Hornet Mania** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

Not surprising. This was not a good USA team, they actually went further without taking an L than I expected. No reliable size whatsoever and no elite-tier (top 10 player in the world) centerpiece was a recipe for disaster.

The Olympics have always been the USA's focus. I don't expect this loss to make a bunch of guys jump into the next World Cup because Americans (both a majority of players and fans) view that as a lesser tournament, but I do think this will motivate a lot of talent to show up for the Olympics to avoid embarrassment when it counts in their minds.

Simmons25 · Post #2615 » by **Simmons25** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

seorang wrote:Time for another Redeem team

I don't think anything can redeem this even if they win the next 3 world cups.

It's not the 1990s anymore... the US can't just play their 10th best roster and think they can beat the rest of the world. The gap isn't as big anymore.

ProspectPark · Post #2616 » by **ProspectPark** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:00 pm

Just want to remind everyone:

Kemba Walker 4 years $140 million :lol:

Mos_Heat · Post #2617 » by **Mos_Heat** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:01 pm

well, Kemba is a good teammate still :dontknow:

lambchop · Post #2618 » by **lambchop** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:01 pm

I agree that trae young would have been better than kemba on this team

asdfgh · Post #2619 » by **asdfgh** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:01 pm

Why are people so surprised the top U.S. players are not playing?
Players like Antetokounmpo or Gobert or Rubio or whoever have a strong fanbase in their home country, where they live during the offseason, so it's obviously important to them. In the U.S. there's almost no media attention for the World Cup. The women's football (soccer) World Cup got way more attention than this, which is ridiculous IMO.

Johnny Firpo · Post #2620 » by **Johnny Firpo** » Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:01 pm

Johnny Firpo wrote:
Zombiesonics wrote:
Johnny Firpo wrote:Did not see this coming. Can the French follow up with another shocker?

how is this a shocker? serbia is coming off a loss and people were saying this a toss up. Sorry we didn't get to see serbia man handle USA like you envisioned.

How you doing mate? :lol: