Tokyo Olympic Basketball Tournament Discussion

Arteezy · Post #3201 » by **Arteezy** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:49 pm

Doncic pussied out

Ugalde · Post #3202 » by **Ugalde** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:49 pm

Well at least now I can really root for Team USA. Would of been hard to root against Luka

rapstarter · Post #3203 » by **rapstarter** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:49 pm

Is this common? Gold medal game before the bronze medal game?

RB34 · Post #3204 » by **RB34** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:49 pm

All the Luka haters crawling out from the depths.. dude has been awesome.

EmperorLocky · Post #3205 » by **EmperorLocky** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:50 pm

That's heartbreaking. Batum such a huge block. Hope Doncic wrist is okay for Australia.

Patches Perry · Post #3206 » by **Patches Perry** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:50 pm

Dupp wrote:
Patches Perry wrote:
Dupp wrote:Luka gonna do a number on the yanks. Might score 82.

Nah, USA is a bad matchup for him. Jrue about to lock up the prodigy.

Lol Luka had PG, kawhi , Beverly and queef twin guarding him and he embarrassed them. Some dude that can’t even spell his name right ain’t gonna bother anyone.

Nicolas would like a word

leolozon · Post #3207 » by **leolozon** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:50 pm

Such a dumb loss too... losing by 1 while having two stupid technicals and going 11/20 from the FT line. Not screaming at the refs would have mean a win.

Uncharacteristically, Doncic didn't even attempt one shot in the last what? 4 minutes?

5/18 is extremely rare for him too. Such poor shooting happened only once all of last season (4/16 against Memphis) and pretty much once in his 2nd season (3/12 against Denver). Think about that.

BillessuR6 · Post #3208 » by **BillessuR6** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:50 pm

Man, this is heartbreaking for us...but I guess you cant win with shooting this bad from three and free throw line...

Mamba81p · Post #3209 » by **Mamba81p** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:51 pm

rapstarter wrote:Is this common? Gold medal game before the bronze medal game?

no, but NBC wants the gold medal game in primetime in US.

walk with me · Post #3210 » by **walk with me** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:51 pm

That play by luka was fine but he should have just shot it… live or die with your best player ending a game 10 times out of 10.

Excellent read by batum

Dr Aki · Post #3211 » by **Dr Aki** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:51 pm

Doncic wrecked his wrist crashing into the scorer's plastic wall

He still put up as many assists as Slovenia needed

ElectricMayhem · Post #3212 » by **ElectricMayhem** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:51 pm

Luka tried a couple shots after jamming his wrist on the plexiglass. Hopefully there's no serious damage.

Trey24 · Post #3213 » by **Trey24** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:51 pm

Batum, what a son of a bitch quitter piece of trash. Glad he can exert effort on the national stage. What a dick he should be ashamed of himself. Making Blake Griffin look like he was giving it his all in Detroit near the end.

#saltyCharlottefan

FreeThrowLine · Post #3214 » by **FreeThrowLine** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

MrPerfect1 wrote:
TimRobbins wrote:
FreeThrowLine wrote:The first 15 minutes, every 3 the US team took was short. It was like they were running on sand, they were slow to rotate, slow to loose balls and Middleton had his open dunk attempt rejected by the front of the ring.

If KD doesn’t do his thing, the US could have been looking at a 25-30 point deficit instead of 15 and it might just have been too much to claw back

Instead, KD kept them relatively close and in the 2nd half they finally started making their 3’s while the Australians cooled down after looking like they couldn’t miss from 3 in the 1st half

LaVine was good on both ends despite some of the comments to the contrary, the US needs to find the right rotation, they still look like they don’t have any chemistry out there

Anybody watching these games can clearly see why KD is the nest basketball player in the world and it's not even close. Without KD, the US team does not make it to the finals. It's KD and a bunch of all-stars.

The Best Basketball player isn't at the Olympics. KD is the best player on the team, but Jrue is the most important.

No he’s not :banghead:

Dupp · Post #3215 » by **Dupp** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

Patches Perry wrote:
Dupp wrote:
Patches Perry wrote:
Nah, USA is a bad matchup for him. Jrue about to lock up the prodigy.

Lol Luka had PG, kawhi , Beverly and queef twin guarding him and he embarrassed them. Some dude that can’t even spell his name right ain’t gonna bother anyone.

Nicolas would like a word

He played the long con and pretended to be **** for the clippers to surprise Luka in the Olympics. Great commitment to his country.

CjayC · Post #3216 » by **CjayC** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

Weird ending. Luka was either gassed, or his wrist was flaring up.

Sakkreth · Post #3217 » by **Sakkreth** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

rapstarter wrote:Is this common? Gold medal game before the bronze medal game?

No, but fiba is a joke as an organization

Mos_Heat · Post #3218 » by **Mos_Heat** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

Doncic was gased in the 4th as always. That's his achilles heel

rapstarter · Post #3219 » by **rapstarter** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:52 pm

All in all, what a game that was, huh.

Down to the last possession.

Two best teams meet in the gold medal game.

BallerTalk · Post #3220 » by **BallerTalk** » Thu Aug 5, 2021 12:53 pm

Dupp wrote:How long will it take until Luka forces France to waive the white flag? I’d say halfway through the 3rd.