2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

here is where we discuss basketball tournaments in brazil

just watched australia smoke france with no stems or seeds. 20154 nab finals mvp PASSING was in the building.

announcers called France out for playing Washington generals defense which was a precision burn. bogut had a great game.

hard to imagine France was at one pt good at international hoops but alas those are bygone days

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/3/12351142/olympics-basketball-2016-rio-rankings-france-spain-brazil

ziller had france as the best non-US team as recently as a couple days ago, tho this eval is seemingly entirely just "on paper" takes on how the rosters look

yeah, zach lowe and marc stein said same thing in a podcast. it is kind of weird time right now without many strong national teams.

hosszu

lol wrong thread

ha guy i went to hs w is playing for the Nigerian team. found my non-usa rooting interest

Brasil vs Lithuania was fun, Lith was up by 30 then couldnt score in the 2nd half and almost crapped it away. some quality barbosa great/horrible moments like usual.

ha, im watching the argentina-nigeria game now. lotta the argentina team getting dusted off and thrown out there (delfino, nocioni). prediction, this team is gonna be shit in 2020 when all of the 2004 team is gone.

yo but pato garino is a legit baller and the spurs GOT EMMMMMMM

yeah those argentine dudes are ooooold

wow just finished croatia v spain! croatia w the upset. Pau gets a two foot shot to tie the game and Saric flies in to swat it

awesome ending to that game, good job hinkie

why is Jokic not starting?

#11 in the world seems super low for the Aus team. the whole starting 5 is nba players

lol these refs have zero clue how to officiate boogie

USA looking lazy af.

Venezuela tied up after one q

btw, for those scrolling thru the thread for updates, USA obv trashed venezuela after that

spain is looking not good so far. struggling early against brazil after losing to croatia in the first game.

yeah US looked fine but I'm not sure boogie is the right guy to start . DJ seems like a better fit to offset all the shooters in that first unit.

boogie is awfully foul prone (he fouled out last night). he's not a great fit for this team, tho he's obv talented. DJ's got his FT problems, but he's a hell of a rebounder and defender. they have so many wings they can throw out, and with melo or KD as stretch 4 with DJ/dray at 5, kyrie or kyle are the only true PGs, put whomever at 2 and 3, there's your rotation. i wouldn't play boogie until that 20 or 30 point lead is in place.

yeah i bet DJ gets the starts once the games get more challenging.

based on on-and-off watching of spain, i have decided that sergio llull is a terrible ass hoopster and that rudy fernandez still has it

this is a good game

i love huertas

i really like some of the international rules, like:

-on an offensive rebound the shot clock resets to 14 not 24
-balls on the rim can be tipped in or knocked out

nba should def adopt that first one = more possessions

hahaha now llull is playing good so whatever

those are good rules imo

brazil is blowing this game

BRASSSIIIIILLL

WOWWWWWW that tip-in

Espana 0-2

they still gotta play lithuania and argentina. probably need to beat both of them to advance.

Diana Taurasi's shot is so pure, best form in women's ball

29-29 us vs Aus after 1 q

this is competitive. aus has the lead

loving this real ass basketball.

france won a tight one against serbia, come from behind with tony parker hitting a game winner. former spur nando de colo lighting shit up, 22 pts.

KD can't buy a bucket

down 5 at half!

the refs are a bit shit

of course!

looks like aus just lost momentum

bogut getting back to his old ways

some crooked ass reffing goin on

Delly with the air ball!

kinda surprised aus are pushing the pace so much tbh

melooooooooooooooo

i am pretty into this aussie team tbh they got guts

delly is playing great

wake up call for this team

wow so sloppy and lazy

kyrie on a nasty hero-ball streak

im underwhelmed by usa tbh, maybe its their coaching but they dont play that well as a team

haven't had to yet. just one pass and jack a three

think this will whip them into shape a bit tbf

Doug Collins has like 3 things he says about each player and just repeats them to death.

haven't had to yet. just one pass and jack a three

― Spottie, Thursday, August 11, 2016 9:46 AM

aus might be the closest they get to real competition at this olympics

yeah with how spain has played

all the teams are so old

Australia not too bad, thrills baynes ingles delly even bogut isn't a dinosaur yet

aus might be interesting in another 4 years

baynes and mills should still be decent and delly, simmons, exum & maker could show

xp

yeah, other than australia which has some great young talent (if this team comes back with a seasons ben simmons and dante exum? could be cool), im worried about the international competition getting weaker in relation to US. argentina will be trash in 2020 sans manu and scola and delfino and nocioni...holy shit theyre old. spain probably wont have the gasols in 4 years (maybe marc?) and other than rubio, who else? nene and barbosa are on their last legs for brazil. it's weird, it feels like the nba got more international but the international teams arent closing the gap that well. is it that good (but not great) euro players stay in the euro leagues and dont get to face NBA-level competition?

croatia and serbia are developing some good youngsters, so maybe the eastern euro squads make a leap with australia next time.

should say "seasoned" ben simmons

team usa are always going to be better, they have a much larger talent pool than any other country

canada's gotta make the next olympics

i'm still really bitter about missing this one

think they have a replay online?

if you could form teams by continents it would actually be really cool imo

Canada could maybe be okay next cycle xps

team usa are always going to be better, they have a much larger talent pool than any other country

― micah, Wednesday, August 10, 2016 11:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well yeah, im not suggesting absolute parity, but 2004 happened. spain made some things competitive once. i guess australia is in that spot now. but im more thinking of outside of the us, there seemed to be many countries getting in the mix for medals and it feels like some of those power countries (russia gone, argentina and brazil will be, what will spain look like, etc) arent necessraily getting overtaken by equally powerful teams.

nice manu and argentina team tribute

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/17262551/manu-ginobili-built-legacy-love-team-storied-career

just finished reading it, i want manu to adopt me

he seems like he would be a good dad.

"It's just winks and blinks with Manu, mate," Mills said.

coach K sucks.

7 point game in the 3rd vs serbia

KLay has been soooo garbage these olympics

visions of the future competing with KD for touches???

probably just smoking too much weed and not caring

he also may just hate the smaller ball

Jokic puttin in work

he's so good. nuggets gonna be fun this year

4 pt game 7 min left

usa looks vulnerable, tho i never feel like theyre doomed due to ability to jack up score very fast.

man kyrie is fun to watch

yeah seems like he and melo are the only ones that are going all out.

all 3 warriors been pretty bad/invisible whole olympics from what i've seen

yah, draymond still got the effort but his offense has been bad

marv keeps calling Jokic "Jokavic"

respect to serbia tho

USA zero ball movement

yeah these dudes are ballin

ya draw up some plays, coach. key-rist.

WOWWW 3 point game serbias ball

so lucky, why did draymond leave his guy!

what a game

went for the steal, no?
p george: "we're relying on our natural talent too much. makes it easy to guard us". sums up team usa since I can remember.

Was just surprised that was a pretty big gamble. Paul George otm.

uh apparently the press and or people have started calling this USA group "The Meme Team" so let me be the first to say aussie aussie aussie oy oy oy

The double overtime Brazil-Argentina game was excellent

yesssss nocioni hopped in that wayback machine. scola was trash. manu couldnt shoot worth a shit but did plenty of manu things. campazzo was trying to get nominated for best baller in a short body award.

Missed that game :/

Manu's chasedown perimeter block was sweet

USA tearing it up in women's swimming and gymnastics

hoops, treesh, hoops! this board is I love hoops.

BISE do your worst

yellow card def warranted

Lol I was gonna say something but I think I've hardmanned Treeship enough

Boogie is not a good fit for this team. or for int'l ball.

or for the kings. he might be bad at basketball.

like i know he's incredibly productive, but he just turned 26 and seems to be kinda bad at defense and passing and knowing where to be.

yeah he reminds me of Melo. v 1 dimensional.

Durant been sleepwalking thru this tourney so far.

Spain vs Arg just started

interesting turn of events. with spain winning big, they went from either low-seeding against US or not advancing to...a chance for the 1 seed if lithuania loses. if croatia wins (which it looks good as of this writing, croatia up 11 in the 3rd), everyone advancing from group is 3-2 and it's just a matter of pt differential. if so

us v lit
fra v arg (tony v manu ;_;)

serbia v spain
aus v cro

ok so scratch that bc apparently fiba has its own convoluted way of tie breaking?????

us v arg
winner faces winner of
spa v fra

aus v lit
winner faces winner of
cro v ser

Spain looked good taking out France. Is there anything in hoops more uncool than a Pau Gasol dunk?

tim duncan dunk!

v similar true

its on

kinda annoying they don't have the shot clock on the broadcast

this crowd is so great. Compozzo is going off. Arg like 5 layups so far, US just jacking threes nothing else

praying for grey bald manu for an upset. way more loyalty to manu than my country, sorry usa.

i might root against the us just bc it would be more interesting and also i am extremely messy

u guys r bad humans

my only allegiance is to the blazers and chaos sorry buds

irving shaking n baking

omg KD w the double crossover euro step

Manu's final quarter of international ball :(

Wish the NBA had fans half as good as these Argentinians

mad props to this crowd for real, they know this is the end of an era

ha I was just coming here to post the same thing spottie did m/l and I'm abt ten minutes behind live so musta been the same thing

Ginobliiii :'''''''''(

that interview w Roz

spain vs usa in one hour

Melo's been a liability since the Australia game

these refs are trigger happy w the techs. 4 already

draymond should be starting over melo.

boogie just fouled out in the third

love this all D team they have out there now, lowry/butler/klay/pg13/DJ

melo is bad coach k doesnt have the balls to pull him tho

omg get melo tf out!

australia is playing some horrible ball. 14 pts in the first half

bogut is still only good for 4 games of a series

US women six straight golds v nice

USA really feelin themselves now. Both teams suddenly realized how good/not as good they're supposed to be. USA spends so much time being scared to lose that it often causes them to nearly do just that.

lol this gold medal game might be the most one-sided one they've played all summer, even more so than the pre-olympic exhibitions

In this Olympic final Durant = MVP. Melo has played like crap, but then, so has Draymond. It's just that Melo got way more minutes than he deserved and Draymond only got in very late, after the game was getting sloppy.

He was definitely in the dick pic penalty box

What a boring game and kind of boring team but I guess U-S-A U-S-A

I did enjoy watching milos teodosic again though, wonder if he'll come to the nba next summer or if we'll have to wait until he's super old ala purple prijian

i havent watched it yet but apparently the reffing in the bronze medal game was totally cooked

excited for coach k to be done so they can let pop run this thing. this team really wasn't fun to watch at all. they had one play today that was cool where there was like 6 passes in a row lead to a KD three but thats about it. probably split the mvp of the whole thing between KD and Deandre.

Melo getting emotional in his final interview was cool