2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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

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