2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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.

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