2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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.