2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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

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