2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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