2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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