Summer Paris 2024 - Basketball

[Jeremias]

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[Happy Mastenator]

Unrelated but how TF is Lorenzo Brown allowed to play for Spain? Looked it up and not only is he a born and raised American with no Spanish ancestry, but he's never even played there?? What is the go.

Don’t know. Lorenzo sounds pretty Spanish to me!

/fiba official probably

 

[bourbons]

Great start, were challenged a few times but responded and dug in really well defensively especially that 3rd quarter when Spain hit the front. Still very reliant on Mills but looks like FIBA Patty ain't dead just yet.

Would like to formally apologise to Dyson Daniels, much better offensively than I thought he was, been huge.

 

[bourbons]

Anyone know if or when replays will be on demand?

Its up on the 9 app now.

Audio still out of sync tho

 

[dogs105]

Unrelated but how TF is Lorenzo Brown allowed to play for Spain? Looked it up and not only is he a born and raised American with no Spanish ancestry, but he's never even played there?? What is the go.

The Spanish coach asked the government to grant him citizenship, and they did.

 

[matthew_s]

The Spanish coach asked the government to grant him citizenship, and they did.

Bryce Cotton hates that 1 trick!

 

[dogs105]

The Spanish coach asked the government to grant him citizenship, and they did.

I love the wording in the government explanation.

He was granted citizenship with a "special exemption ". The exemption criterion was that he "would help the national basketball program"..

 

[El Doederino]

Don’t know. Lorenzo sounds pretty Spanish to me!

/fiba official probably

His names Larry, Max

 

[blackcat]

No it comes from this

(NSFW language - as usual when blackcat is involved!)

Eddie and his brother had political aspirations , just a Barnum broadie boy

 

[TassieSaint]

The Spanish coach asked the government to grant him citizenship, and they did.

Surely you have to at least live in a country? Otherwise what would stop us just granting citizenship to any given American NBA player who's never gonna make the US team?

 

[dogs105]

Surely you have to at least live in a country? Otherwise what would stop us just granting citizenship to any given American NBA player who's never gonna make the US team?

integrity?

public reaction?


Neither seem to be an issue for them

 

[Jeremias]

Fantastic start last night.

Spain aren’t the team they once were but they’re still a quality outfit.

Pushed us and kept coming at us but we responded to each challenge.

Patty Mills is officially my all time favorite Australian Olympian now. He’s just unreal and gets it done time and time again for his country.

I feel there was a lot of doom and gloom about this Boomers team and their chances of progressing. I must admit I shared some of that doubt, but this team has heart, and loads of it. You can never count them out.

 

[peternorth]

Surely you have to at least live in a country? Otherwise what would stop us just granting citizenship to any given American NBA player who's never gonna make the US team?

nothing. except BA might not like it.

 

[JT_the_Man]

While I still question the rotation (mainly the lack of Reath) I see no reason we can’t make a run to the medal games. Good start.

 

[JP Sauce]

Come on Serbia! The whole world, except on country, is behind you!

 

[hotchilli]

Serbia cooking early!

 

[hotchilli]

Durant is just playing out of this world in that first half.

 

[peternorth]

Game over.

Durant nuts in the first half. 21 points in some 8 minutes they said.

 

[Royces Hart]

The commentator just said Derrick White came into the team for “Cowwie Leonard”

 

[BobbyMorri]

I know we talk about FIBA Patty,

But Durant is king at FIBA level. Reminds me of C. Anthony whenever he played for the Yanks. He has that unstoppable midrange/3 pointer that suits him much more than the NBA game.

 

[The Big Dipper]

integrity?

public reaction?


Neither seem to be an issue for them

Yet Australia selected Matisse Thybulle for worlds because he spent "about" 7 years in Australia as a young child before returning to his birth country (USA) with his US born mother and father.

 

[Royces Hart]

Yet Australia selected Matisse Thybulle for worlds because he spent "about" 7 years in Australia as a young child before returning to his birth country (USA) with his US born mother and father.

Had an Australian passport and lived here. He was eligible, we played him.

Hardly the same as scouting foreign players that have never visited your country, to fill gaps in your national roster.

 

[dogs105]

Yet Australia selected Matisse Thybulle for worlds because he spent "about" 7 years in Australia as a young child before returning to his birth country (USA) with his US born mother and father.

Did he have citizenship? Or was it granted to allow him to play. Not good if so

 

[philthy05]

There’s zero wrong or unusual about the Matisse case. Was born here and spent years here.

 

[tigs2010]

There’s zero wrong or unusual about the Matisse case. Was born here and spent years here.

He wasn't born here.

 

[Drummond]

Struggling to find any of the Opals who doesn’t have some kind of strapping. Did we pick an entire squad of players under injury clouds lol.

We look bad.