Summer RIO 2016 - Basketball 6th to 21st Aug

[YOTC]

Boomers to win a medal @ $21

yep.

What when?

Holy shit I wish I knew, that's hilarious

 

[my name was taken]

So 2.30am in WA, geez that sucks.

same time for the gold medal match , I got too much shit to do Monday

 

[YOTC]

same time for the gold medal match , I got too much shit to do Monday

Good news Australia comes 4th this olympics. It is written.

 

[kozi]

What when?

Holy shit I wish I knew, that's hilarious

Market was active before the first game, was all over it.

 

[YOTC]

Market was active before the first game, was all over it.

Laying off or riding it home? Free money now.

 

[kozi]

Laying off or riding it home? Free money now.

All the way on the Boomers.

 

[Andronicus]

Women were heavily favoured to do better than the men.

Thrilled with the way the men have gone, but while Tolo is playing for the opals, we are only going to look second rate.

 

[sojthebest]

Interesting stat I saw on Twitter: the Boomers now have an all time Olympic win/loss record of 52-51. It's the first time they've ever had more wins than losses.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Go Bommers...
They got off to a flyer and kept at it.

 

[2006_Eagles]

Women were heavily favoured to do better than the men.

Thrilled with the way the men have gone, but while Tolo is playing for the opals, we are only going to look second rate.

Tolo is your problem with the Opals?

 

[PP34]

The boomers now have a critical mass of NBA level players including guys who have played in and won NBA championships do they're not overawed/star struck like I think previous Australian teams have been

Listening to delly in that interview then gaze was gushing because we've made the semi and the reply was they're focusing on the gold because that's what they came for

We've got players who are used to the attention, expectation and pressure. It shows

Yeah the chemistry definitely comes from having players who have never been out and out stars and therefore mesh perfectly as nobody needs a quota of shots or anything like that.

While the US will still win in my opinion, that's the very reason they haven't blown teams away like they should. There's no proper floor general, which is something you need in a tournament like this and there really is too many guys who all play in a similar way.

 

[PP34]

Tolo is your problem with the Opals?

Cambage's non-existent defence provided some laughs. Defending pick and rolls she would stand in no mans land, with her height and lack of quickness she should have been camped below the free throw line.

Totally useless when guards drove near her as well.

 

[Alfonz]

Yeah the chemistry definitely comes from having players who have never been out and out stars and therefore mesh perfectly as nobody needs a quota of shots or anything like that.

While the US will still win in my opinion, that's the very reason they haven't blown teams away like they should. There's no proper floor general, which is something you need in a tournament like this and there really is too many guys who all play in a similar way.

What players would have made USA's preferred side? LeBron, Curry, Westbrook, Griffen, Harden, Davis, Paul, Leonard? The latter 2 may have helped the most. Apart from Durant and a few others, the Olympics side seems a bit like a B-team. Can't see them losing, but at this stage it is still a possibility.

 

[pepsi]

Definitely a b team compared to what they have sent the last couple of olympic games. Would love to see them lose.

 

[2006_Eagles]

 

[PP34]

What players would have made USA's preferred side? LeBron, Curry, Westbrook, Griffen, Harden, Davis, Paul, Leonard? The latter 2 may have helped the most. Apart from Durant and a few others, the Olympics side seems a bit like a B-team. Can't see them losing, but at this stage it is still a possibility.

The team they currently have is still pretty talented, it's just a team that totally ignores fitting pieces together. Their best team would involve these changes:
In: Curry, Westbrook, Paul, Griffen, Harden, Davis, Paul, Leonard
Out: Derozan, Barnes, Irving, Lowry, Butler, George, Melo, Jordan
PG: Curry
SG: Harden
SF: Durant
PF: James
C: Davis

Paul,Westbrook, Leonard, Thompson, Griffen, Green, Cousins

Melo might have squeezed on purely because his game always suits this type of tournament.

It's very rare that they ever would be able to field a roster like that, but they'd ideally like LeBron, Curry and either Paul/Westbrook on their current roster. They all can run the offence far better than Irving and Lowry can, while also being better scorers. Defensively they'd be much more of a terror with Davis, LeBron and Leonard out there as well.

 

[2006_Eagles]

What players would have made USA's preferred side? LeBron, Curry, Westbrook, Griffen, Harden, Davis, Paul, Leonard? The latter 2 may have helped the most. Apart from Durant and a few others, the Olympics side seems a bit like a B-team. Can't see them losing, but at this stage it is still a possibility.

I've never seen anything like our sustained swarming defense in my 34 years.

Never

 

[Andronicus]

Tolo is your problem with the Opals?

Not saying she was the only problem. Cambage played terribly, but at least she has aspects of her game that make her look like a basketballer that played badly. Tolo looks like she is there purely because she is tall. No natural basketball instinct at all. Very forced with everything she does.

 

[2006_Eagles]

Come on Argies

 

[Gerry4]

Why does Cabbage not also play in the WNBA? Surely a 22 game Chinese season wouldn't be too grueling to back up from.

 

[peternorth]

yeah so this game is over

 

[Keys]

What players would have made USA's preferred side? LeBron, Curry, Westbrook, Griffen, Harden, Davis, Paul, Leonard? The latter 2 may have helped the most. Apart from Durant and a few others, the Olympics side seems a bit like a B-team. Can't see them losing, but at this stage it is still a possibility.

Spain destroyed France

Be fantastic if they knocked over the US

 

[Keys]

yeah so this game is over

Nobody told the argentine fans though

 

[2006_Eagles]

DeRozan

 

[moistie]

More Bogut highlights. Unfortunately I cannot get the gifs to embed properly. Does anyone know of any way to get the two media links below the streamable link in my post to work?

https://streamable.com/kydp