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2010 FIBA-Americas U18 Championship

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NorCal said:
I take it you mean Argentina hasn't produced any truly standout players after their golden generation?
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Exatcly. The last great ones to play in a youth competition were Scola and Delfino in the 2001 U21 World Championship.
 
Puerto Rico 87 Virgin Islands 79
Uruguay 106 Mexico 63
Brazil 70 Argentina 56
USA 122 Canada 89

Canada closed the game with a 22-4 run :D. Austin Rivers set some USA U18 records, hitting his first nine three-pointers and finishing with 35 points. US led 37-10 after the first quarter and there wasn't much defense played after that.

Brazil outscored Argentina 28-11 in the fourth quarter of the other semifinal.
 
Nice to see Brazil beating Puerto Rico, Canada, Uruguai and Argentina in a youth category competition. In the past decade Brazil always lost against these teams. Nice

Raul Togni(1,86 PG) and Lucas Rivas(2,12 C) are very very very good prospects. I expected Gabriel Aguirre(2,06 PF) to play more minutes, since he plays very well in the youth competitions organized by the spanish basketball federation.

Players like Rafael Freire (1,87 PG Unicaja Malaga) and Jefferson Froelich (1,94 SG Real Madrid) will probably be called for the WC U-19, let's see if they'll play. :confused:
 
It was good to see Puerto Rico winning today. Not a good tournament for Puerto Rico but we really have good prospects comming from this team. Christopher Ortiz (he might be in the next team because he is only 17), Matt Lopez, Emmanuel Andujar and Owen Perez.

I hope we beat Uruguay tomorrow.
 
Maybe someone knew where i can get Canada - USA game from yeasterday ?
 
cardenales said:
Franz, so far in the U19 World Tournament since 1999, Argentina have been present in all of them, always ending in the top 10. Brazil has been in only two of them. True that Brasil have won bronze medal in 2007, but still Argentina has been present in all of them since 1999. This show that the argentine program is better than the brazilian program.

Not to mention in the adults national team that in this last decade Argentina has won one silver medal and a fourth place in World Cups and one gold medal and a bronze medal in Olympics.

Brazil, not olimpics games since 1996 and not medals in the world cups in this decade.
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Cardenales,

South American basketball history could be splitted in before and after late 80s and early 90s.

Before that, basketball here was dominated from Brazil and Argentina wasnt even the second power in the continent.

After that, Brazil basketball falled absurdly (most during the Grego´s era in CBB command), while Argentina simply become slowly a big force in the world basketball.

Its out of discussion that in the last 15 years Argentina dominated the South American Basketball by a big margim and in any category.

However, Grego´s era finally has ended in CBB and there are a ton of optimism with the basketball here.

CBB gave the national league command to the clubs and the league is becoming more and more powerful (per example, Flamengo has signed Kyle Lamonte, one of the best players from argentine league and Pinheiros has signed the young Juan Pablo Figueroa).

Looks a little improvement, but it´s something that increase the interest of the people in the basketball and giving more human material to the sports.

I truly belieave that Argentina will still be a big force, but I think the continent will add another world big force. If its right, I even believe that FIBA should give more spots to american basketballm in the international tournaments...

Per example, It´s a shame see great uruguay generations been out from the worlds (both adult and sub19).
 
Kudos to the brazilians, they had a great tournament.

On another note, Im sad that Puerto Rico didnt pass to the next round, we usually see the best of the best competing at the World Championships but hey...

Would have liked to see if there was another Barea-Rosario type of performance at the big stage.
 
Great game between the US and Brazil so far, US led 15-2 and was winning by 7-13 points for most of the first half, but a big run by Brazil puts them ahead 35-34 at halftime. Lucas is dominating inside. Interesting to see how the US team responds after winning their first four games by halftime.
 
Final Halftime

Brazil 35 x 34 USA

Lucas ''Bebe'' Riva Nogueira killing the americans 14pts 6 boards, they have no answer for him inside.
USA is probably going to win the game by some margin, but kudos to Brazil for the first 2 quarters.
 
USA jumped to an 8-point lead in the third quarter but Brazil rallied again and now leads 63-58 after three. Maintained their lead for the last few minutes of the quarter with Lucas on the bench.
 
USA 81 x 78 Brazil

Good game.

Lucas ''Bebê'' Riva Nogueira, great future for him. For the US, the Rivers guy seems the be a very good prospect. Expected more from USA.
 
USA wins 81-78...Quincy Miller hits a three from the corner with 25 seconds left and Brazil misses a couple chances to tie in the final seconds. Great game from Brazil but they ought to use the big guy more, everything he got was from offensive rebounds.
 
asdzas said:
USA 81 x 78 Brazil

Good game.

Lucas ''Bebê'' Riva Nogueira, great future for him. For the US, the Rivers guy seems the be a very good prospect. Expected more from USA.
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I didnt.

Even though USA can get hot from long range every now and then, their dominance is clearly when they use their athletism to own the paint. Put a good big guy in the paint, and we got ourselves a game.
 
Most important quote from Rodger Bohn's live blogging of the Final for Slam

"-Through a number of the Twitter conversations that I’ve been having with other recruiting guys, it seems as if I’m not the only one who things Nogueira would be top 5 if he were in 2011."

If you realize what this means.. The guy has zero playing time against men and zero youtube videos
 
saalsapr said:
I didnt.

Even though USA can get hot from long range every now and then, their dominance is clearly when they use their athletism to own the paint. Put a good big guy in the paint, and we got ourselves a game.
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Partially true, the other factor is turnovers and Brazil only had 13. Other than against Argentina the US didn't force that many turnovers in the tournament, I was surprised that they never really tried any fullcourt pressure.

wardjdim said:
Most important quote from Rodger Bohn's live blogging of the Final for Slam

"-Through a number of the Twitter conversations that I’ve been having with other recruiting guys, it seems as if I’m not the only one who things Nogueira would be top 5 if he were in 2011."

If you realize what this means.. The guy has zero playing time against men and zero youtube videos
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I don't see why those things would matter, he's talking about 2011 recruiting class not NBA draft.
 
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