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2020 Men's Olympic Tournament

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When you lose the Bronze medal game and leave empty handed it’s obviously a crushing defeat. But I think in this case with these teams even more so.
 
Can’t wait for all the commentary about how the Bronze medal game is “more pure” or whatever. :rolleyes:
 
robert0326 said:
Team USA should have prepare for the gobert-wembayama duo.. that will be a huge advantage for France.. even for loaded team USA..
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When Wembayama is ready Gobert will be in his last career breaths. Generally even thinkinh that USA will be threatened by anyone constantly is pretty unrealistic. France theirselves will lose De Colo and Batum which is irreplacable at the moment.

USA will always be huge favourite against all. Just a bad team like 2019 can change that significantly.

This season, tournament were special because of long seasons and lac of preparation. Big credits for US for taking it. Even though only differencemaker was Durant. Congrats to Popovich, I am glad he finished with gold after fiasco as assistant and in 2019.
 
Cheat code Durant proved to be the difference maker, as expected I guess...if not for him, the outcome would have been the same as in 2019. But father time is still undefeated, and US will not have the luxury of having him forever to bail them out..m
 
Yeah Durant is a FIBA HOF for sure and that's coming back from an Achilles injury.
 
and the nets' bosses are happier that he will leave tokyo injury-free.
 
Katastroika said:
When Wembayama is ready Gobert will be in his last career breaths. Generally even thinkinh that USA will be threatened by anyone constantly is pretty unrealistic. France theirselves will lose De Colo and Batum which is irreplacable at the moment.

USA will always be huge favourite against all. Just a bad team like 2019 can change that significantly.

This season, tournament were special because of long seasons and lac of preparation. Big credits for US for taking it. Even though only differencemaker was Durant. Congrats to Popovich, I am glad he finished with gold after fiasco as assistant and in 2019.
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You dont need to replace players with the same profile, as you said it's impossible.

But we have plenty of prospects to test and play at the highest level. The main problem being that most are focused on the nba and we lost profiles who could clearly benefit from playing in Europe.

We will see what Doumbouya will turn into. If maturity finally hits, he is clearly a profile that could turn us into a real loaded frontcourt (with Victor yes, but he needs to develop too and become physically ready). When he is motivated and focuses, he is clearly the second best prospect we have on both ends (behind victor).

Even if we lost De Colo, we have someone like Ayayi who can do a lot of things, especially with his midrange. He's not as creative as De Colo, but probably better overall since he is a plus defender.

Add guys like Dieng, Tillie (Killian), Hayes, Maledon, and some role players from our own league (yes...), i dont think we will be in major trouble moving forward.
The main prospect i want to see is Batcho anyway. He is the main option to replace Gobert by a much better player on both ends (as long as injuries stop messing up his development).

At least we are done with Parker ball hog and it's no surprise we finished on the box. If only he could have retired 5 years ago.

Ps : i think the level for 2024 olympics will be at a pretty high level (as long as things are back to normal). And it's good to be qualified already, the qualification process in Europe will be insane
I cant wait to see next eurobasket since many teams will have to be competitive to qualify for the WC. And we will be rebuilding part of our core already.
 
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Durant and Luka will rightly get most of the praise this tournament, but we got to acknowledge Patty Mills too. The man clearly is tired of finishing 4th.
 
as great as luka is, he needs to improve in the attitude part. that technical foul with d first half already done is awful.

he's only 22 so he'll get there.
 
Luka and Slovenia expected to be playing for Gold and couple that with the heartbreaking finish to that semifinal I think has led to a sluggish first half. Down deep I think Australia knew heading into their semifinal that they would be in this game. Couple that with the fact they were blown out of their semifinal and it explains why they look like the better team in the first half.
 
usagre said:
Luka and Slovenia expected to be playing for Gold and couple that with the heartbreaking finish to that semifinal I think has led to a sluggish first half. Down deep I think Australia knew heading into their semifinal that they would be in this game. Couple that with the fact they were blown out of their semifinal and it explains why they look like the better team in the first half.
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Yeah there's a vast difference in getting blown out and losing at the buzzer. Coupled with that Australia's been here twice before (2016/2019) and come up short, wouldn't shock me at all that they're more motivated.
 
Guard play again.. the waterloo of slovenia.. although australia is ripe for another dissapointment on this tactless basketball
 
Australia +11 heading into 4th. If they don’t end up on the podium now they never will.
 
Congrats to Australia finally breaking through and reaching the medal stand.

For Slovenia, if Luka keeps playing you have to imagine they'll be back wouldn't shock me at all if they win Eurobasket next year, though France will be a big obstacle.
 
boomers deserved it after all those 4th place finishes in olympics and WC
 
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