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2024 Paris Olympics Basketball | IBN PH Discussion Thread

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Dotch said:
Fearful Prediction
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Group A is obviously the Group of Death. Canada and red-hot Greece will advance outright

Group B is a given, USA and Serbia will advance. Sorry Brazil. Note: This could have been the PHL's group. WOW!

Group C is also sure-ball. France and <WORLD CHAMPION> Germany will be the group winners.

Best 3rd Place Team: Quotient System favor the strong teams as they wont get easily blown out, so, its going to be Spain and the other Puerto Rico for me.

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QF Draws:

Pot D: USA and France

Pot E: Canada and Serbia

Pot F: Greece and Germany

Pot G : Spain and Puerto Rico

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Quarterfinals:

Pot D vs Pot G:
USA def Puerto Rico
France def Spain

Pot E vs Pot F:
Canada def Germany
Serbia def Greece

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Semifinals:

USA def Serbia
France def Canada


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Bronze Medal Game:

Canada def Serbia (on a late SGA free-throws as Jokic fouls out)

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Gold Medal Game:

France def USA in OT

Nando de Colo somehow jumps over Embiid for a super-slam, avenging Frederick Weis, then Wemby blocked Curry's 3 point attempt , and blocks Lebron's follow up, preserving France 1 point lead , for the Gold Medal win.

Viva la France!
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Allons, enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrive!
 
Giannis34GOD said:
The whole world is against USA… they were enough of being arrogant of Americans in basketball world.. and a US loss is a win for international basketball… any country will inspire to be good at basketball because they think they have a chance now…
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Interesting how teams are going to attack the Wemby-Gobert lineup. If France manages to be successful, it might signal the end of the small ball era and the start of the highly skilled big era. Whoever wins in Paris is the real "world champions".
 
Giannis34GOD said:
Let’s see if Japan can snatch atleast a win there.. if not, It’s not sure if Japan is the best in Asia.. they just lucky beating Finland and have a easy group in classifications…
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Tito Bob, kamusta naman ang Drakkar Noir by Guy LaRoche natin?

Anyway, Japan is the lone Asian country in the Olympics, and 1 of 2 from FIBA Asia ( the other one is Australia). they are grouped together with the host, the current World Cup holder and red-hot Puerto Rico, a win against one of the 3 is a considered an achievement already. But even if they cant "snatch at least a win there" they are considered more advanced than the rest of Asia already, simply because they are participating there, and the rest stayed home.
 
Drakkar for everyday use, then Eternity for special days.

We are showing our age too much.
 
Japan took advantage of playing at home in the world cup and we did not. The teams we faced in the world cup were all beatable. But we had a coach who was contented with puso moral victories. If we had CTC then with this OQT roster (with a healthy Edu, no Pogoy and Ravena ) and even with Brownlee instead of Clarkson. Playing at home, we would have racked up at least 2 wins in the last WC.This is all on SBP because we should have treated the WC as our ticket to Paris. Joining the WC is not dficult for PHI but the Olympics is the prize
 
Japan beats this Brazil team.

Edit: I thought they are group with them lol.
 
2020 Olympics Teams:
Asia-2
Africa-1
Oceania-1
Americas-2
Europe-6

2024 Olympics Teams:
Asia-1
Africa-1
Oceania-1
Americas-4
Europe-5

American (as a continent) getting better representation this time around. European teams are a bit underwhelming this Olympics
 
deku_midoriya said:
If we had CTC then with this OQT roster (with a healthy Edu, no Pogoy and Ravena ) and even with Brownlee instead of Clarkson.
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I forgot chot had his water boys Pogoy and Kiffed in that lineup, that was fkin wild. Tab Baldwin had Tungcab and Bullanadi who could've been playing like Newsome and Perez here. This current gilas just refreshes how strong that non-pro team could've been
 
Dotch said:
Tito Bob, kamusta naman ang Drakkar Noir by Guy LaRoche natin?

Anyway, Japan is the lone Asian country in the Olympics, and 1 of 2 from FIBA Asia ( the other one is Australia). they are grouped together with the host, the current World Cup holder and red-hot Puerto Rico, a win against one of the 3 is a considered an achievement already. But even if they cant "snatch at least a win there" they are considered more advanced than the rest of Asia already, simply because they are participating there, and the rest stayed home.
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They just lucky their classification matches are the easiest of all Asian teams... Even they will lose to Finland, they can beat two worst teams of Africa (Cape Verde) and Americas (Venezuela)... And snatch that Asian spot to Olympics... China and Philippines have to fight each other, plus they also have tough African teams South Sudan and Angola, same goes to Iran and Lebanon and need to beat tough France and Ivory Coast, while Jordan has the hardest classification games because they have to beat tough Egyptians and Mexico...
 
Metta said:
Every game has an element of luck involved.

But them having multiple prospects developing into solid D1, NBA, NBL, players etc is not luck. That right there illustrates the quality of their development program.

Attributing their rise in quality to luck is bullocks.
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If Japan placed with South Sudan in classifications, they will lose... Cape Verde level in basketball is like playing against Saudi Arabia.. Cape Verde just have Eddy Tavares and rest of unknown players... Cape Verde just qualified in the world cup because teams like Angola and Ivory Coast tanked their last game just to eliminate Senegal, Tunisia and Angola... They choose Cape Verde so that they will escape tough competition from those 3 tough African teams when world cup comes...
 
LOL why did USA choose to spar with Canada? They should have chosen a European and Latino team instead.
 
greenarcher said:
LOL why did USA choose to spar with Canada? They should have chosen a European and Latino team instead.
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USA vs Canada - TMobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV - WED, JULY 10, 2024

Position Player Team
G Nickeil Alexander-Walker Timberwolves
G RJ Barrett Raptors
C Khem Birch Basquet Girona (Spain)
F Dillon Brooks Rockets
G Luguentz Dort Thunder
F Melvin Ejim Unicaja (Spain)
G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Thunder
F Mfiondu Kabengele Venezia (Italy)
F Trey Lyles Kings
G Jamal Murray Nuggets
G Andrew Nembhard Pacers
C Kelly Olynyk Raptors
C Dwight Powell Mavericks
G Phil Scrubb Monbus Obradoiro (Spain)

Canada will cut its roster to 12 players for the Olympics.
 
Giannis34GOD said:
If Japan placed with South Sudan in classifications, they will lose...
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Would you bet your life on that?

If you're going to be honest...you will say no. And any sane man will also say no. Because there is an element of luck.
 
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Metta said:
Would you bet your life on that?

If you're going to be honest...you will say no. And any sane man will also say no. Because every game has an element of luck.
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But I got to agree with Robert here. South Sudan is quite strong of a team. The team is pretty long that Japan has to resort to shoot from the perimeter. Even then, shooting from the perimeter will be very difficult for Japanese since the guards of South Sudan are also long and have good laterals.

Facing South Sudan is quite different from facing Cape Verde.
 
ja.he said:
But I got to agree with Robert here. South Sudan is quite strong of a team. The team is pretty long that Japan has to resort to shoot from the perimeter. Even then, shooting from the perimeter will be very difficult for Japanese since the guards of South Sudan are also long and have good laterals.

Facing South Sudan is quite different from facing Cape Verde.
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The thing with game assumptions is...

Absolutely no one was expecting us to beat Latvia. Especially using the Kai-JMF tandem. On paper, they would kill us because we will be too slow to defend their shooters and quick ball movement. Not to mention, pound for pound, the quality of their players are way higher.

Like Tyson famously said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
 
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