another dumb assumption , Slovenia has qualified in 3 world cups even before Luka while Portugal and Estonia has not even qualified yet in any fiba world cup. you should change your name to trust me bro
we'll see though he already have a good national team career by winning a major tournament with Slovenia
The thing is, they really don't need to as long as they keep winning it all (even if they have a few close games or even lose some here and there).
His screws are loose again. Hehe
The 2016 Olympic team, where he was included, showed some cracks already. Had a hard time against Australia, Serbia, France and Spain. Too bad, the likes of Gobert and Jokic were not yet reaching their peak that time.
yes battle for 5th place, was able to buy tix for slovenia’s game tom (relatively cheaper compared to semis games)
but as greenarcher said,. they have nothing to fight for since the euro olympic slots are already taken by germany and serbia. So why risk the injury for fiba ranking points
i thibk dotch is implying that Luka might retire from FIBA competition and focus on winning a nba ring moving forward
This is essentially what Jeffrey Cheng Filipinas did , he fast track processing of passport, (getting support of government), of course for FIBA we would target U16 to process passport. Yes it's a gamble as 16 year olds are not yet proven, but if just 1 out of 3 pan out , that's well worth the gamble investment
early prediction: greece, slovenia, lithuania and spain gets the 4 OQT slots, provided that giannis, sabonis and luka plays for their respective countries
That will also depends on the draw…. Bahamas might be the dark horse here… assuming all 4 nba players (Gordon, Hield, Ayton and Kai Jones) will all play next summer… it will be dangerous for any team who will be group with Bahamas…
true, thats why the classification would still have some value (for seeding) hope that rhe 4 i mentioned will go to different pots.
game over if klay gets a fiba exception for bahamas!
The question if he’s a local or naturalized… because Eric Gordon is currently their de facto “naturalized player” for Bahamas… game over if he’s a local, is Klay born in Bahamas?
Klay's dad Mychal Thompson is Bahamian
Both classification games today are jam packed
But Klay was born in Bahamas? FIBA doesn’t care whatever their parents are born there, what they care is the classified player if he was born there to be a local player… If Australia is still developing basketball nation, Kyrie has a case to be exempted since Kyrie was born in Australia, and in NBA, Kyrie’s nationality is Australian… he is international player under NBA…
Both classification games today are jam packed