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Fiba World Cup 2023 Philippines

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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

They have prime goran dragic in pre doncic era… so it make sense they are good before… but today is different, can you name other Slovenian player after Luka, Toby and Zoran? You can’t name them for sure unless you Google them? By the way, Estonia beat w/o Luka, tobey and dragic bros Slovenian team in their qualifiers back in February…
 
we'll see though he already have a good national team career by winning a major tournament with Slovenia

Luka needs rest… he’s already represent 3 straight fiba tournaments… unless you are fanboying him… hahahahhahaha… Slovenia needs to build their team w/o Luka… they are always relying to Luka’s star power…
 
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).

Yeah… that’s why they don’t need yet a long term program, unless they will lose this year and next year’s Olympics…
 
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.

He needs a break… he’s coming from finals loss and he’s 0-2 now all time… luckily he’s not as popular as lebron… if it is lebron, he will be bashed… jimmy buckets forever a loser…
 
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

Luka might play little minutes… just for a treat to his fans there and nothing else… let him enjoy staying here… atleast he was committed in this event unlike other stars such as Jokic, Giannis (thou he’s injured) and Murray…
 
i thibk dotch is implying that Luka might retire from FIBA competition and focus on winning a nba ring moving forward

Luka’s approach is like the Gasol’s, Ginobili’s, Scola’s of the world that he loves playing in his national team… he might beg off next year but for sure he will likely play in 2025 Eurobasket and 2027 FIBA WC… but it depends on his health… Giannis wants to play this year too but he was not allowed by his team because he’s not 100%… most of Europeans valuing their national teams (same as football counterparts) rather than Americans… look at KP, he was supposed to play and he was not allowed, but he’s with his team and shows how he loves his national team…
 
Who will create for OQT thread? 24 team field is already set…

from Europe:

Spain
Greece
Slovenia
Latvia
Italy
Poland
Croatia
Montenegro
Lithuania
Finland
Georgia

From Americas:

Mexico
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Brazil
Bahamas

from Africa:

Egypt
Angola
Cameroon
ivory coast

From asia/pacific:

New Zealand
Lebanon
Philippines
Bahrain
 
early prediction: greece, slovenia, lithuania and spain gets the 4 OQT slots, provided that giannis, sabonis and luka plays for their respective countries
 
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

This is one vital requirement path for improving pinoy basketball. There are too many fans addicted to the sport, but have a very poor idea of what it takes to bring down the top ten world teams. Another related requirement is to allow fsas in high school balling: basketball, volleyball and other team sports.

Rabid fans of pinoy midget balling often fatally mistake their narrow ethnicism-based nationalism with the completely different patriotism. Patriots cannot afford to lose, unlike those diehard barangay nationalists. Even the deeply nationalistic japanese realized this. As did the chinese and sokors in a more restrained way.

The really bad thing is our teams still play 1960s and 1970s styles. Watching complete fiba games of top ten countries, now fortunately available in youtube, are probably not interesting to most pinoys. Otherwise, they would have booted out the incompetent, and midgetball loving father and son coaches a long time ago.

Why, the better fiba players today -- clarkson, edu, sotto, abando and ramos -- are not pba players. Obiena and yulo would both crash land if they relied on pinoy coaches.
 
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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…
 
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!
 
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?
 
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
 
I guess Gilas ranking in FIBA will go up after somehow better performance than 2019, I projected that Gilas will be rank 33 - 36… The win vs China is huge… if we follow the rules of ranking point system, A low ranked team beating a high ranked team will get more points l, especially if it is a blowout game.. Gilas beat China by 21.. although we lose to SSD… SSD is ranked number 64.. we lose by 19, so I expect SSD will go up their rankings (they also beat Angola, rank 41 and China, rank 28)… we also not lose big against high ranked teams such as DR and Italy, so it will help the case for FIBA to rank up our rankings… We lose to Angola, but Angola didn’t beat any high ranked teams in the tournament, and they lose to China, that we beat… Now we know how valuable rankings in any FIBA sanctioned event… I hope they will take seriously the 2025 FIBA Asia cup, because that event is a point getter in FIBA ranking points system… We have no luxury unlike now having better POT grouping in 2027 FIBA WC edition… atleast inside top 30 rank should be the target of SBP before 2027 FIBA WC to avoid being relegated to strong “group of death” groups come draw time…
 
Klay's dad Mychal Thompson is Bahamian

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

Slovenia w/o Doncic will be as same as Estonia and Portugal… if they lose to Lithuania big even w/ Doncic around, what will Slovenia been w/o their superstar? when Doncic (and prime goran dragic) didn’t played in any qualifiers in 2017-2019 cycle for 2019 FIBA WC, they didn’t qualified and their record is worst at 4-8 in whole qualifiers…
 
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…

https://sports.inquirer.net/526571/...playing-for-the-bahamas-serious-consideration

do people here really have to do everything for you?

geez robert don't you know how to use the internet?
 
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