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Great Britain National Team

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He has always had chip on his shoulder. He still thinks the organisation is spending there funds unwisely, where as it couldn't be any different. A couple of years ago he was kicked off the board at England Basketball for being to opinonated. He needs to support team GB, from the organisation to the team, and everything in between. Speak to anyone involved in British ball, and they'll tell you the same, if not worse.
 
HIGHLANDER said:
I think mainly in the context of 'mate' for females we are talking about- for example lions mating...ha ha

Shaft-actually that is a great name..bloody brilliant name..
To be honest maybe you have a point in that he could create a bit of excitement and has a bit of knowledge, compared to the others of the past who don't even follow basketball , so in that respect i think you are right.

By the way Nate Reinking at the PG, i am not sure about that. He was always a 2 man.
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At the moment i think, going with Gordon & Reinking will be the best option as we need to be a constant threat from 3 point land. Reinking can defo handle the ball as well as Gordon can. With those 2 on floor, and Deng we can be a huge 3 point threat. We need to be hitting 40-45% 3 pointers to stand a chance of going through. Hopefully our inside game will look after itself, as we will match up well, hopefully better than 2 of the 3 opponents at least. I said last year our 3 point game is the key to winning the group, but i didn't realise how dominat we were inside. This time it will be definately different....big shots will have to be made! Last season we hit 37.4% 3 pointers, but i don't think we ran that offense too much, so improvement will be made.

Just looked at 3 point percentages from Eurobasket 2007 and found that Slovenia shot 32%, Spain 38.9%, & Serbia only 23.8%.....very interesting!!!
 
Yip, i agree, the shots must be dropping to stand a chance.
Inside we have proven Big Men at the highest level in Europe with Archibald and Betts so hopefully they will hold their own.
Roll on September-this GB team i will support.
I won't support the GB Football team at the Olympics though! ha ha
 
HIGHLANDER said:
Yip, i agree, the shots must be dropping to stand a chance.
Inside we have proven Big Men at the highest level in Europe with Archibald and Betts so hopefully they will hold their own.
Roll on September-this GB team i will support.
I won't support the GB Football team at the Olympics though! ha ha
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Me neither! However this has pi**ed me off a bit because it will take the countries eyes off the basketball team. Basketball now is the biggest draw, barring athletics in the Olympics, so to have football take over this (well for the London Olympics) is a kick in the nuts for people like me who wants Basketball to hit the big time in the media. Am i right in thinking Olympic football is for under 23's anyway? Hopefully that will take the gloss off it a bit.
 
I am losing interest in football as officiating is really bad. . . having watched Champions' League matches, i was exasperated with with those unfair decisions. . . they say officiating in basketball are also below par but i don't agree with them officiating in basketball is way above, better than football. Deputizing 3 referees plus the use of video reviews in contested calls makes officiating in basketball more credible than that of football.

I am supporting Team GB football team in Olympics but not the same vigour as i'm going to show for its basketball counterpart. . .
 
What is the latest for Team GB? did Chris Finch has already started practice sessions with the players? What is the status of Ben Gordon?

I am looking forward to Four Nations Basketball Tournament this coming August. . . I just got my ticket on the said fixtures. . .
 
The training camps starts the back end of July. What i can tell you though is that British Eurosport will be televising Eurobasket! Brilliant news & a great boost for the game in the UK.
 
inaminute23 said:
British Eurosport will be televising Eurobasket! Brilliant news & a great boost for the game in the UK.
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My main issue is that the commentary probably will be provided by curling experts; coverage is not going to be live or complete – i.e. they are still advertising NBA finals – apparently all you have to do is to sign on with them to watch games 6 and 7. Plus eurosport is not on freeview.
And this boost is more like a short term fix due to olimpics with years to come of …well, nothingness. To have 4 teams tournament in O2 with ticket prices like this – how is it going to help anyone to promote the game?
 
auris1 said:
My main issue is that the commentary probably will be provided by curling experts; coverage is not going to be live or complete – i.e. they are still advertising NBA finals – apparently all you have to do is to sign on with them to watch games 6 and 7. Plus eurosport is not on freeview.
And this boost is more like a short term fix due to olimpics with years to come of …well, nothingness. To have 4 teams tournament in O2 with ticket prices like this – how is it going to help anyone to promote the game?
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The commentators will be basketball experts, Roy Birch, Martin Henlan (former England international) etc. Eurosport may not be freeview, but a hell of a lot of people have access to this station. Also what are you going on about regarding ticket prices for the tournament at the O2? I've paid £45 for 6 games of basketball. Im going to Warsaw too where i've paid only £56 for 6 games. So I don't know what your point is.
 
inaminute23 said:
The commentators will be basketball experts, Roy Birch, Martin Henlan (former England international) etc. Eurosport may not be freeview, but a hell of a lot of people have access to this station. Also what are you going on about regarding ticket prices for the tournament at the O2? I've paid £45 for 6 games of basketball. Im going to Warsaw too where i've paid only £56 for 6 games. So I don't know what your point is.
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Those aren't bad prices, man. When I went to the 2002 WBC, I think that was about the same. Take some pictures for us when you go, OK man?

I hope we start to get some rosters soon...
 
inaminute23 said:
The commentators will be basketball experts, Roy Birch, Martin Henlan (former England international) etc. Eurosport may not be freeview, but a hell of a lot of people have access to this station. Also what are you going on about regarding ticket prices for the tournament at the O2? I've paid £45 for 6 games of basketball. Im going to Warsaw too where i've paid only £56 for 6 games. So I don't know what your point is.
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How about the family of four?
Do you care to do the math? 4 *11 for tickets, 4 *1.75 service charge, another 2 or 3 for delivery + 20 for the parking .How about multiplying this for 3 days? And that’s is the cheapest ones – there are 18 and 50 per person per day

Roy Birch interview - In our first season of ULEB Cup, we couldn't get to the most distant games, so we did some by satellite. The first one was with Martin Henlan, and we were supposed to be doing Dynamo Moscow; as soon as the pictures came through, I looked for Lazaros Papadopolous, in white, as a starting point, but the teams were in Yellow and Purple, and all the graphics were in Russian. I knew we had the wrong game, but we hadn't got a clue which game we had. I got on the phone to Paris to tell them. And they eventually got the right game over the satellite but Martin and I had to waffle on for 15 minutes (it was Unics Kazan). That was hard work, and it was Martin's first game!

I suspect they never stopped waffling ever since (that’s based on this years final 8 eurocup commentary).
 
auris1 said:
How about the family of four?
Do you care to do the math? 4 *11 for tickets, 4 *1.75 service charge, another 2 or 3 for delivery + 20 for the parking .How about multiplying this for 3 days? And that’s is the cheapest ones – there are 18 and 50 per person per day

Roy Birch interview - In our first season of ULEB Cup, we couldn't get to the most distant games, so we did some by satellite. The first one was with Martin Henlan, and we were supposed to be doing Dynamo Moscow; as soon as the pictures came through, I looked for Lazaros Papadopolous, in white, as a starting point, but the teams were in Yellow and Purple, and all the graphics were in Russian. I knew we had the wrong game, but we hadn't got a clue which game we had. I got on the phone to Paris to tell them. And they eventually got the right game over the satellite but Martin and I had to waffle on for 15 minutes (it was Unics Kazan). That was hard work, and it was Martin's first game!

I suspect they never stopped waffling ever since (that’s based on this years final 8 eurocup commentary).
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Since when was I a mind reader? As in previous posts you have stated nothing about ticket prices, or how many of your family were going. Also don't park @ the o2! You can get plenty of public transport there.
 
If it is true, who do you think will play his position. Pops, Sullivan, George, or A N Other? If he is out, then I still think the squad is stronger than last year as long as Gordon plays. Don’t forget we didn’t have Archibald, Freeland has improved greatly again & Betts is fully fit & had a great season. I now think Finch might put more emphasis on a 3 point game, but to have any chance now we need Ben Gordon! I think his contract will be sorted very soon, maybe as soon as Wednesday when the free agency begins.
 
arturcia said:
sometimes I hate the NBA that they ruin European Basketball
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You are so right! In my eyes he could continue his rehab in Britain, and see how it goes. Sooner or later he has to try & play again so why not with GB? Also it is still 10 weeks away from Eurobasket, so how does Forman know? It is just wishful thinking on his part I hope. Even after Eurobasket there is still 6-8 weeks before the NBA season starts! This is very premature and I think it is Gorman putting pressure on Deng. Deng is strong minded & hopefully he will be fit enough & tell Gorman where to go.
 
inaminute23 said:
You are so right! In my eyes he could continue his rehab in Britain, and see how it goes. Sooner or later he has to try & play again so why not with GB? Also it is still 10 weeks away from Eurobasket, so how does Forman know? It is just wishful thinking on his part I hope. Even after Eurobasket there is still 6-8 weeks before the NBA season starts! This is very premature and I think it is Gorman putting pressure on Deng. Deng is strong minded & hopefully he will be fit enough & tell Gorman where to go.
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Could not agree more.
Sometimes these NBA guys think the NBA comes before country.
To an extent that is right as far as paying wages and insurance but
they must understand some players are passionate about playing for their countries.
So yeh..f-off Gorman ya wank..
 
g.g said:
Can you please explain a bit more your world rankings?
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I'm assuming you mean me, they were made after one of the many discussions on this board about how much the FIBA rankings make little sense, and didn't reflect a team's strength (see Serbia ranked 5th). So I cut it to a 4 year window (region 05,world 06,region 07,olympics 08), kept FIBA's point system, and eliminated the junior competitions from scoring then counted it all up (I was very bored that week).

I think it's pretty good at measuring the teams '05 to the present.
 
i think that ur national team is good but need some work so u can compete in high levels
 
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