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The Dominican Republic still in Turkey ??????

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Seen the high level of game show in Europe, Europe should get three wild cards and Lebanon should have the other one.
 
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I guess Lebanon and 3 teams from europe will get the wildcard to Turkey
DR does not deserve a wild card.. Useless
 
can anyone explain how would the 3 nba players add to the marketing value of the tournament....

1-will these 3 players from DR be the only players from the NBA in turkey 2010??

2- Lebanon fulfills the criteria more than DR...

3- i wish LEbanon and DR be in turkey but dont base ur explanation for deserving the wild card....on 3 nba players,,,if it was the case then fiba would add a prerequisite in the criteria saying..."higher number of nba players in the team"

4- DR had the chance to qualify and they blew it...whereas lebanon was about to beat china in semifinal of fiba asia and reach the final for the fourth time in a row and th world cup for the 3rd time in a rowif it werent to that stupid referee......watch the game on youtube and see what happened
 
Lebanon has been more in the World Basketball sportlight that the DR in this decade. So Lebanon should get the WC
 
RD played in the high level in FIBA Americas.

They lost to Argentina in OT, they made a bigtime game against PR, they made Brazil work hard and they only was defeat to Canadá because they lost their best player (Francisco Garcia) in the last game.
 
the statement about DR getting NBA players is not good for them ...FIBA are looking for countries with great history of basketball and fans which are passionate about basketball and who are all willing to go c the games in Turkey which is so close to Leb. i have been in turkey and would go again to watch Lebanons games next year if they get invited . Lebanon have a good history being in WBC 2002,2006 and pre olympics 2008 which is more than i can say for DR who just got 3 NBA players and as a result placed 5th in the americas and u can say 6th since USA did not participate this year ....Having a history of basketball is very important and repectable , it is why Serbia was picked as a wildcard in 2006 even though Russia placed higher than them in the Euro2007 ....Jazeera Sport also is a very strong qatari sports channel ...it is broadcasted throughout the world and my friend watched Lebanon in 2006 from the states so u know all arabs would be watching Lebanon throughout the whole world....All this criteria fits lebanon more than counties like venezuala,DR and Nigeria ...I expect 2 or 3 euro teams to be picked in addition to leb ....anything else such as leb not being picked as the 3rd/4th team or fiba giving the wildcards to all 4 euro teams and as a result having 11 europeans team in the WBC2010 would definitely be a shock ...
 
Is funny how much hate we get from our Puerto Rican neighbors like (Cardenales here). Now while I agree that Lebanon deserves a spot as well, and I hope DR and Lenanon get one...here is the reason why I think DR deserves it.

Like the person from BRazil said, we played in far more competitive tournament, and anyone else can comment on this point but I think the only dissapointment was that lost to Canada. We were beating Brazil until the last quarter when we lost Villanueva and Horfrd to fouls...it would have made it closer but Brazil earned the win. Against Argentina I was very upset... they beat us by 2 in over time where Scola played with 4 fouls for like two quarters and that man got all the call from the refs against DR and PR. Agaisnt PR we lost but it was a great game so none of the top teams can say they just run over DR. With that being said we have 3 NBA players, the team now knows each other more and our weakness can be fixed by getting Edgar Sosa to be our point guard.

Also Garcia did criticize some of the organizers of the DR team but he never said he wouldn't play he said that the Kings might tell him not to but I doubt he would stay out of Fiba works with DR to make sure that they get a wild card.

Al Horford and Charlie Villanueva both said they would play again in the World Championship.

Lastly we might not have the same history as Lebanon but we basketball is very popular in DR and we love it...the thing is that baseball is bigger than life in DR and it would overshadow any other sport. This Dominican team would be a huge attraction to Fiba and why in the world would you guys want to invite a Lebanon team that has no chance of beating this DR team and nonetheless be able to win a single game at the World Championship. Is that expanding basketball? Bringing a country that will only be humiliated agaisnt all the other team is not fun and I mean no disrespect but this Lebanon team is not ready for the tournament. Thay also had their opportunity and they lost it twice to the main teams so enough with the complaints. They lost to China and Jordan twice so that shows they couldn't compete with the good ones in a weak tournament and nonetheless will they do well in the WC.
 
nojodas47 said:
Is funny how much hate we get from our Puerto Rican neighbors like (Cardenales here). Now while I agree that Lebanon deserves a spot as well, and I hope DR and Lenanon get one...here is the reason why I think DR deserves it.

Like the person from BRazil said, we played in far more competitive tournament, and anyone else can comment on this point but I think the only dissapointment was that lost to Canada. We were beating Brazil until the last quarter when we lost Villanueva and Horfrd to fouls...it would have made it closer but Brazil earned the win. Against Argentina I was very upset... they beat us by 2 in over time where Scola played with 4 fouls for like two quarters and that man got all the call from the refs against DR and PR. Agaisnt PR we lost but it was a great game so none of the top teams can say they just run over DR. With that being said we have 3 NBA players, the team now knows each other more and our weakness can be fixed by getting Edgar Sosa to be our point guard.

Also Garcia did criticize some of the organizers of the DR team but he never said he wouldn't play he said that the Kings might tell him not to but I doubt he would stay out of Fiba works with DR to make sure that they get a wild card.

Al Horford and Charlie Villanueva both said they would play again in the World Championship.

Lastly we might not have the same history as Lebanon but we basketball is very popular in DR and we love it...the thing is that baseball is bigger than life in DR and it would overshadow any other sport. This Dominican team would be a huge attraction to Fiba and why in the world would you guys want to invite a Lebanon team that has no chance of beating this DR team and nonetheless be able to win a single game at the World Championship. Is that expanding basketball? Bringing a country that will only be humiliated agaisnt all the other team is not fun and I mean no disrespect but this Lebanon team is not ready for the tournament. Thay also had their opportunity and they lost it twice to the main teams so enough with the complaints. They lost to China and Jordan twice so that shows they couldn't compete with the good ones in a weak tournament and nonetheless will they do well in the WC.
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ok man december 13 will decide....we beat before teams such as france and venezuela which was 3rd in fiba america...please can u give me what villaneva horvord and garcia average in points in the nba?....bcz china has many nba players and we always play close with them
 
rtk04 said:
ok man december 13 will decide....we beat before teams such as france and venezuela which was 3rd in fiba america...please can u give me what villaneva horvord and garcia average in points in the nba?....bcz china has many nba players and we always play close with them
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LOL do you even know what "MANY" means :D:D
 
Come one...move on about the victory over the France (who was never a consistent team, BTW). It was wonderful, but you couldnt play that card for ever.

It was not like Lebanon is a former world champion or something like it. A year ago.

If you want to play always "last results" cards, just look it:

http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/f..._Qualifying_Tournament_for_Men/statistic.html

Honestly, I really doubt that Lebanon would beat Rep. Dominican right now. But that is just my opinion.
 
planaria said:
Come one...move on about the victory over the France (who was never a consistent team, BTW). It was wonderful, but you couldnt play that card for ever.

It was not like Lebanon is a former world champion or something like it. A year ago.

If you want to play always "last results" cards, just look it:

http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/f..._Qualifying_Tournament_for_Men/statistic.html

Honestly, I really doubt that Lebanon would beat Rep. Dominican right now. But that is just my opinion.
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smart guy from brazil...that pre olympic tournament was not our goal...we had many injuries and we played only to be there :)
 
Another points is that due the weak level of Asia Tournament, Lebanon ALWAYS has a shot of be between the 3 first places, even if they dont have their best generation of basketball players.

The same doesnt happen in Americas. Just look to Uruguay. They have maybe their best basketball generation ever with players like Esteban Batista, Garcia Morales, Osimani. A team that would always fight for a medal in Asis...and the max that they reach is the 6th or 7th place in Americas.

The same happen with the Rep. Dominican. They had the great Jose Vargas (at least at same level of a player like Hamed Haddadi) and never could reach nothing.
 
rtk04 said:
smart guy from brazil...that pre olympic tournament was not our goal...we had many injuries and we played only to be there :)
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Maybe. But just look for our roster, too. We were missing Leandro Barbosa and Anderson Varejão, when it compared with the team who had a hard time against Rep. Dominicana...

;)
 
planaria said:
Another points is that due the weak level of Asia Tournament, Lebanon ALWAYS has a shot of be between the 3 first places, even if they dont have their best generation of basketball players.

The same doesnt happen in Americas. Just look to Uruguay. They have maybe their best basketball generation ever with players like Esteban Batista, Garcia Morales, Osimani. A team that would always fight for a medal in Asis...and the max that they reach is the 6th or 7th place in Americas.

The same happen with the Rep. Dominican. They had the great Jose Vargas (at least at same level of a player like Hamed Haddadi) and never could reach nothing.
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ok man can brazil-uruguay or other team except "usa-argentina" qualify from europe????????
i hope you got my point...what i mean to say is that every team is in the place it is already in...
 
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