South American Championship 2008

[rikhardur]

http://www.fibaamericas.com/torneos1...p?t=QJGXOQNXNE

Colombia Venezuela Chile Uruguay Argentina Brazil

[Saskibaloia]

VAMO' ARRIBA URUGUAY!!! .... VAMO' ARRIBA CARAJO!!!! ... soy celesteeeeee .... soy celesteeeeeee ... celeste soy yoooooooooooooo ... URUGUAY NADA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'

[PRSURF]

I think the finals would be Uruguay vs Venezuela or Argentina, and the underdog Chile.

[alermac]

I think there will be two points of interest:

1) Will Uruguay or Venezuela be able to win it, over Argentina or Brazil? I think Uruguay is the lead favorite.

2) Will one of the top 4 nations fall out of the top 4 positions? The best four teams of this tournament will qualify for the 2009 Americas Tournament, and this time Chile and Colombia should be ready to put up a better fight for that 4th slot.

[alermac]

A few warmup games in Chile:

ARGENTINA 93-BRASIL 83

Argentina: Maximiliano Stanic 6, Paolo Quinteros 28, Marcos Mata 2, Andrés Pelussi 13, Román González 15 (starters); Diego García 13, Juan Manuel Locatelli 5, Juan Gutiérrez 5, Luis Cequeira 0, Leonardo Mainoldi 6, Nicolás de los Santos 0.
Brasil: Hélio 6, Arthur 15, Guilherme Teichmann 7, Fernando Colonoze 9, Caio Torres 11 (starters); Lucas Cipolini 2, Diego 11, André Stefanelli 9, William Drudi 13, Hatila Passos 0.

ARGENTINA 92-URUGUAY 72

Argentina: Maximiliano Stanic 8, Paolo Quinteros 24, Diego García 15, Andrés Pelussi 1, Román González 12 (starters); Luis Cequeira 7, Juan Gutiérrez 14, Marcos Mata 0, Nicolás de los Santos 8, Leonardo Mainoldi 3, Sebastián Vega 0.
Uruguay: Gustavo Barrera 8, Nicolás Mazzarino 4, Mauricio Aguiar 12, Sebastián Izaguirre 5, Esteban Batista 19 (starters); Diego Castrillón 2, Leandro García Morales 8, Claudio Charquero 5, Juan Pablo Silveira 7, Sebastián Vázquez 2.

ARGENTINA 79-CHILE 40

Argentina: Maximiliano Stanic 3, Paolo Quinteros 21, Diego García 7, Andrés Pelussi 2, Román González 6 (starters); Juan Gutiérrez 10, Luis Cequeira 9, Nicolás de los Santos 6, Leonardo Mainoldi 10, Juan Manuel Locatelli 3, Sebastián Vega 0, Marcos Mata 2.

Chile: Lionel Méndez 0, Evandro Arteaga 6, Lino Sáez 2, Claus Prutzmann 1, Jorge Valencia 0 (starters); Marcelo Hernández 2, Erik Carrasco 6, José Luis Campos 4, Emilio Paris 3, Michael Elliott 5, Pablo Coro 6, Patricio Briones 5.

Brazil 78 - Uruguay 65
Brazil 82 - Chile 68
Uruguay 91 - Chile 74

[mvblair]

ARGENTINA 79-CHILE 40

Chile: Lionel Méndez 0, Evandro Arteaga 6, Lino Sáez 2, Claus Prutzmann 1, Jorge Valencia 0 (starters); Marcelo Hernández 2, Erik Carrasco 6, José Luis Campos 4, Emilio Paris 3, Michael Elliott 5, Pablo Coro 6, Patricio Briones 5.

Ouch. Alermac, I know you're an Argentine to the bone, but I'm sure that even you want Chile to perform better.

[alermac]

Ouch. Alermac, I know you're an Argentine to the bone, but I'm sure that even you want Chile to perform better.

Sure... it would be nice to see Chile or Colombia beat one the main four nations, for a change. It's kind of boring.

[rikhardur]

Day 1 results (no surprises ):

Brazil 83 Colombia 75
Argentina 79 Venezuela 77
Chile 66 Uruguay 81

[alermac]

No surpises indeed, except for the tiny margin in the Brazil-Colombia game, especially considering than Colombia is missing some of its best players (SG Stalin Ortiz, SF Juen Diego Tello Palacios and PF Stuart Baldonado)

[rikhardur]

Day 2 results (looks like Brazil can lose a game ahead):

Argentina 104 Colombia 75
Brazil 70 Chile 69
Venezuela 70 Uruguay 88

[alermac]

Brazil is really looking bad. Good for them they already won the two games it takes to qualify for 2009 Americas.

[Saskibaloia]

Uruguay's result.

I'm definitely pleased to see my beloved URUGUAY winning its first two games but as usual I don't expect them to win against Argentina ... well they might prove me wrong, hence that would be a better result ... VAMO' URUGUAY!!! .... sooooy celesteeeeee ... sooooooy celesteeeee ... celesteeeee soy yoooooo!!!! ... VAMO' ARRIBA CARAJO!!!!

[alermac]

Uruguay beat Colombia 88-78 Stats

Argentina crushed Brazil 102-68, proving that this is the worst Brazilian squad ever. Stats

Venezuela 94 - Chile 76 Stats

[SMKR]

thanks for posting the updated/final scores daily.

Is there any website or place online to watch these games live to get real time live score updates?

[J-Mart]

big 2nd quarter for Argentina