FIBA Americas Championship for Men 2009

[luuij_ss]

FIBA Americas Championship for Men

The FIBA Americas Championship is the American (THE CONTINENT NOT THE STATES) basketball championships that take place every two years between national teams of the continents. The Americas Championship is also a qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championships and the Olympic Games. The next tournament in going to be from Aug. 19th 2009 to Aug. 30th 2009

The nations that have qualified so far are:

The US - automatically qualified
Canada -automatically qualified {I KNOW, IT SUCKS}
Puerto Rico- 1th place in Centrobasket
American Vigin - 2th centrobasket
The Dominican Republic -3th centrobasket {I meant Quizqueya not Dominica though}
Cuba {yeah, I did wirte CUBA!!} - 4th centrobasket
Argentina - 1th place South american championship
Uruguay - 2th south ameriacan
Brazil - 3th south american
Venezuela - 4th south american

[luuij_ss]

actually venezuela was 3th and brazil 4th

possible men for dominican roster are:

Ronald Ramon G
Sammy Mejia PG
Trevor Ariza SF
Dominik Mejia G
DAMIEN MCSWINE PG
Edgar Sosa PG
Charlie Villanueva SF
Francisco Garcia SF
Reggie Charles SF
Ricky Soliver G
Marlon Martines F
Ivan Almonte F
Ricky Greer G
Jeff Greer G
Richard Hidalgo PF/c
Edward Santana F
Juan Araujo F
Quincy Bouby G
Pablo OZUNA F
Amauris Filion F
La BOA PAULINO G
RAPHAEL MADERA C
francisco Alberto Ozuna
Andy William Turner Baltazar G
JUAN PABLO MONTAS F
JOSE APOLINARIO PF/C
FELIX CRUZ F
MARLON MARTINEZ F
cALROS PANIAGUA F
Al Horford PF/C
Joshua Asslin C
Luis Flores PG/SG
Jaime Peterson PF
Miguel Angel Pichardo C/F
Jack Michael F
Flankin Westen PF
Luis Felipe Lopez Lopez PG/SF
Amauri Fillion SF
Manny Quezada PG/SG
Joel Ramirez PG
Andres Sandoval PG
Manuel Fortuna SG
Kelvin Pena PG/SG
Carlos Morban G
Franklin Western F
Eulis Baez F
Alejandro Flores F
Henry Lalane SF
Manuel Guzman G
Otto Vantroy PG
Hansel Salvador PG
Alejandro Salas PG

I particularly would choose:
Ronald Ramon G
Sammy Mejia PG/G
Dominik Mejia G
DAMIEN MCSWINE PG
Charlie Villanueva SF
Francisco Garcia SF
Ricky Soliver G
Ricky Greer G/SF
Jeff Greer G/SF
Al Horford PF/C
Joshua Asslin C
Luis Flores PG/SG
Trevor Ariza SF

[luuij_ss]

Puerto Rican Team Toa 2009

Can someone help me with the puerto rican team??????????????????????????

[cardenales]

Puerto rican team

Jose Barea
Carlos Rivera
Javier Mojica
Carlos Arroyo
Filiberto Rivera
Miguel Ali Berdiel
David Huertas
Jesus Verdejo
Joel Jones
Rick Apodaca (Probably not)
Angel Vasallo
Angel Alamo
Alex Galindo
Luis Villafañe
Angel Rosa
Peter John Ramos
Ricky Sanchez
Angelo Reyes
Victor Davila
Angel Luis Garcia
Alejandro Bimbo Carmona
Luis Colon
Dennis Clemente
Guillermo Diaz
Jorge Brian Diaz

Por ahora... [transl: For now...]
ahhh, se me olvidaba Andres Rodriguez. [transl: Oh I was forgetting Andres Rodriguez]
[Always provide a translation when writing in a language other than English rikhardhur]

[luuij_ss]

Agertina Roster For Fiba Americas Championship 2009

what about argentina does they are gonna send a b-level team, or so, cuz I wanna see Manu Playing

[luuij_ss]

American Roster For Fiba Americas Championship

If somebody know what will be the US in th Americas tournamnet can yuo pleazzzzzzzzzzzze post it

[J-Mart]

There is nothing on the USA yet, neither on the Argentina team. We have to see if Virgin Islands Raja Bell want to play this tournament

[Saskibaloia]

Uruguay

The Uruguayans always send an A-grade squad of course which features a couple of players who play in Europe such as former NBA big man Estaban Batista in Israel for Euroleague power house Maccabi Electra Tel-Aviv, sharp shooter Nicolas Mazzarino of Tisettanta Cantu (Italy) or the athletic Mauricio Aguiar of Livorno (Italy). A couple of Uruguayans also have some NCAA experience such as Leandro Garcia Morales who plays as an import in Venezuela (Cocodrilos de Caracas) during the off-season.

The Uruguayans played quite well in the last FIBA Americas coming up short of a spot in the FIBA Olympic Qualification round to Canada. Batista was a monster for the "Celeste" with averages of 20ppg and tournament leading 14rpg and hopes to have another great tournament if Uruguay is to progress.

I believe that to enhance the chances of my adopted country is for the Uruguayan basketball players to make use of their dual citizenship (many Uruguayans have either a Spanish or Italian passport due to the mass immigration that occured in the early part of the 20th century from Europe to the River Plate countries - Argentina & Uruguay) and play overseas in Europe even if they are playing in the lower division. The "Celeste" do have a excellent one-two punch in the interior presence of Batista and the 3 point shooting of Mazzarino however, one or two more players must step up and provide greater support for these two. I noticed that the only time when the Uruguayans were able to win their games during the Pan-American Tournament or the FIBA-Americas was if both Mazzarino and Batista had an excellent game. However, once the oppossing team shut down one, Uruguay would struggle on offense and thus would affect their confidence on the defensive end as well. This reminds me of the Australian team during the 90s. Though they were successful they relied a lot on Andrew Gaze and Shane Heal. Like Uruguay, once one was shut down, the Boomers would immensely struggle on the offensive end.

[Saskibaloia]

Uruguay's future

I forgot to mention about Jason Granger who is a Uruguayan (father's African American and his mother's Uruguayan) that plays in Spain's Estudiantes. He's a 6'4" point guard who plays more like a point forward according to "17 Deportes" (a versatile point who does a little of everything). However, according to "El Pais" of Uruguay his style of play is more leaning towards Michael Jordan's style. In the last FIBA-Americas campaign the 18 year old was included in the national team's training squad however, he was later cut in the 2nd stage of selection. I believe that if Uruguay is to look ahead they should do what many national squads do and add in a youngster (just like Australia's Patty Mills or Spain's Ricky Rubio) to allow exposure to that level of play.

[luuij_ss]

There is nothing on the USA yet, neither on the Argentina team. We have to see if Virgin Islands Raja Bell want to play this tournament

I think that if Raja Bell ever play in an international competition, he would be wearing the re white and blue for the americans like Duncan did

[luuij_ss]

BAd News for the dominican team

The coach of the dominican nt has just quit
I'm gonna post this in spanish cuz I couldn't find it in english nor did I have time to traslate it. SORRY TO MY ANGLOS FRIENDS:

RENUNCIA A SU CARGO EL COACH SCOTT ROTH.

El dirigente del equipo masculino de baloncesto de República Dominicana, Scott Roth declaró que no regresará el próximo año como jefe principal del quinteto que competirá en el Torneo Premundial 2009, alegando que estará de “vacaciones familiares” para esa fecha.

“El contrato entre la Federación Dominicana de Baloncesto (Fedombal) y yo terminó con la conclusión de este campeonato”, dijo Roth muy molesto, luego que el país obtuviera la presea bronceada del evento.

“El objetivo se ha cumplido: clasificar al Premundial 2009”, dijo.
“No estamos contentos con un bronce, pero esa es la medalla que hemos ganado y debemos sentirnos orgullosos”, aclaró. Scott dijo que el baloncesto dominicano ha mejorado un mundo y seguirá mejorando cada día.

[luuij_ss]

Rick Apodaca PUERTO RICAN TEAM

Why the puerto rican never bring Rick Apodaca to internatinal tournaments and when they do, they don't use him, at least not as he is supposed to.

I think Puerto Rico should first give the respect that Rick Apodaca desreves and 2th kiss his aZZZZ
hi is a terrific playA

[cardenales]

USA as I write before somewhere, they are not going to sent a NBA players to the Tournament of America because they are already in thanks to their gold medal in Beijin.

Puerto Rico will also have Alex Falcon in their pre squad for next year tournament.

This is for Luuij-ss, Rick Apodaca is an excellent player with great potential but for some reason, lately he has not been playing as expected.

[J-Mart]

I think that if Raja Bell ever play in an international competition, he would be wearing the re white and blue for the americans like Duncan did

he already wore the white yellow and green of the USVI in the 2003 CentroBasket and if im not mistaken he was on the USVI roster of the ToA 2003 but didnt played

[J-Mart]

So here comes renovation...

Bye to Falcon, Villafa~e, Narvaez, Santiago

Victor Davila, JB Diaz and Piwi Garcia will get a shot at the NT
Vasallo will be on the future editions
No word on Ayuso or Guillermo Diaz

Carlos Arroyo
Jose Juan Barea
Filiberto Rivera
Larry Ayuso
Rick Apodaca
Guillermo Diaz
Javier Mojica
AD Vasallo
"Buster" Figueroa
Joel Jones
Carmelo Antrone Lee
Angelo Reyes
Victor Davila
Jorge Bryan Diaz
Ricky Sanchez
"Piwi" Garcia
Peter John Ramos
Angel Rosa Clemente