2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament

[ja.he]

US will be the clear favorites here. However, the challenge will come from Canada and France.

[Silent Killer]

US will be the clear favorites here. However, the challenge will come from Canada and France.

And serbians..

[magic_chiongson]

US will be the clear favorites here. However, the challenge will come from Canada and France.

france was salivating at the thought of having a frontline of gobert, wemby, & embiid in paris when embiid got his french citizenship in 2022, but team usa got first dibs on embiid even though he got his american citizenship a few months later

[Sikatrix]

USA should win but single elimination tournaments are just ripe for upsets.

[IPC]

france was salivating at the thought of having a frontline of gobert, wemby, & embiid in paris when embiid got his french citizenship in 2022, but team usa got first dibs on embiid even though he got his american citizenship a few months later

Had France gotten Embiid, that would have given USA problems in the frontline.

[ja.he]

france was salivating at the thought of having a frontline of gobert, wemby, & embiid in paris when embiid got his french citizenship in 2022, but team usa got first dibs on embiid even though he got his american citizenship a few months later

France has a frontline duo in Wemby and Gobert. They will also have Batum, Fournier, Yabusele, Luwawu-Cabarot and Frank Ntilikina. Draft prospects like Alex Sarr, Risacher, Salaun, Dadiet and Ajinca will also be in consideration. In addition, there are 18 other active French players that currently in the NBA or has played in the NBA. In terms of depth, France can go all-in this year.

Canada also has a bunch of NBA players. Many of them are either starters or within their team's rotation, some of them are even stars for their teams. Like France, Canada can also go all-in here.

[greenarcher]

Canada will be a beast if Jamal Murray finally joins the team.

[TheRodster21]

Canada will be a beast if Jamal Murray finally joins the team.

Strong backcourt with shai and Murray, nice wing rotation as well with wiggins(if available), brooks and NAW. Weakness is bigman rotation and I don’t know if Edey would be helpful even if he dominated college

[lurklurk]

Strong backcourt with shai and Murray, nice wing rotation as well with wiggins(if available), brooks and NAW. Weakness is bigman rotation and I don’t know if Edey would be helpful even if he dominated college

Accurate summary of the canadian men's basketball team. Would also like to mention Dort and Barrett to add in the wing rotation. Bigs with Olynyck, Powell and Edey as mentioned are weak compared to the heavy weights like USA and France. Jordi did a good job as well with the team last world cup.

[Ville Ur]

And serbians..

Spain, Germany, and even Latvia are not pushovers either. Those Latvians are playing good team basketball!!!

[ja.he]

Accurate summary of the canadian men's basketball team. Would also like to mention Dort and Barrett to add in the wing rotation. Bigs with Olynyck, Powell and Edey as mentioned are weak compared to the heavy weights like USA and France. Jordi did a good job as well with the team last world cup.

They are missing guys like Tristan Thompson, Joel Anthony and Sam Dalembert.

Guys like Trey Lyles, Brandon Clarke and Chris Boucher should be considered.

[greenarcher]

Strong backcourt with shai and Murray, nice wing rotation as well with wiggins(if available), brooks and NAW. Weakness is bigman rotation and I don’t know if Edey would be helpful even if he dominated college

Edey was useless in the World Cup.

They are missing guys like Tristan Thompson, Joel Anthony and Sam Dalembert.

Guys like Trey Lyles, Brandon Clarke and Chris Boucher should be considered.

Yeah they will be stronger if these big men join their team. Olynyk turns to Dirk in FIBA tournaments.

[TheRodster21]

Accurate summary of the canadian men's basketball team. Would also like to mention Dort and Barrett to add in the wing rotation. Bigs with Olynyck, Powell and Edey as mentioned are weak compared to the heavy weights like USA and France. Jordi did a good job as well with the team last world cup.

I forgot Dort and Barrett but the perimeter defense on this team can definitely suffocate most teams.

[ja.he]

Bigs

Boucher
Clarke
Lyles

Wings

Wiggins
Dort
Brooks
Barrett
Alexander-Walker
Brissett

Guards

SGA
Sharpe
Murray

Can Canada beat USA with this line-up?

[paolylo]

In a FIBA-type game with less space, I'd take an Edey mismatch against Holiday, Curry, Haliburton... basically who ever is guarding Murray and whoever helps (malamang Kawhai) leaves someone like Powell, Lyles, or even Olynyk at the 4 open. Not saying Edey has to go one on one in the post vs Adebayo or Embiid, but we had an entire tournament last year where even guys like JMF are not doing high post dribble handoffs and just attacking the paint with success.

It's just the smaller court that forces the Euro teams to move without the ball quicker and making closeouts easier that gives bigs a license to post-up... lalo na when teams don't switch.

It was just crazy to see in MoA it was always Josh Hart that ends up guarding the big on the switch thinking that positionless play would work with Bridges and Portis instead of LeBron and KD lol.