2016 Olympic Power Rankings

[G&B]

What the...
I can deal with the fact that you somehow rate your national team higher than Serbia, France, Spain and other european powerhouses.But it's insanely unrealistic to place your team or actually ANY team at the same tier with the States. For them its more of a mickey mouse cup. We already know they are gonna win the gold without even knowing the players that are gonna be there.We euro peasants need to bow down and accept their dominance

Usagre's power ranking so far is the most accurate

I did not say that Lithuania is stronger than the United States, Spain and France, but that Lithuania is a member of the group, which is actually fighting for medals, allow me to say the equipment which is better than the previous tournament who won medals. Even if we do not D.Motiejuno we actually claiming medals. Finally there is the story of the FIBA rankings and so on .To you do not know some of the players it's your problem, because it does not prevent them to play in NBA or ACB league.

[Modis]

1. United States
2. Serbia
3. Spain
4. France
5. Brazil
6. Australia
7. Argentina
8. Croatia
9. Lithuania
10.Venezuela
11.Nigeria
12.China

Again you standing out of everyone...9th ??? You're doing the same mistake as last year ranking Lithuania as low as possible until it actually starts to get retarded even for you.

[wilhelm]

Tier 1. United States, Lithuania, Spain, France,

What the...
I can deal with the fact that you somehow rate your national team higher than Serbia, France, Spain and other european powerhouses.But it's insanely unrealistic to place your team or actually ANY team at the same tier with the States. For them its more of a mickey mouse cup. We already know they are gonna win the gold without even knowing the players that are gonna be there.We euro peasants need to bow down and accept their dominance

Usagre's power ranking so far is the most accurate

[Dacho88Nk]

1. United States
2. Serbia
3. Spain
4. France
5. Brazil
6. Australia
7. Argentina
8. Croatia
9. Lithuania
10.Venezuela
11.Nigeria
12.China

[Hepcat]

My rankings at this moment:

1. United States

2. Spain
3. Serbia
4. France
5. Lithuania

6. Australia
7. Argentina
8. Croatia
9. Venezuela
10. Brazil
11. Nigeria
12. China

The United States is my odds-on favourite for the Gold while Spain, Serbia, France and Lithuania will contend for the other two medals.

[Picek]

We still need to see their final list too.

guards: Ukić, Stipčević, Bogdanović, Hezonja, Krušlin, Simon, Babić
bigs: Šakić, Arapović, Planinić, Bilan, Šarić

that is our final list.
it will be changed only if injury occurs.

[Straight forward]

I recall that the EC 2013 silver medal winning pay entirely lost PG, and now is a much better situation in all positions.

The guy is either too young or too uneducated I have no idea what he's talking about and obviously he doesn't what so ever Should be ignored.

[unnamed]

just wondering if you have ever seen a match in the last days (including the two against France)

I saw all the matches in the Arena except the match against Greece. I also saw France vs Canada game, and few more

[Mozart]

just wondering if you have ever seen a match in the last days (including the two against France)

[unnamed]

My Power Rankings list:

1. USA
2. Spain
3. France
4. Australia
5. Lithuania
6. Serbia
7. Argentina (7th to 9th place are all very equal)
8. Brazil
9. Croatia
10. Nigeria
11. Venezuela
12. China

[G&B]

I personally can see Serbia losing their QF match vs any team from Group B - they are no longer that mentally unshakeable team from the 90's and early 00's, when you would expect to see them in a final of any big tournament. As for my beloved Lithuania, we've been quite steady in the last few tournaments, mainly thanks to our cohesion and team spirit of course, but talent wise we have huge gaping holes in PG and SG positions and in modern basketball there's only so much you can do without world class perimeter player...

I recall that the EC 2013 silver medal winning pay entirely lost PG, and now is a much better situation in all positions.

[G&B]

I have no problem with rankings. Everyone has an opinion. Still some of them you value, others don't. I just tried to tell my Serbian compatriot not to waste energy trying to explain himself to D&G. He has shown quite a lot of hostility towards Serbian posters, teams, players etc. before. This is the reason why. Especially during the Eurobasket 2015 time. That was just pitiful. Of course, still he has the right to his opinion. I can think that the world is flat, still doesn't mean that people should take me seriously because of that Right?

I do not know, how much I will sometimes have to repeat, that I nothing have against Serbia, and even on the contrary I very respect Serbia basketballs school.

Before EC-2015 when I predicted victory Lithuania against Serbia,and when it happened I was guilty of that as so think.

For the grievances that so I thought then and now, is unable to offend you

[madmax]

I personally can see Serbia losing their QF match vs any team from Group B - they are no longer that mentally unshakeable team from the 90's and early 00's, when you would expect to see them in a final of any big tournament. As for my beloved Lithuania, we've been quite steady in the last few tournaments, mainly thanks to our cohesion and team spirit of course, but talent wise we have huge gaping holes in PG and SG positions and in modern basketball there's only so much you can do without world class perimeter player...

[R1ou]

There's no reason to be so touchy about G&B's ranking though. He still has Serbia at 5-8 and while that may be on the low side, it's still a reasonable assessment. None of us Lithuanian posters have taken any exception to ratings of Lithuania as low as #8.

Still 5-8 is a bit of impossible meaning they will lose the first knockout to Argentina/Nigeria/Brazil/Croatia(possible 3rd teams) or even Spain if something goes wrong and then Spaniards decide to finish 3rd in order to avoid US.Lithuania will need to face France/Serbia at the first knockout and to be honest in terms of quality Lithuania is back.



P.S. It will be interesting to see the FIBA-Joke rankings after the tournament.From the little I have checked,Serbia Brazil and France will be only benefited as they missed the Olympics of 2008.Argentina and Lithuania will potentially lose if they don't finish 3/4 respectively.Greece and Russia will lose the most.Turkey in top 7

[CoachZ]

There's no reason to be so touchy about G&B's ranking though. He still has Serbia at 5-8 and while that may be on the low side, it's still a reasonable assessment. None of us Lithuanian posters have taken any exception to ratings of Lithuania as low as #8.

I have no problem with rankings. Everyone has an opinion. Still some of them you value, others don't. I just tried to tell my Serbian compatriot not to waste energy trying to explain himself to D&G. He has shown quite a lot of hostility towards Serbian posters, teams, players etc. before. This is the reason why. Especially during the Eurobasket 2015 time. That was just pitiful. Of course, still he has the right to his opinion. I can think that the world is flat, still doesn't mean that people should take me seriously because of that Right?