Draw for the Rio 2016 Olympic Tournament [Mies, Switzerland, Mar 11]

[Kings]

Draw

Group A: FRA USA VEN SRB CHN AUS
Group B: ARG ESP BRA LTU CRO NRG


World Team

C: Pau Gasol of Spain 20.0ppg 5.9rpg 1.4apg 2.3bpg
PF: Kenneth Faried of USA 12.2ppg 7.7rpg
SF: Nicolas Batum of France 14.6ppg 3.1rpg 1.3apg 1.3spg
SG: Kyrie Irving of USA 12.1ppg 2.6rpg 3.6apg 1.9spg
PG: Milos Teodosic of Serbia 13.6ppg 2.1rpg 4.4apg


Africa Team

C: Gorgui Dieng of Senegal 22.9ppg 14.9rpg 3.7apg 1.4spg 1.3bpg
PF: Makram Ben Romdhane of Tunisia 14.0ppg 7.3rpg 2.1apg 1.3bpg
SF: Al-Farouq Aminu of Nigeria 12.0ppg 5.4rpg 2.3apg 1.3spg
SG: Chamberlain Oguchi of Nigeria 16.6ppg 3.3rpg 1.1apg
PG: Carlos Morais of Angola 14.6ppg 3.4rpg 2.3apg


Americas Team

C: Gustavo Ayon of Mexico 17.7ppg 12.4rpg 3.5apg 1.3spg 1.2bpg
PF: Luis Scola of Argentina 21.1ppg 10.1rpg 2.7apg 1.0spg
SF: Andres Nocioni of Argentina 16.7ppg 9.0rpg 1.1apg 1.0spg
SG: Andrew Wiggins of Canada 15.1ppg 4.4rpg 2.3apg
PG: Heissler Guillent of Venezuela 8.1ppg 1.6rpg 3.3apg


Asia Team

C: Zhou Qi of China 9.9ppg 6.0rpg 2.0bpg
PF: Yi Jianlian of China 16.7ppg 8.8rpg 1.4apg 1.2bpg
SF: Samad Nikkhah Bahrami of Iran 13.8ppg 4.0rpg 1.6apg 1.3spg
SG: Guo Ailun of China 10.9ppg 3.2rpg 4.0apg 1.3spg
PG: Jayson William of Philippines 16.7ppg 3.2rpg 2.6apg 1.0spg


Europe Team

C: Pau Gasol of Spain 25.6ppg 8.8rpg 2.9apg 2.3bpg
PF: Jonas Valanciunas of Lithuania 16.0ppg 8.4rpg 1.4bpg
SF: Jonas Maciulis of Lithuania 13.8ppg 6.3rpg 1.8ast 1.9spg
SG: Nando de Colo of France 13.1ppg 5.2rpg 3.7apg 1.1spg
PG: Sergio Rodriguez of Spain 9.9ppg 2.3rpg 4.3apg

[Raze Lupin]

What is this?

[Kings]

What is this?

Draw for the Rio 2016 Olympic Basketball Tournament

[Mindozas]

Pots announced http://www.fiba.com/olympics/2016/ne...-draw-ceremony

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Judging by rules of the draw, that there won't be 3 teams from Americas in one group, it's clear that USA and Australia will be in one group, in other Spain and Brazil

[McCalebb2015]

Pots announced http://www.fiba.com/olympics/2016/ne...-draw-ceremony

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Judging by rules of the draw, that there won't be 3 teams from Americas in one group, it's clear that USA and Australia will be in one group, in other Spain and Brazil

China will face with Lithuania.

[Mindozas]

China will face with Lithuania.

I accept that Would like to end up in USA/Australia group, along with some Venezuela too

[Mindozas]

Draw in 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTBKDVGkO6A

[Mindozas]

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Group B is sick

[Kings]

Group A

Qualifier 1
USA
Venezuela
Qualifier 2
China
Australia

Group B

Argentina
Spain
Brazil
Lithuania
Qualifier 3
Nigeria

[Italian Pride]

Group A

Qualifier 1
USA
Venezuela
Qualifier 2
China
Australia

Group B

Argentina
Spain
Brazil
Lithuania
Qualifier 3
Nigeria

Qualifier 1,2 and 3 will be draw after preolympics tournament?

[guilherme.rcf]

Crazy. Worse than the WC draw. If Brazil gets lucky enough to goes through the group, we have at least a 50/50 chance of facing the USA in the quarters. We are not finishing 1st or 2nd.

[Mindozas]

Qualifier 1,2 and 3 will be draw after preolympics tournament?

Most likely, cause there's no Qualifying Group 1 or 2 or 3 now. In 2012 it was additional draw too, tho OQT system was different

Crazy. Worse than the WC draw. If Brazil gets lucky enough to goes through the group, we have at least a 50/50 chance of facing the USA in the quarters. We are not finishing 1st or 2nd.

Are there any news yet about Brazilian NBA players commited to play for NT? I know only that Splitter is out injured, what about others?

[Miškinis]

Group B is sick

This is an Olympic tournament. All of the teams look strong. Group B is quite normal. If Serbia and France will land in Group A then the two groups will look quite equally strong. I would even give some edge to the group A. Serbia, France, Australia and of course USA definitely look stronger than Argentina and Nigeria. Brazil so far is a mystery for me. They might be strong. The last qualifier is in question as well.

[Shawshank]

This is an Olympic tournament. All of the teams look strong. Group B is quite normal. If Serbia and France will land in Group A then the two groups will look quite equally strong. I would even give some edge to the group A. Serbia, France, Australia and of course USA definitely look stronger than Argentina and Nigeria. Brazil so far is a mystery for me. They might be strong. The last qualifier is in question as well.

What will happen If France lands in group B ? Death group?

[Mindozas]

This is an Olympic tournament. All of the teams look strong. Group B is quite normal. If Serbia and France will land in Group A then the two groups will look quite equally strong. I would even give some edge to the group A. Serbia, France, Australia and of course USA definitely look stronger than Argentina and Nigeria. Brazil so far is a mystery for me. They might be strong. The last qualifier is in question as well.

Yes, it's Olympics, you can't expect a walkover. But let's say for Lithuania group A would've been way more better. There'd only one qualifier and secondly, we wouldn't have to play USA in 1/4. Also there'd be a good shot to finish 2nd. In group B we are even risking not to make it to play-offs, let alone facing USA already in 1/4. It'll be extremely hard to reach 3rd place.
Overall speaking, group B is much more equal. Nigeria might look as an outsider, but they'll make every team to work for a win, especially if they'll bring best players. I wouldn't even exclude a possibility of them making a play-offs. Group A is much more predictable. That's the difference here