Naismith was both. Born in Canada and became a naturalized American citizen.
Naismith was both. Born in Canada and became a naturalized American citizen.
I don't think that it had been mentioned earlier, but the quarterfinals results mean that Spain and France clinched the last two automatic Olympics berths. That means that the consolation brackets games will all be completely meaningless.
I am disappointed mostly because there was a possibility that the United States with a win in this event and a win on the women's side in a few weeks at the Americas level would have been the current holder of every available FIBA title.
USA trying to crawl back into the game right now after an absolutely embarrassing 1st quarter in which Serbia pummeled us 32-7.
This is not just about the roster, which has become an absurd take. I hope America realizes Coach K's greatness in FIBA.
We keep losing Bogdanovicj...he’s got 7 threes. We are down 3 with 3 to go in 3rd. Mason getting run.
Mason getting some burn, playing fairly well with lots of energy. Leads Team USA in rebounding right now with 4 in just 8 minutes of playing time. Serbia is hitting their 3s in a big way, over 50%, and they lead by 5 with about a minute left in the third.
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If we can hold them under 20 this Q, we win.
We need to hit some of these wide open 3s...Middleton and Harris both missed clean balanced looks.
Whoa... Harrison Barnes just absolutely took out a Serbian player on a pick by lowering his shoulder and leaning into the guy. I'm sorta surprised no one went after Barnes for it, but I guess Serbian players are polite.
Meanwhile, Boban owns Lopez. Just scored in the post on back to back possessions and Serbia leads by 7 with 8 minutes left. Lopez has a plus-minus -17... which is not good.
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We can’t score right now...we did a good job in Q3 taking it to the hole and drawing fouls, especially Barnes, but we stopped.
Serbia by 10 with 2 minutes left. They just space the floor and find the open man a ton better than we do. In fairness to the Black Falcon, Barnes has been the most aggressive player on offense for team USA this game and is probably playing the smartest of anyone at this point. Not that it really matters when the other team is carving you up the way Serbia is.
Some folks tried to write off the France loss and compare it to K losing in his first World Cup but it appears Pop is on his way to 3 losses in about a month with NBA players. He clearly did not do a good job of melding this collection of good (but not great) NBA players into a competitive team. I mean, they basically lost or should have lost (Turkey) to most of the good international teams they played.
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For a team trying to hang it’s hat on defense, ours just wasn’t good enough these past two games. Giving up 32 in Q1 didn’t help, but they have scored 20 in every other quarter. Not good enough for a team that isn’t an offensive machine.
Serbia wins 94-89. US can finish no higher than 7th.
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Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
Cue all the discussion of "has the game passed us by" versus "has the rest of the world caught up."
K did a fantastic job of "recruiting" and buy in. Not easily replicated.
Let's go Duke!
Almost 5 years to the day, this Woj on K hack job, a veritable polish civil war, seems even more absurd then the day he wrote it
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