Basketball - Day 4 Game Thread Aug. 9th

Post #1 » by **Mr. E** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 4:20 pm

August 9th 2016

Men's Basketball:

Group B games:

All times Central Standard Time (-6 UTC)

Spain vs. Brazil - 12:15 PM

Lithuania vs. Nigeria - 5:00 PM

Argentina vs. Croatia - 8:30 PM

Women's Basketball:

Group A games:

Australia vs. France - 10:30 AM

Brazil vs. Belarus - 1:30 PM

Vonneguts · Post #2 » by **Vonneguts** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 5:36 pm

1Q Spain playing awful and Brazil doing his thing.

The corpse of Gasol alone will give Spain some options in offense but that won't be enough at all.

DNP - Old · Post #3 » by **DNP - Old** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 6:54 pm

Ay mamita querida Llull.

bb22 · Post #4 » by **bb22** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 7:11 pm

awesome finish!

MoMM · Post #5 » by **MoMM** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 7:14 pm

Man, what a victory! Go Brazil!!!

K_chile22 · Post #6 » by **K_chile22** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 7:17 pm

Happy for Brazil, really hoping they make the tourney in their own country. Spain is in trouble now though.

Also, has Nene always been this jacked? His arms are HUGE

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ShowYaLuv25 · Post #7 » by **ShowYaLuv25** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 7:34 pm

Ricky Rubio is a terrible basketball player

Post #8 » by **Mr. E** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 8:02 pm

K_chile22 wrote:Happy for Brazil, really hoping they make the tourney in their own country. Spain is in trouble now though.

Also, has Nene always been this jacked? His arms are HUGE

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Good to hear that he's in great shape!

Post #9 » by **Mr. E** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 10:07 pm

Finally getting to watch my first basketball game of the Olympics!

Close game right now, but I expect Lithuania to pull away from Nigeria.

Post #10 » by **Mr. E** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 10:41 pm

I am really impressed by Nigeria in this first half!

zonedefense · Post #11 » by **zonedefense** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 11:22 pm

ShowYaLuv25 wrote:Ricky Rubio is a terrible basketball player

Or Marcelo Huertas will be MVP next season!!!
Seriously Rubio was humilated today. A guard without a 3 is horrible in FIBA basketball.

90sgoat · Post #12 » by **90sgoat** » Tue Aug 9, 2016 11:31 pm

ShowYaLuv25 wrote:Ricky Rubio is a terrible basketball player

And yet a starter on an NBA team.

Just goes to show just how different a game rules make. A lot of NBA players look much worse under FIBA rules.

mcmurphy · Post #13 » by **mcmurphy** » Wed Aug 10, 2016 11:40 am

Great game Argentina vs. Croatia.

Impressive Saric with 19 pts (7/12 from 2P and 0/4 from 3P), 10 reb and 7 ast.

Still 35 minutes out of 40 played (34,5 mpg, high minutes from all basketball olympic players at 22 years old).
Imho the low efficiency is caused only by fatigue (main defender and rebounder of Croatia against nba level players (Spain/Argentina)).

If Saric will play 25-30mpg out of 48mins in NBA will be ROY, mark it.