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Talking about gifts, who does not remember the Olympic Games Final of 2008. It was the French referee Chantal Julien who officiated during the decisive game between Spain and the USA. And now, in an interview with the French magazine Basketnews, Chantal comes back to this memorable game with the following words: You don’t call the same things on the Americans than you do call on other teams. You have to call the most evident of the evident things. If you whistle a travel every time that Kobe Bryant starts a drive, you will get whistled, you as the referee…During the final, the Spanish team has been penalized on the US travels. With the consequences that we know at the end with the two technical fouls on non-called traveling violations. This was embarrassing…

http://www.ballineurope.com/countries/g ... arettes-2/

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I used to listen to and debate on topics about the Olympics and refereeing, but its been 4 months now, and you're still not over it? I'm sorry, but...

Spain. That is all.

Tim_Hardawayy wrote: Spain. That is all.

USA - USA - USA

Yep, American players travel all the time. What are you going to do about it? Next you're going to try to tell me that Dwayne Wade carries the ball....

USA took the gold home. That's all it counts.

But at least the ones who tried to justify that the USA team was damaged by the refeering should be hiding now... Oh, well...

Yeah Spain.

cry me a **** river

USA would beat Spain 10/10 times. Get over it

Other teams who cheated to victory:
Celtics
Heat
Lakers
Spurs
Bulls

In a 7 game series the Nets would beat the Spanish team in 3 games. Now that's saying something.

USA! USA! USA!

yeah yeah, and the russians got one over on us too. cry me a river.

Olympiakos FTW!!!

Funny how some people still complained today about 2006 Finals and Wade, and then go over this thread with the "gettin over it" tirade.

F*** big leagues, Hypocrisy, the biggest sport in the USA.

thats exactly why spanish players were so happy about silver
no other team could get gold
all i see is wrestling, it doesnt matter if its the nba, the euro leagues, the olympics, it does not matter wich sport it is. It can be gimmnastics, it can be track and field. Its all the same crap with a different mask
its just mindless entertainment
I always say the same thing: the only real sport is the one you practice yourself, the ones on tv are like the other things on tv

Yeah! USA won, who cares now. Not like we still cry about potential ages of other gymnasts cause we lost, oh wait.

Wade2k6 wrote:cry me a **** river

USA would beat Spain 10/10 times. Get over it

Lol, uh huh. Just so you know, the USA team will never be dominant like they used to be in the 90's and before. The Spain team was missing their starting PG too, no respect though, makes sense .


I just do not get referring in basketball though, if it is a foul call a frickin foul. If it is a travel, call it. Who cares who it is, seriously, if anything is going to hold back the game in the world scale is the inconsistency in the refereeing. I don't care about the USA team or the Spanish team, this is pretty sad to read though.

Now to bring up..the thread that said "Boston Celtics wouldn't beat Western Conference All stars".

Now to bring up..the thread that said "Boston Celtics wouldn't beat Western Conference All stars".

Spain wasn't playing their best ball, so it probably wouldn't have mattered anyway as the US were just clicking this tourney.
I'm not surprised, articles like that come out all the time but the great teams know how to get past obstacles.

hsb wrote:
Lol, uh huh. Just so you know, the USA team will never be dominant like they used to be in the 90's and before. The Spain team was missing their starting PG too, no respect though, makes sense .

okay and whats your point? That team was absouletely stacked in '92. I don't think any of the players would take it as a shot against them if people said this years team wouldn't be as good as the Dream Team. I don't expect a team to be as good as the Dream Team.

And honestly this years team was at least comparable to the '96 team IMO.