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August 12th 2016

Men's Basketball:

Group A games:

All times Central Standard Time (-6 UTC)

Australia vs. China - 12:15 PM

United States vs. Serbia - 5:00 PM

France vs. Venezuela - 8:30 PM


Women's Basketball:

Group B games:

China vs. Serbia - 10:15 AM

United States vs. Canada - 1:30 PM

Spain vs. Senegal - 3:45 PM

I'm going with:

Australia
United States
France

and again, I don't follow the women's game closely enough to make a prediction. But I will predict that the USA will beat Canada just because.

Will we finally see a good team shooting performance? Klay really needs to find his stroke. Get him rolling off of more screens to draw attention, instead of just camping on that baseline out of rhythm.

This is an easy round to predict. France, Australia and USA will win today.

bb22 wrote:Will we finally see a good team shooting performance? Klay really needs to find his stroke. Get him rolling off of more screens to draw attention, instead of just camping on that baseline out of rhythm.

I'm hoping that the Australia game was enough of a wake-up call for these guys to stop treating these Games like an All-Star Game.

Looking forward to seeing what the Serbs have to offer tonight.

Serbia will most likely get blown tf out, didn't they lose by like 40 in 2014 fiba? Australia is a different beast they had three NBA starters.

Zombiesonics wrote:Serbia will most likely get blown tf out, didn't they lose by like 40 in 2014 fiba? Australia is a different beast they had three NBA starters.

Oh, I'm expecting a big win as well; but I still want to see what some of the Serbian players look like up against NBA competition. I'm a fan of the Central/Eastern/Southern European players in general.

Mr. E wrote:

Zombiesonics wrote:Serbia will most likely get blown tf out, didn't they lose by like 40 in 2014 fiba? Australia is a different beast they had three NBA starters.

Oh, I'm expecting a big win as well; but I still want to see what some of the Serbian players look like up against NBA competition. I'm a fan of the Central/Eastern/Southern European players in general.

I really want to see a good tight half, it's friday it's been a long week We all could use an Australia esque effort from the Serbs.

Zombiesonics wrote:

Mr. E wrote:

Zombiesonics wrote:Serbia will most likely get blown tf out, didn't they lose by like 40 in 2014 fiba? Australia is a different beast they had three NBA starters.

Oh, I'm expecting a big win as well; but I still want to see what some of the Serbian players look like up against NBA competition. I'm a fan of the Central/Eastern/Southern European players in general.

I really want to see a good tight half, it's friday it's been a long week We all could use an Australia esque effort from the Serbs.

Tbh I would like to see team USA come in focused and dominant early. They need to bounce back after that uneasy game against the boomers. I'm not sure if anyone watched Australia vs Serbia but it was a pretty tight game until the end, when the boomers made a big run in the final minutes.

The 2014 WC finals was a little different. Shot 15/30 from three. The Serbs just ran into team USA playing at it's best. This is basically the same Serbian team that competed 2 years ago (minus Bjelica), so there won't be that star-struck factor this time around. They saw how physical Australia played, so I am guessing they will try to do the same. Hopefully Boogie and DeAndre don't get into foul trouble, and KD and Klay find their stroke.

bb22 wrote:

Zombiesonics wrote:

Mr. E wrote:
Oh, I'm expecting a big win as well; but I still want to see what some of the Serbian players look like up against NBA competition. I'm a fan of the Central/Eastern/Southern European players in general.

I really want to see a good tight half, it's friday it's been a long week We all could use an Australia esque effort from the Serbs.

Tbh I would like to see team USA come in focused and dominant early. They need to bounce back after that uneasy game against the boomers. I'm not sure if anyone watched Australia vs Serbia but it was a pretty tight game until the end, when the boomers made a big run in the final minutes.

The 2014 WC finals was a little different. Shot 15/30 from three. The Serbs just ran into team USA playing at it's best. This is basically the same Serbian team that competed 2 years ago (minus Bjelica), so there won't be that star-struck factor this time around. They saw how physical Australia played, so I am guessing they will try to do the same. Hopefully Boogie and DeAndre don't get into foul trouble, and KD and Klay find their stroke.

+ Jokic

You guys forget how huge Bjelica is for this Serbian team. He's the most important player for Serbia along Teodosic. On top of that, Teodosic is playing under injury and you get why Serbia is not at it's best.

I never knew Dellavedova was such a good passer.

UcanUwill wrote:I never knew Dellavedova was such a good passer.

Delly was a floor general in college, but was misplayed by Mike Brown in Cleveland, finally moving to backup point under Blatt. Delly seems to revel in a structured offense, something Blatt tried to implement at the Cavs but was vetoed by more powerful members of the team, so we haven't really been able to see the way he can manage a structured offense in the NBA. Having said that, his superb passing during these Olympics seems to be another example of an aspect of his game that he has worked on and substantially improved upon over the years. A quiet 8 assists in 20 minutes against China.

UcanUwill wrote:I never knew Dellavedova was such a good passer.

He has had 42 assists and only 5 turnovers in the 4 games. It''s the one thing that makes him really good.
Outside the US game it is 32 assists and 1 TO which is absurd, especially for the passes he is throwing..

I just now realized that I'm not going to be able to watch the US/Serbia game live. Guess I'll have to catch the replay.

Delly has become pretty damn good. He's so smart and rarely makes a bad decision. 8 assists to 0 turnovers in just 19 minutes today.

Delly and Tristan Thompson had an excellent partnership when on the floor at the same time.

OMG Cousins

Serbs look like they don't understand they need to speed up. They play too slow, like they think it is a normal opponent.

This US team is so unlikeable, Green, Cousins, Jordan, huge guys who bitch about any kind of contact and think all calls should go their way.

Melo is the most likeable damn.