FIBA World Cup

mjavi · 30-08-2014 2:05pm #1

Well i'm following my national team of course and I must say I am pretty impressed with with their performance (Gilas Pilipinas). They've given Croatia a run for their money and hopefully they'll show up against Greece tomorrow.

I think their pick n roll defense needs some improvement as well since they've been giving jumpshot after jumpshot to the CRO team. Blatche is an addition to the national team, but is kind of a mixed bag; brilliant in the first play, horrible decision making in the next.

What are your thoughts on the other games?

ButtersSuki · 30-08-2014 8:15pm

Anyone know WTF is going on with the Eurosport scheduling of the World Cup? I'm just home from the college football game in Croke Park and thought I'd be watching hoops for the night but neither of the Eurosports on my UPC are showing it according to the guide. Will be seriously pee'd off if it's not on as they're supposed to be showing it.

NufcNavan · 31-08-2014 5:13pm

Is it on any channel this side of the pond?

mjavi · 31-08-2014 6:36pm

Look for the thread 'FIBA WorldCup to watch in Galway' in this subforum (n00b here can't post links / pics). hth.

NufcNavan · 31-08-2014 8:09pm

On the ESPN America schedule but the ESPN here is showing a triathlon.

:rolleyes:

buyer95 · 31-08-2014 8:54pm

Anyone elses stream really choppy on the paid site for this? I have fibre power, and should have no lag, but it's terribly choppy. Awful site.

PizzamanIRL · 31-08-2014 9:17pm

buyer95 wrote: »

Anyone elses stream really choppy on the paid site for this? I have fibre power, and should have no lag, but it's terribly choppy. Awful site.

Not using a paid stream. Gofirstrow's free stream is fine.

ec18 · 01-09-2014 8:58am

buyer95 wrote: »

Anyone elses stream really choppy on the paid site for this? I have fibre power, and should have no lag, but it's terribly choppy. Awful site.

i found the stream for the US game was very choppy last night but the spain game was fine :S

Dariukas · 03-09-2014 6:46pm

Had issues on the 1st of September, nothing since!

Dariukas · 03-09-2014 6:56pm

Going back to Topic i'm impressed with Brazil performance!

France not doing as well as i was thinking they will do...

ec18 · 04-09-2014 8:26am

Anyone else underwhelmed at the US? I wouldn't be surprised if they got knocked out before the final. Spain have to be the new favourites

mjavi · 04-09-2014 10:49am

Brow and Faried have been quite a revelation.. The only bigs that I can imagine that could match them are the Gasols.

ec18 · 04-09-2014 12:31pm

They've been a revelation against bad teams though......I'd put it the other way that brow and faried might be the only bigs to match the gasols

ButtersSuki · 04-09-2014 12:40pm

Davis has looked very good. Hard to believe he's still so young.

buyer95 · 04-09-2014 7:23pm

ec18 wrote: »

Anyone else underwhelmed at the US? I wouldn't be surprised if they got knocked out before the final. Spain have to be the new favourites

Someone tipped Spain from the start;)
http://www.punditarena.com/basketball/comahony/team-usas-final-roster-coach-ks-mistakes/

ButtersSuki · 04-09-2014 7:23pm

buyer95 wrote: »

Someone tipped Spain from the start;)
http://www.punditarena.com/basketball/comahony/team-usas-final-roster-coach-ks-mistakes/

Yeah, like me!

Paully D · 04-09-2014 10:01pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Davis has looked very good. Hard to believe he's still so young.

I can't wait for the inevitable "coming home" to Chicago shite before the Bulls fall short on getting him. :rolleyes:

mjavi · 10-09-2014 10:12am

I am hoping for a SRB vs ESP match in the semis, probably since I cannot get over their 2010 QF match.

ButtersSuki · 10-09-2014 10:18am

Flying out in the morning until Monday. Have tickets for the semis but no final ticket yet, hoping to pick one up around the venue. Missus is going shopping for 5 days (lol).

ec18 · 10-09-2014 10:44am

Anyone have any thoughts on whether its the tournament style and the switching in and out of different line ups that are having an affect on Rose's game or that he's just lost something during the last 2 seasons. Physically he looks as explosive.

ButtersSuki · 10-09-2014 3:36pm

ec18 wrote: »

Anyone have any thoughts on whether its the tournament style and the switching in and out of different line ups that are having an affect on Rose's game or that he's just lost something during the last 2 seasons. Physically he looks as explosive.

FIBA basketball is a different game to the NBA. I've actually been quite impressed with what I've seen of Rose all things considered.

Han534 · 10-09-2014 3:37pm

Great

ButtersSuki · 10-09-2014 3:40pm

Han534 wrote: »

Great

Nice contribution there Han.

padraig_f · 10-09-2014 5:24pm

ec18 wrote: »

Anyone have any thoughts on whether its the tournament style and the switching in and out of different line ups that are having an affect on Rose's game or that he's just lost something during the last 2 seasons. Physically he looks as explosive.

Haven't watched any of the games yet, but in all-star games he was always happy to be more of a faciliator when he had better players around him. Apparently Coach K had a chat with him before the last game to be more assertive. Seems to have had an effect:

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

I'll probably watch the semi and final, hopefully that performance wasn't a one-off.

Dariukas · 10-09-2014 10:44pm

Ah well, Spain is out. That's a surprise! Now USA out and i'm extremely happy!!!

ec18 · 11-09-2014 8:29am

Tonights Semi has the potential to be good. At the last olympics the Lithuania took USA right to the wire.

mjavi · 11-09-2014 9:29am

Dariukas wrote: »

Ah well, Spain is out. That's a surprise! Now USA out and i'm extremely happy!!!

Spain is out?

What happened? Did France played out-of-their-minds basketball? Have to watch the replays...

11-09-2014 11:48am

Dariukas wrote: »

Ah well, Spain is out. That's a surprise! Now USA out and i'm extremely happy!!!

spain where my big hope the us wouldn't win its pretty much a done deal now it would be fantastic for at least one other basketball powerhouse to come through so that they dont win every tournament.

canada could be handy in a few years but spain should peter off a bit. any other countries coming though?

Dariukas · 11-09-2014 12:38pm

Terrence Delicious Ketchup wrote: »

spain where my big hope the us wouldn't win its pretty much a done deal now it would be fantastic for at least one other basketball powerhouse to come through so that they dont win every tournament.

canada could be handy in a few years but spain should peter off a bit. any other countries coming though?

Imho france serbia or lithuania are pretty good powerhouses too... ofc spain was probably the best one but you never know usa might slip...

D2D · 11-09-2014 7:16pm

Seems that BT Sport are showing the conclusion to the World Cup

padraig_f · 11-09-2014 7:52pm

USA-Lithuania semi on at 8.

buyer95 · 12-09-2014 8:39pm

I see the France Serbia game is on ESPN tonight lads.

NufcNavan · 13-09-2014 12:21am

Final is on BT Sports 2 on Sunday at 8.

D2D · 14-09-2014 9:47pm

USA stroll to an easy win 129-92 - Kyrie with 26 pts, Harden with 23

NufcNavan · 15-09-2014 1:03am

Wow. That never got going did it.

ec18 · 15-09-2014 8:26am

the first 4 minutes were interesting after that the US just dominated. I wonder if the rest of the world really has caught up at times.....especially with Spain on the decline and the easy stroll the US B/C Team had through the competition.

Saying that was delighted that Boogie had a great game

ButtersSuki · 15-09-2014 10:19am

Just home.

Managed to get a ticket for the final (there were loads going around the stadium as I imagine some fairly p'eed off spanish fans were selling theirs seeing as their team weren't in the final) but it was in row 299 ZZ. That said the game was a joke. All in all though I had a good few days eyeing some great individual players.

D2D · 15-09-2014 1:08pm

Game was over after 5 mins, which says it all for Team USA throughout the World Cup, not 1 real challenge and every game was a blow out

That said, Kyrie winning Tournament MVP won me a nice bit of money at 12/1:):D

Paully D · 15-09-2014 9:45pm

How did Derrick Rose do overall for those that watched the tournament? I literally didn't see one game so would love to hear your opinions. Thanks.

D2D · 15-09-2014 10:22pm

Paully D wrote: »

How did Derrick Rose do overall for those that watched the tournament? I literally didn't see one game so would love to hear your opinions. Thanks.

Considering the minutes he got, he was solid. Defensively, he was great but his shooting was very hit and miss (took some real questionable shots) but that's really to be expected for someone who's trying to get back into the rhythm.

padraig_f · 15-09-2014 11:54pm

Paully D wrote: »

How did Derrick Rose do overall for those that watched the tournament? I literally didn't see one game so would love to hear your opinions. Thanks.

Only saw the semi-final, thought he looked fine, but rusty. Was getting to the rim and not finishing, think he was 1-8 in the game, which sounds bad, but was better than it looked. Main thing was that he was getting to the rim, and because he caused the defense to collapse, the US got some handy put-backs on those shots.

Heard his jumpshot was off, but not worried about that. The FIBA ball is different and apparently he wasn't comfortable shooting it.

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