 It's not quite time for the NBA preseason so you know what that means: International basketball. See your favorite role players and bench warmers look like world destroyers! Marvel at Old Man Dirk as he suits up for his national team for the first time in four years in front of his home fans! The top two teams will earn fame and fortune and a ticket to next year's Olympic basketball tournament in Rio. Main Page Schedule Group Standings So how does this work? The group stage is four groups of six teams who will all play eachother. Don't ask me how the tiebreaker rules work, I forget every year. Also, a win gets you two points while the loser still gets one point for some reason. After that, the top four teams from each group advance. Appearantly, this year there won't be any additional group stages, we'll proceed straight to the knockout portion of the tournament.  Hey Illinois Smith, did your lovely country make it this year?  How long has it been again since they qualified for any kind of international tournament? 60 years Will anyone beat France this year?  They're certainly considered heavy favorites to defend their title this year, fielding the most NBA-heavy team with Tony Parker, Nic Batum, Evan Fournier, Boris Diaw, Rudy Gobert and Joffrey Lauvergne. Their biggest rival, Spain, only has two NBA players in the tournament with Pau and, for some reason, Mirotic. Germany though!  As stated in the thread title, Dirk will make his triumphant return to his national team after a four-year absence. Not making it out of their group would be seen as a huge failure, especially with all their games in front of a rabid home crowd in Berlin. They have a ton of injuries and drew what's probably the toughest group though. Other NBA players aside from Dirk include the Hawks' Dennis Schröder and Jazz rookie Tibor Pleiss. Mah Serbs  Made it to the finals of last year's World Cup against the US. Led by Teodosic (one of the best guards in Europe) and Euroleague MVP / Timberwolves rookie Nemanja Bjelica. A very complete team with great shooters and good centers down low in former NBA bench warmers Raduljica and Kuzmic. Probably the biggest favorites besides France. Also features former Warriors rookie Nemanja "Euro Derrick Rose" Nedovic. Other players to look out for Hey, you know who plays on Lithuania's squad this year (aside from Valunciunas, who can't get respect from his national coach either)? SON OF SABONIS   You can also check out Magic rookie Mario Hezonja (Croatia). And Antetokounmpo is playing for Greece this year. There's a more complete "guys you might recognize" overview here. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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Spain v Serbia and France v Finland were great games, if you didn't see them, you should watch the replays. This is the only good basketball we'll get until october 27. Today we get Serbia v Germany at 850, Latvia Lithuaia at 1120, and the marquee matchups, Turkey v Spain and Greece v Croatia at 250 est. I'd go with Turkey v Spain, but they could both be good games.
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Sep 6, 2015 13:09
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loving unbelievable.
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Sep 6, 2015 14:11
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Serbs shooting like poo poo but still up because those puny Germans can't grab a rebound.
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Sep 6, 2015 14:26
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Illinois Smith posted:Serbs shooting like poo poo but still up because those puny Germans can't grab a rebound. Hopefully a strong beating by Serbia will teach Germany a lesson for their international meddling
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Sep 6, 2015 14:34
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12 to 1 in offensive boards after a half. If the Serbs remember how to hit from deep they'll blow this out. Schröder's gulf between dumb decisions and good drives on any two given plays is loving infuriating.
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Sep 6, 2015 14:49
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Tibor Pleiss will take the reigns out of ancient Dirk's hands any minute now!!!
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Sep 6, 2015 15:14
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Watch Q4 and OT of Finland-France and god drat, that was disappointing, could have won it with just a bit more :/ But good start for Finland, and I really hope Koponen gets an NBA contract for next year
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Sep 6, 2015 15:36
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Ooo just turned on a tie game with 15 seconds to go in the 4th lookin' like a good day edit: Bjelica hit a floater, he's tournament MVP so far EvanTH fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Sep 6, 2015 |
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Sep 6, 2015 15:50
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lool Bjelica Mighty Serbia rolls on
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Sep 6, 2015 15:52
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i love defeating germany in berlin
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Sep 6, 2015 15:54
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SERBIA THE UNCONQUERABLE
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Sep 6, 2015 15:54
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please reunite yugoslavia for moral and superteam, superbasketball reasons
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Sep 6, 2015 15:59
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All my watchespn streams so far have had a strange mixing issue where the announcer is practically muted next to the court sounds (dejan has suggested it's some 5.1 surround downconversion issue, just watching it with laptop speakers here) which sorta sucks but also lets you know which fans go craziest and Gott Damm the Lithuania/Latvia crowd is noisy i think i won't watch this one i just wanted to see Kristaps and the Knicks got his little-big-rear end not to play
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Sep 6, 2015 16:45
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Turkey's defense is loving terrible even without Enes Kanter. The proud patriots of Spain are lighting them up.
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Sep 6, 2015 20:59
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I've decided I don't want FIBA style above-the-basket play rules because dunking in a teammate's layup that's gonna bounce around the rim and go in anyways is lame
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Sep 6, 2015 21:28
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EvanTH posted:All my watchespn streams so far have had a strange mixing issue where the announcer is practically muted next to the court sounds (dejan has suggested it's some 5.1 surround downconversion issue, just watching it with laptop speakers here) which sorta sucks but also lets you know which fans go craziest and Gott Damm the Lithuania/Latvia crowd is noisy Lithuanians take the basket sport very, very seriously e: Bojan son of Bogdan got a concussion and is out for several days 
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Sep 6, 2015 21:34
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EvanTH posted:I've decided I don't want FIBA style above-the-basket play rules because dunking in a teammate's layup that's gonna bounce around the rim and go in anyways is lame Turning a layup into a dunk is lame?
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Sep 6, 2015 22:28
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It would be more correct to say that putting down a shot that is already going in is not dunking.
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Sep 6, 2015 22:47
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No good matchups today 9/0711:20 AM EDTCzech Republic vs. Latvia (Group Phase) (FIBA EuroBasket) ESPN3 9/0711:20 AM EDTIsrael vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina (Group Phase) (FIBA EuroBasket) ESPN3 9/072:20 PM EDTUkraine vs. Estonia (Group Phase) (FIBA EuroBasket) ESPN3 9/072:50 PM EDTFrance vs. Poland (Group Phase) (FIBA EuroBasket) Unless you want to watch France demolish Gortat's team. Eat your grilled meats in peace knowing that you miss no good basket
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Sep 7, 2015 14:11
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EvanTH posted:I've decided I don't want FIBA style above-the-basket play rules because dunking in a teammate's layup that's gonna bounce around the rim and go in anyways is lame agreed it's really kind of dumb and unreasonable how much i hate seven nation army but holy poo poo i hate seven nation army Dutchy fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Sep 7, 2015 14:26
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Dutchy posted:agreed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Sgm0rOpaU
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Sep 7, 2015 17:25
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kikanovicccccccc
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Sep 7, 2015 18:51
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Slaughter was so afraid of challenging Gobert on that last play before the half.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:40
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If only MV could have seen the Gobert steal Gobert dunk Gobert block to Tony Parker sets up Gobert for the dunk combo
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Sep 7, 2015 20:59
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Watching basketball without play-by-play is kind of disorienting.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:21
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Real pretty move by Slaughter to get open for that midrange shot. Gortat for 3 didn't work out though.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:40
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Tony Parker is now the leading scorer in EuroBasket history, which is pretty cool. Lots of good Group B matchups today, Germany vs Turkey should have a crazy-rear end crowd and neither they nor anyone in the Italy / Spain game can afford to lose. No idea who's gonna be left out in that group besides Iceland.
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Sep 8, 2015 10:25
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Based on five and a half minutes I've seen this tourney, I'm comfortable saying Germany is the worst basketball team ever
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Sep 8, 2015 17:02
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Wird die deutsche Basketball-Team ein Sandwich ihrer eigenen Trauer serviert werden
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Sep 8, 2015 17:16
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Dutchy posted:Based on five and a half minutes I've seen this tourney, I'm comfortable saying Germany is the worst basketball team ever Sounds about right, Schröder is the first PG of the Dirk era who can actually hang at this level. All other PGs of the past 15 years didn't even manage to make NBA Summer League rosters. And yet:  Dirk should get into the Hall of Fame based on those medals alone (not the 1993 one, obviously).
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Sep 8, 2015 17:33
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Greeks are the dunkingest Giannis rules
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Sep 8, 2015 18:25
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EvanTH posted:Greeks are the dunkingest Giannis rules They also are the clutchest, since they have Vassilis Spanoulis, who did this at this year's Euroleague semifinal. He was 0/11 from the field in the first three quarters. I saw it live, and believe me, it felt unreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oU9qZw7sV0
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Sep 8, 2015 19:59
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chunkles posted:e: Bojan son of Bogdan got a concussion and is out for several days He's already starting against Macedonia. Too bad we didn't have him against Greece, I'm sure that would've been a win.
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Sep 8, 2015 20:22
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LupusAter posted:They also are the clutchest, since they have Vassilis Spanoulis, who did this at this year's Euroleague semifinal. He was 0/11 from the field in the first three quarters. I saw it live, and believe me, it felt unreal. dang, he helped them out from behind last game too the greeks have the longest names in all of the league, which surprised me. The Italians are literally sponsored by a pasta company (Barilla)
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Sep 8, 2015 20:39
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FYROM v Croatia is a really tight game, watch it before it's over forever!!!
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Sep 8, 2015 21:02
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Dejan Bimble posted:FYROM v Croatia is a really tight game, watch it before it's over forever!!! It was tight while Croats were playing at 80%. I hope Macedonia will qualify for the second stage though.
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Sep 8, 2015 21:45
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is Saric ready to play in a league where opposing defenders don't flinch away from passes? https://vine.co/v/etHFlnIZaVA
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Sep 9, 2015 13:24
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Just came home to see Germany blow that final possession, looking forward to Belinelli killing them in overtime.
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ahaha loving called it
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