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Post by squirrel on Jul 8, 2024 10:10:21 GMT -6
Puerto Rico was one of 4 last-round qualifier tournament winners, joining Brazil, Spain and Greece over the weekend to round out the 2024 Olympics basketball tournament on the men's side.
Puerto Rico joins the US, Serbia, and South Sudan group.
Former Brave Koch Bar is a likely selection for South Sudan, but has yet to officially be named to the final Olympics roster.
Cameroon was a participant in the qualification tournaments over the weekend, but it does not appear former Brave Ari Boya was a participant for Cameroon.
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Post by squirrel on Jul 16, 2024 8:09:44 GMT -6
Koch Bar was named to the final roster late last week.
Before the Olympics, South Sudan is playing Argentina and Portugal in Madrid and Great Britain and USA in London.
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Post by squirrel on Jul 18, 2024 14:17:44 GMT -6
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Post by squirrel on Jul 18, 2024 14:33:56 GMT -6
Haven't been able to track down any box scores, but South Sudan just finished an 84-81 victory over Great Britain to improve to 2-1 in their friendlies heading into the game against the US in London. They lost to Argentina 81-72, beat Portugal 70-62.
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Post by SFP on Jul 18, 2024 14:41:03 GMT -6
USA team looked really good against Serbia yesterday. For the the USA team not to win the gold it will take a Villanova over Georgetown like performance. Serbia stayed close because they were hitting their 3 point shots at a high clip. Once the US made an adjustment to not go under the screen, game over.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Jul 19, 2024 18:37:04 GMT -6
Bol Bol is out of the Olympics for South Sudan due to undisclosed "personal reasons".
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Post by ph on Jul 20, 2024 15:23:01 GMT -6
USMNT barely escaped with a win vs South Sudan, but I haven’t seen any mention of Koch Bar in any game reports.
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Jul 20, 2024 16:52:40 GMT -6
As South Sudan gets better that will be the end of the road for Koch and the national team.
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Post by squirrel on Jul 25, 2024 7:59:18 GMT -6
South Sudan released it's official 12-man roster for the Olympics yesterday and Koch Bar was not listed, but I suspect he is dealing with an injury and probably still with the team as an alternate if he gets healthy and someone else gets hurt.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Jul 25, 2024 19:35:44 GMT -6
Group stage schedule for the U.S. Men's basketball team:
-Sunday, 10:15 AM, NBC: vs. Serbia
-Wednesday, 2:00 PM, USA Network: vs. South Sudan
-August 3, 10:15 AM, NBC: vs. Puerto Rico
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Post by squirrel on Jul 28, 2024 10:11:36 GMT -6
South Sudan defeated Puerto Rico 90-79.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Jul 28, 2024 18:49:42 GMT -6
Serbia kept it close for most of the 1st half and even held the lead a couple different times but the U.S. pulled away in the 2nd half, winning 110-84. The U.S. played better and looked like a completely different team with KD coming in as the 6th man in today's game, which was his first competitive game in awhile.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Jul 31, 2024 19:53:56 GMT -6
U.S. defeated South Sudan 103-86.
South Sudan still has a chance to make the knockout rounds as one of the top two third place teams, depending on how they do against Serbia on Saturday and how the Japan-Brazil game goes on Friday.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Aug 3, 2024 18:45:01 GMT -6
South Sudan loses 96-85 to Serbia and is knocked out of the tournament as Greece gets the final wild card spot due to having a better point differential over the three group stage games.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Aug 3, 2024 18:45:54 GMT -6
Men's basketball knockout stage bracket:  All of the quarterfinals will be played on Tuesday. That Canada-France game could be a really interesting matchup. There's also a potential U.S.-Serbia rematch in the semifinals. Brazil-USA will air at 2:30 PM CT on USA Network. |
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Post by SFP on Aug 12, 2024 17:49:50 GMT -6
Who watched the US gold medal game? Steph did Steph and what an exciting game. If you missed it and do not have a ton of extra time, go back to the last 3 minutes of the game.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Aug 12, 2024 19:49:02 GMT -6
I watched it and Steph did Steph things. They don't defeat Serbia or France without his performances.
U.S roster is going to look vastly different in L.A. in 2028. This was the oldest U.S. roster in a FIBA tournament since they started allowing the pros to play. LeBron and Steph won't be on the team and I'd put KD at about 50/50 since he turns 36 next month. Jrue Holiday and Derrick White likely won't be on the team either. Anthony Davis and Joel Embiid should be there but with their injury issues, there's no guarantee they'll play.
Serbia will still be good so long as they have Jokic. France will have Wemby, Zacchary Risacher, and Alex Sarr and they have a guard named Nolan Traore whose expected to be a top 5 pick in next year's draft. Germany will still have Mo and Fritz Wagner and probably Dennis Schroder. Most of Canada's roster will be in its prime in 2028.
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Post by SFP on Aug 13, 2024 12:24:03 GMT -6
We should be a top 4 team and playing at home. I like our chances next Olympics. The real question is who will be the coach? Erik Spoelstra or Tyronn Lue? I'm hoping it will be Erik Spoelstra. IMO he could be arguably the best coach in the NBA right now, better then Pop or Steve Kerr.
We'll have the players that will be able to compete and match up with anyone.
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Post by tribecalledquest2024 on Aug 13, 2024 13:13:42 GMT -6
We should be a top 4 team and playing at home. I like our chances next Olympics. The real question is who will be the coach? Erik Spoelstra or Tyronn Lue? I'm hoping it will be Erik Spoelstra. IMO he could be arguably the best coach in the NBA right now, better then Pop or Steve Kerr. We'll have the players that will be able to compete and match up with anyone. The US will still be the top team in the world in 2028 and will always have 7-8 of the best players on the court at all times. |
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Post by SFP on Aug 13, 2024 14:28:00 GMT -6
We should be a top 4 team and playing at home. I like our chances next Olympics. The real question is who will be the coach? Erik Spoelstra or Tyronn Lue? I'm hoping it will be Erik Spoelstra. IMO he could be arguably the best coach in the NBA right now, better then Pop or Steve Kerr. We'll have the players that will be able to compete and match up with anyone. The US will still be the top team in the world in 2028 and will always have 7-8 of the best players on the court at all times. I agree but the world is getting closer and they do tend to play together a lot more and longer. Also, it takes our guys a bit longer to adjust to those FIBA rules. I just think unless we adjust how we go about building our teams moving forward we may not be so dominant. If Europe built an All Star team they could have beaten Team USA and not be an upset. Twenty years ago the world could have built an All Star team sans USA and still get their butts handed to them. |
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