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TE
08-06-2012, 12:39 PM
Stay healthy Manu.


:hungry::hungry::hungry:

kolko
08-06-2012, 01:01 PM
Prigioni is out. Campazzo will be the starting (and only) PG for Argentina.

DontStopBelieving
08-06-2012, 01:09 PM
Prigioni is out. Campazzo will be the starting (and only) PG for Argentina.

Does this mean manu will be bringing the ball up more often?

smaka
08-06-2012, 01:10 PM
I'm for Argentina, but they have no chances imo.
Does anybody have any infos when Prigioni will play?

it's me
08-06-2012, 01:35 PM
lol Arg will have a looong night. US by 49 pts

Venti Quattro
08-06-2012, 02:05 PM
I'm perplexed. Why do you call it a game blog instead of a game thread?

doldrums
08-06-2012, 02:25 PM
US favored by 24 points.. ouch Also Prigioni is out but he played last game and was out game before that. Is it kidney stones again?

TE
08-06-2012, 02:26 PM
I'm perplexed. Why do you call it a game blog instead of a game thread?

It sounds classier......:lol

ElNono
08-06-2012, 03:02 PM
Manu is playing? This game has "don't bother" written all over it.

emanueldavidginobili
08-06-2012, 04:03 PM
Lol at people saying they have no chance. They probably won't win but they have a chance, look at the Lithuania game if that was Argentina they would have won that game,

porscha
08-06-2012, 04:07 PM
which channel ??? SA...timewarner cable

TE
08-06-2012, 04:10 PM
Melo showing his patriotism :lol

TE
08-06-2012, 04:12 PM
:wow this will be the last time manu and this golden age of Argentinian players face off against team USA...

FkLA
08-06-2012, 04:12 PM
which channel ??? SA...timewarner cable

msnbc

162 for hd

TE
08-06-2012, 04:13 PM
Oh nevermind, they might meet again in the semis but it's still probable they might lose to Brazil

porscha
08-06-2012, 04:13 PM
msnbc

162 for hd

thanks FkLA :toast

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:18 PM
good sign for Delfino, hitting first 3

TE
08-06-2012, 04:21 PM
Tyson is a foul magnet

TE
08-06-2012, 04:22 PM
Manu

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:22 PM
what a shot by Manu!!!

Fireball
08-06-2012, 04:25 PM
Manu is still a beauty to watch ...


... but here comes the TO

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:26 PM
Delfino again, everytime I hear Campazzo, I think of that character from Saving Private Ryan - Caparzo (Vin Diesel character)

spurs10
08-06-2012, 04:27 PM
CPaul must have been shot by a sniper...

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:30 PM
Campazzo while not as experienced as Prigioni, I think ARG is better off with Camp as their PG, quicker, can defend PG spot better (Parker had his way with Prigioni).

Reck
08-06-2012, 04:32 PM
How was that a delay of game warning for USA?

It was Scola who felt down like a bitch.

Fireball
08-06-2012, 04:33 PM
CPaul must have been shot by a sniper...

there must be one in the arena ... he shot Scola as well :lol

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 04:33 PM
Ginobili shredding Team USA's piss poor defense early on.

Defense is clearly Team USA's biggest weakness. Yeah they can score. . .but they have so many lazy defenders. Tbh, I think they're lucky that margin of victory over scrub teams gives you an advantage in seeding for medals. That's about all this Team USA is good for imo.

It's hilarious to think that they compare themselves to the Dream Team.


Also. . .Ginobili's bald spot seems to be growing back in a little! Maybe he's trying Rogaine or some other thing like that.

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:34 PM
that move is unstoppable by Scola, what a pass by Manu to Guiterrez

TE
08-06-2012, 04:34 PM
Argentina playing with passion

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:36 PM
Arg takes the lead

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:37 PM
Argentina just showing they're not scared and won't back down... but I expect the ARG coach to shut it down if they don't take a major lead...

Fireball
08-06-2012, 04:38 PM
both teams playing Spurs defense ...

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:38 PM
Westbrook acting tough with Campazzo :lol

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:41 PM
lol det ARG bench

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:42 PM
Campazzo 3

Fireball
08-06-2012, 04:44 PM
is any US player listening to Coach K during timeout?

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 04:44 PM
It's too bad Argentina doesn't have 2-3 extra decent players that're almost as good as their top guys. If they did, I think Team USA would be severely struggling with them right now. Argentina just doesn't have the depth. . .you can see some of their players just don't belong (especially on defense) on the same floor with the rest.

nickdaquick
08-06-2012, 04:45 PM
Campazzo 3

Campazzo shooting really well from 3. Does he always shoot this well?

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:47 PM
Bearded Brent Barry is in for Arg in Federico Kammerichs

http://www.elpopular.com.ar/diario/2009/05/28/galeria/DEP0901x.jpg

TE
08-06-2012, 04:47 PM
CP3 is on fire

TE
08-06-2012, 04:47 PM
KD has looked like shit

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:49 PM
lol what was that?

Texas_Ranger
08-06-2012, 04:49 PM
lol Marbury!!

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:49 PM
I guess Arg is going to give starters a lot of rest, so they can close out quarters, halves.

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:50 PM
that should've counted

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 04:50 PM
:lmao wtf. That was a crazy ass bounce on the dunk.

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:50 PM
if Campazzo isn't ok, ARG better just shut it down

*EDIT* didn't see obvious flop till replay,lol

nickdaquick
08-06-2012, 04:51 PM
Wow. I've never seen anything like that before.

ElNono
08-06-2012, 04:51 PM
bench sucks but it's a tie game

Hemotivo
08-06-2012, 04:54 PM
wow nice

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:56 PM
Guitterrez on a nice pass from Manu, and 1 opportunity

Fireball
08-06-2012, 04:56 PM
what a pass by Manu ...

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:57 PM
missed chance by Arg there, player open under basket, CP3 makes them pay

timvp
08-06-2012, 04:58 PM
http://www.abflags.com/_flags/flags-of-the-world/Argentina%20flag/Argentina%20flag-XXL-anim.gif

Let's go, Argentina. Even if it is a pretty meaningless game.

ace3g
08-06-2012, 04:59 PM
Manu tres!!!

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:00 PM
Arg giving Scola a lot of rest on the bench

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:00 PM
Manu with a ridic 3. ARG hitting a lot of 3's.

Reck
08-06-2012, 05:01 PM
Lithuania really mindfucked this team.

They look like scare little pups out there.

TE
08-06-2012, 05:01 PM
Lack of a true big showing right now for team USA

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:01 PM
another missed opp for Arg close to the basket

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:02 PM
Manu the master :lol

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:02 PM
Manu steamrolls LeBron

Fireball
08-06-2012, 05:03 PM
lol Lebron

Sa_Spursfan20
08-06-2012, 05:03 PM
Gosh Manu. That was cold. :lol

naico
08-06-2012, 05:04 PM
Skill wise Manu might arguably be the best player of his generation. On an international level def nr.1

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:04 PM
Look for Scola to play big minutes in 2nd half, unless he is done for rest of the game

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:04 PM
lol Manu looking for a leg to trip

MmP
08-06-2012, 05:04 PM
Manu is a beast.
Campazzo showing signs of international greatness

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:04 PM
http://www.abflags.com/_flags/flags-of-the-world/Argentina%20flag/Argentina%20flag-XXL-anim.gif

Let's go, Argentina. Even if it is a pretty meaningless game.

What's wrong with you? :lol

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:05 PM
lol~ Ginobili just broke LeBron's ankles. . .AND flopped to add insult to injury by putting another foul on LeBron and even got two free points out of it. lmao.

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:06 PM
What's wrong with you? :lol

Sons, when Carribean Greece got destroyed he no longer can root for USA.

polandprzem
08-06-2012, 05:06 PM
lesssgoo argentina

Thomas3
08-06-2012, 05:06 PM
Manu is playing like a magician!

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:06 PM
Sons, when Carribean Greece got destroyed he no longer can root for USA.

:lol

polandprzem
08-06-2012, 05:07 PM
I'm not watching much bball during Olympics but I think it's time to pay more attention

SA210
08-06-2012, 05:07 PM
Anyone have a link?

Thomas3
08-06-2012, 05:08 PM
http://www.livesports300.co.cc/

Splits
08-06-2012, 05:09 PM
Kome 9 pts on 9 attempts
Manu 16 pts on 5 attempts

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:10 PM
What's wrong with you? :lol

Ask yourself this:

Is it easier to cheer for a team with 3 Thunder players and 0 Spurs on it?

or

A team with Manu Ginobili on it?


Personally, I dislike almost half of Team USA. I'm hoping they lose tbh. I'll cheer for USA in the other events. Basketball though? I'm not cheering for any Thunder players or team that they're on. At the end of the day, they're still Thunder players. It was a lot funnier when Ginobili and Argentina knocked off Team USA in 2004, than to see yet another yawn-inducing USA shoe in gold medal in basketball again.

shyne
08-06-2012, 05:13 PM
I remember a quote from Doc Rivers a couple years ago that went something like this " the game is never over when that dam ginobili is on the court."

Manudona
08-06-2012, 05:13 PM
I remember a quote from Doc Rivers a couple years ago that went something like this " the game is never over when that dam ginobili is on the court."

Something like my sig? :)

LakerHater
08-06-2012, 05:15 PM
Anyone have a link?
http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/video-watch.html?video=mens-group-a-argentina-vs-united-states

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:19 PM
both teams start off where they left off

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:20 PM
8 ties and 14 lead changes. :rollin

Here's hoping for a full Team USA meltdown. :toast

TE
08-06-2012, 05:23 PM
Manu is hurt

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:23 PM
Manu holding his neck...

TE
08-06-2012, 05:23 PM
Nevermind :lol

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:23 PM
Chandler does a lot of little dirty things

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:24 PM
Arg rebounding sucks now

TE
08-06-2012, 05:25 PM
Lebron :wow


Beast.

Reck
08-06-2012, 05:25 PM
Now that is more like it.

it's me
08-06-2012, 05:26 PM
what the hell is Nocioni doing in the Olympics.... dude is terrible.

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:27 PM
bottom falling out... oh well...

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:28 PM
time to sit everyone out and coast

DAF86
08-06-2012, 05:28 PM
Just sit everybody. If somebody gets hurt in this game I'm going to be pissed.

TE
08-06-2012, 05:28 PM
Kobe :lol

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:28 PM
USA going to their go to move, pressure defense , hope for strips

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:28 PM
lol Kirby

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:30 PM
KD is a machine

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:32 PM
sloppy play on both ends

TE
08-06-2012, 05:34 PM
Holy shit KD

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:34 PM
yeah that Durant guy is pretty good...

Arg now with about 8 missed points from up close

spurs10
08-06-2012, 05:34 PM
Who is the clown for NBC who says Manu "runs into Lebron and falls down."

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:34 PM
KD is a machine

it's me
08-06-2012, 05:36 PM
Kirby is so useless now that I don't even dislike him anymore.

TE
08-06-2012, 05:36 PM
Argentina coach needs to take out key players

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:37 PM
Manu better not play the 4th

it's me
08-06-2012, 05:37 PM
and only bad thing about KD... is a Thunder.... other than.....

Sa_Spursfan20
08-06-2012, 05:38 PM
Welp. Take out the starters, Argentina. Save the energy for Brazil.

TE
08-06-2012, 05:39 PM
:lmao Melo

TE
08-06-2012, 05:39 PM
Melo is pissed

ace3g
08-06-2012, 05:39 PM
Scola and Coach K talking

TE
08-06-2012, 05:39 PM
Oh that was cheap

TE
08-06-2012, 05:40 PM
Or I take that back, inadvertent

Fingaroll44
08-06-2012, 05:42 PM
Who is the clown for NBC who says Manu "runs into Lebron and falls down."

:lol that was Doug Collins...he first said Manu "does the smart thing...."

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:42 PM
Team USA acting like idiots. They are making a big deal over the "Melo cheap shot" but CP3 did the same exact thing to ARG's PG in the first half. Where was the outrage there?

Spurminator
08-06-2012, 05:43 PM
I'm not saying nothing happened, but for all this talk about the cheap shot on Melo, there sure haven't been many replays...

spurs10
08-06-2012, 05:44 PM
:lol that was Doug Collins...he first said Manu "does the smart thing...."
:lol

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:44 PM
Team USA and the US announcers need to stop crying. USA has been fouling and fouling hard all game. You're winning big then try to fast break and run up the score on the Argentina bench which isn't even good enough to play in the NBA?

No shit you're gonna get punched in the nuts once or twice during said stat padding. That weenie announcer needs to stop crying about it already.

c whata11
08-06-2012, 05:44 PM
this announcer is so butthurt. cp3 did that to some argentine earlier and it was overlooked. same thing happens to melo, and the announcers up in arms

EDIT: DPG already said the same thing

TE
08-06-2012, 05:45 PM
:lol Fiba refs
:lol "taunting"

cd98
08-06-2012, 05:45 PM
Team USA and the US announcers need to stop crying. USA has been fouling and fouling hard all game. You're winning big then try to fast break and run up the score on the Argentina bench which isn't even good enough to play in the NBA?

No shit you're gonna get punched in the nuts once or twice during said stat padding. That weenie announcer needs to stop crying about it already.

Team USA has every right to push the ball and score as many points as it can. If they take their foot off the pedal, they let Argentina back in the game.

Dex
08-06-2012, 05:46 PM
Wow, those floodgates opened fast. I looked away for like 10 minutes and the US went up 25 points.

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:46 PM
Now they're crying about a Thunder player getting a T for "staring". . .


Do they forget refs were calling techs on the Spurs while playing the Thunder for looking in the direction of OKC's bench after making a 3? lol. I guess it's only bullshit to them if it's against an OKC player, and not against a team playing them.

DPG21920
08-06-2012, 05:47 PM
This announcer is pissing me off.

cd98
08-06-2012, 05:47 PM
Wow, those floodgates opened fast. I looked away for like 10 minutes and the US went up 25 points.

That's how good Kevin Durrant is. Scary.

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:48 PM
Team USA has every right to push the ball and score as many points as it can. If they take their foot off the pedal, they let Argentina back in the game.

Just like Argentina has every right to foul Team USA if they feel like it. It's part of the game, and you get penalties for doing it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and getting fouled while you're running up the score is one of them. Just like getting thrown at if you gloat after hitting a jack in baseball, or get put into the dirt if you celebrate too hard in the end zone after a touchdown.

Next?

cd98
08-06-2012, 05:48 PM
Argentina doesn't match up well with Team USA. They don't have anyone that can take advantage of our lack of size. Manu is a great player, but he can't outplay Durrant and Lebron on the same team. Not the way these guys are playing.

cd98
08-06-2012, 05:50 PM
Just like Argentina has every right to foul Team USA if they feel like it. It's part of the game, and you get penalties for doing it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and getting fouled while you're running up the score is one of them. Just like getting thrown at if you gloat after hitting a jack in baseball, or get put into the dirt if you celebrate too hard in the end zone after a touchdown.

Next?

Yes, they can foul. But instead of intentionally fouling, why not play better defense and try to get back into the game.

And if they resulted to cheap shots to hurt someone that's more of a black eye on basketball than running up the score.

ElNono
08-06-2012, 05:51 PM
It'll take a bad shooting night for ANY team to beat this Team USA... this game was close until KD started hitting...

Cant_Be_Faded
08-06-2012, 05:52 PM
What is Kobe doing

Does he look like a TOSB

cd98
08-06-2012, 05:54 PM
Kobe is actually the best way to beat Team USA. Turn him into a volume scorer, at his age and decline, and you have a shot. He's got too much pride to admit he's probably a second-unit player on this team.

Duncan2177
08-06-2012, 05:55 PM
GO U.S.A :clap

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 05:58 PM
Yes, they can foul. But instead of intentionally fouling, why not play better defense and try to get back into the game.

And if they resulted to cheap shots to hurt someone that's more of a black eye on basketball than running up the score.

Several problems with your point.

1: You can't "get back into the game" when you're down 30 with 7 minutes left. Mathmatically speaking, it's almost an numerical impossibility to get back in it unless USA shoots blanks for the remainder of the game and makes several mental screw ups while Argentina shoots 100% and makes zero mistakes. Literally, if USA just holds the ball for 24 seconds each possession and not even shoot, Argentina would barely get enough possessions to make 30 points in that amount of time.

2: They didn't foul Team USA to "get back into the game", they did so because USA was running up the score and fouling their players hard.

3: It isn't a black eye to basketball, and I doubt they'd care even if it did. A black eye to basketball would be terrible officiating, point shavin, etc. Such as Spain tanking to Brazil earlier today.


Therefore Argentina has as much right to do what they did as Team USA running up the score and taunting. Fouls are part of the game. Flagrant fouls are part of the game. Teams choose to do them when they don't like what the other team's doing in any major sport. Time to leave the bubble and accept reality.

Fingaroll44
08-06-2012, 06:01 PM
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? As I do recall, Argentina was fast-breaking and tossing behind the back passes enroute to a gold medal in Athens against the USA. So yes, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

I also know for a fact, that Scola and Nocioni have zero problem with a well placed elbow here or there on any given opponent. So again yes, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Arg has been known for being physical for years. I'm a Spurs fan and it's the same with them. As long as the black n silver are TAKING elbows, it's ok. The minute they start getting physical AND succeeding....they're dirty. :wow

shyne
08-06-2012, 06:02 PM
I'm American but I ain't rooting for these fags on this team.

TE
08-06-2012, 06:03 PM
What was Melo screaming? He looked like a dumbass doing that

crc21209
08-06-2012, 06:06 PM
Team USA is just too athletic for Argentina and every other country in the world....

shyne
08-06-2012, 06:07 PM
I just can't fucking stand this generation of nba players.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 06:07 PM
Poor Team Argentina :( :( :( :( :(

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 06:10 PM
I'm American but I ain't rooting for these fags on this team.

Same. I don't magically like fools just because they put on a shirt with "USA" glued onto the chest.

emanueldavidginobili
08-06-2012, 06:10 PM
Team USA is so arrogant its pissing me off. USA Lives and dies from the 3

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 06:11 PM
Team USA is so arrogant its pissing me off. USA Lives and dies from the 3

Thats what happens when you're way better than everyone else tbh.

Too arrogant :( :( :( :( :(

TE
08-06-2012, 06:17 PM
:lol

cd98
08-06-2012, 06:19 PM
Yes. I'm so disappointed that Team USA gets pumped up to play a team as good as Argentina, and then they get so excited just because they have an incredible run in the third quarter. How dare they think they are so great?!! How dare they show emotion and get pumped?!!

I'm sure no one would get pumped if the Spurs had a quarter like that against the Thunder in the playoffs.

Hemotivo
08-06-2012, 06:29 PM
Thats what happens when you're way better than everyone else

not always

Kidd K
08-06-2012, 06:30 PM
Yes. I'm so disappointed that Team USA gets pumped up to play a team as good as Argentina, and then they get so excited just because they have an incredible run in the third quarter. How dare they think they are so great?!! How dare they show emotion and get pumped?!!

I'm sure no one would get pumped if the Spurs had a quarter like that against the Thunder in the playoffs.

Acting arrogant, yelling, taunting, shaking your arms and/or beating your chest is called being unsportsmanlike. It's especially not something you do at the Olympics. Not sure why you're surprised people don't like it. Have you been living under a rock? Is this your first Olympics? It ain't playground basketball. They're supposed to be professionals, not clowns.

spurs10
08-06-2012, 06:35 PM
Team USA acting like idiots. They are making a big deal over the "Melo cheap shot" but CP3 did the same exact thing to ARG's PG in the first half. Where was the outrage there?
Yes, that's the problem. One too many of Team USA often acts like an idiot. Carmelo screaming and yelling while hiding behind his teammates should be kind of embarrassing :lol you'd think. Too many of these guys are the anti Tim Duncan. Carmelo telling the press how "classy" they were in their 80 point humiliation against Nigeria. Kobe is probably the voice of reason on this team and that's pretty scary. Oh well, I doubt if many of them went to class much. At least KD has his Mom to keep him in line. Maybe Patty can open up a can of whoop-ass on them. I'm with whomever said I'll root for the USA in every other sport. The 100 million yearly earnings of the starting 5 makes it a little questionable......and they took away Jim Thorpe's medals?? Right!!!??

emanueldavidginobili
08-06-2012, 06:40 PM
Theres a difference from being excited/pumped and being arrogant, like at the end of the game 20 + points and then shooting the three at the end which really didn't bother me until he does some stupid showboat.(Harden)

DAF86
08-06-2012, 06:56 PM
not always

This :lol

It happens when you're much better than everyone else and you're a bitch. Phelps for example isn't arrogant.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:10 PM
This :lol

It happens when you're much better than everyone else and you're a bitch. Phelps for example isn't arrogant.


:lmao @ the guy comparing himself to Michael Jordan not being arrogant. This is seriously the guy you want to make your argument with?

kuato
08-06-2012, 07:14 PM
Poor Team Argentina :( :( :( :( :(
Poor? have you seen the first 2 quarters? Argentina was testing U.S.A. then in the 3rd Lamas just send Gino, Scola. Nocioni and Campasso to the bench to rest, there was no need to fight this.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:17 PM
Poor? have you seen the first 2 quarters? Argentina was testing U.S.A. then in the 3rd Lamas just send Gino, Scola. Nocioni and Campasso to the bench to rest, there was no need to fight this.

Manu needed rest? WTF?

shyne
08-06-2012, 07:19 PM
I don't like fatass Melo, pussy ass Paul, frog boy Westbrook. I could give two shits if they play for team USA, they act like dumbases. All you bitches justifying the way they act are probably the same fags that were bitching about Westbrook and harden during the playoffs.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:21 PM
i don't like fatass melo, pussy ass paul, frog boy westbrook. I could give two shits if they play for team usa, they act like dumbases. All you bitches justifying the way they act are probably the same fags that were bitching about westbrook and harden during the playoffs.

:( :( :( :(

ElNono
08-06-2012, 07:21 PM
I have no problem with the shit talking... it's part of the game, tbh

Plus at this point everyone knows who the bitches are... Scola, Melo, Westbrook acting like pussies? You don't say...

Argentina did well... but you need more than that to beat a team with Lebron and KD the way they're playing right now...

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:24 PM
I have no problem with the shit talking... it's part of the game, tbh

Plus at this point everyone knows who the bitches are... Scola, Melo, Westbrook acting like pussies? You don't say...

Argentina did well... but you need more than that to beat a team with Lebron and KD the way they're playing right now...

A lot of Spurs fans just have trouble rooting for players they root against all the time because they talk so much shit about them all the time.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:26 PM
Its fine - no one has to root for a team they don't want to root for. I don't really like Lebron. But I root for whomever has a Team USA jersey. If you don't want to, cool.

I just think its funny so many people have to come in and justify it with their arguments about how unclassy some guys playing basketball are. Its why you get trolled with the Spurs = class argument.

DAF86
08-06-2012, 07:30 PM
:lmao @ the guy comparing himself to Michael Jordan not being arrogant. This is seriously the guy you want to make your argument with?

Well, I have never heard those comments or many others from him, tbh. When I see him he doesn't look arrogant but well if you want you can take other examples like Federer or Messi.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:31 PM
Well, I have never heard those comments or many others from him, tbh. When I see him he doesn't look arrogant but well if you want you can take other examples like Federer or Messi.

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

DAF86
08-06-2012, 07:34 PM
Its fine - no one has to root for a team they don't want to root for. I don't really like Lebron. But I root for whomever has a Team USA jersey. If you don't want to, cool.

I just think its funny so many people have to come in and justify it with their arguments about how unclassy some guys playing basketball are. Its why you get trolled with the Spurs = class argument.

But just because they use a Team USA jersey you don't need to justify their every move. If they act like bitches, they act like bitches.

ElNono
08-06-2012, 07:34 PM
A lot of Spurs fans just have trouble rooting for players they root against all the time because they talk so much shit about them all the time.

Plus there's no need to hate. KD is a class guy and a heck of a player. Lebron is a prima donna but he's right now at the top of his game.

Sure, Kobe looks done and Melo/Westchuck look smug while keeping the other team in the game, but outside the unintentional comedy, it doesn't matter when you have KD/Lebron beasting, tbh.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:36 PM
But just because they use a Team USA jersey you don't need to justify their every move. If they act like bitches, they act like bitches.

I haven't justified a damn thing. You on the other hand, apparently don't like the way they look. :lmao Make of that what you will.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:37 PM
Plus there's no need to hate. KD is a class guy and a heck of a player. Lebron is a prima donna but he's right now at the top of his game.

Sure, Kobe looks done and Melo/Westchuck look smug while keeping the other team in the game, but outside the unintentional comedy, it doesn't matter when you have KD/Lebron beasting, tbh.

:tu

DAF86
08-06-2012, 07:40 PM
I just don't like the whole "if you're good you're entitled to be cocky" argument. Being good doesn't give someone a free pass to act like a jackass. And for the record, I'm talking in general, I don't see anything wrong with what Melo and Co. did today, tbh.

shyne
08-06-2012, 07:43 PM
Phelps can be arrogant he's actually done something. And even then he's not jumping around like a bunch of porch monkeys. Kobe is the only one with the clout to act like an ass and he's not doing it.

DAF86
08-06-2012, 07:43 PM
I haven't justified a damn thing. You on the other hand, apparently don't like the way they look. :lmao Make of that what you will.

Now I understand that stupid "woooow" comment you made earlier.

Are you implying a racist thing or something?

When I said "when I see him" I meant when I see him race. They way he acts and conducts himself doesn't seem cocky to me.

benefactor
08-06-2012, 07:43 PM
Its fine - no one has to root for a team they don't want to root for. I don't really like Lebron. But I root for whomever has a Team USA jersey.
:tu

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:51 PM
Now I understand that stupid "woooow" comment you made earlier.

Are you implying a racist thing or something?

When I said "when I see him" I meant when I see him race. They way he acts and conducts himself doesn't seem cocky to me.

Yeah he definitely has non arrogant swimming. Celebrating right in front of his competitors - the same thing many have bitched about here - man - he NEVER did that.

I never called you a racist. I think you said something incredibly stupid. You said you thought you could tell if someone was arrogant by looking at them. That is just dumb.

I think 90% of athletes at a high level are arrogant as all hell because people who aren't extremely confident do not do well at high levels in competitive sports.

MannyIsGod
08-06-2012, 07:52 PM
Phelps can be arrogant he's actually done something. And even then he's not jumping around like a bunch of porch monkeys. Kobe is the only one with the clout to act like an ass and he's not doing it.

:lmao

Phelps = class

racm
08-06-2012, 07:59 PM
Argentina doesn't match up well with Team USA. They don't have anyone that can take advantage of our lack of size. Manu is a great player, but he can't outplay Durrant and Lebron on the same team. Not the way these guys are playing.

Co-sign

Argentina is simply too old (and unlike the Spurs they haven't successfully added youth).

DAF86
08-06-2012, 08:02 PM
Yeah he definitely has non arrogant swimming. Celebrating right in front of his competitors - the same thing many have bitched about here - man - he NEVER did that.

I never called you a racist. I think you said something incredibly stupid. You said you thought you could tell if someone was arrogant by looking at them. That is just dumb.

I think 90% of athletes at a high level are arrogant as all hell because people who aren't extremely confident do not do well at high levels in competitive sports.

I never said that, that's something you implied.

I could have explained myself better but I don't know how can you understand "I can tell if someone is arrogant by looking at them" from "when I see him he doesn't look arrogant".

And about the other thing, there's a difference between being arrogant and being confident. There are many examples about great sportsmen not being arrogant pricks.

Venti Quattro
08-06-2012, 11:39 PM
Poor? have you seen the first 2 quarters? Argentina was testing U.S.A. then in the 3rd Lamas just send Gino, Scola. Nocioni and Campasso to the bench to rest, there was no need to fight this.

:( :( moral victories :( :(

mavs>spurs
08-07-2012, 02:01 AM
Why are you guys acting like a bunch of sissies? Were you anti american fucks rooting against your own country or something? Fags.

kuato
08-07-2012, 09:00 PM
:( :( moral victories :( :(

Victories are not important, medals are important, thats the goal of Argentina NT, not to defeat U.S.A. Important players must be preserved for higher instances.

Drom John
08-08-2012, 08:33 AM
Sorry mavs>spurs is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her.