http://globoesporte.globo.com/basque...-em-teste.html
play the video, around 0:52
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http://globoesporte.globo.com/basque...-em-teste.html
play the video, around 0:52
Behind the back & no look pass...
not too shabby!
:wowThat play
Also 10/8/5 not bad
:lol Angola
Against Angola, even Ayres look like an allstar. Saturday, Brazil will play against Argentina without Manu and Scola.
What is this game?
Exhibition game?
No. Even if there wasn't any other human beings on the court, much less a team of bad basketball players, that play would have been impressive for a 7 footer.
Even if he had been doing that around inanimate objects; orange cones, it would have been a nifty little move.
So, despite the competition level, give Sparkles a little credit. Nice job, Sparkles.
And, Ayres did not look like an All-Star in summer league. I'm not so sure he looks like one vs. Angola. Who he is playing against, including orange traffic cones, would not help him hang on to a basketball.
Nene's dunk
He's just now beginning to spread his wings after being freed.
Brasil vs Argentina right now. Is Matias Bortolin the new Scola?
Splitter highest scorer of today's game with 15 points in Brazil's 68-59 win over Argentina, and many of his trademark reverse layups lol
http://globoesporte.globo.com/basque...r-desafio.html
ps : Varejao's block at 3:33 is sexy
The brazilian backcourt is something beyond horrible. The three NBA bigs dominated.
GOLDEN GON
Tiago and Danny here in Sao Paulo
http://oi58.tinypic.com/24q0r36.jpg
http://oi59.tinypic.com/2vcxkw7.jpg
http://oi59.tinypic.com/9bf2h0.jpg
And then people ask how the Spurs have such chemistry and cohesiveness? Build it everyday
LDN and the Golden God, such great team chemistry :cry
The biggest takeaway I got from those vids is that Splitter's first name is pronounced "Chago". Had no idea Portuguese works that way.
The etymological change in Spanish is not as well understood, and authorities differ on the details. What appears likely, although not certain, was that the Iacomus became shortened toIaco and then Iago. Some authorities say that Iago became lengthened to Tiago and thenDiego. Others say the phrase Sant Iaco (sant is an old form of "saint") turned into Santiago, which was then improperly divided by some speakers into San Tiago, leaving the name ofTiago, which morphed into Diego.
http://spanish.about.com/od/historyofspanish/a/diego.htm
Thanks for that bit, as I studied a little linguistics in college and find language evolution fascinating. However, I am more interested in the evolution of the phonemes and not the morphemes. I had assumed Portuguese and Spanish shared a similar coding for the letter T. It appears instead that Portuguese codes 'ti' as a voiceless affricate and not a voiced alveolar stop, as Spanish and most Indoeuropean languages do.
Tiago can brag to Duncan about that fast break.
Tiago gets shat on more than he should on this board. Yeah his post game is horrible and he's have issues trying to score with his back to the basket against most WNBA players probably, but he's one of if not the best 1v1 low and high post defenders in the league and he's always on time with his rotations to get his hands up and clog the lane.
MVPau tho...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuf1N2Gvk9A
More info on Portuguese vs Brazilian pronunciation: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/portuguese.htm
It looks like the Portuguese would say "Tiago" like in English (and most european languages) but in Brazil it can be pronounced both ways depending on the region: either Tiago or Tchago.