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Here I was, in San Marcos getting off from class at 11 am. I usually get my $6 haircuts on Friday's but decided to skip it to race home on I-35 to watch the Argentina-USA game at 12, but noooooo, we got canoeing. Now that it's 1 pm, the game we've all been waiting for is about to start. Do we need to create an in-game (on tape delay) thread? Instead of posting on the spoiler thread?
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Tim and Manu hit the first buckets of the game, how fitting.
Tim looks like he's gonna school Oberto all game long.
it gets worse
Ice, don't post spoilers, hints or anything about this game.
Thanks.
Worse for Fabricio? I hope.
Argentina is getting inside too easily. This better not keep up.
having a ref from Spain is pretty scary.
I wonder if the Spain coach will have some money under the table?
hopefully it gets better than this
Wade! Then Manu for 3 and a foul... not a good sign...
The Ref from Spain IMO sounds fishy.
These whole olympics the officials and others have been anti american.
Basketball, diving, softball, WHOLE BUNCH of sports.
Its such BS.
Argentina is playing well. And the US not hitting outside shots again. Even with regular refs, I think US would still be losing playing like this.
The refs have nothing to do with this. Other than Marbury getting undercut, they've called a pretty good game.
Our big men don't know how to hedge on the high screen and roll, and Airgay is a one man Argentinian run.
When he's not missing jumpers he's getting burned on defense.
Oh, and Larry Brown continues to play older players who are sucking ass while Lebron and 'Melo rot on the bench.
Spare me the Anthony doesn't play D argument, no one else on USA is either, may as well get someone in there who can match them bucket for bucket.
larry brown is a stubborn prick.
the officials are ing inconsistent as .
its ing riduclious.
still we are playing like and throwing up garbage. of course its hard to win when your best player is on the bench thanks to some stupid bull calls.
I agree with Aggie,
Larry Brown has done a poor job of coaching this team.
Big changes will be made.
IMO, its for the good of the game.
More players will see the error of there ways.
Next year at this time Im hoping were talking of bringing over Scola and a couple other european players.
How did they not call that on Marbury?
Is this how international refs always call games (inconsistently) or is it just like this in the Olympics?
It's so weird.
Strange parallels of coaching between this team and the last team not to win Olympic gold. In 1988 John Thompson was largely criticized about the way he used his players. He didn't provide enough help for his extremely talented big man, David Robinson.
According to DizzG, Larry Brown was supposed to be solution that George Karl wasn't.
You know Mikey its funny, I thought of that this afternoon,
The US lost to yugoslavia was it? Against Sabonis...
Lots of good players on that team.
Nothing wrong with loosing to a better team folks, Like I said,
supposedly they played hard.
Richard Jefferson being the only one who should be whipped with a cane when he gets home.
I just hope no one eats up Larry's excuses.
He probably has as large if not the largest hand in our failures in Greece as any player he blames for not playing D, being lazy, not caring, not trying, etc. (insert pussy ass Larry Brown excuse here).
Tpark - I'd argue Larry Brown deserves it as well. But you are right Air Gay deserves it.
Hopefully everyone will realize what a joke he is, dude is the bane of US basketball right now.
I missed the beginning of the games, but as I was walking in the room I heard our commentator saying something about the basketball refs at this olympic games not being the top European/International refs. He was implying that the best refs were not invited or did not want to come.....Is this how international refs always call games (inconsistently) or is it just like this in the Olympics?
I've tried to find more info on this but have found none. Has anybody any info on the subject?
Again I have no real source for this so take it for what it is.
BTW every comentator I've listened to during Olympic basketball games has at one time or another complained about the general quality of the refs (and I've watched games on Slovenian TV, Croatian TV, Austrian TV, German TV, Serbian TV, Spanish TV and Eurosport).
Mmm, about the refs, most of them are the top FIBA refs, there's just an Argentine and maybe a French ref missing from the FIBA's Top 20.
The only refs that are not in the top 20, are those from exotic nations that have no tradition in Basketball. Like the Mexican and the Austrian in the USA vs. Spain game.
About the calls, well I can't complain being an Argentine, but at least the refs weren't shy on calling fouls on Greece, Serbia or the USA, which was the fear of the rest of the nations. And the complainning always comes from the one who losses, like the Spanish press, who cried their hearts out about the refs in the USA game, while the American press didn't say anything.
Why are there no American refs for FIBA games?
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