Official Thread: 2010 FIBA World Championship

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

I dont know why some of you regard Turkey as a good team, they suck really, they only have 2 better players, of which both are average. You could say they have home advantage, but against teams like usa, greece, france, spain, home advantage would not help anything significantly more. Also, it's not about the 2 better players either, you can have 2 great players, but still suck as a team.

Which two players? You mean the NBA players Hedo and Ilyasova? Well Asik is better than both of them, as long as he does not have to shoot free throws. And it is big deal that Turkey is home. The Turkish fans are really crazy and wild. They should have most of majority of fans in all the games they play.

US players will probably never know what hit them when they see such a crowd if they had to play Turkey in the tournament.

[Bukefal]

France will play a one-off game against the USA at Madison Square Garden on 15th August as part of the team's preparations for the FIBA World Championship, which begins in Turkey just under a fortnight later.

France will hold training camp from 25th July to 6th August in Pau and take on Tunisia on 7th August. They will travel to Toronto to face Canada - one of their opponents in Izmir's Group D - twice (12th and 13th August).

Vincent Collet's men will then make the trip across the border to challenge Mike Krzyzewski's Team USA as part of a tournament organised by Nike.

The last time the two teams went up against one other on American soil was at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Should be good, at madison square garden

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Brazil's roster


PG Marcelo Huertas/Alex Garcia
SG Leandro Barbosa/Marcelo Machado/Jonathan Tavernari
SF Marcus Vinicius/Guilherme Giovanonni
PF Anderson Varejao/J.P. Batista
C Nene/Tiago Splitter/Paulo Prestes

Rafael Hettsheimeir, Valter Apolinario, Betinho Duarte, Augusto Lima are also good possibilities.


Very strong roster that they can put together.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Serbia announced 22 man prelim roster

Milos Teodosic (Olympiacos, Greece)
Stefan Markovic (Hemofarm, Serbia)
Bojan Popovic (Efes Pilsen, Turkey)
Milenko Tepic (Panathinaikos, Greece)
Aleksandar Rasic (Partizan, Serbia)
Uros Tripkovic (DKV Joventut, Spain)
Dragan Milosavljevic (Radnicki Kragujevac, Serbia)
Ivan Paunic (Aris, Greece)
Marco Kešelj (Red Star, Serbia)
Nemanja Bjelica (Red Star)
Mladen Jeremic (FMP Zeleznik, Serbia)
Milan Mačvan (Hemofarm)
Dusko Savanović (Cajasol, Spain)
Novica Velickovic (Real Madrid, Spain)
Zoran Erceg (Panionios, Greece)
Ivan Radenovic (Cajasol)
Luka Bogdanovic (DKV Joventut)
Nenad Krstic (Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA)
Kosta Perovic (Power Electronics Valencia, Spain)
Darko Milicic (Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA)
Miroslav Raduljica (FMP Zeleznik)
Boban Marjanovic (Hemofarm)

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Turkey announced 15 man prelim roster

Oguz Savas
Omer Asik
Omer Onan
Semih Erden
Ender Arslan
Kerem Gonlum
Kerem Tunceri
Sinan Guler
Cehver Ozer
Engin Atsur
Fatih Solak
Evren Buker
Cenk Akyol
Ersan Ilyasova
Hedo Turkoglu


Once again Mogrovejo was proven wrong and proven that he is just a fake. at Mogrovejo saying Enes Kanter would make their team.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Greece announced 22 man prelim roster. Roster will be shortened to 18 next week after first cut of players.

Papaloukas, Kalampokis and Vasileiadis might get cut because they are injured.

Kostas Vasileiadis
Kostas Tsartsaris
Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
Theodoros Papaloukas
Dimitris Diamantidis
Kostas Papanikolau
Ian Vougioukas
Dimitrios Mavroeidis
Vassilis Spanoulis
Nikos Kalathis
Nikos Zisis
Ioannis Kalampokis
Stratos Perperoglou
Georgios Printezis
Antonis Fotsis
Kostas Kaimakoglou
Kostas Koufos
Ioannis Bourousis
Sofoklis Schortsanitis
Andreas Glyniadakis
Nikos Pappas
Michalis Pelekanos

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

France 18 man prelim roster

Alexis Ajinca
Nicolas Batum
Rodrigue Beaubois
Yannick Bokolo
Fabian Causeur
Nando De Colo
Boris Diaw
Antoine Diot
Mickaël Gelabale
Edwin Jackson
Alain Koffi
Charles Lombahe-Kahuda
Ian Mahinmi
Joakim Noah
Florent Pietrus
Kevin Seraphim
Ali Traore
Ludovic Vaty

replacement players

Aldo Curti
Dounia Issa
Aymeric Jeanneau
Abdoulaye M'Baye
Adrien Moerman
Johan Petro

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Germany announced their 16 man prelim roster


Steffen Hamann
Lucca Staiger
Demond Greene
Yassin Idbihi
Heiko Schaffartzik
Robin Benzing
Per Guenther
Philipp Schwethelm
Chad Toepper
Konrad Wysocki
Elias Harris
Jan-Hendrik Jagla
Johannes Strasser
Tim Ohlbrecht
Tibor Pleiss
Christopher McNaughton

reserve

Patrick Femerling

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Spain announced 24 man prelim roster

Pablo Aguilar
Carlos Cabezas
Saúl Blanco
José Calderón
Victor Claver
Rudy Fernandez
Germain Gabriel
Jorge Garbajosa
Marc Gasol
Sergio Llull
Raúl López
Rafa Martinez
Alex Mumbrú
Juan Carlos Navarro
Brad Oleson
Felipe Reyes
Berni Rodríguez
Sergio Rodriguez
Ricky Rubio
Victor Sada
Fernando San Emeterio
Carlos Suárez
Juanjo Bunting
Fran Vazquez

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Slovenia announced their 20 man prelim roster


Jaka Lakovic
Sani Becirovic
Sandi Cebular
Goran Dragic
Jaka Klobucar
Beno Udrih
Samo Udrih
Zoran Dragic
Goran Jagodnik
Dino Muric
Bostjan Nachbar
Uros Slokar
Miha Zupan
Primoz Brezec
Matej Krusic
Hasan Rizvic
Gasper Vidmar

reserves

Mirza Begic
Alksandar Capin
Marko Vranjkovic

[easy7]

I thougth the Laker's were world champions? Just saying...

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

I thougth the Laker's were world champions? Just saying...

They are NBA champions not world champions. This is according to Stern himself. NBA champ, not world champ. Only stupid ESPN comes up with re ed like calling US-Canada winner "world champion".

Notice on the Lakers banner it says NBA champion, not world champion. because they are NOT world champion.

[easy7]

They are NBA champions not world champions. This is according to Stern himself. NBA champ, not world champ. Only stupid ESPN comes up with re ed like calling US-Canada winner "world champion".

Notice on the Lakers banner it says NBA champion, not world champion. because they are NOT world champion.

I told people that and I agree with you but someone even posted a ring that had the inscription "Lakers world champions."

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

I told people that and I agree with you but someone even posted a ring that had the inscription "Lakers world champions."

The ring maker is re ed.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Spain announced their first cut down to 15 players

Ricky Rubio
Jose Calderon
Sergio Llull
Juan Carlos Navarro
Rafa Martinez
Rudy Fernandez
Fernando San Emeterio
Alex Mumbru
Carlos Suarez
Victor Claver
Jorge Garbajosa
Pablo Aguilar
Felipe Reyes
Fran Vazquez
Marc Gasol

[Venti Quattro]

The ring maker is re ed.

Don't worry son, the US will lay claim to that le once again, so you can shut up.

[dickface]

They are NBA champions not world champions. This is according to Stern himself. NBA champ, not world champ. Only stupid ESPN comes up with re ed like calling US-Canada winner "world champion".

Notice on the Lakers banner it says NBA champion, not world champion. because they are NOT world champion.

Actually the Lakers and Celtics both still put "World Champions" on their banners. It's re ed, but then again so are the Lakers and Celtics.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Greece announced first cut of their players from 22 to 17.

Vassilis Spanoulis
Ioannis Bourousis
Sofoklis Schortsanitis
Antonis Fotsis
Dimitris Diamantidis
Kostas Vasileiadis
Nikos Zisis
Georgios Printezis
Stratos Perperoglou
Kostas Kaimakoglou
Ian Vougioukas
Kostas Tsartsaris
Panos Vasilopoulos
Loukas Mavrokefalidis
Nikos Kalathis
Nikos Pappas
Kostas Papanikolaou

Papaloukas, Pelekanos, and Mavroeidis did not play.

[TE]

gonna be an exciting tournament...


KPB, do you by any chance know who is on the USA roster as of now?

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

gonna be an exciting tournament...


KPB, do you by any chance know who is on the USA roster as of now?

No. They have not announce anything except 31 man selection.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Croatia announced their 17 man prelim roster

Roko Leni Ukic
Zoran Planinic
Marko Popovic
Davor Kus
Marko Tomas
Bojan Bogdanovic
Hrvoje Peric
Rok Stipcevic
Krunoslav Simon
Kresimir Loncar
Marko Banic
Stanko Barac
Ante Tomic
Luka Zoric
Vedran Vukusic
Mario Delas
Leon Radosevic

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

USA announce the 22 man prelim roster


Chauncey Billups
Stephen Curry
Tyreke Evans
Eric Gordon
Andre Iguodala
O.J. Mayo
Chris Paul
Derrick Rose
Russell Westbrook
Deron Williams
LaMarcus Aldridge
Kevin Durant
Rudy Gay
Danny Granger
Jeff Green
Kevin Love
Amar'e Stoudemire
Gerald Wallace
Al Jefferson
Brook Lopez
David Lee
Lamar Odom

[Venti Quattro]

lol Kendrick Perkins. The dude is injured until December, brah

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Spain announced the roster

PG Jose Calderon/Ricky Rubio/Rafael Martinez
SG Juan Carlos Navarro/Sergio Llull
SF Rudy Fernandez/Alex Mumbru
PF Jorge Garbajosa/Victor Claver
C Marc Gasol/Felipe Reyes/Pablo Aguilar


Not just that Pau is not playing but also no Fernando San Emeterio, Fran Vazquez, Carlos Suarez, Berni Rodriguez, Carlos Cabezas, Raul Lopez, Carlos Jimenez, Sergio Rodriguez, Sergi Vidal, Roger Grimau.....

is very different team than they have used in the past. From there roster they will be top 3 team on paper but no stronger than US and Greece.

I have doubts if this team can beat US team if they meet in semifinal. But depends on how young US team is with roster they are talking about is too young to face such Spanish team probably.

I think if Spain meet Serbia also might lose to them but I still think Spain will be better.

I think if Spain meet Greece in final Greece has excellent chance even without Papaloukas, Vasilopoulos, Pelekanos, Mavroeidis, Koufos, Glyniadakis and all them that are not playing Greece still has excellent chance against that Spain.

Greece front court is a little too strong for that team Spain team I think.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Team USA announce the 15 man preliminary roster:

Chauncey Billups
Tyson Chandler
Stephen Curry
Kevin Durant
Rudy Gay
Eric Gordon
Danny Granger
Jeff Green
Andre Iguodala
Brook Lopez
Kevin Love
Lamar Odom
Rajon Rondo
Derrick Rose
Russell Westbrook