Doubtful, he's just playing against men now.
Thats exactly right..RR will be fine but there is going to be an adjustment period for him though since he will now be playing against faster,stronger,bigger, and smarter players now that he is on the national team for GB. Should be fun to watch his development as he gets more used to the compe ion he will be facing on this level.
27 points from Tony in tonights win over Australia (71-67).
(telling from the box score de Colo was pretty bad)
Some random news about the friendly tournament in London:
- Parker is still balling.
- Highlights of GB/France with some nice plays form Batum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN5jyTfHnSI
- Pop is still here: http://twitpic.com/67lg2s
- GB lost against Croatia 75-70. Richards played 12 minutes and was scoreless.
- Turiaf broke his hand and is likely out for the summer. Rumors are that former Spurs Mahinmi will be call up instead of bringing back Traoré who was cut a week ago.
pop looks miserable there.
Random news of the day:
- Liuthunia beat Spain 88-76. Valanciunas shows again that he is for real. Javtokas injured his elbow. The full game is available on youtube.
- London results of the day: France beat China 76-59, Australia beat Croatia 78-66 and Serbia beat Great Britain 97-95. Boxscores: http://london2012.fiba.com//pages/en.../schedule.html
- Parker was given a day off, I wouldn't be surprised to see Pop behind this. De Colo scored 14 points but he continues to struggle shooting the ball like he did the whole year in Spain. Richards went scoreless for the third straight time. I wonder if he will be cut soon.
- Hungary won't go to the Eurobasket after another loss against Portugal. It sucks that Hanga won't play at a high level this summer. I haven't seen these games but Hanga stats during the qualifying tournament looks quite bad.
ARG plays URU tonight in Montevideo, in what promises to be the first difficult challenge for team ARG. This is a friendly game with both teams trying to get ready for the olympic qualifier tournament.
what time are they paying?
They're playing now.
EDIT: Game finished. Argentina wins 77-50
Last edited by ElNono; 08-19-2011 at 09:35 PM.
France beat Croatia 83-60 with Pop still at the game. It was a fun game to watch with a good De Colo.
Boxscore: http://london2012.fiba.com//pages/en...6232/game.html
Some highlights:
lol greece lost to italy? what a joke
This summer has confirmed that some players whose NBA rights are owned by Spurs are nowhere near ready to have some kind of impact with Spurs:
- Ryan Richards played 5 games with great Britain in a tournament in London and didn't scored a single point.
- Davis Bertans barely play with Latvia despite the team missing a lot of players. He was also quite bad at the U19 WC.
- Adam Hanga did nothing great with Hungary and they failed to qualify at the Euobasket with a 0-4record.
Cory Joseph could soon join this list of players far away of the NBA level. His debut with Canada surely wasn't promising.
I don't have the wisdom to estimate how many years he was away from an Euroleague career, so I rather go with facts.
Richards did not play in Austria.
(why am I not surprised that someone who struggles to figure out the accurate position of a player on a court also isn't able to find the right country on a map.)
Beat BYU without Jimmer Freddette. Why even bother posting this?
Magnano reveals 12-man squad
San Antonio Spurs center Tiago Splitter and Barcelona Regal point guard Marcelo Huertas will be the leaders of a star-less Brazil as their three top players were unavailable for coach Magnano.
Nene Hilario, a 28-year old free agent, who averaged 14.2 points and 7.6 rebounds per game during the last NBA season playing for Denver Nuggets, was the first one to withdraw from the team as he decided to prioritize his professional career.
Leandrinho Barbosa, who represented Toronto Raptors during the 2010/11 NBA season, followed Nene as he resigned the call for personal reasons.
He has just signed a deal with Flamengo, one of the most popular teams in the Brazilian League, where he will play during the NBA lockout.
Anderson Varejao was planning to play in Mar del Plata but an injury in his right ankle ruled him out of the tournament.
Magnano, a gold medallist in Athens 2004 with Argentina, announced the roster with still a week to go from tips off.
"I'm really optimistic," said the Argentina-born coach. "We don't even think about the players that are missing, we have a great team."
Tiago Splitter will have to do his best to replace missing centers Nene and Varejao.
"There are high-level players from great teams from Brazil and Europe," explained Tiago.
"The job has to be shared and we will all have to do a little bit better."
http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/new...8898/arti.html
ARG - VEN friendly starting now (8PM ET)
EDIT: Game finished, ARG wins 77-73
Last edited by ElNono; 08-25-2011 at 09:11 PM.
http://www.fibatv.com/live/id/669053
brazil and dominican right now
brazil is playing well without tiago.
marcelo huertas is really good. the spurs should get him.
He's great. Him and Splitter were an amazing duo in Spain.
Just signed by Barcelona, tho.
Hehe splitter dominating Al Horford 1 on 1.
tiago really needs to work in his free throws.
I'll never forgive the stupid spurs coach that thought it was a good idea to convince a 26yo CENTER to change his shooting motion.
He was a 67%+ FT shooter now he barely hits 50%
ing idiots.
huertas is a PnR monster.
he would be really good in the NBA game, he would adapt much better than Rubio.
i feel bad for tiago with his free throws.
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