Libertine
Years ago
USA started on fire, 19-3 to open. Durant x3 3s in the opening minutes.
Argentina slowly fought back and finished the 2Q on a 21-8 run to be down 40-47 at HT.
If you're not watching it, get on it now. Some quality ball being played.
fairly obvious that Kobe & Durant have the superior game to Lebron. James game just consists of power lay-up and sooking
Anon12
Years ago
Interesting to listen to the commentators about medal contenders in London. USA was their obvious choice for Gold and then Spain and Argentina. Brazil & France as outsiders with Russia the smokey. No mention at all of Australia. In reality their choices are probably accurate, unfortunately. Boomers to probably finish somewhere in the 7-10 bracket, where they are currently ranked. Like most Aussies I would like to see the Boomers in medal contention but I think the basketball gods and the planets need to be in alignment for this to happens. Hope I'm wrong.
Yes Australia seems to be around the middle of the pack... just behind the smokey. can beat any particular team on there night but probably arent consistant enough .. id love to be wrong ofcourse. iof Bogut was in the mix we would be in the medal chat..
nobody
Years ago
First of all, USA have revealed their biggest problem which is their lack of size of their big guys, teams like Spain, Brazil and Argentina which have a lot of talented big guys, can be a real threat to USA. Second of all USA so far have not been able to find a way to break down opponent's zone defence. In the international completion, other teams are very good at zoom defence. If USA can't manage to solve these two problems, the gold medal is still out of reach
USA - Gold medal in the bag.
Zoom defence or Zone defence does not matter! ;)
MACDUB
Years ago
Just realised how many Argentina players have dual citizenship with Italy.
Nocioni, Delfino, Manu, Prigioni, Hernan Jansen all have Italian citizenship.
Interesting.
Just realised how many Argentina players have dual citizenship with Italy.
Nocioni, Delfino, Manu, Prigioni, Hernan Jansen all have Italian citizenship.
Interesting.
Yes, and,
Scola is Italian.
Campazzo is Italian.
JP Gutierrez is Spanish.
Kammerichs is German.
Lieva is Italian.
Mata is Spanish.
L. Gutierrez is Spanish.
This is how it has always been with Argentina's national team. It's always been made up of European 2nd and 3rd generation "Argentines".
In fact, it's been 75% to 80% made up of Italians pretty much forever.
It should be pretty obvious.
1. Most people in Argentina are Italian/German.
2. They have so many "Argentine" athletes with dual citizenship because they come from all the immigrants that fled Germany and Italy in the 30s and 40s. Thus, they are eligible for citizenship.
3. Just look at the freaking names of the players..
Prigioni, Scola, Nocioni, Delfino, Ginobili....
Oberto was also Italian, etc.....
I mean, it does not get any more Italian than those names. Those names are as Italian as Italian can be.
It's odd though that for some reason, NBA fans don't even have the slightest clue that they are all Italians, even though they have blatantly Italian names and speak Italian.
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