OFFICIAL FIBA World Cup Spain 2014 Thread

Everything I've read leads me to believe that Rose already made the team and they're just resting him now to try out other players ej. Lillard
 
Like the best all around player in the world
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Jason Kidd is gonna let Giannis flourish. He's REALLY good at player development. Gets the most out of his guys. Scary to think what Giannis can do next year. He looked like a monster in SL.
 
Jason Kidd is gonna let Giannis flourish. He's REALLY good at player development. Gets the most out of his guys. Scary to think what Giannis can do next year. He looked like a monster in SL.

Dude played a year in the NBA already. He should be a monster in SL lol.
 
I'm gonna assume you didn't watch him if you're saying that. Plenty of 2nd and 3rd year players look good - they don't look like Giannis did at the age of 19.
 
I'm gonna assume you didn't watch him if you're saying that. Plenty of 2nd and 3rd year players look good - they don't look like Giannis did at the age of 19.

First of all, I went to SL and saw him play twice.

Yes, there are plenty of 2nd and 3rd year guys who are free agents trying to land a fall camp invite. Giannis is not that type of player. Second year players who played significant minutes the previous season often look better than everyone else at SL. It's a bad sign if they aren't dominating (like a Shabazz Muhammed).
 
Jason Kidd is gonna let Giannis flourish. He's REALLY good at player development. Gets the most out of his guys. Scary to think what Giannis can do next year. He looked like a monster in SL.
Hope that's true, for Alphabet, Bari, and Henson.

How Kidd handles Larry Sanders will reveal a lot about Milwaukee's direction and identity.
 
First of all, I went to SL and saw him play twice.

Yes, there are plenty of 2nd and 3rd year guys who are free agents trying to land a fall camp invite. Giannis is not that type of player. Second year players who played significant minutes the previous season often look better than everyone else at SL. It's a bad sign if they aren't dominating (like a Shabazz Muhammed).

I don't know what you're arguing. 2nd year players look better than everyone else but they don't all look like monsters. Do you think he looked like the average good 2nd year NBA player? I thought he looked much better and is due for a big year - even without looking at the stats.
 
Hopefully the US builds off their strong performance vs DR......

I wonder if Carlos Arroyo is playing this afternoon
 
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Should be tomorrow. They have a game overseas on Tuesday, and they probably don't want to travel with more than the final roster.
 
Interesting that the most basic ball movement seems to break down our defensive rotation..........
 
Interesting that the most basic ball movement seems to break down our defensive rotation..........

They don't really have the Iggy type to feverishly defend the perimeter. It was supposed to be Paul George. Klay is the closest thing to that.
 
Looking like garbage out there. Jacking up threes, missing layups, no defense.
 
It amazes me how good random role players that are either barely in the NBA or just bench players play together in international competition :lol:

Balkman and Arroyo getting nice.
 
Interesting that the most basic ball movement seems to break down our defensive rotation..........

They don't really have the Iggy type to feverishly defend the perimeter. It was supposed to be Paul George. Klay is the closest thing to that.
Its not even that, I'm saying PR makes 2 or 3 extremely simple passes around the horn, and our team D is completely loss.... It's weird to me because it's not something new that I've noticed either. Almost every international competition we get exploited by basic ball movement.

Of course, with a lock down defender like Iggy/George/Kobe/etc it's nice because those guys prevent the most simplest basketball movements to happen :lol: but even then, a few passes + our D playing over aggressive= our guys lost in rotation
 
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As long as Thompson touches the ball on the 3 he's shooting it. Doesn't even care if there are 2 hands in his face 
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