Basketball tournaments

[Jussi]

Men's tournament under way. Really close game between France and USA going on.

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[Jussi]

This might end up as the lowest scoring game featuring US NBA players.

 

[Jussi]

2 point game with under 2 minutes to go.

 

[Tuggy]

What a play by France to take the lead...40 seconds to go. France lead by 2.

US with 3 open looks at 3's and miss them all

 

[Jussi]

France ahead by 2 points!

 

[Jussi]

23 seconds to go, France up by 2 and with possession.

 

[DoyleG]

What a play by France to take the lead...40 seconds to go. France lead by 2.

US with 3 open looks at 3's and miss them all

and taking out a player to have a 5 v 4 advantage.

 

[Jussi]

21.8 seconds left, France up by 4!

 

[Tuggy]

France ran that same inbound play twice and hit two 3's in a row to get them back in the game.

 

[Tuggy]

And Lillard falls down and that should do it

 

[Jussi]

US could have gone for a two to tie the game on those three open looks but no, must play hero ball.

 

[Juve]

This commentator has to be the cure for insomnia.

 

[DoyleG]

KD fouls out.

 

[Tuggy]

This commentator has to be the cure for insomnia.

Yeah, he's pretty bad

 

[Jussi]

France wins 83-76.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

That just provided a year's worth of material for loads of talking heads.

 

[member 305909]

I don't watch basketball at all but I've heard that these days there are more foreigners, I mean non-Americans, in the NBA than before and the number keeps on rising.

The NBA seems to go the same route as the NHL

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Basketball is arguably the second most popular sport globally behind soccer, and it's growing. The rest of the world has definitely been catching up and the pool of international talent is getting wider and deeper with each year basically everywhere.

 

[chauron]

Viva La France!

 

[Albatros]

Basketball is arguably the second most popular sport globally behind soccer, and it's growing. The rest of the world has definitely been catching up and the pool of international talent is getting wider and deeper with each year basically everywhere.

Maybe, but at the latest NBA draft there were only 14 non-American players taken (and even of them several were dual US citizens). In hockey this year the first 60 picks had 21 non-North Americans.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

NBA rules have made the USA soft. They basically became a jump shot team today. The rest of the world plays with FIBA rules all the time and as a result the style of play is much different. It is more of a half court game and much more physical with less fouls. It was like they were surprised they weren’t getting calls and just stopped being aggressive.

Also the lack of quality bigs for USA should be concerning. Outside of McGee they have no size.

 

[adsfan]

Can anybody tell me why France has a player wearing #93?

I thought that Olympic players wore numbers 1 to 15 inclusive?

 

[Albatros]

Can anybody tell me why France has a player wearing #93?

I thought that Olympic players wore numbers 1 to 15 inclusive?

The Americans do 4 to 15, but there's no rule making it so.

"Teams may only use numbers 0 and 00 and from 1 to 99."

 

[Jussi]

There are some sports such as men's BB and women's BB and soccer where the US assumes gold, but it may not happen this year.

I think they're locked in for the women's basketball gold.

 

[UncleElroy]

Basketball is arguably the second most popular sport globally behind soccer, and it's growing. The rest of the world has definitely been catching up and the pool of international talent is getting wider and deeper with each year basically everywhere.

That and the nba is a joke of a league for how it’s officiated. You can actually play hard in your face defense in every other basketball league in the world besides the nba. So I’m not shocked to see the US struggle. These guys are playing a game of basketball that is unfamiliar