FIBA World Championships Game 3: USA vs. Brazil
by Tom Lewis on Aug 30, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
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PrintPlay in Pool B at the FIBA World Championships gets a little more interesting today when the 2-0 USA team takes on 2-0 Brazil at 2:30PM on ESPN.
Brazil relied on Leandro Barbosa and Tiago Splitter to make things go in their first two games. The familiar flopping hair of Anderson Varejao was not a factor in Brazil's first two games as he rested an injured ankle, but the super-sized Side Show Bob is expected to give it a go today.
In their first two games, the U.S. team weathered some patches of sloppy play before eventually rolling to victory. If Brazil shows up to play as they have in their first two games, Team USA will need a more consistent to handle Brazil as they should.
After the jump, a few links of interest with stories on the WC action thus far and some reaction to Brandon Rush's suspension.
USA Faces Test Against Banged Up Brazil
Chris Tomasson previews today's game.
Once again, U.S. defense carries the day at Worlds | NBA.com
John Schuhmann reports on the defensive-minded U.S. team rolling to win number two.
Team USA trying to adjust to FIBA referees, one step at a time
Rob Mahoney focuses on Team USA learning to play through some head-scratching calls by the refs in Istanbul.
Sheridan: Kevin Durant leads Team USA to win over Slovenia in FIBA World Championship. - ESPN
Rush has to go, and he makes Bird and Pacers leaders look like dopes
Bob Kravitz suggests some immediate action in response to Brandon Rush's suspension.
Yes, The Pacers Do Indeed Need To Dump Brandon Rush And His Bong
Brad Wells at SB Nation Indiana agrees with Kravitz on dumping Rush ASAP. If only it were so easy.
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Kravitz is right
If someone doesn’t care about their team enough to stay clean during the season we shouldn’t cut them any slack. But once again it is proven that Rush doesn’t care about basketball at all.
On Rush and the suspension
Just wanted to add my .00002 cents to the “Brandon Rush story”. People forget that he, like any other player, was suspended witout pay, meaning he does not get his “millions of dollars” for the time he is suspended, i.e. he does not get 5/82 of his yearly salary from the league. So much for “Rush should pay for this”.
That said, Kravitz is just an i d i o t. Now that’s not news, but the same guy who said in a comment that the Pacers should wait for the legal judgement on Stephenson and then maybe keep him now says that they should simply get rid of Rush outright? Oh please….
Yes, I know, anybody is innocent until proven guilty, yes I agree with this, but the “incidents” involving Lance Stephenson and Brandon Rush are so different they should not even be discussed in the same post ( but now I’ll have to….). Someone being accused of aggressively assaulting somebody and inflicting physical damage as opposed to somebody smoking weed???? Gimme a break…
Now one can argue about marijuana and in fact, it can be viewed as questionable that it is banned and alcohol is legal (to give full diclosure, I don’t use either of these “drugs”), but OK, the NBA has its rules and not using marijuana is one of them. Fine. Now the league knows that many of its players are from, let’s say “backgrounds”, where smoking pot is the most normal thing on the planet, so they have found the appropriate measure. I don’t always agree with NBA suspensions (for instance, destroying the Pacers franchise for a few years after handing out massive suspensions to the team following the brawl was something I wasn’t particularly happy about), but the league has some measure for suspensions; like, suspending someone indefinitely who threatens someone else with a gun in an NBA locker room as opposed to suspending someone for five games after having failed his third marijuana drug test. Next time he would be suspended for 10 games – without pay.
All in all, what I want to say is this: Guy did not follow the rules, he was appropriately punished for it / is paying for it. Now let’s move on – instead of thinking of ridiculous punishment for minor misdemeanor.
Weird… my fanpost agreed with Kravitz and Wells
Maybe I shouldn’t have deleted it but it was starting to get way of course and in a direction I didn’t want to see it go thanks to 2 idiots.
I really really really hate Chris Bosh. I can’t believe call them the “big three”… its the Big 2 and then Bosh. He isn’t on their level, not even close. And his youtube videos are boring as heck
Does anyone else find the announcer freaking terrible for the games? The “analyst” guy has to be the most boring dude alive. I think he is the same guy who comes in during the drafts to talk about the foreign guys.
Everything is the same with him
“[insert foreign player] is/will be a steal for [insert NBA team] in 2/3/4/5/6 year when he comes over. He compares favorably to [insert Dirk, Gasol, Kucoc, Manu, Parker, any foreign star] he just needs to improve on [insert basic basketball skill such as shooting, dribbling, passing, defending] and needs to put on about 15lbs of muscle.
I'm here
and looking forward to seeing Splitter play. I’ve heard about him for awhile now. How do the Spurs end up with all these good big men?
Splitter has an awkward looking shot
but he just nailed that one. He looks to have a little ways to go to be NBA level. Similar to Hibby in his first couple of years…
Rose, to
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 3:30 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Rose, to
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 3:30 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Rose, to
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 3:31 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Rose, to
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 3:31 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Sorry, IPhone is freaking out.
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 3:31 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
52-50
We got the lead
we started switching the pick and roll
This Fran guy sucks
I swear to god it seems like he’s cheering for Brazil.
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 4:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
BS foul called at the end here.
He choked at the free throw. Basketball gods step in….I think coach K needs to look at different lineups here and there….Fran sounds sad, one of his beloved international teams lost to team US.
Confucious say "He who dives for loose balls need proper fitting athletic cup!"
by Wise Master on Aug 30, 2010 4:22 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Sloppy win by the U.S.
Have to think things would have been different if Sideshow Bob had played for Brazil. A win is a win though…
its just a formality. we will kill the next two opponents
Granger should get to play though lol. He looked so bored all game. Hope the practice has been worth being over there. Almost wish he was in Indy with George and Hibbert
What is Coach K doing?
Granger DNP?
Gordon 5 mins?
Love 5 mins?
Gay 11 mins?
Odom and Billups get 30+ minutes? They were terrible out there. Honestly I don’t even get how they are on the team other than their rep as ‘versatile to a fault’ and ‘Mr. Clutch’. Being ‘versatile and full of potential’ is just an excuse for being a mediocre player with flashes of being good. Being in LA sure has helped Odom’s rep. As for Billups… don’t even get me started on him. He is BY FAR the most overrated player in the NBA. One simple thing to do is look at the ‘clutch shooting’ and you’ll see he actually has a horrible clutch shooting %. Coach K has been listening to the media too much.
I was always under the impression Tiago Splitter was black.
Much to my surprise he was in fact a white guy (or whatever you may make of a white Brazilian). I believe his name is misleading, it’s far to interesting and cool for a white guy. So, I’ve decided that I will refer to him a Theo from now on, because it seems more fitting in my twisted mind.
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