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Er, United States lost a 2006 World Championship semifinals game versus Russia.

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On 05/07/2021 at 07:56, OlympicsFan said:

Crazy to have Olympics without Turkey, Greece, Lithuania, Serbia and Canada. Never would have bet on Italy or the Czech Republic qualifying.

Actually, Canada last played in 2000, and Turkey in 1952! Also Italy was silver in 2004.

 

Anyway, I still don't like that 6 out of 12 teams are European.

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On 30/06/2021 at 01:36, LDOG said:

Turkey won but looked absolutely terrible against maybe the weakest team among all the tournaments.

 

 

Some crazy trivia: it was Uruguay's first official game against an european team since 1986 and we're talking about a team that used to play WCs and olympics regularly for decades.

Another ugly Uruguayan trivia: we didn't host any international basketball between 2003 and 2017.

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Alba Berlin won the Bundesliga, and Uruguayan player Jayson Granger was the Finals MVP.

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I mean they love football, cycling and motorsport, also they are pretty good in tennis and field hockey.

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Great name for a 3x3 tournament, not much for a 5x5 tournament.

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The 2021 Uruguayan Basketball League started this week.

 

Nacional and Peñarol, the traditional football rivals, played each other for the first time since 1993. (Peñarol was absent from basketball for 21 years.)

 

The tricolores defeated the carboneros 85-67.

 

The game was played behind closed doors in Florida rather than Montevideo, to prevent hooliganism.

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Uruguay defeated Paraguay by winning just one quarter.

 

Brazil wasn't authorised to enter Colombia, so the matches were psotponed.

 

Cuba didn't travel to Puerto Rico.

 

More matches today and tomorrow.

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I missed both matches last weekend. Losing both is bad news.

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There's no information about the host.

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2021 FIBA Americas Cup qualifying:

 

• Group A: Argentina,  Chile, Colombia, Venezuela.
• Group B:  Brasil,  Panamá,  Paraguay,  Uruguay.
• Group C:  Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands.
• Group D: United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bahamas.

 

The top 12 teams will qualify. The bottom 4 teams will play the Division B.

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The 2020 NBA All-Star starters were nominated.

 

There are three rookies: Doncic, Siakam and Trae Young.

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Cita

2021 FIBA Americas Cup qualifying:

 

• Group A: Argentina,  Chile, Colombia, Venezuela.
• Group B:  Brasil,  Panamá,  Paraguay,  Uruguay.
• Group C:  Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands.
• Group D: United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bahamas.

 

The top 12 teams will qualify. The bottom 4 teams will play the Division B.

 

The three windows will be February 20-24, November 26-30, and February 18-22.

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3 weeks until the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifiers.

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What's the point of the Olympic qualifier? Didn't they just finished playing the FIBA AmeriCup?

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In Argentina, the final (held at 9:00 local) averaged a 7.3 overnight rating in Buenos Aires, which equals to 730 k viewers (source).

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So FIBA Americas decided to run this tournament at the same time as the WNBA playoffs. Are they crazy?

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China also played poorly at the World Cup qualifiers.

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On September 18-22, Uruguay will host the NBA G-League International Challenge, featuring six teams: NBA G-League Alll Stars, Uruguay All Stars, Bayern Munich (Germany), Flamengo (Brazil), Capitanes (México) and San Lorenzo (Argentina).

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Canada failed to qualify to the Pan American Games...

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2021 FIBA Americas qualifying:

 

• Group A: Argentina,  Chile, Colombia, Venezuela.
• Group B:  Brasil,  Panamá,  Paraguay,  Uruguay.
• Group C:  Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands.
• Group D: United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bahamas.

 

The top 12 teams will qualify. The bottom 4 teams will play the Division B.

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Uruguay made just 6 out of 24 triples versus Puerto Rico. They just don't play well.

 

I think that Nacional and Peñarol should play the Argentine league, to improve playing quality and increase popularity.

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Uruguay will play Mexico today, but the match that matters is on Monday versus Puerto Rico.

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FIBA wants to have national teams play 8 matches per year. Euroleague and NBA say that it's abusive. Oh please.

Edited December 15, 2018 by NaBUru38

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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers continue this week.

 

Uruguay will play at home versus Puerto Rico and United States at the brand new Antel Arena, which costs us US$ 80 million and whose operation was bought (not sold) to AEG .