Totallympics 55 Posted April 21, 2023 #1 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) Men's Basketball FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments 2023 Various Cities - 12 August 2023 - 20 August 2023 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread Edited August 11, 2023 by Sindo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cinnamon Bun 383 Posted April 21, 2023 #3 Share Posted April 21, 2023 You know it's times like this that remind me how much of a joke we can be at times. Our Basketball team isn't even that bad, we would've had an outside chance at qualification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,257 Posted April 21, 2023 #4 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Can't believe GB decided not to take up their place in the pre-qualification tournament. OK, they were unlikely to qualify, but let's be honest, they don't get a huge amount of international competition so how do they hope to improve if they're not even going to bother trying. UK Sport (so basically UK taxpayers) awarded GB Basketball 1.3 million for this Olympic cycle as part of their Paris Pathway program - but where has the money gone? We've seen nothing from the 3x3 squads despite the success and excitement that they generated during last year's Commonwealth Games and now they don't even want to try to qualify the men's team for Paris. It's smacks of pretty poor management within the sport but then again, basketball is not alone in that respect in UK sport right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,582 Posted April 22, 2023 #5 Share Posted April 22, 2023 I don't agree with this format, there are too many games nowadays. If you don't make WC then you shouldn't get another chance to make the Olympics. Just my two cents. Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Bun 383 Posted April 22, 2023 #6 Share Posted April 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said: Can't believe GB decided not to take up their place in the pre-qualification tournament. OK, they were unlikely to qualify, but let's be honest, they don't get a huge amount of international competition so how do they hope to improve if they're not even going to bother trying. UK Sport (so basically UK taxpayers) awarded GB Basketball 1.3 million for this Olympic cycle as part of their Paris Pathway program - but where has the money gone? We've seen nothing from the 3x3 squads despite the success and excitement that they generated during last year's Commonwealth Games and now they don't even want to try to qualify the men's team for Paris. It's smacks of pretty poor management within the sport but then again, basketball is not alone in that respect in UK sport right now. It seems to me like that 1.3 mill has gone entirely to the women's main team, the other 3 have just been completed snubbed and disregarded. Obviously they have the best chance of qualifying (a decent shot at that) but to take the opportunity away from at least one other team to prioritise them is completely uncalled for. This is yet another example of our ego getting the better of by not allowing our team to potentially fail at qualifying and get experience from it just so that we can look better in front of the public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biathlonfan 377 Posted April 22, 2023 #7 Share Posted April 22, 2023 6 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said: It seems to me like that 1.3 mill has gone entirely to the women's main team, the other 3 have just been completed snubbed and disregarded. Obviously they have the best chance of qualifying (a decent shot at that) but to take the opportunity away from at least one other team to prioritise them is completely uncalled for. This is yet another example of our ego getting the better of by not allowing our team to potentially fail at qualifying and get experience from it just so that we can look better in front of the public Yay,women's sports hurrah,lol,it's either it deserves to die ala ''trans rights'' or ignore the men,there's no inbetween,lol konig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owenp_23 559 Posted April 30, 2023 #8 Share Posted April 30, 2023 (edited) Hosts Africa: Lagos, Americas: Europe Groups A & B: Gliwice, and Tallinn, Europe Groups C & D: Istanbul, Asia: Draw tomorrow Edited August 13, 2023 by owenp_23 Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laraja 1,371 Posted May 1, 2023 #9 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Draw Europe Group A Group B Group C Group D Americas Group A Group B Asia/Oceania Group A Group B Africa Group A Group B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totallympics 55 Posted May 2, 2023 Author #10 Share Posted May 2, 2023 Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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