Men's Basketball FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments 2023

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Men's Basketball FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments 2023

 

Various Cities - 12 August 2023 - 20 August 2023

 

 

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Edited August 11, 2023 by Sindo

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[Cinnamon Bun 911]

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.  

[Rafa Maciel 1,658]

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. 

[Makedonas 2,239]

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.

[Cinnamon Bun 911]

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   

[Biathlonfan 796]

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 

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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

[Laraja 1,498]

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

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