Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2023

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Latvia 

[nenad 442]

2 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Huge wasted chance for Latvia. Don't really see how such a weak team will finish ahead of Spain/Italy/Greece/Slovenia/France/Turkey/Lithuania next year.

 

Latvia is not a weak team, they may look weak on paper but they played a great tournament, had some big wins without 2 very very important players and they were one shot away from the semifinals. So, that's not a fluke, they're fantasticaly coached and played great basketball. 

 

For starters they are in a far better position to be ahead of France and Turkey in OQT next year, because France is already qualified and Turkey didn't qualify for OQT. And beside that all those other teams except maybe Spain don't have roster better than Latvia. Greece, Italy, Lithuania haven't showed nothing at this tournament to show that they're better than Latvia. 

 

Also, Slovenia could still qualify at this WC. 

[Tigercub 71]

Luka Doncic already fouled out in the ballgame, looked upset going into the dug out with still 6-7 mins left in the 4th, so Canada completes semis cast unless a miracle happens for Slovenia

 

but wait, Slovenia makes a mini run trims Canada’s lead to 11, over 4mins remaining haha

Edited September 6, 2023 by Tigercub

[nenad 442]

2 minutes ago, Tigercub said:

Luka Doncic already fouled out in the ballgame, looked upset going into the dug out with still 6-7 mins left in the 4th, so Canada completes semis cast unless a miracle happens for Slovenia

 

but wait, Slovenia makes a mini run trims Canada’s lead to 11, over 4mins remaining haha

Didn't foul out, he got 2 technicals which is automatically ejection. 

[Tigercub 71]

SGA is unstoppable 

[orangeman 2,002]

Canada off to the semis!

[thepharoah 2,405]

Germany and Serbia qualify to Olympics , now we have all 8 qualifiers before OQT 

[ChandlerMne 1,041]

Congrats to Serbia and Germany!

Battle for remaining places will be so interesting. 

[OlympicsFan 859]

2 hours ago, nenad said:

 

Latvia is not a weak team, they may look weak on paper but they played a great tournament, had some big wins without 2 very very important players and they were one shot away from the semifinals. So, that's not a fluke, they're fantasticaly coached and played great basketball. 

 

For starters they are in a far better position to be ahead of France and Turkey in OQT next year, because France is already qualified and Turkey didn't qualify for OQT. And beside that all those other teams except maybe Spain don't have roster better than Latvia. Greece, Italy, Lithuania haven't showed nothing at this tournament to show that they're better than Latvia. 

 

Also, Slovenia could still qualify at this WC. 

Latvia is a weak team. They got thrashed by Canada and in most of their matches against the other good teams they were down by 10+ points and only came back because those teams took it easy. Germany tried to lose today (only explanation for why Schröder was allowed to be a -20 and go 4/26) and Latvia still couldn't win. Too bad that Turkey won't participate, but France can participate, so of course Latvia could finish lower than France. I didn't say that France will qualify over them. Lithuania (if everyone plays), Slovenia, Spain, Greece (if everyone plays) and possibly Italy all have stronger teams. You probably missed it, but Slovenia is already out (which of course was completely expected).

Edited September 6, 2023 by OlympicsFan

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but France is already qualified for the games? why would she participate in the TQO?