rybak 2,898 Posted September 6, 2023 #511 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Latvia Olympian1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nenad 410 Posted September 6, 2023 #512 Share Posted September 6, 2023 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. intoronto and Josh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigercub 55 Posted September 6, 2023 #513 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nenad 410 Posted September 6, 2023 #514 Share Posted September 6, 2023 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. Josh and Tigercub 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigercub 55 Posted September 6, 2023 #515 Share Posted September 6, 2023 SGA is unstoppable Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman 1,439 Posted September 6, 2023 #516 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Canada off to the semis! Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,404 Posted September 6, 2023 #517 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Germany and Serbia qualify to Olympics , now we have all 8 qualifiers before OQT Josh and George_D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChandlerMne 676 Posted September 6, 2023 #518 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Congrats to Serbia and Germany! Battle for remaining places will be so interesting. Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 791 Posted September 6, 2023 #519 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) 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 Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 2,109 Posted September 6, 2023 #520 Share Posted September 6, 2023 but France is already qualified for the games? why would she participate in the TQO? George_D and nenad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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