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Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2019


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Lol at the Northern Americans...we don't care so the tournament is not worthy, it should be cancelled and replaced by the NBA Summer League Special Edition.

And Canada has never shown to be a major player in international basketball...they could have done it this time but if they don't care the World Cup will be fine without their supposed top team.

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3 hours ago, ofan said:

Kelly Olynyk out for Canada. They should honestly just cancel this tournament. 

This gave me the hardest laugh of the day :d 

 

Even my arms were less salty after two hours of hard cycling in the sun today.

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2 hours ago, dareza said:

Don't agree. At least the best European nations will be with best teams (only Italy has problems). And Australia with best team as well. Well, for European teams, players and fans this is very important competition.

The australian best team is without Simmons?

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3 hours ago, ofan said:

This is going to be like the Ice Hockey World Championships in terms of caliber of professional players who participate, only worse....

Why? USA is missing tons of players but apart from that most of the best players are here except for Simmons. It's not as if Canada has any stars, even with everyone participating Canada would have been an outsider for a medal considering that no canadian player even remotely has the quality of Giannis or Jokic.

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Just now, OlympicsFan said:

The australian best team is without Simmons?

 

Ok, one great player, but still even without him they are great.

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28 minutes ago, dareza said:

I only know that Serbia will win one more world medal, so don't care for other nations :P

How can you know something that lies in the future and isn't under your influence? :wacko:

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Just now, OlympicsFan said:

How can you know something that lies in the future and isn't under your influence? :wacko:

 

That was joke. Of course, I expect at least SF, but it will not be so easy.

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5 hours ago, NearPup said:

They might as well call this the B Basketball World Championship, it’s worse than the Ice Hockey World Championship in terms of player participation.

 

Though, granted, even the Olympics are weird in that regard given that the US could probably have the best, second best, third best and fourth best teams.

 

Either way, it’s shaping up to be a bit of a boring competition. Big scrap for silver while the :USA C team dominates.

 

Most nations are here with their best players, only the US is missing tons of players + Canada, but even at their full strength Canada wouldn't have been favorite for a medal. In ice hockey the absence of players has a big influence on the final result, but in basketball that probably won't be the case. USA will still win and Serbia will probably win silver like they always do even if all the best teams compete.

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