Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2019

[Dunadan 1,103]

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Dragic is done and they don't have much depth + they would first have to get a wildcard and Latvia, Croatia and maybe Germany (if they don't qualify here) will also want one. Greece, France and Lithuania are the 3rd, 4th and 5th best teams in europe in my opinion and then we have a lot of nations that could get the 4th ticket (if europe even will be able to win 4 tickets at the world qualifier).

 

There is no wild card...Slovenia and Croatia will play at the OQT as the top 2 non qualified european teams in the ranking.

[JOSE SEIJO 0]

En 2/9/2019 a las 15:39, Wanderer dijo:

Wow, @JOSE SEIJO  obtuvo el puntaje perfecto para el partido Serbia-Filipinas. El  próximo cierre fue de heywoodu y titicow, +40 

Mientras tanto, @Henry_Leon  puso +7 solo para Serbia 

[OlympicsFan 858]

7 hours ago, Dunadan said:

 

There is no wild card...Slovenia and Croatia will play at the OQT as the top 2 non qualified european teams in the ranking.

Great, so FIBA is another corrupt organization that changes the qualifying procedure during the qualification process ...

Latvia is clearly better than those 2 teams and would have had as good a chance as any european nation not named Spain/Serbia/France/Lithuania/Greece to qualify for the olympics.

[dareza 911]

Czech Republic

[Vektor 3,326]

Brazil is throwing away their Olympic quota and Top8 placement against Czech Republic. 

[OlympicsFan 858]

Just now, dareza said:

Czech Republic

Indeed very impressive, especially because Vesely is missing! New Zealand also was rather good so far without Adams. The results here show that the results of the preparation games have absolutely no value. Germany lost against Japan (a team that didn't even make it out of their group and got thrashed by New Zealand), at the same time Germany won against Australia and Czech Republic comfortably and those two teams are doing great so far.

Edited September 7, 2019 by OlympicsFan

[OlympicsFan 858]

1 minute ago, Vektor said:

Brazil is throwing away their Olympic quota and Top8 placement against Czech Republic. 

Why? Do we already know that Brazil won't qualify for the world qualifier? I have to say that the american teams have the second most difficult path to the olympics after the european team.

In case they will/can still qualify for the world qualifier: Of course it will/would be difficult for them, but not impossible, especially if other teams like the Domincan Republic or Canada will again miss their best players.

 

In my opinion there should be 16 teams at the olympics, for example:

USA

Canada

Brazil

Argentina

Dominican Republic

Japan

China

Australia

Nigeria

Cameroon

Spain

Serbia

France

Greece

Lithuania

Germany/Turkey/Italy/Slovenia/Latvia/Croatia

 

That would be a great tournament with pretty competitive groups, for example:

USA

Lithuania

Brazil

Cameroon (Siakam + Embiid)

 

Nigeria

Serbia

Australia

Dominican Republic (Towns + Horford)

 

Japan

Spain

Greece

Canada

 

Argentina

China

France

Germany/Turkey/Italy/Slovenia/Latvia/Croatia

Edited September 7, 2019 by OlympicsFan

[dareza 911]

Brazil like 2014. Great in first round and after that disaster.

[Benolympique 2,398]

link france lithuania ?

[rajiv 31]

If they only had the best 12 at the Olympics there wouldn't be any Asian or African teams .

Still I don't have much  sympathy for European and Americas teams who don't qualify . They aren't in the top 3 from their continent at the qualifying tournament ( the World Cup ) so they can't complain too much about lost medal opportunities 

 

Still the Olympics are meant to be global .at least in participation 

I have a real problem with the Winter Olympics claiming to be some sort of global event  where many events really are only seriously undertaken in a few European countries  ( And furthermore if they weren't an Olympic event wouldn't even exist outside even fewer  countries  eg luge )

No country south of the Tropic of Cancer -  ie most of the world's people -    ever features