Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2019

[OlympicsFan 859]

Very impressive win for Germany against Australia (74:64) even without Maodo Lo. Before the last quarter it was 62:43! but then Schröder fouled out half way through the last quarter and the game got somewhat close again.

[Monzanator 4,526]

Team Poland

 

Point Guards:

Lukasz Koszarek (Stelmet Zielona Gora)

Kamil Laczynski (Slask Wroclaw)

A.J. Slaughter (ASVEL Villeurbanne)

 

Shooting Guards:

Karol Gruszecki (Polski Cukier Torun)

Mateusz Ponitka (Zenit St. Petersburg)

 

Small Forwards:

Michal Sokolowski (Stelmet Zielona Gora)

Adam Waczynski (Unicaja Malaga)

 

Power Forwards:

Aleksander Balcerowski (Herbalife Gran Canaria)

Aaron Cel (Polski Cukier Torun)

 

Centers:

Adam Hrycaniuk (Arka Gdynia)

Damian Kulig (Polski Cukier Torun)

Dominik Olejniczak (Florida State)

 

Coach: Mike Taylor

[dareza 911]

Just one more day.

 

Serbia plays the first match of the tournament, and I hope they will play the last one 

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 hour ago, dareza said:

Just one more day.

 

Serbia plays the first match of the tournament, and I hope they will play the last one 

I hope so, the more highlights of that freak you've got in the team, the better  

[ChandlerMne 1,041]

Just now, heywoodu said:

I hope so, the more highlights of that freak you've got in the team, the better  

You mean Boban or Nikola?

[heywoodu 15,174]

Just now, ChandlerMne said:

You mean Boban or Nikola?

Nikola (Jokic)  

[Vektor 3,326]

Just to give you an idea how much FIBA succeeded at making this a "top worldwide sport event": the Hungarian broadcaster doesn't give shit about the matches of the first two days. Not even CZE-USA, because F1 is far more important.

 

And this is in a country that was relatively close to qualifying.  

Edited August 30, 2019 by Vektor

[heywoodu 15,174]

10 hours ago, Vektor said:

Just to give you an idea how much FIBA succeeded at making this a "top worldwide sport event": the Hungarian broadcaster doesn't give shit about the matches of the first two days. Not even CZE-USA, because F1 is far more important.

 

And this is in a country that was relatively close to qualifying.  

The Netherlands was slightly less close to qualifying, but no way there's any attention for it here  (maybe the final will be mentioned in the sports news, as in "Serbia beat the disappointing USA and won gold" but that's all)

 

F1 is of course far more important here too, but then again, we've got a public broadcaster (but to be fair, there's cycling today among others) and two sports channels wth multiple channels. I guess they didn't wanna waste money on an event sadly almost nobody would watch.

[Griff88 1,952]

Lol, the Chinese organizers used blackface in the opening

 

[heywoodu 15,174]

Just now, Griff88 said:

Lol, the Chinese organizers used blackface in the opening

 

in b4 the world exploding, people falling over each other to say "OMG" the loudest and CNN coming with a 2-hour documentary

Edited August 31, 2019 by heywoodu