Women's 3x3 Basketball Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Quasit 865]

19 minutes ago, bestmen said:

Africa is not in, certainly this sport is ugly 

 

This should have just been a demonstration sport and I will treat it as such.

[dcro 10,210]

16 minutes ago, Quasit said:

This should have just been a demonstration sport and I will treat it as such.

 

Except that one can't really do that, as much as I would like to.

[heywoodu 15,174]

55 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Except that one can't really do that, as much as I would like to.

One easily can: just don't watch it. They won't care, but I don't care that they don't care so there we go  

[heywoodu 15,174]

By the way, how come the Canadian women, who apparently 'have one of the best teams on the tour', didn't get to the World Cup at least the past five times?

[Dunadan 1,103]

Just now, heywoodu said:

By the way, how come the Canadian women, who apparently 'have one of the best teams on the tour', didn't get to the World Cup at least the past five times?

 

World Cup qualification is based on the same idiotic ranking.

[heywoodu 15,174]

Just now, Dunadan said:

 

World Cup qualification is based on the same idiotic ranking.

 

Well, idiotic as it is, it doesn't exactly seem like they've been very smart then...Canadian federation definitely seems to be to blame for it (apart from this qualification system being utterly insane obviously).

[NearPup 3,073]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Well, idiotic as it is, it doesn't exactly seem like they've been very smart then...Canadian federation definitely seems to be to blame for it (apart from this qualification system being utterly insane obviously).

Canadian federation doesn't invest any money in 3x3 at all. They literally don't care about it.

 

Doesn't change the fact that Canada has the second best women's team in the world (which perhaps is a huge problem in and of itself - a country that literally invests nothing in 3x3 has a world class team).

 

Still, they should not be punished because Canada doesn't have highly ranked players ranked 5th to 100th. It's a four person team, only the top four athletes should matter.

Edited November 1, 2019 by NearPup

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

Yeah, at the end of the day, everyone knew the rules (as dumb as they were) well in advance. The point was to create depth for the sport, oppose to nations only having four athletes each. Here's hoping for a 16-team tournament in the future with continental qualifiers so that the best can have an opportunity to qualify.

[NearPup 3,073]

Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, at the end of the day, everyone knew the rules (as dumb as they were) well in advance. The point was to create depth for the sport, oppose to nations only having four athletes each. Here's hoping for a 16-team tournament in the future with continental qualifiers so that the best can have an opportunity to qualify.

Ah yes, I'm sure Mongolia is very deep in 3x3...

[heywoodu 15,174]

Just now, NearPup said:

Ah yes, I'm sure Mongolia is very deep in 3x3...

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