Dunadan 1,103 Posted September 6, 2019 #611 Share Posted September 6, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOSE SEIJO 0 Posted September 7, 2019 #612 Share Posted September 7, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 783 Posted September 7, 2019 #613 Share Posted September 7, 2019 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. 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...
dareza 911 Posted September 7, 2019 #614 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Czech Republic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor 3,195 Posted September 7, 2019 #615 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Brazil is throwing away their Olympic quota and Top8 placement against Czech Republic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 783 Posted September 7, 2019 #616 Share Posted September 7, 2019 (edited) 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 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...
OlympicsFan 783 Posted September 7, 2019 #617 Share Posted September 7, 2019 (edited) 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 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...
dareza 911 Posted September 7, 2019 #618 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Brazil like 2014. Great in first round and after that disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,621 Posted September 7, 2019 #619 Share Posted September 7, 2019 link france lithuania ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajiv 25 Posted September 7, 2019 #620 Share Posted September 7, 2019 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 heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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