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They don't mean much in terms of seeding and in terms of the tournament it will all come down to: 1. luck in the draw 2. who shows up for natl teams only couple of weeks after nba season and european leagues have ended and 3. who pays for organization of the tournament. It was much bigger chance for teams like Serbia and Lithuania and Italy to qualify in this bracket for OQ spot directly rather than through OQT.

To be honest, better for us to lose to DR and not bother with 3 more meaningless games in the WC.

That's it for us. Italy vs Lithuania will play for an Olympic quota. Second quota probably goes to winner of Slovenia vs Germany.

Neverovatno kako nas je usrao žreb i kako smo opet usrali motku. Svaka nam čast.

Japan is a win vs Cape Verde away from winning the quota.

New Zealand very poorly reacted to Greek defensive pressure in the 2nd half. Maybe this will give them boost to play their best game vs Lithuania on friday but LTU has to be favorite to place 2nd in the new group and reach QF. We looked good in the opening round, but the group was bad. Still given Italy's woes so far we have to be favorites to win the 1st place in new group. Serbia vs Lithuania so far looks like it could be QF for very probably Olympic quota place. But anything can happen really.

Or maybe they won't

Latvia played great 15 minutes and still losing at the half. Canada is just that good.

Or with the American.

I think people just focus more on the start and end of the game when in fact every possesion is of same value. But it's important to set the tone and how you finish of course, don't get me wrong. Anyway, not a single quality match today. Was hoping maybe Brazil can offer some sort of resistence, but start of the 4th for them was brutal. I'm already looking at matches for the last day of group stage and I can't find a single interesting AND quality game on Wednesday, it's a joke really.

It's not that uncommon in FIBA to start with your not best 5. I've seen plenty of examples.

There was a replay from above and english commentators agreed with what was seen from that angle.

Jesus Christ, biggest call of the match and we don't get a replay on the foul call for Ivory Coast. I mean, Fiba..... Ffs..

Yes, I have watched the match and there was a replay of the situation.

I mean they needed PG so bad..

I really want to know what Batum said in an interview now for French TV. I don't know French though. Looked emotinal and tough Oh, he went there. He talked politics not allowing Herteul to play because he plays in Russia

Can't play basketball these days without quality guards who can create for teammates. That's why France is eliminated.

Schroder was out of bounds, for a milimeter but he was. Also, he always carries the ball, they just decided to call this time in an unfortunate moment.

Huge win for Germany even without injured Franz Wagner who should be able to continue in the tournament. Still, everything opet between Australia, Germany and Slovenia for 2 QF spots there. Germany now with a small advantage but 3pt win isn't too big in a potential 3way tie.

That's what you get when you try to be the main character every time. Italy's players should deal with this clown. It maybe has some tactical advantages to behave like that when you're losing, but in the 1st and 2nd quarter when you start the game with a 12pt lead it only makes players nervous.

Dvojac osmi u finalu. Šteta što nisu bili još jedno ili dva mesta bolji.

Pozzeco's behaviour is a disgrace, he acts like a clown, disrespects the refs and the game. He should've been kicked out of this game long time ago.

In the bigger picture, no surprises at all after 1st round games. A lot of onesided matches, I don't remember when there was like only one match in entire round that went to a one possesion game at the end. But, that's what you get with a 32 team lineup. And when I look the lineup of games for tomorrow, you maybe and that's maybe get 3 interesting matchups, Italy vs DR, France vs Latvia and for sure biggest match of the day is Australia vs Germany.. And I'll say it again, although some people will never learn, if Murray played for Canada, they would be favorites.

It's a little bit of both. Puerto Rico is pretty bad even for this World Cup, and South Sudan has some interesting players. China is very very bad. I understand why but still it's difficult to understand how that big of a country where basketball is actualy pretty popular can't have better NT.

Ma bićemo u top 5 videćeš.