nenad

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

yes and he announced his retirement after the olympics

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Yeah, my guess is that Poland is the weakest European boat in the final. But you can never know in K4. 

One of two. Australia qualifies. I do think however that we'll be better than at least 2 more boats in the final. 

Требало би да могу бити испред Пољака

Watching Greece play in these friendlies, I'm thinking Montenegro or Lithuania for QF spot from groups C and D alongside Americans
 
I mean, if New Zealand was stronger... But it's not, they'll pass initial group. 

Giddey looking great for Australia. 

Belgium had some good years and good teams in senior basketball but without competent youth categories that's like a fluke. Now, they are losing to Netherlands. 

Canada, USA, Germany, Spain, Italy all looking good in prep matches so far. 

So, Giannis is not playing for Greece which drops them in my opinion behind Italy in this part of the bracket. We still have a chance to reach semis, we just need to take care of business against weaker teams in the group stage and beat Italy to be 1st in the new group. If USA cruises to 1st place in their new group we could play against Greece or Lithuania for SF spot. We couldn't ask for much easier draw. Second part of the bracket is much tougher. But there will be surprises for sure. Teams without superstars and without much practice, anything could happen. 

Very talented team, they sacrificed u19 to win this at home. Topić in my opinion should have played for u19 team, but it's nice to win something at least. Bošnjaković who is one year younger has played terrific final as well, he's a Real Madrid player. 

Very talented team, they sacrificed u19 to win this at home. Topić in my opinion should have played for u19 team, but it's nice to win something at least. Bošnjaković who is one year younger has played terrific final as well, he's a Real Madrid player. 

@nenad
 
 

Well, with Jokić this team could fight for the medal and would be favorite to win a quota. Now... This list isn't final as well. Pokuševski and Jaramaz are injured, Stefan Jović has a family emergency and he is questionable. We don't have a true PG on the roster without him.. We could still reach SF if Giannis for example wouldn't play for Greece because this part of the bracket is pretty weak. But we could also easily lose to Italy and DR and miss QF. 

Well, with Jokić this team could fight for the medal and would be favorite to win a quota. Now... This list isn't final as well. Pokuševski and Jaramaz are injured, Stefan Jović has a family emergency and he is questionable. We don't have a true PG on the roster without him.. We could still reach SF if Giannis for example wouldn't play for Greece because this part of the bracket is pretty weak. But we could also easily lose to Italy and DR and miss QF. 

Pešić je najmanji problem jer on ne može naterati nekog da igra kome šište jaja za to realno. Čovek je svetski i evropski višestruki prvak, nema šta nije osvojio na svetu, ima 70+ godina, bez obzira šta ljudi pričaju, lično sam se uverio da i dalje ima energije a i nije zaboravio sve što je znao. E takav kakav je nije mu bilo ispod časti da sedne u avion i ode u Ameriku tokom sezone da pokušava tamo da se sprijateljuje sa Jokićem i ekipom. I to je danas normalno, a on je lagano mogao da iskulira i kaže koga bre boli ona stvar, ja da se lomatam, ne pada mi na pamet. I ovaj ga je opet ispalio, njemu na čast. Da li je najbolji selektor, nije, ali je pitanje koga boljeg, pogotovo domaćeg mi možemo da dovedemo? Ipak je on osvajao nešto i ima kakav takav autoritet, što se pokazalo na primeru Teodosića, nije dozvolio da mu bilo ko bude iznad njega. 
 
Problema u košarci ima milion. Pogledajte kraj konferencije i čućete esenciju priče šta kaže Pešić. To je da je košarka nekad bila cilj a sad je sredstvo za ostvarenje cilja. Odnosi se podjednako i na razne Jokiće i na klubove i državu kod nas. 

@nenad

Bravo za Milicu, super rezultat. 
 
Što se Jokića tiče, on je jednostavno takav lik, nema nacionalnu pripadnost, nema ljubav prema košarci. On je igra jer je dobar u tome i tako će da zaradi, verujem da će on završiti svoju karijeru tu oko 32. godine recimo. On je kompetitivan kad krene da igra jer eto ko ja kad sednem da igram tablić, hoću da pobedim pa eto, sve ostalo ga boli kurac. Verujem i da jebe ne zato što ga ispunjavam nego eto neko mu rekao da se to očekuje od njega. 

It wasn't, at all. Pogacar completely humiliated everyone, except for Vingegaard, who had an outright inhuman performance. Van Aert is one of the best time trial riders in the world and is in good shape on the climbs as well, yet he ends up well over a minute behind Pogacar.
 
Pogacar's main mistake seems to have been the bike change, but other than that, he had an excellent ride. There was just someone else who threw down a ride we will still remember - one way or another - in 25 years from now.
 
Van Aert, Bilbao, Yates averaged high 37 km/h today, Pogacar broke 39....then comes Vingegaard with well over 41 km/h on a stage like this. Arguably a more incredible ride than Landis in 2006.

I think the sarcasm was obvious
 
And understandable.