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Game Thread: FIBA 2010 Preliminary Round - Game 1 - Team USA vs Croatia

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Welcome to the 2010 FIBA World Championship, hosted by Turkey. 24 nations will hoop it up over the next 2 weeks to see who will be awarded the Naismith Trophy. The 24 teams are divided into 4 groups, with Team USA in Group B. The tournament begins with the Preliminary Round where each team plays against the other teams of the same group, with the top 4 teams of each group qualifying to enter the Knockout Stage. So the Preliminary Round is sort of like a mini-regular season.

Two years ago, a star studded team including Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, and Chris Paul recaptured glory for Team USA as they took the gold medal in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. This year, none of those players are back for Team USA 2010. Instead, we have the "B Team" which includes Kevin Durant, Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, and our own Stephen Curry. This team is lacking in front court size and big men, but hopefully the athleticism of our guards and forwards plus some hot Curry shooting will be enough to make up for it and take us to the trophy.

Here we go. 5 games in 6 days, with the first opponent from Group B, Croatia. Familiar names on Croatia: none.

Preliminary round lineup:

Day Date Opponent Live PDT Live Chan Replay PDT Replay Chan
Sat Aug 28 Croatia 9:00am ESPN Classic, espn3.com 8:00pm ESPN2
Sun Aug 29 Slovenia 6:30am ESPN2, espn3.com 3:00pm ESPN2
Mon Aug 30 Brazil 11:30am ESPN, espn3.com 8:00pm ESPN2
Wed Sep 01 Iran 9:00am ESPN, espn3.com 8:00pm ESPN2
Thu Sep 02 Tunisia 6:30am ESPN2, espn3.com 9:30pm ESPN2

Star-divide

5 games in 6 nights. 5 game threads in 6 days. Where's my hazard pay?

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OMG replay!!!!!

I was paroozing my digital cable menu a few days ago and flipped out when I saw the first game was on ESPN classic. Do you have any idea what my cable bill is already?? I watch like 4-5 shows with any regularity, there are maybe 2-3 good, new movies a year on all of my premium movie channels combined, and they want me to pay extra for a channel that plays fuzzy old boxing matches and hockey games all day??

Amnesty for all immigrants! Boycott Arizona!

by The Bimbo Coles Experience on Aug 27, 2010 8:03 PM PDT reply actions  

just watch it on espn3.com
its free

by eugthehuge on Aug 27, 2010 8:23 PM PDT reply actions  

Anyone got a stream?

ESPN3 aint working for me!!#$#$@# =(

by ferask1 on Aug 28, 2010 9:14 AM PDT reply actions  

Curry gets benched.

lol. “Mr. Zone Buster” needs to make his shots.

by Precise Films Productions on Aug 28, 2010 9:21 AM PDT reply actions  

i missed it

can you describe what happened?

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions  

he gambled

was guarding a guy on the perimeter and then went to the free throw line which left his guy open.

by mosdl on Aug 28, 2010 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions  

on another play

his man blew past him and as a result the team’s defense got broken down because people were trying to step up on curry’s man.

by Precise Films Productions on Aug 28, 2010 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

Another good eye

Good thing there’s a replay, I can check that later

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

they screened him

Curry and screens don’t go well

by mosdl on Aug 28, 2010 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

yeah, that one i saw

and i’ve seen that even in the exhibition games

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

haha

nah, i was looking for an alternate link for the guy who asked for one while Curry was on the floor, so I didn’t see his other defensive mistakes

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

Man, I really dislike their rotations.

I’m not sure why they insist on playing Odom at C.

by Spider Jerusalem on Aug 28, 2010 9:26 AM PDT reply actions  

i found the 2008 FIBA rules

and they have goal tending. It’s similar to ours

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions  

Except....

…you’re allowed to take the ball off the rim.

by warriorsablaze on Aug 28, 2010 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, that's the difference

Goal tending occurs during a shot for a field goal when a player touches the ball
while it is completely above the level of the ring and:
• It is on its downward flight to the basket, or
• After it has hit the backboard.

The goal tending restrictions apply until:
• The ball no longer has the possibility of entering the basket during the shot.
• The ball has touched the ring.

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions  

Gordan lighting it up...

… which means Curry will be staying on the bench…

by warriorsablaze on Aug 28, 2010 9:42 AM PDT reply actions  

Curry's jersey

whats number is his jersey? the stream aint workin for me.

by Indosf on Aug 28, 2010 9:58 AM PDT reply actions  

LoL

Curry to Love, then show curry excited on the bench as if giving props to himself…

by JR Repertoire on Aug 28, 2010 10:15 AM PDT reply actions  

curry is that fast

he can be in 2 places at once

by mosdl on Aug 28, 2010 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions  

seems like Croatia is bombing 3’s like nothing… USA not doing so good after the first play. Curry with an ugly drive then foul on the other end

by adoboguy on Aug 28, 2010 10:29 AM PDT reply actions  

shoot - still can't make a three...

http://www.usabasketball.com/photos/10_MWC_USA_box_b2.pdf

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

by fotd on Aug 28, 2010 1:07 PM PDT reply actions  

Halftime

The athleticism of USA’s defense wore down Croatia that qtr, and made them work for many of their shots. It didn’t help Croatia that when they did have a shot, they couldn’t hit them.

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:00 PM PDT reply actions  

Looking at the FIBA scores of the day

Serbia 94, Angola 44 – wow, a 50 pt knockout

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:05 PM PDT reply actions  

Wow

USA outscored Croatia 26-6 that qtr

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:07 PM PDT reply actions  

terrible USA fast break

didn’t know what they wanted to do

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:10 PM PDT reply actions  

On the commercial break replay,

did they just show Curry making that pass, and then footage of Curry cheering from the bench???

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 9:18 PM PDT reply actions  

Lol. I actually enjoyed it

Next best thing to watching the game I guess.

by cybermaldonado on Aug 28, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

Omg, hahahaha

i thought i was commenting alone in here. I didn’t know I had silent observers. Anyway, I did it to test my understanding of the game and to use it as notes for anything interesting for my next open thread.

by IQofaWarrior on Aug 28, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

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