Official 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Thread (August 25 - September 10)

[cartierhoe]

This ain't the 90s anymore


Cant keep sending your B or C team and expect to win easily. These other countries ain't scared anymore

We bring guys together within two weeks and cram like it’s a bar exam and expect to win with our C team

 

[Flight]

they got the best rebounding wing in the league and he didn't really get boards. What can you do?

Maybe actually give Walker a shot?

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Reeves was ballin on O but he has absolutely no lateral quickness on the perimeter and no strength on the block.

AD doing the lords work in LA, no wonder he can only play half a season

Reaves got fukking cooked in the post. Yikes. Mans needs to get his weight up

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Maybe actually give Walker a shot?

I totally forgot Kessler was on the team... he didn't get much run. Tactical error

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Cunningham if he made it would of been the best player on the team.

 

[StatUS]

The Olympics are important. But the World Cup is also really important for world rankings.

Getting bronze for USA would be a step up from the disaster of 2019. At the same time, each cycle before the next Olympics, Grant Hill and Steve Kerr need to have his best 7-8 players commit to playing in multiple tournaments/events in the years before the next Olympics. Just like Coach K did after the 2004 Olympic bronze.

Perimeter defense and rebounding are huge problems.

It's just gotta be embarrassing for them dudes to get washed. That should be enough to get them going . If not it's gonna happen in Paris too.

 

[Mashal88]

Maybe actually give Walker a shot?

Only actual traditional big man on the roster who can defend and rebound but Kerr decided to never ever play him. We can't even use the rookie excuse because Banchero got burn.

 

[Black Mamba]

Reaves should’ve just played for Germany since Kerr wanted to play bum ass knicks nikkas over him

 

[SchoolboyC]

The wings are one thing. Guards, they'll be fine. The rebounding is a problem.

Last year's league leaders in rebounds per game, 9 of the top 11 were foreign bigs. Randle was the only one in the group that's American.

And I don’t want Randle’s ass anywhere near

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

lol @ him tweeting this right after the loss, he knows what he's doing

He would be responsible for like 80 points given up.

 

[Primetime21]

US
BAHAHAHAHAA

Get ready for yalls championship on Sunday

 

[Mister Terrific]

Reaves should’ve just played for Germany since Kerr wanted to play bum ass knicks nikkas over him

Dummy shyt. Every big bucket Germany and Lithuania had down the stretch was because of Reaves utter inability to guard anything with a pulse. Schroeder literally tossed him into the 2nd row on the last shot. USA shot 58% from the floor and 45% from 3. It’s DEFENSE and rebounding that matters in FIBA.

 

[Black Mamba]

Get ready for yalls championship on Sunday

Nah f all that
Yall was talking greasy and yall took an L from fukking Dennis Schroeder with that group of players yall got?

 

[King Static X]

C Randle or Embiid /Holmgren
PF Durant /Gordon /Eason
SF Tatum /Bridges
SG Booker /Bane
PG Curry/Young/Cunningham


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Randle?

 

[MikelArteta]

USA

Muhahahhahahahah