2008 FIBA Men's Qualifying Tournament: Day 2 - Update

by Jim Weeks on Jul 15, 2008 10:27 PM EDT in Green Bandwagon Comment 1 comment

- The Canadians fell into a slow paced game and lost in disappointing fashion to Slovenia, prompting Coach Leo Rautins to simply say, "We all screwed this up." However, the Canadians still have a chance.

- Meanwhile, Cameroon is out after losing to Puerto Rico and my man Ricky Sanchez (17 points) of the Idaho Stampede.

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- Cape Verde managed to top yesterday's 27-point defeat by losing to Germany by 36. Dirk Nowtizki led an incredibly balanced German scoring attack and Chris Kaman adjusted nicely to international play with ten points and ten rebounds, albeit against weak competition.

- Finally Lebanon joined Cameroon and Cape Verde in the "headed home" category with another convincing defeat. This Brazil earned the blowout victory. In their 2 games the Lebanese lost by an average of 48.5 points. As a side note shame on me for not mentioning that Anderson Varejao, Nene Hilario, and Leandro Barbosa are not on the Brazilian squad.

Unfortunately I'm on the road and don't have as much free time as usual. But expect a brief preview tomorrow as the Olympic picture starts to come into focus.

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Idaho Stampede

Taliek Brown played a year for the Idaho Stampede. Great year for him. He, Ricky Moore, and Kevin Freeman are my three favorite all time UCONN players. I really wish one of them would have made it to the NBA. I thought Freeman and Moore had a chance, but I knew Taliek would probably be reduced to playing in other leagues. If the three of them had come out in that god-awful 2006 draft, they’d all be living in luxury right now. Hilton Armstrong went 12th that year! And Denham Brown went 40th! The three guys I’m talking about were MUCH better college players than Hilton Armstrong and Denham Brown.

by roomofzen on Jul 16, 2008 8:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs