Stories tagged with "angola"

2008 Men's Olympic Basketball - Final Standings

by Jim Weeks on Aug 24, 2008 11:34 AM EDT

Gold - USASilver - SpainBronze - Argentina4th - Lithuania5th - Greece6th - Croatia7th - Australia8th - China9th - Russia10th - Germany11th - Iran12th - Angola

2008 Men's Olympic Basketball: Spain vs. USA

by Jim Weeks on Aug 16, 2008 10:13 AM EDT

This one deserves a brief preview. Tournament Play So FarBoth squads defeated Greece by comfortable margins and beat host China as well, albeit in entirely different ways. Team USA withstood a strong ...

2008 Olympic Basketball: Men's Preliminary Standings

by Jim Weeks on Aug 14, 2008 11:38 PM EDT

Group ALithuania: 3-0Argentina: 2-1Croatia: 2-1Russia: 1-2Australia: 1-2Iran: 0-3Group BUSA: 3-0Spain: 3-0Germany: 1-2Greece: 1-2China: 1-2Angola: 0-3The US leads all teams, and it's not close, in poi...

2008 Olympic Basketball Day Three: Inside the Box Score

by Jim Weeks on Aug 14, 2008 11:04 PM EDT

Spain/Germany: Unlike the US the Spanish have messed around with their starting 5 to so far. This was evident in their opener when Marc Gasol got the nod over his older brother and yesterday when Jose...

2008 Olympic Basketball Day Two: Inside the Box Score

by Jim Weeks on Aug 12, 2008 11:28 PM EDT

For an explanation of the "Inside the Box Score" posts go here. Lithuania/Iran: I watched the majority of this one and was struck by 2 things: 1. It reminded me of USA/China in the sense that th...

2008 Olympic Basketball Day One: Inside the Box Score

by Jim Weeks on Aug 11, 2008 12:26 AM EDT

When the NBA is in session Kelly Dwyer runs a excellent series of posts called "Behind the box score". To be honest I'm not sure how he watches that much basketball. Well in a somewhat new tradition I...

Is NBC Taunting Me?

by Jim Weeks on Aug 10, 2008 9:38 AM EDT

In the end I decided to get some sleep and watch the Spain/Greece game this morning. I thought this was a possibility due to NBC's "rewind" option - see Russia/Iran and Germany/Angola. Unfortunately t...

Germany vs. Angola Live

by Jim Weeks on Aug 9, 2008 11:48 PM EDT

After heading out for a bit and missing Russis vs. Iran (box score here - Khryapa played) I've settled down for some Germany vs. Angola. And here's 5 reasons you should watch: 5. The crowd is relative...

2008 Men's Olympic Basketball Preview: Angola

by Jim Weeks on Aug 5, 2008 7:52 AM EDT

Fellow SB Nation blog At The Hive recently posted an in depth profile of Angola. It marked our 8th preview, in as many days, in the build up to the Beijing Olympics. Check out previous posts in the si...

2008 Olympic Basketball: Rosters Please

by Jim Weeks on Jul 26, 2008 6:23 PM EDT

12 teams. 12 players each. Easy right? Wrong. Over the last several days I've been working on previews for each team headed to Beijing. However, I've struggled to figure out what players will represen...