Stories tagged with "china"

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

GINOBILI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Jim Weeks on Aug 20, 2008 10:21 AM EDT

Quick recap for now: Spain dispatched upstart Croatia with a 72-59 victory that saw Pau Gasol throw up a 20-10. Is it a good thing that Marc Gasol and Ricky Rubio had the same amount of rebounds (6)? ...

2008 Olympic Basketball: Quarterfinal Games and Lingering Questions

by Jim Weeks on Aug 18, 2008 6:40 PM EDT

Games Quarterfinal 1: Spain vs. CroatiaQuarterfinal 2: Lithuania vs. ChinaQuarterfinal 3: Argentina vs. GreeceQuarterfinal 4: USA vs. AustraliaLingering Questions 1. This one came u...

USA vs. Spain: I Was Way Off

by Jim Weeks on Aug 16, 2008 12:14 PM EDT

Samsonite - Dumb and Dumber (via digimay) I thought Spain would take care of the ball, make the US run a half court offense, shoot well from 3-point land, and overall make it a competiti...

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...

2008 Men's Olympic Basketball - USA vs. China

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

Head over to usabasketball.com for a preview of the game. Or if you're into live blogging check out Ball Don't Lie. I'm going to watch and possibly check back in here at points. That's it for now. Enj...