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2008 Men's Olympic Basketball - Final Standings
Gold - USASilver - SpainBronze - Argentina4th - Lithuania5th - Greece6th - Croatia7th - Australia8th - China9th - Russia10th - Germany11th - Iran12th - Angola
USA vs. Spain: I Was Way Off
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 Olympic Hoops Primer
The opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing officially kick off the games Friday night, with the Men's Basketball action beginning over the weekend. Team USA is favored to w...
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