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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 competitive game. Turns out I was way off as the US dominated. I even did a radio interview at halftime...
Australia is Taking it to Russia...
Just throwing it out there.
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 points scored (290), while not surprisingly Iran is last in that regard (184). On the flip side...
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 Calderon came off the bench. In this one the Spanish were determined to not let Dirk Nowitzki...
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 the Iranians kept it close through one quarter and then got blown out from that point on, particularly in...
Barac Helps Croatia To Olympic Win
2007 second round pick, Stanko Barac played 21 minutes and contributed 12 points and 7 rebounds as Croatia beat Russia this morning, 85-78. Nice to see the young big's game developing on the big stage. Croatia is now 2-0 in the Olympic preliminary round for Group A. Here's a little more on Barac...
2008 Men's Olympic Basketball - Iran vs. Lithuania
After a sound defeat to the Russians the Iranians came out swinging and built an early 14-6 lead. However, after a timeout, a couple of defensive stops, and 2 3-pointers the favored Lithuanians are right back in it. The best part? Without announcers I can hear the Lithuanian fans chanting just like...
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'm going to occasionally write "Inside the box score" posts. Pretty much the same thing except far...
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 that is not currently the case. SPOILER ALERT! I want to see Rudy Fernandez and company score an...
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