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rocwell wrote: View PostThese guys who choked against Venezuela should have been in Manila this year. I'm looking at you, Wiggins.
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I get the excuses/reasons, they just don't add up for me. If Canada can produce enough talent to be the second best represented country in the NBA after the US, we should be able to field a national team that can qualify for the Olympics. Period. There's enough expertise at the top and talent on the floor. Honestly I think not making it is kind of acceptable in the Canada basketball culture. 2004 was unacceptable to the US and they made big changes to remedy it. The Australian swim team had a very disappointing London Olympics, I heard they canned 2/3 of the staff in the program afterwards and overhauled the whole thing. Canadian men's basketball team fails to qualify, chokes against a much less talented Venezuela team, and there's pretty much no response other than "Oh well, that's too bad. Hope we get some good volunteers next time!". Instead of just crossing your fingers for your highest profile guys to join up, the program needs higher standards and more self-respect. The best team isn't necessarily the biggest names, something the US program knows after Athens and the Canadian hockey program has known since Nagano.
A lot of countries are missing some key guys, they always are. He'll, Venezuela didn't even have Vasquez when they beat Canada."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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S.R. wrote: View PostI get the excuses/reasons, they just don't add up for me. If Canada can produce enough talent to be the second best represented country in the NBA after the US, we should be able to field a national team that can qualify for the Olympics. Period. There's enough expertise at the top and talent on the floor. Honestly I think not making it is kind of acceptable in the Canada basketball culture. 2004 was unacceptable to the US and they made big changes to remedy it. The Australian swim team had a very disappointing London Olympics, I heard they canned 2/3 of the staff in the program afterwards and overhauled the whole thing. Canadian men's basketball team fails to qualify, chokes against a much less talented Venezuela team, and there's pretty much no response other than "Oh well, that's too bad. Hope we get some good volunteers next time!". Instead of just crossing your fingers for your highest profile guys to join up, the program needs higher standards and more self-respect. The best team isn't necessarily the biggest names, something the US program knows after Athens and the Canadian hockey program has known since Nagano.
A lot of countries are missing some key guys, they always are. He'll, Venezuela didn't even have Vasquez when they beat Canada.
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Well, Canada should be there but they shit the bed against Venezuela in a game they should have won by 20 pts.
Unfortunately, the new FIBA format makes me wonder whether Canada has any hope going forward to even play in any major international tourneys - their only hope will be to buy their way into the Olympic qualifying tourneys.
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Our women's team got lucky against the Serbs. Serbia should never have lost that game but their guards couldn't handle a simple man-to-man press at all in the fourth - they were just throwing the ball blindly around the floor. It looked like they had never seen a team play a full court defense before. The Serbian coach is just sitting there in stunned disbelief, along with their fans. That was embarrassing.
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slaw wrote: View PostOur women's team got lucky against the Serbs. Serbia should never have lost that game but their guards couldn't handle a simple man-to-man press at all in the fourth - they were just throwing the ball blindly around the floor. It looked like they had never seen a team play a full court defense before. The Serbian coach is just sitting there in stunned disbelief, along with their fans. That was embarrassing.
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S.R. wrote: View PostI get the excuses/reasons, they just don't add up for me. If Canada can produce enough talent to be the second best represented country in the NBA after the US, we should be able to field a national team that can qualify for the Olympics. Period. There's enough expertise at the top and talent on the floor. Honestly I think not making it is kind of acceptable in the Canada basketball culture. 2004 was unacceptable to the US and they made big changes to remedy it. The Australian swim team had a very disappointing London Olympics, I heard they canned 2/3 of the staff in the program afterwards and overhauled the whole thing. Canadian men's basketball team fails to qualify, chokes against a much less talented Venezuela team, and there's pretty much no response other than "Oh well, that's too bad. Hope we get some good volunteers next time!". Instead of just crossing your fingers for your highest profile guys to join up, the program needs higher standards and more self-respect. The best team isn't necessarily the biggest names, something the US program knows after Athens and the Canadian hockey program has known since Nagano.
A lot of countries are missing some key guys, they always are. He'll, Venezuela didn't even have Vasquez when they beat Canada.9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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