Canada Basketball

[planetmars]

Sabonis played for Lithuania in 2016 as a rookie. He was drafted in the lottery too. I'm sure there are others, but it's likely rare.

[slaw]

Let me know when this happens and I'll put it to bed. Name me the rookies who were just drafted who played for their national team instead of doing summer league and training with the team who drafted them. I'd like to hear which guys had enough juice to tell their new team to fuck off. Got a funny feeling it's zero players.

How many guys would this apply to? 4? That many?

[grindhouse]

i cant lie the lack of post up play in this league and the nba is making me more and more disinterested. its like watching cheekers after mastering chess.

rj is way more athletic then the people he is playing against. we see how he looks agaibst competition

[slaw]

Let me know when this happens and I'll put it to bed. Name me the rookies who were just drafted who played for their national team instead of doing summer league and training with the team who drafted them. I'd like to hear which guys had enough juice to tell their new team to fuck off. Got a funny feeling it's zero players.

How many guys would this apply to? Lots of rookies lining up to play on the Ilympic team?

[golden]

Le Scrubs went off today.

[LJ2]

Tough loss against a less talented team overall. I didn't get a chance to watch the game, but assuming our lack of size hurt us?

[guyroch]

So I was just reading about Edey. His situation is a lot different than Wiggins. The Grizzlies didn't block Edey. Edey remove himself from consideration to play for Canada so he can prepare for his NBA career.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spo...c-team/sn-amp/

So getting to play against the top big men in the World in this tournament wouldn't be getting you ready to play in the NBA ? He would
have saw guys like Joker ,Giannis , Wemby , Golbert Davis etc .

[The Great One]

Tough loss against a less talented team overall. I didn't get a chance to watch the game, but assuming our lack of size hurt us?

They got outworked, specially in the 1st half. They made a guy named Lessort looked like prime Shaq -- and Lessort isn't even a true big. He's probably 6'8-6'9.

It just makes you think. Lessort is not in the NBA. Birch, Olynyk, Lyles and Powell are. Lessort is better than all those guys.

[golden]

They got outworked, specially in the 1st half. They made a guy named Lessort looked like prime Shaq -- and Lessort isn't even a true big. He's probably 6'8-6'9.

It just makes you think. Lessort is not in the NBA. Birch, Olynyk, Lyles and Powell are. Lessort is better than all those guys.

Nah, Lessort, Cordinier and Yabsule are fringe NBA players, 12-15th men at best.

You probably have to pin this loss on bad coaching by Jordi. Our bigs were completely un-prepared for FIBA rules and physicality for the entire tournament. Olynyk is especially disappointing, since he's basically been the Canadian Luis Scola in his FIBA career. He sucked the whole tournament and Jordi needed to find a way to get him untracked.

Birch was probably our best overall big and maybe that's because he's playing FIBA rules year round (he's in Turkey now). Meanwhile, Wemby said that France made a lot of adjustments during the 4 days off to prepare for Canada. Coaching matters a lot in FIBA.

[guyroch]

I know we are all frustrated with Murray but not every NBA PG had instant sucess in the FIBA game .. Curry is averaging 7.0 points
a game and 25 percent from 3 .. Damion only averaged 11 points a game .. The fact he had to come off the bench and played with
a bunch of guys he had never played with and a system he has never played in .. There is some understanding as to why
he played so bad ..

Saying that .. This guy playing for the National team as a High Schooler looked amazing and he was playing with a bunch
of guys he had never played with and a play book that was new to him .

Jamal Murray Highlights - Pan Am Games: Canada vs USA (youtube.com)Jamal Murray Highlights - Pan Am Games: Canada vs USA (youtube.com)

[The Great One]

Nah, Lessort, Cordinier and Yabsule are fringe NBA players, 12-15th men at best.

You probably have to pin this loss on bad coaching by Jordi. Our bigs were completely un-prepared for FIBA rules and physicality for the entire tournament. Olynyk is especially disappointing, since he's basically been the Canadian Luis Scola in his FIBA career. He sucked the whole tournament and Jordi needed to find a way to get him untracked.

Birch was probably our best overall big and maybe that's because he's playing FIBA rules year round (he's in Turkey now). Meanwhile, Wemby said that France made a lot of adjustments during the 4 days off to prepare for Canada. Coaching matters a lot in FIBA.

So you finally agree with me that Nick Nurse would be a massive upgrade right? thank you.

[golden]

So you finally agree with me that Nick Nurse would be a massive upgrade right? thank you.

Nick Nurse lost to Czech Republic and Tomas Satoransky at home in a qualifying tournament. Jordi lost to Wemby and France (at home) in the Olympics. You decide.

[slaw]

Nick Nurse lost to Czech Republic and Tomas Satoransky at home in a qualifying tournament. Jordi lost to Wemby and France (at home) in the Olympics. You decide.

I would say it had far more to do with Jamal Murray playing terribly in a big game when he was supposed to be their second best player. His performance sunk them.

[golden]

I would say it had far more to do with Jamal Murray playing terribly in a big game when he was supposed to be their second best player. His performance sunk them.

Jamal was terrible from the get-go and Jordi just continued to play him because of his NBA reputation and personal connection & loyalty to Murray as his former Nuggets assistant coach. All hindsight, but Nembhard or even NAW would've been better options. I mean Murray missed some exhibition games, so he was obviously not 100% and that's a perfect reason to bench him.

Meanwhile, the French coach benched 4X DPOY Rudy Gobert because he wasn't a factor on offense. You have to make some ruthless quick decisions in these one & done knockout games and the French coach called it right.

If we're not blaming Jordi, then you can go with the obvious... our so-called "bigs" playing soft.

[The Great One]

Nick Nurse lost to Czech Republic and Tomas Satoransky at home in a qualifying tournament. Jordi lost to Wemby and France (at home) in the Olympics. You decide.

Lol Nurse never got to coach a team as talented as this year's Olympic team. He never got to coach SGA or Murray. I don't think he ever coached Brooks or Nembhard either.

The tournament in Victoria 2-3 years ago that he coached at, the two best players on that team were Wiggins and RJ. Cory Joe was the starting PG, Anthony Bennett I think was one of the players off the bench. Lol.

As for Wemby, he only scored 7 points. If you told me before the game that Gobert wouldn't play and that Wemby would only score 7, I would've said easy win for Canada.

Yesterday was a complete disaster.