Men's and Women's 2024 Paris Olympics HOOPS discush

giannis vs canada is pretty fun rn!

wemby doin big boy shit v brazil today

canada's guards are so good, but i wonder if their reliance on perimeter play makes them more susceptible to variation and thus getting caught out there

Jamal Murray hasn't looked like himself

yeah canada's offense so far has relied a lot on sga and rj barrett

feel liek half of canada's team has fouled out late

that got way too close...

SGA is still magic

fun game!

i didnt sleep well last night which meant i was up early enough to watch the end of this south sudan win over puerto rico, these guys came to play

nice. i hadn't realized that the south sudan men's hoops team is sort of luol deng's baby. he's the president of their national basketball federation and helped fund the team.

LET'S SEE SOME DUNKS BOYS

loving bearded joker

usa lookin half-engaged here

this announcing team stinks

i love bam-AD + some combo of booker/KD/ant/white etc

btw i watched some of the spain-china game before this (got preempted by pokemon in my house) and i had no idea meghan gustaffson of the lv aces was repping spain, couldnt figure what her connection was

kd just hitting practice shots out here now

usa looking half-engaged again (the good half where they hit hella shots)

KD is a cheat code

tatum not able to crack the rotation #interesting

kerr worried about his aura

joker just working AD and embiid lol

its hilarious, embiid is a fraud

embiid god damnit

this game is pretty nuts

this officiating lol

kd the fiba goat

these cameras theyre using that creep all over the place are kind of cool but the normal side view looks like the court is 94x25 which i do not like

Yeah! I really like them!

watching embiid, AD, and bam all guard jokic in succession in one game makes a good case for bam as the best defender of the three

yet another game of some level of real importance where embiid is sloppy, poorly conditioned, lacking in intensity, having long spans of ineffectiveness and bam is athletic, bouncy, playing hard on both ends, flying everywhere on defense etc perhaps not a coincidence that one of these two players has never advanced past round 2 of the playoffs

embiid just look like garbage out there bench him

hes a third-string c on this team, pitiful

“I think people get fooled by the names on paper. But those names have been built throughout their career, and now they’re older. They’re not what they used to be.”

this Embiid quote may end up being correct just not about LeBron

so in the group stage teams get 2 points for a win and 1 point for a loss

why do it that way? are they afraid a 2-0 team might opt to forfeit its third game or something?

yeah

during the broadcast I thought I heard that teams got zero points for losing by fourteen, but I guess what they actually said is zero points for a forfeit

Serbia played USA even in Nikola Jokic’s 31 minutes today — They got outscored by 26 points in the 9 minutes he was on the bench.

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) July 28, 2024

where have I seen this before?

lol

denver is in fact the westernmost serbian city

chase budinger is playing beach volleyball in paris https://www.instagram.com/reel/C994QieIrcZ

ppl who have figured out how 2 live

the japanese women are like my least favorite pickup opponents — too much energy, relentless, will inevitably end up underneath you when you go up for a rebound

they’re almost hanging with the us, tho, kind of impressive

well, not so much anymore

Embiid somehow managed to have a negative plus/minus in a game where the US won by 26.

His team dominated the game but somehow he was still outplayed by Jokic

might get banned for this but I have no interest in 3v3 basketball. should not be an olympic sport

i dont mind it, i just i have no idea why it's a thing

I was watching it during the WNBA all star weekend and it was really fast. I enjoyed it.

Real hoops >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3 on 3. There's no comparison in terms of movement, complexity and beauty.

more hoops the better it is true that 3x3 is bad to watch great to play tho they shd have 1x1 too

olympic h-o-r-s-e would be incredible
olympic dunk contest would be great bc then we'd have crooked french judges

olympic pop-a-shot

great to play

at least you're guaranteed to get a lot of touches on the ball

lot of space to operate, dont have to run up and down all over the place, classic game, for those who hoop of course

I don’t even think basketball should be an olympic sport period tbh. dumb cobbled together teams no one actually cares about. at the very least they should do what soccer does and make it U-whatever with a couple of wild cards

honing your challops cred, I see

Ban Kevin

just let it be the kids!

That’s what March madness is for

make it u23 then the world cup is the undisputed deal just like with soccer

kev is flagrantly anti-internationalist

typical hoops factionalization

okay just watched a women’s 3x3 game and the free-throw situation is wild

i suppose you have to rein in the hacking somehow if there’s no fouling out but

and yeah it’s goofy that this is an olympic sport

the olymics is mostly goofy sports

latvia-lithuania 3x3 was like six plumlees playing in the driveway

what we need is three plumlees vs three zellers

need the holidays in the tourney, too

would be pretty fun to send some nba players

btw i just got back from my kid's dentist appt, how the hell did japan force france into OT???

on a jersey watch note, these germany uniforms are sharp, got a cool classic houston rockets vibe to em

lol Jimmer is on the USA 3x3 team

still getting cooked like he did in the association.

sad

why dont nba dudes go play the 3x3? easy gold medal. get like kyrie, jimmy b and brook lopez or something with PG off the bench idk.

hell, send tatum over there if kerr's not gonna play him

a team of solid nba starters would prob mop up

hell, pull in like cuttino mobley and abdul rahim or whoever from the big 3 lol

IDK Kendrick is pretty short.

this guy tore up the chinese 3x3 team today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthy_de_Jong

he's a really good player! (and named after james worthy!) but also he's 36 and . . . well, 3x3 just seems a little intramural senior tour

olympic knockout

im watching latvia v netherlands men's 3x3, yall are tripping this is fun

this is exactly like when the greater boston diaspora forced everyone to give marcus smart DPOY

Jayson Tatum & Anthony Davis into starting lineup for Team USA vs. South Sudan. Replacing Jrue Holiday and Joel Embiid.

Coach Steve Kerr said game plan would change based on opponent and Tatum has gone from out of rotation to starting as Kerr goes with more wings.

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) July 31, 2024

jaylen shitting on derrick white, tatum getting jrue benched… interesting

LOL they literally ran the first play for tatum (pass instantly intercepted)

we can only hope that kobe is watching down on jayson’s big day…

the haters can try to tear the celtics apart with innuendo and lies but it will not work they are too nice :)

bron getting dunked on by some guy

tatum corner 3 off side backboard

cant really understand people deciding now is the best time to become dedicated tatum haters, prob just gonna lead to tears

team usa feeling compelled to baby him to the point of putting him into the starting line up and running the first play for him is funny, sorry

need a lot more ant edwards and a lot less of several other players…

devin booker get ready to learn assistant coach

team usa feeling compelled to baby him to the point of putting him into the starting line up and running the first play for him is funny, sorry

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, July 31, 2024 3:19 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you should post this in youtube comments theyd prob go wild for it

embiid being benched, also pretty funny

we can only hope that kobe is watching down on jayson’s big day…

usa will prob win the gold but the way theyre doing things sending kawhi home and lying about it not replcing him with the final mvp and cool guy jaylen brown seemingly not having a plan for their rotations that involves everyone playing heavily recruiting embiid without considering that his thing might not translate that well to a team of all guys who can get buckets seems not that good

I think he’s looking up tbh
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, July 31, 2024 2:44 PM (forty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

YES

Bam Adebayo drills back-to-back 3-pointers 🔥

He's got a game-high 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting!pic.twitter.com/T2DvgknGbb

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) July 31, 2024

usa will prob win the gold but the way theyre doing things sending kawhi home and lying about it not replcing him with the final mvp and cool guy jaylen brown seemingly not having a plan for their rotations that involves everyone playing heavily recruiting embiid without considering that his thing might not translate that well to a team of all guys who can get buckets seems not that good

― lag∞n, Wednesday, July 31, 2024 3:45 PM (four minutes ago)

the argument for kerr as a coach is kinda generally like "he's good at all the other stuff aside from putting the right guys on the court!" and for team usa it's kinda just all about putting the right combo of guys on the court

he shd let spo take care of that so he can devote himself to 24/7 politicking

the Rick Rubin of NBA coaches

tbf dealing with draymond is a fulltime job

I think he’s looking up tbh
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, July 31, 2024 2:44 PM (forty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

YES

― big baby billy bass (m bison), Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:46 PM bookmarkflaglink

ty for saying this so I didn't have to.

holiday and white getting banged up on back to back plays im cool with kerr benching all the celtics the rest of the tourney

jones chewing up steph

wow that dunk by Davis

i like how the points tiebreak situation keeps the teams playing til the buzzer s sudan out there running with two mins left down by 20

lol gyac

Steph out of rhythm and getting cooked on d not a great combo

watching a jimmer-less usa 3x3 team play lithuania and...how is this our best? theres no way we cant just find 4 nba guys who dont get called up to the main team to wreck the competition here

could be that the allure of medaling in 3x3 just doesn't entice the USA's best players

the us does not need to send their best to dominate this event, they just dont need to send the worst barry brother in the 2024th year of our lord

i guess they could send out a questionaire to the 2500 best players to gauge their interest

trae young would crush

us-belgium game rn is a lot more competitive than i thought it'd be!

essentially belgium is furiously defending and causing a lot of turnovers, dont think it's sustainable tbh bc usa can just throw out jackie young or jewel loyd or griner off the bench and now you've gotta play at a high intensity the whole game

us women v. sloppy

feels like usa is just trying to rush through shit, like trying to force things in transition when there arent great looks available there.

stewie is so good

(btw they figured it out in the 4th, they r HOOPING)

lol at sabrina hitting a long bomb at the end and then telling the belgian fans to shush

stewie is so good

she really is. and so under control

watching can-esp, sga is fuckin dogwalking llull

kelly o time baby

dwight powell time

canada has so much talent but they rarely feel like theyre all clicking, kinda the same problem as the us but a bigger talent dropoff

nba players who never played in europe are just at a disadvantage in fiba

clutchhhhh bucket by barrett

words not usually heard

shai clutch foul baiting

lmao fiba cannot deny his skills

hes too strong

LLULL is an incredibly sick name

rip spain wow

high stakes for this germany france match, lose and you probably play serbia, win and youve got a clearer path to medal

france once they finally get a real pg is gonna be tough (traore come soon)

also france not staggering minutes so that wemby or gobert are always on the floor, smh

like i really want france to advance bc wemby but they deserve to lose for shit like this

aussie commentator is praising germany's defense but france just literally cant run shit!

lol how is this over already jesus christ

i do believe gobert has played 0 minutes this second half, havent really been paying that close attention tho

franz wagner is a max player — for germany

not sure jimmer even got in the game today

💥Nurgül Yeşilçay, Yusuf Dikeç akımı başlattı: 'Türküz biz bundan sonra böyle🇹🇷' pic.twitter.com/2MPOu9GRhu

— Posta.com.tr (@postacomtr) August 1, 2024

sorry wrong thread

rough second quarter for PR

they asked hali what non basketball olympic sport he thought he could do and he said swimming then "i cant swim" lol

embiid telling hali to not cut through his lane, hes back baby

usa wrecking germany sometimes you gotta go back to the classics

the game was close until it wasn’t

where do we discuss basketball twitter's insane obsession with noah lyles? he made a dumb comment but the need for people online to defend "the honor of the league" is giving me heavy secondhand embarrassment

lyles made the mistake of engaging nba twitter.

it wasn’t just the…content of the comment lol. have you heard the guy talk?

yeah he sounds like an nfl wide receiver. who cares?

idk what he said but hes so lame im ready to go to war

yeah he sounds like an nfl wide receiver. who cares?

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, August 5, 2024 12:51 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

apparently a lot of people!

I don’t think that sort of lame attention seeking behavior should be encouraged

lol its the most swagless drama kid shit tv guys call him him a great showman just cause theyre not allowed to say annoying

he's not annoying enough to get me to side with nba twitter

an actual very lame guy embarrassing our great nation on the biggest stage vs some amorphous idea of a social media platform subculture

unfortunately Lyles isn't going to change how anyone thinks of the USA

his 100m win was pretty cool

thompson blew it

serbs in trouble

wow what a prayer

FIBA Patty

I don't know who these CBC announcers are but if they talk about Nikola Yaw-Kich one more time

France coach Vincent Collet, facing massive pressure as Olympics host, removes veterans Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier from starting lineup for do-or-die quarterfinal vs. Canada.

— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) August 6, 2024

damn rudy getting scapegoated even by the national team

tough out there

canada playing like trash

some amazing steals for Wemby

this would be a really bad look for canada

dillon brooks 0-5, 0-2 shooting ... third most shot attempts on the team after SGA and murray

france home court advantage, euroball experience advantage, wemby advantage

lack of quality bigs is tough for this matchup. SGA coming on though

refs calling nothing on the home team

gobert played 4 mins in the first 3 quarters

Draymond texting his producers about an emergency podast rn. https://t.co/JVvD6ZEUtr

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) August 6, 2024

brooks wrecked by wemby, sad

not a great ending for candanian basketball fans, if such a thing exists

how dare you

there are dozens of us

it was a tough draw. Canada went 3-0 in the toughest group in the group stage, but still got drawn against the experienced home team (with Wemby) for the QFs, because they couldn't play Australia or Greece again.

not totally undeserved but a 42-25 free throw disparity doesn't help

how much smaller is the ball than the one used in NBA games?

this one might be over by end of first quarter

nevermind, US getting worked this quarter. Kerr has a very furrowed brow

it's unfurrowed now.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUUq2ZTWkAACysq?format=jpg&name=medium

ah very interesting

? pic.twitter.com/QkGUefWwbR

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) August 6, 2024

https://i.imgur.com/fCN30rT.png

i think AD and steph are the only ones who really had decorated college careers of any sort

KD was amazing obv but he got bounced from the tourney pretty early iirc

hali prob a legend in ames but not sure that counts

kd won player of the year as a freshman

yeah, i guess he counts

kd ad and zion only players to ever win it as freshmen

one of the most inconvenient facts in recent college basketball history is that one of the only two teams comprised of/led by a megastar freshman (the calipari at kentucky era) to win it all (2015 duke team w/ jhalil okafor & justise winslow) had their asses saved in the title game, more or less completely out of nowhere, by grayson allen (the other title team being the 2012 kentucky team w/ AD, michael kidd gilchrist and marquis teague)

yeah i mean it stands to reason that freshmen no matter how talented just arent going to be as good as guys three or four years older than them, tho i guess big name coaches dont see it that way so

one of the most inconvenient facts in recent college basketball history is that one of the only two teams comprised of/led by a megastar freshman (the calipari at kentucky era) to win it all (2015 duke team w/ jhalil okafor & justise winslow) had their asses saved in the title game, more or less completely out of nowhere, by grayson allen (the other title team being the 2012 kentucky team w/ AD, michael kidd gilchrist and marquis teague)

Tyus!

Serbia's Bogdan Bogdanovic on why teammate Nikola Jokic hasn't talked with the media at the Olympics: “He’s great, but he only likes to talk to me, you know that. In the NBA, if he doesn’t talk to media, he’ll get fined. But here (in the Olympics), there are no fines. So he says,…

— gary washburn (@GwashburnGlobe) August 6, 2024

lag∞n lag∞nović
J0rd Sarganović

i would root for these players

hahahaha

lag∞n lag∞nović goes super hard

yeah i mean it stands to reason that freshmen no matter how talented just arent going to be as good as guys three or four years older than them, tho i guess big name coaches dont see it that way so

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 6, 2024 8:27 PM (yesterday)

ultimately it's the same logic that fuels stuff like trading all your picks for KD, "how can you turn down the talent" "you take the star and figure it out" etc maybe that is actually not the best way to put together a basketball team

now in cal's case i think he cares as much about the godfather status he's achieved by being connected to so many NBA stars as much as he cares about winning titles, coach k was more able to have his cake and eat it too in terms of boosting his own profile in recruiting that way while also being seen as more successful as a coach, obv lots of other factors there including coach k retiring before it bit him in the ass one too many times

https://t.co/1Lt6K9QYyT pic.twitter.com/sHi5IRqbW1

— 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏♡ (@teamblond_yeah) August 6, 2024

jokic still good

olympics not letting anyone use their footage for recaps/breakdowns etc is such shithead behavior, especially since its obviously legal under fair use, but since youtube doesnt care about that they can just get whatever they want taken down

It's more about Discovery+ isn't it? The deal is between the both of them I guess so maybe both are to blame

The commentary for some events has been very poor in the UK - I would LOVE a Jomboy like recap of the fencing to explain right-of-way, why this move was brilliant etc

do you mean peacock? xp i've been wondering about what rights NBC has over video vs the IOC itself, how the international aspect of it all comes into play etc. on socials NBC has been putting up truncated clips of races, meets, gymnastic routines etc but they have full like 7+ min clips on youtube of certain things. but when brody malone ate shit in the opening night of gymnastics, none of that got put up online. idk how it all works but i feel like typically w/ international events like the world cup, champions league etc there are much harder rules around videos being up online, whereas typically w/ an american sports broadcast these days it's just a total free for all. i don't think the NBA, NFL etc are in the game of getting videos taken down anymore

yeah they realized that its good for business to let people make videos for them, its my understanding that the olympics and fiba are behind the lockdown on their footage rather than their broadcast partners

get him

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUYst_CWUAEk_tB?format=jpg&name=medium

fra-ger pretty serious

i like this france team theyre locked in

France has some dudes

the Wemby gravitational pull helps of course

turns out the key to unlock france is benching rudy, something for minny to consider

cool to see yabusele thriving always thought he had a lot going for him but just couldnt put it together in the nba

much like the spurs realizing the 7-5 guy is a center xp

may we all come to appreciate this ancient wisdom that the tallest man is always a center

franz coughing it up at the worst possible time hate to see it

the reffing is really laying the groundwork for a historic gold medal game, it’s gonna be a complete circus

wemby is medaling at 20, you love to see it

lol at rudy entering the game for the first time in the second half to rebound free throws with under ten seconds left, then france being unable to sub him out, then everyone being ‘they have to keep him away from the ball’

god keeps giving embiid his hardest battle (trying to draw a foul in international play)

really good start for jokicia, which seems like an essential ingredient to winning this game

up 12 now

steve kerr is not built for this

anyone know where I can find a live box score? the espn app seems worthless for this

the goat just blocked lebron and ran the floor for and and-1. I’m floating

i’m not sure there are live/accurate box scores for these games

just found one on the olympics app but it’s not the prettiest to look at

embiid is such a clown….

guy just can’t stay on his feet

i’m thinking “imagine rooting for this guy” as i’m rooting for this guy. getting some piercing insight into the state of mind of sixers fans

bro that stop drop and roll routine lol what was that

lmao xp

was wondering if jaylen brown is hate watching this but it’s possible a new andrew tate video dropped

damn what did the celtics do to you haha jk

anybody got a stream for this? bbc not showing it

joel

Nahhh this is crazy disrespectful 😭 pic.twitter.com/yTlXxvURPN

— Pull up shoot  (@NElGHT_) August 8, 2024

havent check them but https://index.nbabite.com/ is usually good xp

noah lyles didn’t win the 200m btw, good day for real hoopers

tx lag00n bbc finally putting it on now tho

kinda sad bogdonovic is on the hawks

man I really don’t want to do the whole officiating thing, but…

Olympic level stop drop and roll lol pic.twitter.com/bBSx8kND5E

— Jawn Gonzalez (@JohnGonzalez) August 8, 2024

they're getting too cutesy now

dont want to second guess kerr here but a little better defensive lineup might be good

lmao that travel call on embiid. bad call, but lol

ceasing to give up wide open threes would be a good goal for team usa

durant has been very absent from this game

these turnovers are getting ridiculous

had it to within 6, now the deficit is worse than it was at halftime.

things not looking good at all

this team has negative chemistry

noah lyles didn’t win the 200m btw, good day for real hoopers

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, August 8, 2024 3:03 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok he knew he had covid and ran anyway, i agree he is an asshole

serbia's defense has everyone on team usa out of rhythm and jokic gives them a superb anchor on both ends

losing track of the number of times the US barely avoided traveling

man this guy says 'three-ball' a lot

good lord KD's legs, that made my stomach turn even tho nothing even happened to him

well getting interesting now buuuuuuuuuuut idk

4 fouls on jokic smh

serbia bonking

wolves game 7 nightmare vibes

usa is playing so much harder than they were in the first half lol

so many defenses lapses by the usa all game

watching the univision stream bcuz the NBC booth is so bad that i don't even care and repeatedly hearing the phrase "el joker" is extremely pleasing to me

now steph curry there is a player who is always fun to root for

its funny how the players have a different hand signal they do when begging for a replay in international ball

kd

i'm looking at embiid and doing that marcus camby gif

originally i thought it was pretty lame that the old dudes were clogging up the roster but watching steph, bron, and KD take this over has been pretty fun

hall of fame steph game, always a pleasure to witness one of those

the officiating in the gold medal game is going to be incredible

love it when lebron just reaches way back and blazes past everybody, still unstoppable when he puts his mind to it

it’s like he saves it up - got like three of em per game

smh

kevin this is what you get for rooting against your nation even tho obvs it wouldve been cool if serbia won

they gotta fire that serbian coach

not fouling was bad

crazy how late they waited

i’m not watching this and don’t really care but did they seriously bench tatum again? does devin booker have pictures of someone?

nash has a west coast bias a lil bit imo

lol i mean kerr

steph said postgame that it was the most fun he's had in "a very long time"

it hadn't crystalized for me that steph, bron, KD have prob accepted that they are very unlikely to win another title & looked at this as prob their last shot at playing high stakes championship level basketball

yea good observation. feels that way during the World Baseball Classic too where you wouldn't think it was something the players cared much about but they really really do, I mean why wouldn't they be they're hyper competitive and it's a competition where you prove yourself to the entire planet

Argh wish I could have seen this live but couldn’t. Amazing time for Steph to step it up wow

tbf you didnt miss too much usa was just jacking jumpers and not playing defense for most of the game then they put the jets on in the fourth and pulled it out

i thought booker played pretty well, although a look at his stats doesn't really bear that out

maybe they have beefs with each other that i'm unaware of, but steph, bron and KD playing together in a team-first situation has to be incredibly fun for them

even embiid was fired-up today! also KD otm

https://i.imgur.com/A78iDSO.jpeg

i demand he denounce the usa or im rooting for france

get in line behind k3v

theres a line what the hell

think you'd better call it a 'queue'

think i kind of hate steve kerr hes such a corporate executive

“One of the greatest basketball games I’ve ever been a part of. Humbled by being part of it.”

- Steve Kerr on today’s win

(Via @GwashburnGlobe ) pic.twitter.com/5LAjjH9B1I

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) August 8, 2024

Seems like a normal coach quite after a big win. U just mad he’s not playing your boy?

Durant said the same thing in his postgame int. Kerr def has EVP of Culture and Customer Retention vibes tho no doubt

it finally dawned on me yesterday that yes the all-star game exists but nobody tries in the ASG, this is the only place you see these guys playing hard together

i prefer kerr not play any celtics, it is stupid tho

To all you nuggets fans, nobody gives a fuck who yall lames believe is the best player in the league, players got major respect for Jok, we don’t worship him like yall do but most are in awe of his brilliance. Trolling you cornballs for rooting against us is apart of the game.… https://t.co/JVwxSi0eJD

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) August 9, 2024

lmao

carry the hell on…

Congratulations US Women's team on your brilliant run to the gold medal.

У којој земљи ово нису кораци?

П.С. Следећи пут нам унапред кажите кога не смемо да победимо. pic.twitter.com/7ssnZ34p6b

— Александар Вучић (@predsednikrs) August 9, 2024

Serbian president begging for a travel on Joel

thats what you call leadership

lebron had a crazy travel in the 4th as well

With game on the line, enter referees:

- MASSIVE travel by LeBron not called, but foul given when he lost the ball!
- KD steps out IN FRONT of 🇵🇦 ref, no call!
- Tactical and obvious foul by 🇷🇸 to stop fast break ignored to allow 🇺🇸 to score!
- Huge travel by Embiid
Thank refs! pic.twitter.com/loZyFaS3xX

— 👑No1eGoat👑 (@No1eRealGoat) August 9, 2024

if you can't trust No1eRealGoat to be objective who can you trust

these calls do not seem super clear/blatant imo but Serbians are very angry

not a true disgrace like the France/Canada ft disparity

these calls do not seem super clear/blatant imo but Serbians are very angry

― symsymsym, Friday, August 9, 2024 5:36 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

dawg

Congratulations US Women's team on your brilliant run to the gold medal.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, August 9, 2024 1:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i watched some of the aus-us game on my lunch break, just what do you even do when you're facing a'ja and stewie, because if you focus too much on them there's jackie young about to torch you.

rest of the world has a way to go to catch up in womens hoops, they did it pretty fast in soccer but thats a little different cause the whole world is so soccer mad and the usa isnt really

Serbian President is not the actual president of the county of Serbia but rather Republika Srpska which is a territory in Bosnia. xps

I don’t know much about the contemporary women’s team but the dominance is impressive. One of my favourite things I’ve ever read in non fiction is Joan Ryan’s account of the women’s team winning gold at Atlanta, after a relatively fallow period:

The once-dominant US women’s team had been slipping for almost a decade. It had lost not just the ’94 FIBA World Championship in Australia but also the ’91 Pan American Games and, most distressing, the previous Olympics in ’92.

Tara VanDerveer was unpacking her bags at her Palo Alto home when she came across the box. She picked it up, headed for her backyard patio, and set it on the outdoor table. Inside was a set of drinking glasses. VanDerveer had just returned from coaching the US women’s national basketball team in the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Australia. She had won the souvenirs in a raffle while she was there. On the patio, she lifted one of the pretty glasses from the box and hurled it to the concrete floor. She shattered each one in turn until they lay in shards at the foot of her potted azaleas.

That's Vucic's Twitter account

Yeah that’s on me and my half asleep reading of Cyrillic…and forgetting Serbia is ofc officially called Republic of Serbia. Sorry!

when was the last time mens and womens hoops had the same finalists?

v excited for my tall french son victor wembanyama this afternoon btw

Ref whiner upthread must have forgotten that in FIBA, intentional fouls are illegal and result in two free throws plus retention of the ball afterwards

i gotta be honest here fiba/euroball is trash, defensive three seconds is a really good rule

knocking the ball off the rim is cool tho

LeBron loves doing that, he probably yells "FIBA rulebook!" every time

Imagining Shaq just standing next to the rim all game

knocking the ball off the rim is cool ill give them that

I also like 10 minute quarters tbqh. Thibs would only need a 6 man roster tho

Bron having fun

Good energy good ball

easy money sniper

Ouch posterized

DELETE THE FOOTAGE

france should trade for curry, theyd be so good

lol that was not a charge on jrue, and i don't think booker was even touched when he got that fast-break layup and one

France covering the spread so far

Wembyyyy

some of these moving camera angles are disorienting

kerr talking timeouts cmon thats not sporting

france just doesnt have the talent to hang rn, but they could be getting a lot better in 4 years. usa will lose bron, kd, and curry. france will have sarr, risacher, salaun, nolan traore coming in, wemby and couliabily will be better.

yeah was just thinking the same lotta of promising young guys

tho based on this tourney losing steph could be a positive for the usa

Keystone Kops possession by Davis there

Redeemed

tho based on this tourney losing steph could be a positive for the usa

― lag∞n, Saturday, August 10, 2024 3:46 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

he carried them against serbia

its true he was good in that game

Oop

France keeping it close enough to be disconcerting

wemby trying to slide on his sneakers without untying them first is extremely relatable stuff

lets see if usa can replicate their finishing kick from last game, might not be as easy france more athletic than serbia

tho they are ahead instead of behind so theyve got that working for them

i cannot imagine being an evan fournier fan at any point in my life, jesus

just a guy who makes 3 bad plays then 1 good one over and over

Jrue!

cant say ive enjoyed a single game ive watched in the olympics but fuck it usa usa usa congrats to the big champs

players only no steve kerr or grant hill

did bron stop dying his beard specifically for the olympics

sloppy turnovers jfc

this is not a well played basketball game

steph has been so bad kerr feeding him big minutes anyway

ghost of kobe zooming around zapping the ball out of guys’ hands

pic.twitter.com/5emL9uQA0X

— claire de lune (@ClaireMPLS) August 10, 2024

lol

steph is reading lagoon’s posts

he can shoot ill give that to him lol

He’s known for that iirc

im not really familiar with his work

steph cmon man lol

Omg stop steph

steph

curry

i laughed

oh my god

Ant having fun on the bench

france was within one possession late, huge props to my son victor

very silly to just roll with all the old guys for this whole thing imo, have we learned nothing from _politics_

LA gonna be a new gen for sure though

Yes his name is Bronny.

very silly to just roll with all the old guys for this whole thing imo, have we learned nothing from _politics_

― Clay, Saturday, August 10, 2024 5:18 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

painful to watch, until steph went nuts then it was cool

tho i think ultimately usa is always going to be unsatisfying and underperforming in international ball just due to no time to gel / no euroball experience / weird teams of stars construction

also just a if you dont win you fail set up is inherently a jackpot

yugoslavia should get back together to give them some competition

crying saluting this picture

from dream to reality for Tyrese Haliburton 🥹

CONGRATS @TyHaliburton22! pic.twitter.com/IeEcuadB8G

— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) August 10, 2024

serbia could have done it

idk usa pretty much punked them in that 4th quarter

which isnt to say the usa cant lose just that they have so much more talent than anyone else

given the disparity i’m kind of surprised how close the last two games got!

yeah

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUpufYKWkAAKUvk?format=jpg&name=large

i laughed

when steph went off and made all those threes that was my reaction, too. too much fun!

tho based on this tourney losing steph could be a positive for the usa

I ascended to basketball heaven those last couple minutes incredible stuff

When you ain’t do nun on the group project and still get an A🏅 pic.twitter.com/xpshYZhMyA

— Tyrese Haliburton (@TyHaliburton22) August 10, 2024

Nice lol

really just shameful work by kerr

the end of bench players get NBA championship rings, too, hali

congrats to the US. still super bummed serbia couldn’t pull that one out. I’d be bulletproof for life if jokic won gold

Tatum mad

https://Twitter.com/NoaDalzell/status/1822429120774513135

he should be, second leading scorer at the last olympics, nba champ, prob the easiest player to fit in to any lineup, usa barely beating much worse teams and he cant get on the court

kerr running out these three guard lineups that still for some reason cant fight over screens, ugly

tweet deleted

weird, this is the quote

"It was a tough personal experience on the court, but I'm not going to make any decision off emotions," Tatum said. "If you asked me right now if I was going to play in 2028 -- it is four years from now and I [would have] to take time and think about that. So, I'm not going to make any decision based off how this experience was or how I felt individually."

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/276986/Jayson-Tatum-Says-Limited-Role-In-Paris-Wont-Impact-2028-Olympics-Decision

the tweeter assumed that tatum was angry, but it could just as easily be disappointment with a bit of discouragement, which is nowhere near anger

yeah that seems pretty measured

has to be weird being a part of something amazing while also feeling jobbed because you weren't a bigger part of it

Had not really seen a whole game till today, Wemby was really impressive today. I hope he can stay healthy as his skills are so unique and he is very graceful.

It was wild when matched up with AD and he is so much taller.

Dude would look cool as hell with his build if he could do that George Gervin style finger roll.

skeptical that i will now wake up for the women’s game

but c’mon no one’s beating stewa’ja even if the others didn’t also rule

wow was that an ugly 20 minutes of hoops

both teams under 29%, usa with 13 turnovers

need to score some points, imo

what i would do is score instead of turnovers

yes, scoring some points would help

some great defensive sequences

not shooting layups v. well

lol lucky bounce

France just jacking up 3s

tight game

turrible possession france rip

omg that finish

so close

holy cow

i just woke up and caught the last 17 seconds

what a wild finish, williams was amazing this game

best 17 seconds

a'ja exit interview!!!

Here’s the French commentary to Steph Curry’s game winning threes.

You’re gonna love it 🤣🤣🤣🤣#Olympics #Basketball pic.twitter.com/MnusPwPzcu

— Justin 🇺🇸 (@justinc_99) August 10, 2024

love it so much when soccer style commentators do other sports

btw did we ever get a good answer as to why Tatum didnt even play a full quarter

think kerr said it was cause bron and kd were ahead of him and they were going with guard heavy lineups

https://twitter.com/khristofflee/status/1822667218959618264?s=46&t=mohDpDAFl5F45rFjzYedvA

i will say that despite the gold medal outcomes being ultimately predictable, this is the most the US has had to sweat for them in a while, just a matter of time til goliath is slain again

is noah lyles the pat bev of track and field like do they all roll their eyes when he walks into the locker room

— claire de lune (@ClaireMPLS) August 11, 2024

solid comp but dwight howard might be even better comp

i will say that despite the gold medal outcomes being ultimately predictable, this is the most the US has had to sweat for them in a while, just a matter of time til goliath is slain again

I will def go to a basketball game in 2028 and I will loudly cheer for serbia

mods

i’ll allow it, i was rooting for france bc my allegiance to the spurs is greater than that of my country

just found out olympic village is gonna be in my neighborhood. I def need to see if I can run into jokic at a bar

haven't watched Netflix's Court Of Gold, but I'm gonna after seeing some of these clips.

KD gets emotional talking about hoopin' for the U.S. (and just hoopin' in general):

Kevin Durant tearing up about playing on the Olympic stage is a moment to witness.

Court of Gold premieres in 12 hours. pic.twitter.com/jWSAC9pA5a

— Netflix (@netflix) February 17, 2025

Jokic and his fellow Serbs in the locker room, yelling at each other about guarding KD:

KD had Serbia’s locker room in shambles 😬

(via @netflix, h/t @vevosuave)pic.twitter.com/J39jRlwl9A

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) February 18, 2025

i'm 'bout to run thru a wall for Nico Batum:

Pump this into my veinssssssss pic.twitter.com/qdF4paDORv

— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) February 19, 2025

hilarious

The full KD/chemistry scene is incredible pic.twitter.com/XefSyhsCOM

— Dan Greenberg (@StoolGreenie) February 19, 2025

Serbian coach is v poetic

working my way through this, watched 2 eps last night. well done so far