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

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