With Asik gone he should get serious burn with Houston. He has had a really busy summer. Played summer league then the 50 warm up games Lithuania played and now of course World Cup. With Kalneitis out DM and JV got to come up big.
Spain 2014 FIBA World Cup
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With Asik gone he should get serious burn with Houston. He has had a really busy summer. Played summer league then the 50 warm up games Lithuania played and now of course World Cup. With Kalneitis out DM and JV got to come up big.
Yep, the better thing about DMO is, he is a very good pair for a center. Whenever I see him play with JV he plays in perfect compliance. He has all the necessary skills to play along side a true center, and he should play well next to DH too. Maybe he only needs to improve his defense but he is already showing progress in that department too and it won't be much big of a problem with Howard anyway.
MVP
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Any other website I right click on the picture and it lets me copy image location, not that freaking lithuanian newspaper....
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Any other website I right click on the picture and it lets me copy image location, not that freaking lithuanian newspaper....
Click Visos Nuotraukos and copy URL. I don't know why but you are able to copy URL when you view all of them.
addictionary
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We are in the 4th day of the tournament and home team Spain has been rallying perfectly so far. They won both of their first 3 games: 90-60 vs Iran, 91-54 vs Egypt, 82-63 vs Brasil. They are standing at the top of the standings, followed by Greece, another team who have won their first 3: 87-64 vs Senegal, 82-70 vs Philippines, 90-79 vs Puerto Rico. And the US team have won their 1st 2 games, including an early warning given by a Turkish team who are not in their best shapes both in game system, roster and endurance, as they've been pushed to compete for taking the lead until the end of the 3rd quarter.
France looks promising with the missal of their Tony Parker, the last NBA champion PG. Brasil looks really promising and have beaten France in a tough contest. Neto looks like a really good playmaker. Fun to watch. Able to distribute really well.
Slovenia and Lithuania are the other two perfect teams so far, without a loss.
The Slovens have beaten Danté Exum's Australia 90-80 and Mexico 89-68.
Lithuania had an amazing preparation game era, but an exhausting one to say the least and are absent of their very important PG Mantas Kalnietis. They still have been able to win their games against not too hard competitions Mexico and Angola 87-74 and 75-62.
Today's games you might want to check out are:
Group C games
Ukraine vs Turkey @ 15:00
USA vs New Zealand @ 17:30
Group D
Australia vs Lithuania @ 16:30
Times are local (Spain)
Ukraine vs Turkey link: ntvspor.net/canliyayin
The rest is out there. Will share if they are illegal enough.
France looks promising with the missal of their Tony Parker, the last NBA champion PG. Brasil looks really promising and have beaten France in a tough contest. Neto looks like a really good playmaker. Fun to watch. Able to distribute really well.
Slovenia and Lithuania are the other two perfect teams so far, without a loss.
The Slovens have beaten Danté Exum's Australia 90-80 and Mexico 89-68.
Lithuania had an amazing preparation game era, but an exhausting one to say the least and are absent of their very important PG Mantas Kalnietis. They still have been able to win their games against not too hard competitions Mexico and Angola 87-74 and 75-62.
Today's games you might want to check out are:
Group C games
Ukraine vs Turkey @ 15:00
USA vs New Zealand @ 17:30
Group D
Australia vs Lithuania @ 16:30
Times are local (Spain)
Ukraine vs Turkey link: ntvspor.net/canliyayin
The rest is out there. Will share if they are illegal enough.
addictionary
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The Jazz can make a lot of those this season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5moeUX58Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5moeUX58Vg
addictionary
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Did you know?
The Top 10 scorers so far in the World Cup includes no USA player. (AD23 ranks 11th with 18 ppg)
And all of them except for 2 players (Eugene JETER, Ukraine & Renaldo BALKMAN, Puerto Rico) are playing in the NBA.
This to me tells that some US players haven't been able to show what they can do yet. And like an All-Star game, nearly no one is go-to. So high scoring might not be on their way at the level they do in in the NBA. But I can see at least 6 of'em going 30 points per game in a go-to role. This is USA's biggest problem in my opinion. Too many stars, not knowing what to do the best way with'em. So far, they don't look like they are playing in top form, except for the last quarter of the Turkey game. When their shooters step in, expect a bunch of crazy deficit games.
Another example to this no one being a got-to guy shows itself on rebounds individually. The Manimal leads the US with 7 rpg and ranks only 14th in the competition. Cousins have 6.5 and AD23 has 5.
Blatche of Nets (Philippines) leads the tourney with 13.7 rpg.
In Blocks per game, AD23 and Manimal are 15th and 16th. This category is lead by 23 year old 6-9 Jongkyu Kim of South Korea. The 7 foot center of Senegal, Hamady Ndiaye (plays in D-League, 27 years old) lead the category per minutes. Rudy Gobert is 13th.
Harden & Kyrie add 9.5 apg for the US. Another example to me that a player like Harden, who can pass really good but doesn't always prefer, leads his team in apg.
And steals. James Harden leads it. 3.5 steals per game from the guy that does not defend cutters. 3 steals from Steph Curry.
The Top 10 scorers so far in the World Cup includes no USA player. (AD23 ranks 11th with 18 ppg)
And all of them except for 2 players (Eugene JETER, Ukraine & Renaldo BALKMAN, Puerto Rico) are playing in the NBA.
This to me tells that some US players haven't been able to show what they can do yet. And like an All-Star game, nearly no one is go-to. So high scoring might not be on their way at the level they do in in the NBA. But I can see at least 6 of'em going 30 points per game in a go-to role. This is USA's biggest problem in my opinion. Too many stars, not knowing what to do the best way with'em. So far, they don't look like they are playing in top form, except for the last quarter of the Turkey game. When their shooters step in, expect a bunch of crazy deficit games.
Another example to this no one being a got-to guy shows itself on rebounds individually. The Manimal leads the US with 7 rpg and ranks only 14th in the competition. Cousins have 6.5 and AD23 has 5.
Blatche of Nets (Philippines) leads the tourney with 13.7 rpg.
In Blocks per game, AD23 and Manimal are 15th and 16th. This category is lead by 23 year old 6-9 Jongkyu Kim of South Korea. The 7 foot center of Senegal, Hamady Ndiaye (plays in D-League, 27 years old) lead the category per minutes. Rudy Gobert is 13th.
Harden & Kyrie add 9.5 apg for the US. Another example to me that a player like Harden, who can pass really good but doesn't always prefer, leads his team in apg.
And steals. James Harden leads it. 3.5 steals per game from the guy that does not defend cutters. 3 steals from Steph Curry.
addictionary
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And when we come to team stats, this is where we see USA's ranking. 106 ppg, leading the tourney by far. 2nd in FG%, shooting 55% , (1st Slovenia). Home team Spain shoots 50%.
USA is 12th with 35% 3 point percentage (Turkey 14th). 3 pointers are lead by Aussies with a crazy near 52 % !!
US team also leads the tourney in apg. Distribution goes decent enough to find the athletic players and we all know how their fast breaks are (leading the steals by far 17.5 spg). The US NT averages 20.5 apg, a team who can get back to the other end and shoot the ball in 4 seconds, really hard for opposition to keep up with the endurance.
USA is 12th with 35% 3 point percentage (Turkey 14th). 3 pointers are lead by Aussies with a crazy near 52 % !!
US team also leads the tourney in apg. Distribution goes decent enough to find the athletic players and we all know how their fast breaks are (leading the steals by far 17.5 spg). The US NT averages 20.5 apg, a team who can get back to the other end and shoot the ball in 4 seconds, really hard for opposition to keep up with the endurance.
addictionary
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Wow bad bad shooting day for both teams. 26-25 Turkey leads Ukraine in the end of the 1st half.
When you said 26-25 I thought it was the 1st quarter. Must have been a really bad shooting.