Basketball World Cup/Spain 2014

[Wanksta]

With the Fiba World Cup right around the corner i thought that it was time to start a related thread. While i am not expecting the same reaction as the football world cup i believe that some people here might be interested.

Here are the 4 groups
Who do you support and who do you believe is the favorite?

 

[Wanksta]

As far as pre tourney standings goes

Lithuania is 1st with 11 wins and 1 loss in preparation games
Spain is 2nd with 9 wins and 0 losses in preparation games
USA is 3rd with 4 wins and 0 losses in preparation games

The rest of the standings are here
http://www.fiba.com/basketballworldcup/2014/powerladder

 

[Wanksta]

1 day to go to the FIBA Basketball World Cup!
Group A preview : http://www.fiba.com/news/group-a-preview-spain-to-seek-glory-at-home

Teams :
Spain,France,Serbia,Brazil,Iran,Egypt

 

[Wanksta]

1 day to go to the FIBA Basketball World Cup!
Group B preview : http://www.fiba.com/news/group-b-preview-croatia-slight-favourites-going-into-open-group-b

Teams :
Greece,Croatia,Argentina,Puerto Rico,Philipinas,Angola

 

[Wanksta]

1 day to go to the FIBA Basketball World Cup!
Group C preview: http://www.fiba.com/basketballworldcup/2014/news/Group-Preview-Will-USA-find-it-smooth-to--Basque--i

Teams:
USA,Turkey,Dominican Republic,New Zealand,Finland,Ukraine

 

[Wanksta]

1 day to go to the FIBA Basketball World Cup!
Group D preview: http://www.fiba.com/news/group-d-preview-continental-giants-collide-in-gran-canaria

Teams:
Lithuania,Slovenia,Angola,Australia,Korea,Mexico

 

[Wanksta]

The world cup has began.

In the premiere Croatia overcame a surprisingly strong Philippines team in a 81-78 overtime victory (Group B)

Other results are Ukraine-Dominican Republic 72-62 9 (Group C)
and Angola-Korea 80-69 (Group D)

 

[Wanksta]

Other games today are

Serbia vs Egypt (Group A)

New Zealand vs Turkey (Group C)

Australia vs Slovenia (Group D)

Argentina vs Puerto Rico (Group B)

France vs Brazil (Group A)

Mexico vs Lithuania (Group D)

Greece vs Senegal (Group B)

USA vs Finland (Group C)

Spain vs Iran (Group A)

 

[Wanksta]

Serbia with a comfortable win over Egypt 85-64

 

[Wanksta]

Turkey defeats New Zealand after a really close game 76-73

 

[Wanksta]

Slovenia with the win against Australia 90-80

 

[Wanksta]

Argentina easily gets past Puerto Rico with a 98-75 win

 

[thalidomide]

One man conversation? t:

 

[ljukic]

Croatia been a huge disappointment...