Men's Preliminary Round

Ricky Rubio wow he looks good

My goodness, does this kid get a deflection EVERY possesion?

Gasol must have 30 by now

Yi is a bad basketball player.

Well, valiant effort by China but Spain is just the superior team. It's a shame, I was rooting for China after Spain's photo fiasco.

Still, not impressive by Spain's performance in this game.

man, this Pau needs to show up next season.

LDR wrote:I have a strong feeling Spain will win this game. I just think they are too talented.

Nice call.

25 so far for Pau.

Classless lay up at the end

blocks wrote:Rubio looks good

He does but China's weak guards make him look better than he is.

bumrusherer wrote:Classless lay up at the end

Point differential matters in who advances from the groupstage. Thats why they continue playing even when the game isn't in doubt.

Pau finished with 29 pts 8 rb 2 ast 1 stl and 2 blk

Sun Yue finished with 2 pts 0 rb 3 ast 1 stl 1 blk 0/3 from 3 and 3 to

CaCHooKa Man wrote:I think pau is gonna lift his team to victory in the 4th

I was close

bumrusherer wrote:Yi is a bad basketball player.

Sun Yue is a bad basketball player. Least Yi has shown he can play in the league.

Spain dodged a bullet today. This is why I no longer believe their hype.

Box score anyone?

bumrusherer wrote:Classless lay up at the end

I have a feeling that that Spain photo shoot DID reach the Chinese media. The Chinese crowd was heavily booing Spain while they had possession at certain points. And that is uncharacteristic of the Chinese crowd as far as I've seen.

An out of shape Yao, and a casper-like Yi didn't really help their cause.

Especially Yi....how did this guy get into the NBA? I can somewhat understand Yao struggling, having not yet recovered fully from injury and nowhere near prime conditioning. But Yi seemed almost uninterested in this whole thing.

LDR wrote:Box score anyone?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/basketball/resultsandschedules/rsc=BKM400B05/index.html

Legendary wrote:An out of shape Yao, and a casper-like Yi didn't really help their cause.

Especially Yi....how did this guy get into the NBA? I can somewhat understand Yao struggling, having not yet recovered fully from injury and nowhere near prime conditioning. But Yi seemed almost uninterested in this whole thing.

Agreed. And I'm rooting for China from now on in every game they have (unless it costs the US the gold ). Yao is giving all that he has even if it can't possibly his 100%. I hope that China at least makes it to the elimination rounds. Yao is such a great dude, I can't help but root for the guy.

That was an amazing game to watch. I'm happy for Pau at least, he came up HUGE in the clutch.

I hope we see that from him in the Finals this upcoming season.

blocks wrote:

bumrusherer wrote:Classless lay up at the end

I have a feeling that that Spain photo shoot DID reach the Chinese media. The Chinese crowd was heavily booing Spain while they had possession at certain points. And that is uncharacteristic of the Chinese crowd as far as I've seen.

They weren't booing Spain. Craig sager asked the manager of the building what they were saying and he told them that they were chanting the Chinese equivalent of "nooo" to distract the players. And as its been said, point differential matters in the prelims.

40 minutes till the USA game...

in the meantime...fencing...

Lithuania is dominating Iran

^they'd better. They're playing Iran for heaven sakes.

CaCHooKa Man wrote:

blocks wrote:

bumrusherer wrote:Classless lay up at the end

I have a feeling that that Spain photo shoot DID reach the Chinese media. The Chinese crowd was heavily booing Spain while they had possession at certain points. And that is uncharacteristic of the Chinese crowd as far as I've seen.

They weren't booing Spain. Craig sager asked the manager of the building what they were saying and he told them that they were chanting the Chinese equivalent of "nooo" to distract the players. And as its been said, point differential matters in the prelims.

Good stuff...I missed the first half and half of the third, thanks for the info...