Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this year's America's Championship serves as qualifying for the World Championships. And since we won gold at the Olympics, we probably automatically qualify for the WC.
That stands correct, Olympics winner automatically qualifies for WC, and WC winner will automatically quilify for the Olympics as well.
There are 4 wild cards for this world championship, and to be announced on Dec 13. Since the team Argentina is ranking #1 in FIBA right now, they should get a wild card if they are out of the top 4 in this tournament.
http://puertorico2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/facm/p/schedule.html The results (Aug. 26): # Group Home Away BoxScore Leaders 1 A Virgin Islands vs Uruguay 62 - 88, Pts: Leandro Garcia Morales 28 (URU) Rbs: Esteban Batista 13 (URU) 2 B Dominican Republic vs Brazil 68 - 81, Pts: Alex Garcia 21 (BRA) Rbs: Tiago Splitter 10 (BRA) 1 B Venezuela vs Argentina 85 - 69, Pts: Luis Scola 25 (ARG) Rbs: Luis Scola 7 (ARG) 2 A Mexico Puerto vs Rico 66 - 81, Pts: Romel Roberto Beck Castro 26 (MEX) Rbs: Daniel Santiago 11 (PUR)
Scola didn´t play well. He had a decent stretch of 6 or 7 minutes during the 3rd quarter, though. He sucked in the first half. All Venezuela had to do was defend the pick and roll between Scola and Prigioni, which they did. Argentina had no other weapon. If they could have played some defense, it would have been closer. But they didn´t even try. We have to play MUCH better if we want to qualify. We laid an egg yesterday.
Canada 78 : 33 Mexcio, end of 3rd. I couldn't believe what I saw. Actually, I think Mexcio played well against Puerto Rico yesterday.
REAL ROCKETS FANS CHALLENGE! An ex-Rockets player was playing in the ARG vs VEN game, who is he? Rep points to the first Clutchfan who answered correctly. Boxscore (hence the full list of player names in the game) can be found here http://puertorico2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/facm/p/gid/1/grid/B/rid/7045/game.html Please use the spoiler tag to mask your answer. This Spoiler you can put your answer here Enjoy!
http://puertorico2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/facm/p/schedule.html The results (Aug. 27): # Group Home Away BoxScore Leaders 3 B Panama vs Dominican vs Republic 87 - 100, Pts: Danilo Pinnock 27 (PAN) Rbs: Jaime Lloreda 14 (PAN) 3 A Canada vs Mexico 95 - 40, Pts: Andy Rautins 18 (CAN) Rbs: Levon Kendall 11 (CAN) 4 B Brazil vs Venezuela 87 - 67, Pts: [Leandrinho]-Leandro Mateus Barbosa 15 (BRA) Rbs: [Anderson]-Anderson França Varejao 9 (BRA) 4 A Puerto Rico Virgin Islands 85 - 74, Pts: Carlos Arroyo 24 (PUR) Rbs: Peter John Ramos 10 (PUR)
We did auto qualify for 2010 in turkey, however countries usually send teams anyway. For instance, Turkey is playing in Eurobasket 2009 even though it is the host. I think it was a silly move by USA basketball to waste a summer where we could have sent our B team down for some experience. Instead we just had them play a blue v white scrimmage in las vegas for 3 days. It would have been a good way to see who is really committed to our program and who knows how to play fiba ball the right way.
Argentina x Brazil now live http://www.atdhe.net/7534/watch-argentina-vs-brazil- Scola x Varejao Scola 2-6 fg 4 pts Varejao i guess 3-3 fg 2-2 ft 8 pts
