DMo going to the Olympics! Unless Morey decides not to... ****! Wait... Hmm... Not having a contract has prevented a lot of foreign and US players to skip national teams, lets hope Rockets give that max to DMo ASAP so he could go to RIO. If not... I'm going to be becoming BFF with North Korea kind of pissed at Rockets.
Maybe this has been mentioned in this thread already, but the announcers for this tournament on NBA TV have been insufferable. They react to 15-foot jumpers in the first quarter like they are buzzer-beating half-court shots. With that being said, outside of that, I have really enjoyed watching this tournament over the last couple of weeks and I'm going to miss it once it's gone.
Well... I said France versus Serbia in the final... didn't say which one Happy for Lithuania. Small country with a lot basketball enthusiasm. Definetely gonna cheer for them, but I'm afraid it's all Spain now.
Everyone said this about Italy and Serbia. But Lithuania beat em. It's crazy how this **** roster of Lithuania made the final.
:grin: Greece isn't even a favourite at this point. All the old good players retired yesterday (most likely). Anyway it is a disgrace that Australia is every year handed a spot by only having to play NZ while teams like Turkey Germany and Croatia will be left out. BTW hosting fee will cost 1.7 million euros. And they will give priority/pressure the already qualified teams to host. Maybe only France and Canada can do it. BFF with NK? Morey doesn't matter. All the desired fa will be gone tops in a week. As soon as he gets a good offer by any team Rockets have 3 days to match.The problem is with teams in the preolympic that will be in start of July. So Tristan Thompson, Benett, Fournier, Batum etc. Everyone thought it lol All predictions in this thread have gone out of the window.:grin: I will be shocked if Lithuania wins. Shocked! They will have a lot of fouls to give (and beat up) Gasol but their guards are ludicrous. I just can't imagine how they can beat Spain.
So when Raptors or Mavericks throw max at DMo first day of free agency, that ruin's our plans to get Durant, when Rockets match DMo?
This is out of the topic of thsi thread. But just so you know, DMO has first to sign the contract. GMs and teams speak with the agents and their players and usually there is some understanding on delaying of signing the offersheets. OFC there is a limit on the waiting (or the market will not have as much money). I made a mistake it's 48 hours with the new CBA, the old one was 72 hours to match. But the next FA period will go on way too fast regardless of Durant. Durant will affect only a few teams (Wizards, Thunder, Rockets, Lakers, Knicks?? )the rest who have no hope will go straight after the best of the rest. So even in my examples Batum is most likely to have signed in the first day of FA and be ready to go by July 5. Fournier on the other hand prob not.
Tomorrow very early. Only 7 pm CET so I think that's noon Houston time. I dont' know where you can watch. There should be many illegal streams tho (lemonsport etc).
If you think France players hate Spain, entire Lithuania hated Spain for many years and much harder, for all their acting. Rudy Fernandez was even punched in the face by lithuanian fan couple years ago. Rudy was spotted crying after that.
Noone likes them because of their flops. But these things change. When the dirtbags retire (Fernandez) they will become ok again. Serbia was a pos team with all the paying the refs as well in the 90s and now noone remembers (at least almost noone). But the French and Spanish ppl have a hating relationship in all the sports. [youtube]009XRl3-Sus[/youtube] and this is the spanish team falling from the bullets of the snipers [youtube]siKWh0DkCz8[/youtube]
well. Looks like match over already. It's the show of France. I can't stop admiring Gobert. People so tall shouldn't be able to move like this. Also Teodosic costs again his team like yesterday. You can't hide him in defence and when he can't make his shots he is toxic. Batum better step it up. It's his contract year and he has been awful.
