Greece (V-Span) vs. United States (Battier), 6:30 a.m, Friday, Sept. 1

Nice pass by v-span to baby shaq for an easy lay up.

 

baby shaq makes the lead for greece

hahaha

lets go greekos!

 

oh man i'm sick to my stomach.

 

5 point lead

o yea baby

hahahahah

 

USA will come back. NO doubt.

 

Two comments:

1. Span sure doesn't look 6'4".

2. Span will be the starting PG for the Rockets within a year.

 

again

did I say before

USA, ARG and Greece, two of them will be in finals

and thats whats going to happen

if greece wins this

that would be so unbelievable

 

this is a ****ing embarrassment. everyone on the court should take a good look in the mirror at halftime. rushed passes, no one with any poise. the defense just went to crap. suddenly any pass greece wants gets inside and they let baby shaq get layups on every possession. no one is getting back. we're throwing it away. just embarrassing to give up 14 in the 1st quarter and then 29+ in the 2nd. kirk heinrich better do something good.

it doesn't help that the refs are taking any chance they get to **** us (chris paul gets tripped on the way to the basket and almost falls down and we call nothing?). every out of bounds is magically off of us. oh damn, a free throw for us.

 

Is hand check allowed in FIBA because how these guards are getting into the lane is just beyond me. STop going for the steal and play solid man-up basketball will ya?

 

old school basketball killin the US right now

carmelo is back!

 

if you're european.


and kirk gives up another layup. he has played the worst stretch of basketball i have ever seen anyone play at any level in this 1st half. on every touch he does the most disastrous thing possible. that open 3 dribble was the capper. just remarkable.

 

The Rox need to develop the Greek connection similiar to how San Antonio has developed the South America connection.

 

i said it at the beginning. we completely killed greece in the 1st quarter and had nothing to show for it b/c of horrible shooting and lucky bank shots.

when greece went on their run they took advantage of every defensive breakdown (how do you play D like we did in the 1st and then have that 2nd quarter?) and every offensive mishap. just perfect basketball.

losing to such an inferior team would be a disgrace as greece, as well as they played, does not look to be a spain or argentina at all. it took all of our effort to suck this much. their better be some first quarter-like dedication when we get back out there for the 2nd half.

excuse me while i go throw up.

 

why all the hate

almost every of your comments is dedicated "against" the greeks

grow up guy, see the game for what it is!

 

I think that the biggest problem of the American team is that they don't have any veteran player (they're a very young team, right? Who is the oldest player?) to come off the bench and add his experience to the game, slow things down a bit.

Still, it'll all come down to how much fitness the Greek team has saved up for the end. USA can play in the same rhythm for 40 mins, Greece definitely can't.

 

If USA even starts doing some decent offensive plays instead of this iso crap, we wouldn't be struggling so much. I heard somewhere that Coach K gave them offensive freedom as long as the D is there but this iso crap is crap.

Yeah I can see VSpan being a JVG type of player, but teams will learn right away to back off and give him the shot, which is suspect right now (banked 3 notwithstanding).

 

damn

agassi lookin still good

I rememeber seeing him first time in 89

this guy is a machine

 

am i supposed to be rooting for the greeks or something? most of my comments have been directed at heinrich.

 

I root for Greece in this game and I am happy they came back in the 2nd qtr. I didn't watch the game on tv therefore I don't know if US started to put on their full court press defense to Greece players or not. That's Team USA's best defensive plays IMHO. See if the Greeks could overcome this and lead to the end of the game.

GO GREECE!!!

 

He could probably teach team USA a thing about winning gold.