2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Thread

[jrwannabe]

It's great seeing Goga succeed.

[SaintLouisan]

Can’t help but wonder why Cuban won’t throw a couple bucks at some of Doncic’s Slovenian teammates that he evidently enjoys some decent chemistry with, namely Tobey and Prepelic…wouldn’t cost much anyway.

[Basketball Fan]

[SaintLouisan]

Banchero and Reaves have been pretty awesome so far for the US. That bench group, in general, is way more fun to watch.

Haven’t seen any games but saw it said repeatedly that Haliburton and Reaves have terrific chemistry…makes me feel better about hoping that we could make a run at Reaves this summer (not that it was ever going to happen)

[dal9]

Haven’t seen any games but saw it said repeatedly that Haliburton and Reaves have terrific chemistry…makes me feel better about hoping that we could make a run at Reaves this summer (not that it was ever going to happen)

why do u think it's out of the question?

[712Jefferson]

Haven’t seen any games but saw it said repeatedly that Haliburton and Reaves have terrific chemistry…makes me feel better about hoping that we could make a run at Reaves this summer (not that it was ever going to happen)

Didn't he resign with the Lakers for a very reasonable salary? I heard the Spurs thought about offering him the max and decided against it.

[SaintLouisan]

why do u think it's out of the question?

(preface this by saying that my wording was a bit vague, I meant he wasn’t going to ultimately end up here, not necessarily that we wouldn’t even bother trying)

But, word on the street is the Lakers were going to match pretty much anything, and though I’m not one of the doom-and-gloomers, I mean, from his perspective it’s LA+Lebron/AD vs Indy+Haliburton/Mathurin…and, well…

Perhaps we could have given him Brown’s bag, but Reaves was going to get a long deal, and though I have nothing to back this up I’ve long suspected we ended up with Brown because we needed someone to take that funky loaded-but-only-one-guaranteed-year deal we probably cooked up for cap reasons. Reaves didn’t need that when the Lakers would offer him basically 4 years.

We also have a bit of a logjam at his position, and like Mathurin (and no I don’t buy for a second Mathurin is 6’6 as bbref now attempts to gaslight me), he can’t really be a 3 unless it’s preceded by the word “undersized”

[BornIndy]

Ingram got moved to the bench

[712Jefferson]

US played a close game earlier today against Serbia-Montenegro. It was tight until the end and they were down at the half. Montenegro's size was a bit of a problem for the US. Tyrese closed the game, played five more minutes than Brunson (who struggled), had the best stat line on the team and the highest efficiency rating (15).

[Ichi]

Getting pretty excited here. Stoked for the USA game tonight (my time). We need a good draw (need may be a strong word) for elimination rounds. I have a refundable trip set up next weekend for Manila just in case, with the only locked in price being the tickets I bought (if I can't resell them). I got a general admission bronze game ticket, and a decent-ish gold game ticket. Have never watched my guy Haliburton in person, nor Team USA, so have been paying close attention to this WC.

[Guest]

USA is a joke...losers

[InYaFace]

USA is a joke...losers

And Lithuania is good because your guy Sabonis isn't playing this WorldCup

[Guest]

Masive congratulations to team USA...what a come back...almost gave as game...imagine if we had Domas

[Guest]

Masive congratulations to team USA...what a come back...almost gave as game...imagine if we had Domas

Imagine if Curry, LeBron, AD, KD played for USA.

[BornIndy]

I don't care what anyone says. USA should never lose. It's an embarrassment every time it happens.