24th FIBA-Asia Championship\Beijing Olympics Basketball Tournament Qualifier

[Sam van Dam]

USA has a lot of stars, that loss vs puerto rico, gave me a huge laugh. but didnt argentina get gold in 04?? if they did its all becasue of GINOBLI haha even though i hate charles barkely , i love it when he says that

[Arashi_Washi]

Guess what bro it doesn't matter this is the senior national team and check it we now have Kobe. I think that will be the X Factor because he is consistently a first team all defense player. Everyone thinks he can only score but Kobe is a complete player. How is Serbia going to handle both Kobe and Lebron James? They are going to lose mark my words my friend.

Well ii dnt kno, Kobe and James are quality players.....We will see if they can give USA a little bit of their honour back....

Because USA Are simply not the nr1 Anymore.....

Serbia and Spain have both catched up....Spain also being the current World Champion and Serbia being the FIBA World League Champion.....

But USA Are slipping,,trust me...

Future for Serbia is looking good with both U21 and U19 Recent World Titles

[Sherwin]

This years U19 Youth World Cup...
Serbia BEAT USA in the Final 74-64
Serbia also beat USA in the Final of the FIBA World League.....
And Serbia will add to their trofys by winning the coming
Europen Basketball Championships
Spain and France stands no chance.....
Cant wait for the Europen Championships.....
But Yes i agree with you...A New look USA will look much stronger...

Guess what bro it doesn't matter this is the senior national team and check it we now have Kobe. I think that will be the X Factor because he is consistently a first team all defense player. Everyone thinks he can only score but Kobe is a complete player. How is Serbia going to handle both Kobe and Lebron James? They are going to lose mark my words my friend.

[Arashi_Washi]

I have a feeling that this time USA is going to get their acts together and win. The reason is now they have the secrect weapon Kobe Bryant! I think that addition to the team alone will put them in the finals. USA fell short twice getting the bronze but this time they will get the gold. There is just a bevy of talent on that roster and I don't think Serbia, France, Spain, Argentina, Greece, or anyone for that matter will beat USA this time. Sure I'm a little biased but USA is going to win this time and they are hungry.
Looks like the #1 and #2 draft picks Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are going to be added on the roster as well.

This years U19 Youth World Cup...

Serbia BEAT USA in the Final 74-64

Serbia also beat USA in the Final of the FIBA World League.....

And Serbia will add to their trofys by winning the coming

Europen Basketball Championships

Spain and France stands no chance.....

Cant wait for the Europen Championships.....

But Yes i agree with you...A New look USA will look much stronger...

[Sherwin]

Are you kidding me?...Serbia is by far the best Basketball team in the World..At the moment...
Just this year they have won U19, U21 World Cup..... and FIBA World League Cup...
Serbia killed France,Spain and USA.....They literally walked all over them......
Thought id just just let you kno on this little point
If there is 1 team we want to avoid in the Olympics its deffinatly Serbia...

I have a feeling that this time USA is going to get their acts together and win. The reason is now they have the secrect weapon Kobe Bryant! I think that addition to the team alone will put them in the finals. USA fell short twice getting the bronze but this time they will get the gold. There is just a bevy of talent on that roster and I don't think Serbia, France, Spain, Argentina, Greece, or anyone for that matter will beat USA this time. Sure I'm a little biased but USA is going to win this time and they are hungry.

Looks like the #1 and #2 draft picks Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are going to be added on the roster as well.

[Arashi_Washi]

yeah america is no longer the best team but I have a feeling they will get their act together these olympics as they are hungry to reclaim their stance in the basketball world after disapointing performance last olympics and the last edition of the fiba world championships.
Right now Spain is the best team in the world as they are world champions.
But teams like Argentina, Italy and Greece and every strong aswell.

Are you kidding me?...Serbia is by far the best Basketball team in the World..At the moment...

Just this year they have won U19, U21 World Cup..... and FIBA World League Cup...

Serbia killed France,Spain and USA.....They literally walked all over them......

Thought id just just let you kno on this little point

If there is 1 team we want to avoid in the Olympics its deffinatly Serbia...

[EKBATAN]

i wanna see some more pictues of the championship, anyone have any??

[Behzad12]

boozer and garnett are actually a good analysis...i see a bit of tony parker in there too

TONY PARKER?!?!?!

[arash123]

I agree, his talent and playing is style is a mix of 2 players:Boozer and Garnett
He did great in this competition, hopefully some nba scouts saw it.
but he can really prove himself in the olympics.

boozer and garnett are actually a good analysis...i see a bit of tony parker in there too

[Tooyedarbazeh]

Hamed Hadadi has the capability to play in the NBA IMO. He is a gifted athlete.

I agree, his talent and playing is style is a mix of 2 players:Boozer and Garnett

He did great in this competition, hopefully some nba scouts saw it.
but he can really prove himself in the olympics.

[futbol>>>IRAN]

yea i do too, its always good to be challenged by the best (not that they are anymore LOL)
only thing we need to work on is our physical strength...alot of our players are really skinny

yeah america is no longer the best team but I have a feeling they will get their act together these olympics as they are hungry to reclaim their stance in the basketball world after disapointing performance last olympics and the last edition of the fiba world championships.

Right now Spain is the best team in the world as they are world champions.

But teams like Argentina, Italy and Greece and every strong aswell.

[futbol>>>IRAN]

Hamed Hadadi has the capability to play in the NBA IMO. He is a gifted athlete.

[karimi_jaadogar]

were gonna get owned if we play with the same team in olympics but i hope we dont. Asia is nothing in basketball compared to other places in the world, the americas and europe are much better in basketball then asia the only team that could compete with the good teams in the world are the chinese IMO. but in this tourny we were missing many of our main guys. if our team is healthy for the olympics and has the right guys then i beleive that we can compete with some good teams maybe not greats like USA but with this same team we cant do much. In other basketball teams there will be tall players like Hamed hadadi that will be able to stop him. hamed was so affective in this tourny because of his height but dont get me wrong he can shoot the bball alittle. But against better teams he wont be able to get the ball and just lay it up so easily or get rebounds that easily.

Yeah very true.. and also Hamed Ehdadi does not have a strong bulid.. he is kinda skinny for his height.. he needs to go to gym more often.
He just reminds me of Shaquille O'Neal when he used to play in Orlando Magic, he was too skinny back then but look at him now,he got too much power, strong bulid and is hard to stop.

[benreyhani15]

were gonna get owned if we play with the same team in olympics but i hope we dont. Asia is nothing in basketball compared to other places in the world, the americas and europe are much better in basketball then asia the only team that could compete with the good teams in the world are the chinese IMO. but in this tourny we were missing many of our main guys. if our team is healthy for the olympics and has the right guys then i beleive that we can compete with some good teams maybe not greats like USA but with this same team we cant do much. In other basketball teams there will be tall players like Hamed hadadi that will be able to stop him. hamed was so affective in this tourny because of his height but dont get me wrong he can shoot the bball alittle. But against better teams he wont be able to get the ball and just lay it up so easily or get rebounds that easily.

[EKBATAN]

. I actually want us to play USA in the olympics. It would be interesting.

yea i do too, its always good to be challenged by the best (not that they are anymore LOL)

only thing we need to work on is our physical strength...alot of our players are really skinny