FIBA Basketball World Cup
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(15 Jul 14, 09:34AM)Waffles Wrote: I also prefer to not watch games where a team comes from a country specializing in a sport for years and then just crushes because of that fact.
Wouldnt even be right.

There's over 200 basketball leagues worldwide. Everyone in this has grown up, played the game, and trains daily. It's completely fair.

It's not like America made excuses because most of their guys stay home and play MLS soccer. Europe has more popularity-hence more soccer players, but both sides have equal chances to be good.

Yugoslavia won in 1998 & 2002
Spain in 2006
US in 2010

Many other teams have NBA players as well.
The draft this year.
1st overall - Wiggins - Canada
3rd - Embiid - Cameroon
5th - Exum - Australia

The only advantage America has is the sport is more popular here, so we get more players which leads to more good players. But that can be said for any sport.
It's also a very good game for underdogs. College basketball March Madness anyone? Guys not in the top 1000 beat guys all in the top 50 every year for a game. NBA, Spurs destroyed Heat despite having less talent.

(15 Jul 14, 12:59PM)DamDam Wrote: I like the roster USA picked this year, they didn't went with the easy one (Howard,LeBron,Melo,CP3...)

I'm guessing top 8 will be a competition between France, Spain, Argentina, Greece, USA, Turkey, Lithuania, Australia. Kinda like always... ^^

Yeah they chose not to play, but oh well. :( Better to have guys who work hard to make their country's roster than guys who are too lazy to play for their country.

That top 8 looks good ^^ Depends on how the round of 16 matches line up but yeah.
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