Summer Tokyo 2021 Basketball Thread - August 7 When We Got Bronze

[Jibroni]

Great result by the Slovenians.

Who do we play now, Argentina??

 

[JP Sauce]

Good game of international basketball.

Being able to do it without Luka scoring much is a bit scary for everyone else. Force the ball out of his hands and he still has a huge influence.

I guess you'd rather challenge them to win like this than have Luka go for 40+

 

[JP Sauce]

Great result by the Slovenians.

Who do we play now, Argentina??

Or Spain. Not sure when the "draw" happens.

 

[eddiesmith]

Or Spain. Not sure when the "draw" happens.

Supposed to be immediately after the press conference for the last game.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Please, please be Argentina.

 

[eddiesmith]

Fiba Twitter promoting draw without giving a time…

But huge win for Slovenia as they can only play Italy or Germany.

 

[power09]

I thought Spain were very casual with their rotations, 2nd unit has been terrible and they rode it for most of the game giving Rubio and Marc plenty of bench time. Luka on the other hand played like the entire 2nd half.

 

[JT_the_Man]

This isn’t suspect at all.

 

[danielnajdek]

Bet we get Spain knowing our luck

 

[JT_the_Man]

This means Argentina yeah? Due to the USA having to play a #2?

 

[drd23]

 

[JT_the_Man]

Official.

 

[JT_the_Man]

My next question is what side of the draw are we on?

edit - The winner of our game will play the winner of USA/Spain.

 

[Luuuc]

My next question is what side of the draw are we on?

The USA side

 

[JP Sauce]

Apparently the USA side

Have to beat them eventually.

Also Spain will give the US a challenge.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Apparently the USA side

We’ve won our last 2 against them, so I guess it could be worse…

I can’t see them losing to Spain, that Spanish side is old and slow. That said beating Spain in a semi would almost be sweeter than a USA win…

 

[pepsi]

My next question is what side of the draw are we on?

edit - The winner of our game will play the winner of USA/Spain.

USA or Spain in the semi unfortunately.

 

[Satan]

Usa losing to france stuffed up thedraw for us

 

[Jibroni]

Good outcome, confident we can win a medal from here.

 

[Luuuc]

I'm not confident at all. But if others are then I'm good with that

 

[JP Sauce]

I'm not confident at all. But if others are then I'm good with that

Not even feeling good about Argentina?

Can't avoid all the best teams forever. Gotta beat a combo of US/Spain/France/Slovenia eventually!

 

[eddiesmith]

France v USA final
Aus v Slovenia bronze

Looks most likely from here

 

[JT_the_Man]

USA are our bunnies, but I don’t want to think that far ahead.

 

[Drummond]

Wow, can’t say I’m too happy with that. But we’ll see what happens. Just want a medal.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Wow, can’t say I’m too happy with that. But we’ll see what happens. Just want a medal.

While our side of the bracket is stacked, I think we can all agree Argentina first up was best case scenario. A win there gets us into the medal games.