My last FIBA post
International basketball is over for the summer. Let’s all move on with our lives.
After a three day weekend where I barely used the computer, I came back to our website to see a hundred billion million responses to the US loss to Greece posts. There’s plenty of reading material for you here and here. America ended up blowing out Argentina to claim their Lebronze medal, but nobody seemed to notice. Even worse, those heroic Greeks ended up getting destroyed in the final by Spain, who played without Pau Gasol (who is really trying to separate himself from the old metrosexual label from a few years ago. The beard and hair is beyond unabomber length). Talk about adding insult to injury. They didn’t even need their NBA star to win the gold medal game 70-47. The MVP of the tourney was awarded to Pau anyways. What kind of a bootleg system is this when a guy doesn’t even play in the championship game and he’s the MVP of a tourney?
NBA players dominated the leaderboard, putting up great individual stats. That’s how the NBA does it. Top 4 scorers: Yao, Dirk, Pau, Arroyo. Other than Richard Lugo of Venezuela, the top rebounders were Gasol, DARKO!!!!, Dirk, and Yao. Arroyo, Chris Paul, and LeBron were all in the top 5 in assists.
The latest international ball incident is over. Now I can get back to doing what I was put here for. Baiting Khalid into admitting he has high hopes for the Sillydelphia Eagles and then reminding him that he can’t lie to me about not caring as they go down in flames again.
17 Responses to “My last FIBA post”
Sep.5 at 9:58 am
Ron says:
Come on Sam, sing it with me: Fly Eagles, Fly… On the road to Victory! Fly Eagles, Fly… Score a touchdown 1,2,3! Hit ‘em low.. hit ‘em high… And watch our Eagles Fly! Fly Eagles, Fly…. On the road to victoryyyyy. E.A.G.L.E.S. Eagles!!!!! And as I frequent reader, I believe your a J.E.T.S. Jets, Jets, Jets! fan???? I know you have such high hopes for yur team this year. Yeah Right!
Sep.5 at 10:45 am
Tallon says:
I thought Sam was a Giants fan… In which case he could very well have high hopes for them.
Sep.5 at 10:45 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
I am a Giants fan. And I have a warm spot in my heart for the Jets because I don’t want Joe Bennigno to die without them winning the Super Bowl again. Also I used to refer to Pennington as Chad Montana, but uh he’s not as good anymore. Expectations are high for the Giants. The schedule is tough, but we’ve earned that. Lavaar is about to bury Peyton under the swamp.
Sep.5 at 12:02 pm
DBlizzy says:
Hey, I don’t really care about womens basketball, I think it should be banned from tv and I swear I could easily average 30 in the WNBA, but is anyone else wondering when the womens international comp is gonna catch up to the US? I mean, they seem to win every game by at least 20 as long as I can remember. I just looked at the USA basketball website and the womens under 20 team beat some team by 90 points! A mens under 20 team could never do that. I guess womens basketball sucks everywhere, the Americans just suck a lot less!?
Sep.5 at 1:10 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
The U.S. women’s softball team has been dominant too. American women will get cocky in a few years and start losing.
Sep.5 at 2:43 pm
Pablo Favarel (from Argentina) says:
You see, there´s the American arrogance in display? The way this article is described by you Sam, show us all from the rest of the world how disrispectful you are. Yes, the U.S. beat Argentina, though I don´t consider it a blowout. Besides, I´d rather win a Semifinals game in the Olympics than a bronze game. I´m proud of the team we have and proud of the type of individuals they are. On and off the court. Sorry I can´t say the same about the NBA players. What everybodys is saying here is that NBA players do not succeed because in FIBA you cannot use drugs like the NBA players do every season. How wrong I am about that? I´d like to know if there´s any kind of antidoping control in the NBA. At least, every league in the world has it…
Sep.5 at 5:03 pm
Boing Dynasty says:
check the price tag on my swaaag…….pricless
Sep.5 at 5:06 pm
Boing Dynasty says:
Pablo, Dont you have a Ginobili poster to jerk off too, Hater.
Sep.5 at 5:33 pm
albie1kenobi says:
first off, Boing Dynasty, i think we can all be civil here. debating basketball matter is one, personal attack is another. we are all better than that. onto basketball matter, i think the states always have a “gold or bust” mentality. it’s always a fine line between confident and cocky, and i know americans have gotten bad reps for that (i’m an US immigrant so i know how america sees america and how the world sees america). to tag onto that point, it’s EXTRA disappointing when the team that kicked your team’s ass was BLOWN OUT by another team without its best player. it just kinda make you feel worse about the whole situation. you can somewhat rationalize it, saying that Greece played the best game of their lives and had nothing left in the tank for Spain, but i didn’t watch that game so i can’t say. and pablo, i really hope what you say about doping is not true, because that’d be the worst thing they can happen to the NBA. I believe in the NBA (david stern does run a tight ship), but with our baseball (and cycling) having such doping problem, I can’t be sure. as of the women’s basketball, or women sports in general, i would say that the states will always be ahead because of the culture (women are more encouraged to play sports than other countries, i think) and the physicality (simply a matter of the states having more resource than others, i.e. better nutrition, better facilities). feel free to disagree.
Sep.5 at 7:00 pm
jay says:
i think patience is a virtue and you can’t ‘always’ be dominant at a sport of any kind.everybody loses at some point,competition learns to improve it’s just a fact.be patient and it will happen.
Sep.5 at 11:00 pm
Delicious J. says:
Come on Pablo.. everyone knows our guys don’t use performance enhancing drugs. They keep it real with tha Ganja. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Sep.6 at 4:50 am
bja says:
Pablo,
I cheer against the USA as much as the next guy (go New Zealand!) but you’re just showing your ignorance on the drug testing issue. The NBA has had a solid drug testing programme (f*ck US spelling) for years. If you weren’t paying attention people are periodically suspended for weed use. Some multiple times (hi Lamar and Uncle Cliffy!) and I remember some scrub on the Lakers failed a steriods test a couple of years back. So I hate to say it … but you don’t know what you’re talking about. I do really like Argentina’s basketball team though. I wanted them to win the whole thing.
Sep.6 at 8:17 am
Boing Dynasty says:
True, i could have been more tastefull and just corrected him on all the flawed statments in his strange drug testing rant about “cocky NBA players”(Ginobili, Nocioni = nba players,no?), but i feel better questioning his sexuality. - just be happy these posts are on a XXL level yet
Sep.6 at 4:00 pm
albie1kenobi says:
from my understanding of Pablo’s post, the doping thing is probably an idea shared by people outside the states, and not just a flame post by Pablo. and you can’t really blame them too much for that, i mean, look at baseball and cycling. those are headline news all over the globe. they do have a right to be suspicious. and Boing Dynasty, i agree with you that talking trash is a lot more fun, but at the same time, i enjoy SLAM because it tries to keep things courteous and subjective (steph and AI and those guys are def exception, with love of course), so we should all do the same, and be basketball ambassadors to the rest of the world too.
Sep.6 at 8:51 pm
Dj says:
I’ve never understood how doping would help you shoot a basketball. Seems like you would lose your control over your muscles and wind up bulldozing through everyone like an NFL linebacker before chucking the ball against the backboard.
Sep.6 at 9:20 pm
sqwoday says:
there is no doping in the NBA it would actually hurt the players since sinewy muscle is much better for playing basketball than being bulked up. see tracy mcgrady, ray allen, reggie miller, michael jordan, kobe bryant etc etc. the real doping in basketball is in the WNBA. has anyone seen diana taurasi?? that nose isn’t normal!! LOOK AT THIS PLAYA!
Sep.7 at 8:45 am
Dj says:
I take that back. Ben Wallace is SO doping. It explains how he has no muscle control at all over his free throws, his large jaw, and why he has the afro coming out more now (to hide the fact that his head is growing bigger!). This is also why his shooting hand is reputed to go numb during the middle of games.