Oh and btw Aussies, if we're still on speaking terms. :tongue:

Did Australia call up Aleks Maric?

 

a mere quarrel... we're still family :smileani:

i don't think Maric has been called up but i'm not sure if the Boomers squad has been announced either

2010 World Challenge squad -

Allen, Ben
Cadee, Jason
Gibson, Adam
Greenwood, Hugh
Ingles, Joe
Jawai, Nathan
Loughton, Alex
Marković, Steven
Martin, Damian
Mills, Patrick
Nevill, Luke
Newley, Brad
Worthington, Mark

i'm assuming this was the squad that recently played Argentina in a series of matches

 

Shame about Milicic, would have been good to have him on this team, but I doubt he had much say after signing that contract with the T-Wolves.

 

Ill be honest, I stopped paying attention to bball after the kings split up and our players started acting gay and not playing for the nt. It really hit us hard when Divac & Bodiroga retired along with Peja acting gay. But I do have high hopes for us, Teodosic for mvp

 

Same here. I was really into basketball when the Kings actually had that great team. At one point is was the only all white team in the NBA :howler:

 

Yes but there were times when he was not on the court. I'm just saying that the Kings were the only team that year that fielded an all white team for whatever length of time.

 

The Aussies are acting like d*cks if they don't call up Maric but won't let him play for Serbia. We really could have used him.


I think our goal should be 1/4 finals.

And Milicic. :thmbdown:


Also, as you probably know, Ivkovic is signing up for Olympiakos and is most likely finishing with the NT after this WC. So much for London.

 

Also, as you probably know, Ivkovic is signing up for Olympiakos and is most likely finishing with the NT after this WC. So much for London.

Yeah, all that bull*shit he was serving us with has officially gone down the drain following his decision to pursue money instead of his (now broken) promises.

The really sh*tty thing about this is that he was building a team circled around youth and in some cases at the expense of more quality vets. The new coach coming in after this WC may very well have the philosophy of playing the best, irrelevant of what age, and thus forcing the youth for two years now might be a waist of time all together.

 

All the big teams are coming without some of their best players so I hope that our goal is more than the 1/4 finals...

We could go all the way, it's just that outside things like Duda leaving after the tournament could have a negative affect on the players.

 

Spain and the US are still considerably stronger than us I think.

Then there are so many teams that we can beat but they can also beat us, there are no clear-cut favourites - Greece, Turkey, Russia, Slovenia, Lithuania, France..

 

Duda's about to pull a Mourinho

 

It's not even sure Duda IS leaving, there's talk about him doing both jobs, cause let's be honest, when you're a top basketball nation there isn't much to do outside of the tournaments.

And about Maric, articles popped up last night and apparently he himself told the Aussies he won't be coming this summer, cause he feels tired. Keeping his promise to us.

 

It's a joke really, what's the point of forcing someone to play for you? it's not like hes going give it his all for their national team.

 

I think it's going to be a Spain vs USA final.

We should hope for a Semi-final as that's the farthest we can get IMO unless we get a lucky route to the final but doubtable. I think we'll mess up somewhere.

 

Does anyone know which team USA is fielding? They never take a strong team after the NBA finals im guessing a bunch of out of college prospects and some old timers.

I could see Spain taking this comfortably this time around.
I'm getting sick of the Spanish winning all these tournaments in all these sports..They aren't even a sporting nation! Or at least they weren't until the 21st century sigh =(

 

.They aren't even a sporting nation! Or at least they weren't until the 21st century sigh =(

You're an idiot.

 

Have they always been good in football? NO
Have they always been good in basketball? NO
Have they always been good in tennis? NO
Have they always been good in Water Polo? NO

Need I go on?

 

How can the Wolves not let Milicic play? does something in his contract state that? as far as i know they cant say shit to him about playing for the NT

 

surely it says something in his contract that is restricting him.
He's getting a 20 million 4 year contract would you choose the NT over that? Think about it for a second

 

nba contracts are guaranteed. as soon as he signs they cant say shit unless his stupid jew agent ****ed him over and got that put into the contract.

 

Bump for this thread. Any news about the basketball WC to go in here. Not too long to go now and it'll be at a good time for us in Europe to watch.

 

Greece beat Canada by 70+ points and by 26 points they beat Slovenia. They were leading by 40 at one point against Slovenia.


Insane.

 

Greece beat Canada by 70+ points

It sounds even more ridiculous when you find out that a Canadian (James Naismith) invented the game.

 

18. 08. 2010. 15:33h | Vestionline
KSS nema da plati put do Turske!

Shocking...

I'll admit I don't follow basketball as much as I used to, but how can the basketball association be that broke? In little more than a decade we go from being untouchable to not being able to afford to fit travel bills to tournaments. What kind of criminals are running the show here?

 

Our basketball is only going upwards...

KSS is a joke though.

 

I do wonder how much longer our results will be able to resist the lack of funds and organization in the KSS? It's not as if they don't go hand in hand, otherwise we wouldn't need a KSS...


Anyway, it seems so far that the most serious medal contenders are USA, Spain, Greece and maybe Argentina. The Argies have a very experienced squad, looks like they're sacrificing future results by not bringing in (m)any youngsters and going for a last medal here...

 

KSS has always been corrupt, it's just finally caught up with them. Serbia has some of the best coaches and youth schools in the world, KSS has nothing to do with that.

Our basketball already had a dark age thanks to our egotistical NBA "superstars", now we have a talented young generation that is organized and plays like a team.

 

Thing is, with a corrupt KSS and no money, our coaches won't want to coach the NT. Ivkovic has already complained in the media several times about bonuses from the last competition not being paid out.

 

Exactly.

Not only is it an embarrassment but it will eventually have a negative impact on development as well. Not sure it can just be shrugged off.

 

So we get into a big fight with the Greeks just before the tournament.

Krstic is a ****ing idiot for what he did.

 

Are there going to be any suspensions?

 

Oh im pretty sure Krstic is in line for a nice big suspension, check out the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ste4A1v5W-o

 

Sto je idiot? Covek je kralj, kapiten Krle brani svoje Srbe. Onaj crni gorila je hteo ubiti Bjelicu (ili koje lezao na podu). Nije cudno da mu je prekipilo i da je hteo stolicom da ga gadja. Negativno je to sto ce nam sada FIBA sigurno grubo kazniti kapitena, Srbendu i najboljeg igraca - Nenada Krstica. Ne bi me iznenadilo da ga suspenduju sa cjelog SP.