2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

[Gozu]

I thought a specific thread for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain might be a good idea. Formerly known as the World Championships the tournament starts on the 30th August and finishes on the 14th September.

In great news for Australians the ABC have announced they will be televising every Boomers game, every Team USA game and every game from the Quarter-Final stage onwards.

[Gozu]

There are 24 countries divided into four groups for the group stage games with the Top 4 teams from each group advancing to the Round of 16.

Group A

Spain
Serbia
France
Brazil
Egypt
Iran

Group B

Philippines
Senegal
Puerto Rico
Argentina
Greece
Croatia

Group C

Dominican Republic
Turkey
United States
Finland
New Zealand
Ukraine

Group D

Slovenia
Lithuania
Angola
South Korea
Mexico
Australia

[Gozu]

Here is a list of all the squads for the World Cup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIBA_ ... Cup_squads

Australia

F/C Andersen, David 34 – 23 June 1980 2.12 m (6 ft 11 in) Strasbourg IG France
F Bairstow, Cameron 23 – 7 December 1990 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Chicago Bulls United States
F/C Baynes, Aron 27 – 9 December 1986 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) San Antonio Spurs United States
G/F Broekhoff, Ryan 24 – 23 August 1990 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Beşiktaş Turkey
G Dellavedova, Matthew 23 – 8 September 1990 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Cleveland Cavaliers United States
G Exum, Dante 19 – 13 July 1995 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Utah Jazz United States
G Gibson, Adam 27 – 30 October 1986 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Adelaide 36ers Australia
G Goulding, Chris 25 – 24 October 1988 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Zaragoza 2002 Spain
G/F Ingles, Joe 26 – 2 October 1987 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Maccabi Tel Aviv Israel
F/C Jawai, Nathan 27 – 10 October 1986 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Galatasaray Turkey
F Motum, Brock 23 – 16 October 1990 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) Virtus Bologna Italy
G/F Newley, Brad 29 – 18 February 1985 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) Gran Canaria

USA

G 4 Curry, Stephen 26 – 14 March 1988 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Golden State Warriors United States
G 5 Thompson, Klay 24 – 8 February 1990 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Golden State Warriors United States
G 6 Rose, Derrick 25 – 4 October 1988 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Chicago Bulls United States
F 7 Faried, Kenneth 24 – 19 November 1989 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Denver Nuggets United States
F 8 Gay, Rudy 28 – 17 August 1986 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Sacramento Kings United States
G/F 9 DeRozan, DeMar 25 – 7 August 1989 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Toronto Raptors Canada
G 10 Irving, Kyrie 22 – 23 March 1992 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Cleveland Cavaliers United States
C 11 Plumlee, Mason 24 – 5 March 1990 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Brooklyn Nets United States
C 12 Cousins, DeMarcus 24 – 13 August 1990 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Sacramento Kings United States
G 13 Harden, James 25 – 26 August 1989 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Houston Rockets United States
F/C 14 Davis, Anthony 21 – 11 March 1993 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) New Orleans Pelicans United States
C 15 Drummond, Andre 20 – 10 September 1993 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Detroit Pistons

[Gozu]

Boomers & Team USA broadcast times for the group stage on ABC & ABC2.

AUSTRALIA
Sunday August 31 v Slovenia ABC2 @ 12.56am
Sunday August 31 v Korea ABC2 @ 8.56pm
Wednesday September 3 v Lithuania ABC2 @ 1.00am
Wednesday September 3 v Mexico ABC2 @ 8.56pm
Thursday September 4 v Angola ABC2 @ 8.56pm

USA
Sunday August 31 v Finland ABC @ 4.46am
Monday September 1 v Turkey ABC @ 4.56am
Wednesday September 3 v New Zealand ABC2 @ 3.00am
Thursday September 4 v Dominican Republic ABC @ 4.56am
Friday September 5 v Ukraine ABC2 @ 12.56am

I've updated the time for the Boomers/Mexico game.

[Gozu]

Some recent Team USA warm up results last night the USA beat Slovenia 101-71 with Anthony Davis scoring 18 and Kenneth Faried 14 and for Slovenia Zoran Dragic had 16 and Edo Muric 14.

Other warm up results for the USA saw them beat Puerto Rico 112-86, the Dominican Republic 105-62 and Brazil 95-78.

[Freo HeaveHo]

Got next week off work too, I know what I'll be doing !!

[Gozu]

ABC's coverage of the World Cup keeps getting better with the announcement of a nightly WC wrap TV show.

Hosted by Dave Thornton and Ronny Chieng, the special premiere episode of Double Dribble airs on Saturday 30 August at 8:50pm AEST and continues every night of the tournament at 8:20pm AEST on ABC2.

The coverage of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup tips-off with a bang this weekend, with the premiere of Double Dribble leading into the Airbnb Boomers opening game against Slovenia on Sunday at 1:26am (AEST) on ABC2 before Team USA face Finland at 5:18am (AEST) on ABC.

The commentary team for the games will be the SANFL's own John Casey & Shane Heal.

[Gozu]

The World Cup is underway with Philippines coming so close to pulling off an upset losing to Croatia 81-78 in OT.

Boomers vs Slovenia tonight at 12:55am

[on the rails]

Australia typically loses a winnable international tournament game and the USA third string line-up destroys Finland who beat us in a warm up tournament! Good coverage by the ABC too!

[Gozu]

Australia typically loses a winnable international tournament game and the USA third string line-up destroys Finland who beat us in a warm up tournament! Good coverage by the ABC too!

In all fairness though Lithuania & Slovenia would've been expected to finish 1 and 2 in our group but in saying that we never really looked like winning. Hopefully the injury to Baynes isn't too bad.

The Boomers did flog Finland too in our last warm up game against them.

[Gozu]

Day 1 results:

Slovenia 90 (G. Dragic 21, Lorbek 13, Balazic 10, Z. Dragic 10) def Australia 80 (Baynes 21, Andersen 14, Newley 13, Ingles 12)

Croatia 81 def Philippines 78
Ukraine 72 def Dominican Republic 62
Angola 80 def Korea 69
Serbia 85 def Egypt 64
Turkey 76 def New Zealand 73
Argentina 98 def Puerto Rico 75
Brazil 65 def France 63
Lithuania 87 def Mexico 74
Greece 87 def Senegal 64
USA 114 def Finland 55
Spain 90 def Iran 60

Boomers next game vs South Korea 9pm tonight on ABC2.

[Gozu]

An excellent bounce back win by the Boomers last night.

Australia 89 (Ingles 17, Bairstow 13, Baynes 13) def Korea 55 (S. Kim 13, Cho 10, J. Kim 10)

Other Day 2 results:

Dominican Republic 76 def New Zealand 63
Croatia 90 def Argentina 85
France 74 def Serbia 73
Finland 81 def Ukraine 76
Slovenia 89 def Mexico 68
Senegal 82 def Puerto Rico 75
Brazil 79 def Iran 50
Lithuania 75 def Angola 62
Greece 82 def Philippines 70
USA 98 def Turkey 77
Spain 91 def Egypt 54

[Gozu]

Day 3 results:

Senegal 77 def Croatia 75
Serbia 83 def Iran 70
Argentina 85 def Philippines 81
France 94 def Egypt 55
Greece 90 def Puerto Rico 79
Spain 82 def Brazil 63

The Boomers play Lithuania tonight at 12:55am on ABC2.

[Pup]

Australia had a great win again being led by Joe Ingles who continues to thrive for the national team.

[Gozu]

That was a fantastic win earlier this morning by the Boomers over arch nemesis Lithuania.

Australia 82 (Ingles 18, Baynes 14, Dellavedova 13, Newley 10) def Lithuania 75 (Seibutis 21, D. Lavrinovic 14)

Other Day 4 results:

Mexico 79 def Angola 55
Ukraine 64 def Turkey 58
USA 98 def New Zealand 71
Slovenia 89 def Korea 72
Dominican Republic 74 def Finland 68

The Boomers now play Mexico tonight at 8:55pm on ABC2.

[Johno6]

thoughts on ingles playing nba?

wont make as much cash or get as many minutes but surely if he got to chance he takes it.

[Gozu]

Supposedly Ingles knocked back a 2 year non-guaranteed deal with Memphis (the same type of deal Brock Motum just got with the Jazz) last offseason to play in Israel, madness IMO. Even if you can make more in Europe you don't knock back the chance to play in the NBA even if only for a year, I still remember when Simon Dwight knocked back a deal from Charlotte because he didn't think he was ready.

In saying that supposedly Philadelphia and a couple of other NBA teams are thinking about offering Ingles a deal and I don't think he'll knock it back this year especially after how the situation turned out in Israel playing time wise even though his team Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Euroleague championship. Interestingly Maccabi's coach Dave Blatt has now gone to the NBA to coach Cleveland and Maccabi have just signed aussie big man Aleks Maric.

[Pup]

thoughts on ingles playing nba?

wont make as much cash or get as many minutes but surely if he got to chance he takes it.

Apparently more and more teams are getting keener and keener.

Memphis still very very keen on him

[Magpiespower]

[RustyCage]

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