Official Olympic Basketball Discussion Thread

[Grinder]

Group A:
USA
Argentina
France
Tunisia
Qualifier
Qualifier

Group B:
Spain
Brazil
Australia
Great Britain
China
Qualifier

- Current NBA players italicized
- Former NBA players/draft picks underlined

Confirmed rosters:

USA
Chris Paul / Deron Williams / Russell Westbrook
Kobe Bryant / James Harden
Lebron James / Andre Iguodala
Kevin Durant / Carmelo Anthony
Tyson Chandler / Kevin Love / Blake Griffin

France
Tony Parker / Yannick Bokolo
Nando De Colo / Fabien Causeur
Nicolas Batum / Mickael Gelabale / Yakhouba Diawara
Boris Diaw / Florent Pietrus
Kevin Seraphin / Ronny Turiaf / Ali Traore

Spain
Jose Calderon / Sergio Rodriguez / Victor Sada
Juan Carlos Navarro / Sergio Llull
Rudy Fernandez / Fernando San Emeterio
Pau Gasol / Felipe Reyes / Victor Claver
Marc Gasol / Serge Ibaka

Brazil
Marcelinho Huertas / Larry Taylor / Raul Neto
Leandro Barbosa / Alex Garcia
Marcelo Machado / Marcus Vinicius
Anderson Varejao / Guillermhe Giovannani
Nene / Tiago Splitter / Caio Torres

Argentina
Pablo Prigioni / Facundo Campazzo
Manu Ginobili / Paolo Quinteros
Carlos Delfino / Hernan Jasen
Andres Nocioni / Federico Kammerichs
Luis Scola / Juan Gutierrez / Martin Leiva

Australia
Patty Mills / Adam Gibson
Brad Newley / Matthew Dellavedova / Peter Crawford
Joe Ingles / David Barlow
David Andersen / Matt Nielsen / Mark Worthington
Aleks Maric / Aron Baynes

Russia
Alexey Shved / Anton Ponkrashov / Dmitriy Khvostov
Vitaly Fridzon / Evgeny Voronov
Viktor Khryapa / Sergey Monya
Andrei Kirilenko / Sergey Karasev / Semen Antonov
Sasha Kaun / Timofey Mozgov

Lithuania
Mantas Kalnietis / Sarunas Jasikevicius / Tomas Delininkaitis
Rimantas Kaukenas / Deivdas Dulkys
Jonas Maciulis / Martynas Pocius
Linas Kleiza / Paulius Jankunas / Darius Songaila
Jonas Valanciunas / Robertas Javtokas

Great Britain
Nate Reinking / Andrew Lawrence
Mike Lenzly / Kyle Johnson
Luol Deng / Andrew Sullivan
Pops Mensah-Bonsu / Dan Clark / Kieron Achara
Joel Freeland / Eric Boateng / Robert Archibald

China
Liu Wei / Ailun Guo / Chen Jianghua
Wang Shipeng / Zhu Fangyu
Sun Yue / Zhou Peng / Yi Li
Yi Jianlian / Su Wei
Wang Zhizhi / Zhang ZhaoXuo

Nigeria
Tony Skinn / Ade Daganduro / Richard Oruche
Derrick Obasohan / Chamberlain Oguchi
Al-Farouq Aminu / Koko Archibong
Ike Diogu / Ejike Ugboaja / Ekene Ibekwe
Alade Aminu / Olumide Oyedeji

Tunisia
Marouan Kechrid / Zied Toumi / Marouan Laghnej
Lassad Choaya/ Mourad El Mabrouk
Amine Rzig / Sofian M'rad / Amine Maghrebi
Macram Ben Romdhane / Radhouane Slimane / Mohamed Hadidane
Salah Mejri / Mohamed Ghyaza

[Grinder]

All preparation game scores and stats can be found here.

[kaiteng]

France vs UK is [COLOR="Black"]on[/COLOR]. Tony Parker is playing wearing a protective glasses.

[Maniak]

How many teams make it out of each group?

[kaiteng]

How many teams make it out of each group?

Top 4 of each groups go to the next round.

[ripthekik]

damn that dude Wang Zhizhi is still alive

[IGOTGAME]

did Lithuania qualify?

[Maniak]

Top 4 of each groups go to the next round.

OK and is the next round another group stage or bracket?

[kaiteng]

did Lithuania qualify?

They are trying to. If they beat Dominican Republic today they are in. Otherwise, they have to beat the loser from another match to get in.

[kaiteng]

OK and is the next round another group stage or bracket?

It will be a bracket round. 1st seeds face 4th seeds and 2nd seeds face 3rd seeds.

[Maniak]

Alright cool cool.

[Maniak]

Bonsu is playing pretty nice out there. I've always loved his name.

[b0bab0i]

Where did you get the roster lists from? FIBA site?

[IGOTGAME]

They are trying to. If they beat Dominican Republic today they are in. Otherwise, they have to beat the loser from another match to get in.

Thanks. Is the game online? Wanna check out how Jonas is doing?

[MisterAmazing]

Ibaka's Spanish??