Ricky Rubio and Spain have won the FIBA World Cup!

[gabepizza]

B-b-but HYPER ATHLETES!!!

Better nutrition and strength training programs!

Better skills *look @ all the 3PTerzzz*

While all that is probably true, it doesn't mean better basketball is being played. Its just different. What we know is it wasn't good enough to beat LOWER tier, LOWER salary european athletes.

Kobe was right. The World's caught up. Redeem Team 1 and 2 barely edged Spain out...with their BEST players. Current NBA rules have deluded people's minds. American fans really think their stars are bad mfkz

You guys are crazy. The US had won 5 tournament in a row before this loss. 5 tournaments. That's more then the dream team area. That's more than in any other sport. In the past 2 finals they blew out Serbia by 30+.

[highwhey]

Rubio absolutely destroyed Xiao.

yep...

[Xiao Yao You]

yep...

now he gets to destroy the hearts of Suns fans!

[LoneyROY7]

Xiao about to write 30 new entries in his Utah Jazz off-season blog after this!

[highwhey]

now he gets to destroy the hearts of Suns fans!

get a grip man, seriously. take a step back from the keyboard (or wheel yourself backwards).

take a hard look at yourself. you're obsessed with shitting on Rubio.

[SamuraiSWISH]

Xiao about to write 30 new entries in his Utah Jazz off-season blog after this!

Buddy is weird

[Proctor]

Rubio is hot garbage and is worth shitting on...he thinks he's a good 3 point shooter when he's far from, and he's a flopper and general annoyance. Suns fans will loathe him fast.

Buddy is weird

Aren't you the one who pretended to coach AAU? Let's not shame other posters for actually discussing basketball on a basketball forum.

[Smoke117]

Rubio is hot garbage and is worth shitting on...he thinks he's a good 3 point shooter when he's far from, and he's a flopper and general annoyance. Suns fans will loathe him fast.


Aren't you the one who pretended to coach AAU? Let's not shame other posters for actually discussing basketball on a basketball forum.

Even worse, he went out of his way to defend Ordan's dick size...because that's something a normal healthy person does...

Coach gon coach.

[Xiao Yao You]

get a grip man, seriously. take a step back from the keyboard (or wheel yourself backwards).

take a hard look at yourself. you're obsessed with shitting on Rubio.

he shit on me for two years. the least I can do

[Bosnian Sajo]

B-b-but HYPER ATHLETES!!!

Better nutrition and strength training programs!

Better skills *look @ all the 3PTerzzz*

While all that is probably true, it doesn't mean better basketball is being played. Its just different. What we know is it wasn't good enough to beat LOWER tier, LOWER salary european athletes.

Kobe was right. The World's caught up. Redeem Team 1 and 2 barely edged Spain out...with their BEST players. Current NBA rules have deluded people's minds. American fans really think their stars are bad mfkz

Right...lets see any country beat the USA when any combination of the following players are playing:

Lebron James
AD
Klay
Steph
Harden
Westbrook
Bradley Beal
Al Horford
Kawhi
PG13
Mike Conley
Chris Paul
KAT
John Wall
Damian Lillard
CJ Mccollum
Draymond Green
Dangelo Russell
Kevin Durant
Kyrie Irving
Kyle Lowry
Blake Griffin
Andre Drummond
Victor Oladipo
Jimmy Butler
Devin Booker
Lamarcus Aldridge
Demar Derozan


And I'm leaving off a ton of players who would have been 100% starters on this 2019 FIBA USA team...guys like Trae Young, Deandre Ayton, Zach Lavine, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, etc.

Please dude...every other country had all their best players playing, the closest thing to a star we had was Donovan Mitchell. No excuses, we still got beat, but to act like the NBA is some inferior league because the Boston Celtics couldn't win the FIBA tournament is laughable.

[Xiao Yao You]

Right...lets see any country beat the USA when any combination of the following players are playing:

Lebron James
AD
Klay
Steph
Harden
Westbrook
Bradley Beal
Al Horford
Kawhi
PG13
Mike Conley
Chris Paul
KAT
John Wall
Damian Lillard
CJ Mccollum
Draymond Green
Dangelo Russell
Kevin Durant
Kyrie Irving
Kyle Lowry
Blake Griffin
Andre Drummond
Victor Oladipo
Jimmy Butler
Devin Booker
Lamarcus Aldridge
Demar Derozan


And I'm leaving off a ton of players who would have been 100% starters on this 2019 FIBA USA team...guys like Trae Young, Deandre Ayton, Zach Lavine, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, etc.

Please dude...every other country had all their best players playing, the closest thing to a star we had was Donovan Mitchell. No excuses, we still got beat, but to act like the NBA is some inferior league because the Boston Celtics couldn't win the FIBA tournament is laughable.

Kemba was all NBA and Middleton was an all-star

[Bosnian Sajo]

Kemba was all NBA and Middleton was an all-star

What does that have to do with the fact that this obviously wasn't the best group of USA players?

[Bosnian Sajo]

Xiao just replies to reply, there is no substance in his posts lol.


My post clearly states "Lets see any country beat the USA when any combination of the following players are playing".


Not "if we had one or two of these guys...".

[Xiao Yao You]

What does that have to do with the fact that this obviously wasn't the best group of USA players?

nothing other than Mitchell wasn't their closest thing to a star like the post indicated

[Xiao Yao You]

Xiao just replies to reply, there is no substance in his posts lol.


My post clearly states "Lets see any country beat the USA when any combination of the following players are playing".


Not "if we had one or two of these guys...".

Your post clearly states:

every other country had all their best players playing, the closest thing to a star we had was Donovan Mitchell

Words mean things. Probably every country was missing players that would have helped them as well. Canada even more so than the USA