Men's Basketball - Semifinal game 2 (Argentina vs USA)

[jthig32]

Alby every winning team does that. The Argentinians did that next to them. Stop hating so much.

So who's going to be chatting with me at 1:30 in the morning this Sunday for the gold medal game?

[Flacolaco]

One more punch to Gasols uterus and that's it.

[Flacolaco]

Originally Posted by jthig32

Alby every winning team does that. The Argentinians did that next to them. Stop hating so much.

So who's going to be chatting with me at 1:30 in the morning this Sunday for the gold medal game?

That would be me, of course.

Everyone needs to stay up.

[Caseman]

Originally Posted by LonghornDub

USA would have won by like 35. They let up when Manu went out.

Seriously. That's like saying imagine how the New York Giants would have played if they had Shocky. They played better without him.

[Evilmav2]

Originally Posted by alby

Scola rips Paul and schools Bosh with the layup...

=p

Yeah, but you've got to allow me a little wherewithal with my Scola hatred. I'm cursed to live in crap-can Houston, and consequently I do watch most of the crap-can Houston rocket's games, so I have a deep, dark dislike of all rockets players ingrained deeply into my soul... Scola is a pretty good player, but it does amuse me to see him play terribly, and even though he looked good through most of the game, he ran out of gas and was floundering quite awfully at the end of that 4th quarter, and I am not ashamed to say that such said awful floundering, amusing I did find...

[LonghornDub]

I'll be watching. Hopefully this time on normal NBC or USA, unless they decide to pre-empt the game for some cooking-ware infomercials.

[Flacolaco]

NBC is scheduled to show the game live on Saturday night/sunday morning...

But then again, their listings today said "live" and it wasn't...but that may have just been to accommodate morning news/tv.

[horse900703]

haha, another easy win!

[alby]

The Spain game will be anti-climatic FYI.

[LonghornDub]

It sucks, because I start school related stuff Monday morning at 8am (and I'm going til 8:30pm that day). But, I haven't been waking up at 7am during my 3 weeks of real summer to watch all the games live only to wuss out for the final game.

[ty]

Scola with 28 off the bench. The question is...will he get a 6th Man of the Year gold medal?

[GermanDunk]

Originally Posted by jthig32

Ha! Now I WIN Vcash by half a point.

Yeah, as U2 mentioned. Bookie takes and bookie gives.

[Evilmav2]

Originally Posted by GermanDunk

Yeah, as U2 mentioned. Bookie takes and bookie gives.

You can't control what the VBookie do...

[GermanDunk]

Originally Posted by Evilmav2

You can't control what the VBookie do...

True, true

btw: Where has the bb gold medal bookie thread gone ?

[jthig32]

From TrueHoop:

Nate Jones heard something on the internet broadcast earlier that I missed. Manu Ginobili was shooting free throws, and LeBron was chatting away. Kobe had been talking to the opponents in Spanish, and LeBron said something or other to Kobe and then added "make sure they understand that." The idea being, as Nate understood it, that Bryant was to translate some trash talk for James. Hilarious.

Now that's funny.

[LonghornDub]

Kidd had 7 dimes today, the most on the team.

[Flacolaco]

I don't know if anyone heard, but there was a lengthy discussion on The Ticket today at lunch time about the start time of this game on NBC. Apparently the coverage was time delayed in many central time zones, but was live on the special basketball HD channels.

The East and West coast saw the game live on regular NBC.

I'm glad I wasn't trying to deal with all of that. Why in the heck is NBC tape delaying it in the central?

[GermanDunk]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

I don't know if anyone heard, but there was a lengthy discussion on The Ticket today at lunch time about the start time of this game on NBC. Apparently the coverage was time delayed in many central time zones, but was live on the special basketball HD channels.

The East and West coast saw the game live on regular NBC.

I'm glad I wasn't trying to deal with all of that. Why in the heck is NBC tape delaying it in the central?

As to the discussion here in the forum, it must have been right in time. No one complained.

[Kirobaito]

Yeah, the NBC coverage started about 35-40 minutes late. I had the Olympic Basketball channel that I watched it on, as well, but in between the 3rd and 4th quarter I thought I'd check to see if it was on NBC and it was, but in the 2nd quarter.

[ty]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

I don't know if anyone heard, but there was a lengthy discussion on The Ticket today at lunch time about the start time of this game on NBC. Apparently the coverage was time delayed in many central time zones, but was live on the special basketball HD channels.

The East and West coast saw the game live on regular NBC.

I'm glad I wasn't trying to deal with all of that. Why in the heck is NBC tape delaying it in the central?

$$$

[BGMaverick9]

Originally Posted by alby

I'm going to admit it, this is the worst game Jason Kidd has played in the Games.

Originally Posted by alby

Kidd has been nothing short of horrible today.

I just watched the game...LOOOONG ass day, but I'm guessing that was relatively early in the game. "Not so fast, my friend!" He really calmed things down for the team in the 3rd quarter, but kept the tempo up.

This is from the ESPN.com article here: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer...gentina-080822

Kidd was the first person Krzyzewski approached in the locker room afterward, telling him he had played his best game of the tournament and had been somewhat of a savior when the Americans did manage to have some success against the zone.

"The start of the second half was critical to that win, and Jason Kidd was the key," Coach K said.

He was doing things systematically but with improvisation at the end. He'd dish out once he got it into the front court, would roll off the baseline, then get the ball back and find the cutter or drill the ball to man deep in the paint. It happened multiple times and led to lots of baskets. It was a nice sign of relief compared to the 3 point parade going on in the 2nd.

And yes...give me some Nocioni for the Mavericks. He might be sad or dejected the first part of the season leaving Chicago, but he'll get over it and play with a ton of heart and fire.

[LonghornDub]

Wait, is the gold medal game tonight at 1:30 am, or Sunday night/Monday morn at 1:30 am?

I had thought it was the latter, but looking at it now I guess it's actually the former? That's much better, if so.

[u2sarajevo]

So.... Pinnacle Sports hasn't updated the lines for the Gold medal game.....

Anyone got another source?

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by LonghornDub

Wait, is the gold medal game tonight at 1:30 am, or Sunday night/Monday morn at 1:30 am?

I had thought it was the latter, but looking at it now I guess it's actually the former? That's much better, if so.

Yes, it's the former. I wonderd if you knew that when you were lamenting your Monday schedule.

[Flacolaco]

I found some really sketchy looking site here

http://www.canbet.com/Sport/BetTypeC...riod=Full+Game

They have the line at 21.

[u2sarajevo]

Pinnacle updated a few minutes ago (well, while I was showering). So I already created the vBookie. But thanks...

[LonghornDub]

Originally Posted by jthig32

Yes, it's the former. I wonderd if you knew that when you were lamenting your Monday schedule.

I was. Next time you should speak up and rectify my ignorance.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by LonghornDub

I was. Next time you should speak up and rectify my ignorance.

I just figured maybe it took you 48 hours to recover from that kind of lack of sleep.