Olympic Basketball: Lithuania beats US!!

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
No, they had only lost two games total in Olympic play up until this year, with amateurs and pros. College players lost twice to the Russians, in 1972 and 1988. Pros had never lost a game in the Olympics, until this year.

That is just remarkable. So in 68 years the US got 14 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze? And only lost 5 games total? That is amazing. Has there ever been such a dominant streak in any Olympic sport by any country?

[Ted Striker]

Well we were talking about games up until this loss, in the Olympics, using professional players.

Which was 2 losses.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Using professional players, before this year, it was 0 losses.

[Drake Tungsten]

That is just remarkable. So in 68 years the US got 14 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze? And only lost 5 games total?

Sort of. The medal counts might be wrong. Number of losses are right, though.

That is amazing.

Not for Americans.

Has there ever been such a dominant streak in any Olympic sport by any country?

No.

[academia]

if i correctly recall the medal counts for USA in basketball is: 12 gold, 1 silver (1972) and 2 bronzes (1988 and 2004).
The other gold winners are: USSR 1972 and 1988, Yugoslavia 1980 and Argentina 2004.

[Saras]

Originally posted by academia
WE WON

Next time... when you think about FIBA basketball... please, don´t look at Europe... not serbia-montenegro, not lithuania or spain... look down... to the south... to ARGENTINA

REMEMBER THAT

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PURE DUMB LUCK!

[Ted Striker]

So where the hell was Z???

[Saras]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
So where the hell was Z???

Z's a er

[academia]

PURE DUMB LUCK!

That shows your ignorance about argentine basketball success in the 2001-2004 period.

[pchang]

Z has chronic foot problems plus I think he is coming up on a contract year. Now that the US has lost, perhaps they will change the way they pick teams. I think the US might have won Gold if they had substituted Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry for Emeka Okafor and Carmelo Anthony. The real collapse was Serbia Montenegro. They have some major dissension problems between the players and coach. I am sure that is why Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic were not on the team and why they finished so badly.

[Ted Striker]

pchang, I agree with you completely

The US still could have won the gold easily

And I also was totally surprised by the fascists Serbs collapsing

Regarding Z, I thought his foot problems, were solved, and that he had already been traded. Guess I was wrong.

[Saras]

Originally posted by pchang
Z has chronic foot problems plus I think he is coming up on a contract year. Now that the US has lost, perhaps they will change the way they pick teams. I think the US might have won Gold if they had substituted Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry for Emeka Okafor and Carmelo Anthony. The real collapse was Serbia Montenegro. They have some major dissension problems between the players and coach. I am sure that is why Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic were not on the team and why they finished so badly.

Sabonis played for the national team with constant searing pain in his achilles.

[Ted Striker]

Sabonis

[Dis]

did the U.S. get the bronze?

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by academia
if i correctly recall the medal counts for USA in basketball is: 12 gold, 1 silver (1972) and 2 bronzes (1988 and 2004).
The other gold winners are: USSR 1972 and 1988, Yugoslavia 1980 and Argentina 2004.

That can't be right if we only lost twice. I think that Yugoslavia one is wrong.