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Australia smashed Korea the other day. Pretty sure Australia will dominate against all the Asian countries but they'll struggle against the European heavyweights.
USA looking strong and deserved favourites so far.

I thought Greece played pretty cool, actually. I'm very annoyed by Spain with all their complaining at EVERY play, and their disgusting floppers. They are good though.

my only observation so far, because football has begun and baseball is about to enter the playoffs with my team on a roll, and therefore all other sports are relegated to fifth-tier status, is that every single player on team USA except rudy gay is younger than i am. and rudy's only a few months older.

fuck.

USA looking good but not that good. The personalities absence compared to previous tournaments ( Kobe, Lebron, Wade, Durant, Melo ) is showing.
Spain looks #1 candidate for the trophy currently, given they are playing in their home too.
USA looks like they could even fall as a surprise victim and not reach final ( like the 2006 tournament where Greece won the semi-finals  ).
Still too early though, gonna be very interesting.

the main highlight ESPN showed of usa-NZ was the haka dance and the US players looking confused as shit. haka dance is baller but much more so when the team has a chance of actually being intimidating, as the all blacks do.

the main highlight ESPN showed of usa-NZ was the haka dance and the US players looking confused as shit. haka dance is baller but much more so when the team has a chance of actually being intimidating, as the all blacks do.

Yeah it's tokenism using the haka dance in basketball.

^^^ lol, interesting grammar iggy, "New Zealand thought they dance was gone intimidate us...."

In other news:

-Very convincing play and win from Greece vs Argentina.

-Australia deliberately lost to Angola to avoid USA : http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/basketball/australian-basketball-team-accused-of-tanking-at-world-cup-in-bid-to-avoid-usa/story-fni2u9cl-1227048327778?nk=66e911921850d1db715b6fe64e2c032b

I am a bit annoyed from the reactions. Yes, deliberately losing  does not follow the 'olympic' athletic ideology. this is not new though, teams that are not the strongest always do that. It is hypocrisy to take it all out in Australia, suddenly, like we just discovered this.
I guess it was just too obvious because it was Angola, if it was an equally strong team nobody would care.

There was a Greece vs France game a few Eurobaskets ago, that both teams wanted to lose. We were going point-by-point. Eventually we were tied and they had the last ball. And a youngster ( DeColo i think ) disobeyed the coach orders and scored.
There was another game, famous here, it must have been Mundobasket again, many years ago. We wanted to lose a game with over 9 points to avoid playing with Spain too early in the knockouts. We were at 9pts at the end and we had free throws. Coach told the player to lose them. He indeed threw the ball to lose it... and it went in, lololol. To make it even crazier, in the other game China surprisingly won Spain so we did avoid them.

Found the Greece-France video, look at his teammates , they are not so happy with the win :
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjor_ab3Ec" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjor_ab3Ec</a>