FIBA World Championship 2010 Turkey Days 1 and 2

Lazy edition.

Yeah, i think these advertisers know their job very well...

So, to make things short: The Dallas Mavericks do have several players/prospects participating in these games. Guess how they fared...

Day 1

Very well hidden.

JJ Barea had a game-high 25 Pts, 4 boards and 4 assists in 33 minutes, but couldn't prevent Puerto Rico from losing against Russia 66-75.

€: Video available (via dmavs.net)

Thick air over here.

Tyson Chandler had a short stint with 11 minutes and collected as much fouls as points, namely 4. A little D, 2 blocks, et voila, USA beats Croatia 106-78.

Aaarggh! The Chairman!

Nick Calathes of Greece watched Chairman Yi put up 26 and 14 played 10 minutes, scored 2 points, missed 2 shots and 1 ft, scratched 1 rebound, 1 foul and 1 turnover from the bare bottom of an 89-81 victory over China.

What? A Chairman?! Where?!?

Ian Mahinmi contributed 5 pts, 5 boards, 2 steals and a block during 16 minutes in a stunning 72-66 victory of France against the defending Champion Spain.

€ Video, too.

For a somewhat more detailed look, check out the painted area.

Today the games will continue... with JJ meeting Nicky, Tyson bedazzling/getting bedazzled by Dragic (Slovenia) and Ian clobbering some cedars(Lebanon). Enjoy!

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Day 2

Finishing at the rim is in traffic much easier in Fiba games.....wait, what?

JJ played [again] very well with 30 min, 20 pts, 12 fta, 5 boards, 4 assists, 4to, 5 pf......and lost [again] in a [exciting, dramatic] close one against Nicky, who went 0-4 w/ 1 rb, 1 ast and 1 pf in 12 backup minutes. Puerto Rico 80:83 Greece.

Shit.

Missed.

Tyson Chandler had 4 ok minutes in the first half with a board and a block aswell as 5 forgettable minutes in garbagetime, blowing 2 alleyoops and adding a foul and a turnover for good measure. USA wins 99-77 vs SLO.

Hardly missed.

Our other big man had a better [field] day, clobbering Lebanons cedars 86-59 to the tune of 7-10 FG, 14 Pts, 9 Rbds, 1 Stl, Blk, To and 2 Pfs in 25 minutes.

To be perfectly reasonable, i didn't watch any of those games, instead i opted to lose a large amount of hair by [naturally] pulling it out as ze germans very nearly wasted 4 consecutive game closing leads in crunchtime. These mofos sans Kaman and Dirk should have beaten the #1 on the Fiba Ranking, Argentina (sans Manu & Nocioni) yesterday and should have beaten Vice-European Champion Serbia (sans Chairthrower and the other dude) in regulation, 1 OT and with a lot bigger margin than the final 2OT 82-81. In which way is that related to the Mavs? Well, die Mannschaft is getting the short whistle all day long and it probably won't change. Blatantly.

^^