World Basketball Classic | Team Captian Announced |

[Pistol]

Okay so got this idea why not do a tourney of World Basketballl Teams, okay I need help, give me more countries and teams...I have teams below so far and players below so far, I have current pro players and this year and next year draft picks...

Teams=25 so far
Spain
Slovenia
France
Lithuiania
Croatia
Switzeralnd
Serbia
Argentina
Brazil
Yugoslovia
Czech Republic
Turkey
Russia
Italy
Ukraine
Uruguay
Germany
Poland
Latvia
China
Puerto Rico
S. Korea
Greece
Senegal
Congo


Players
Spain
R. Lopez
S. Rodriguez
J. Calderon
P. Gasol
J. Garbjosa
M. Gasol
R. Fernandez
Slovenia
S. Vajacic
B. Udrih
B. Nachbar
P. Brezec
R. Nestorovic
France
T. Parker
M. Pietrus
B. Diaw
J. Petro
A. Traore
N. Batum
Lithuiania
S. Jasivjkas
Z. Ilgauskas
M. Kalaietis
Croatia
Z. Planinic
G. Giriciek
T. Kuckoc
B. Sundov
M. Tomas
A. Tomia
Switzerland
T. Sefalosha
Serbia
A. Pavlovic
D. Milicic
Z. Carbakapa
N. Kristic
U. Tripkovic
N. Mijatovic
Argentina
C. Delfino
M. Giniobli
A. Nocioni
F. Oberto
Brazil
L. Barbosa
A. Varejao
Nene
T. Splitter
Yugoslavia
M. Jaric
P. Stoyakovic
V. Radmonovic
Z. Rebraca
Czech Republic
J. Welsch
Turkey
E. Ilyasova
H. Turkoglu
M. Okur
Russia
V. Khryapa
Y. Korolev
AK47
S. Monia
P. Podkolzin
A. Zabelin
A. Poukrashov
Italy
A. Bargaini
D. Gallinari
Ukraine
S. Medvenko
Uruguay
E. Batista
Germany
D. Nowitzki
Poland
M. Lampe
Latvia
A. Biedrins
China
W. Zhi Zhi
Y. Ming
Y. Jianlin
S. Yue
Puerto Rico
P. Ramos
S. Korea
H. Seung-Jin
Greece
J. Tsakalidis
Senegal
S. Sene
Congo
D. Mbenga

[Drex]

How about Chile?

[Pistol]

okay, if you can give me like 10 names that are Chile names, lol...and giev me a skill, i'll make them fictional...if you do this i thank you for the contribution...

[Drex]

That would be awesome, but I'm way too lazy Sorry man.

[Ty-Land]

Australia with Andrew Bogut, Chris Anstey, Brad Newley, CJ Bruton, whats his name thats nominated for the draft (Bruce I believe), Anderson that plays for CSKA in Russia, Joe Ingles, Sam Mackinnon.

Possibly New Zealand as well. They've got a few good players in the American college ranks, not to mention Sean (?) Marks.

[The X]

New Zealand has NBA grade talent in C Sean Marks & SG Kirk Penney....they have former UNLV All-American Honorable Mention talent PG Mark Dickel....they have really talented players who have played in Europe like SG Phill Jones and very undersized PF Pero Cameron....they have a defensive dynamite who plays in the Aussie league in SF Dillon Boucher....they have top college (former now) talent in PF/C Craig Bradshaw....they got other scrubbers like C Tony Rampton, PG Paul Henare & Canadian born SG Aaron Olsen....they got more players around, probably more college players, I just don't know who they are....

[Ty-Land]

New Zealand has NBA grade talent in C Sean Marks & SG Kirk Penney....they have former UNLV All-American Honorable Mention talent PG Mark Dickel....they have really talented players who have played in Europe like SG Phill Jones and very undersized PF Pero Cameron....they have a defensive dynamite who plays in the Aussie league in SF Dillon Boucher....they have top college (former now) talent in PF/C Craig Bradshaw....they got other scrubbers like C Tony Rampton, PG Paul Henare & Canadian born SG Aaron Olsen....they got more players around, probably more college players, I just don't know who they are....

I knew they had a lot of depth, just couldn't recall the names. Aren't the Kiwi's ranked top 6 in the world at the moment?

[jonthefon]

1. USA 832.0
2. ARG 720.0
3. ESP 619.0
4. YUG* 508.0
5. LTU 460.0
6. GRE 429.0
7. ITA 418.0
8. FRA 343.0
9. GER 282.0
10. AUS 279.0
11. CHN 262.0
12. NZL 228.0

Way off. They just haven't quite clicked recently. I suppose it was about the Sweet...er, final sixteen placing they achieved at the world champs last year.

[Ty-Land]

Where is that ranking from? Because I was confident that the US was no longer #1, and how can Yugoslavia be listed since it hasn't existed since the collapse of the Soviet regime there in the early 1990's.

[jonthefon]

http://www.fiba.com/pages/en/misc/ranki ... pn_id=178&

Unless FIBA opened a new site, I think that might be it.

[The X]

The number 12 ranking is very fair for New Zealand. You look at the eleven teams above them & they aren't better than any of the....sure on their day they can beat Serbia, Italy, China & regularly beat Aussies about 40% of time these days, it seems fair....they are above teams like Brazil & Croatia, which is solid....

but yeah, those rankings seem skewed....US hasn't won a tournament since 2000 Olympics & they're top....I'd expect Argentina to be top, maybe Spain 2nd, USA 3rd, then Lithuania 4th, Serbia 5th, the next 4 are pretty fair....although I think teams like Nigeria are miles better than their rankings....If NZ can stay in top 10-15 long term & get the occasional top 8 finish, then it's good for the sport in NZ....helps the grassroots....

[Pera]

Where is that ranking from? Because I was confident that the US was no longer #1, and how can Yugoslavia be listed since it hasn't existed since the collapse of the Soviet regime there in the early 1990's.

Not true,I believe Yugoslavia was meant to be Serbia in those rankings,because of the flag and everything.They just didn't bother to change it.And Yugoslavia did exist till the 2000's,because the only two former country's from Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro which are today separate country's ) called them selfs Yugoslavia,until they changed their name to Serbia & Montenegro.

I know this stuff,I'm from that area myself .

[Ty-Land]

I was under the impression they called themselves the Former Yugoslav Republic which they used to be abbreviated to FYR for sporting events. May be wrong, just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense though.

[Stella-Artois]

team GB, consists of Loul Deng, Joel Freeland (2006 draft pick by the blazers), Eric Boateng (Arzonia State), Chris Haslam, Tarick Johnson, Perry Lawson, Andrew Sullivan

[The X]

team GB, consists of Loul Deng, Joel Freeland (2006 draft pick by the blazers), Eric Boateng (Arzonia State), Chris Haslam, Tarick Johnson, Perry Lawson, Andrew Sullivan

how about Andrew Betts? Does he still play? What about Ben Gordon, is he going to join Deng on team UK at the 2012 Olympics?!?

[Mark.]

Mikael Gelebale for France, you realise you have missed the US off the list?

[Pistol]

yes i have...their team is gonna be announced slowly...like player by player...first head coach...then team captian and then I will announce some college players and the rest of pro players...

[Pistol]

USA Announces Head Coach



With the World Basketball Championship rolling up USA officials announced that Don Nelson would be taking control of the USA basketball team. After being an asst. coach to the gold winning team in 1994, Nelson was asked to be Head Coach this year. Nelson honored and commented on the subject, "As a kid you want to play as one of the greats on the USA basketball team, but actually be able to coach those great players is even better. I can't wait to start." Still no announcements have bene made on asst. coaches or players. It was noted that maybe Avery Johnson would asst. Nelson as he did back in the Dallas days of Nelson. There was also sources saying that there could be two to six college players on the USA basketball team. Don Nelson has a lifetime .573 winning percentage. Nelson is the second most winningest coach in the NBA.

[Anthony15]

Nice, Nelly as a HC....Anthony, Wade and LeBron will learn some things from him.

[Pistol]

FIBA Americas Groups announced...

The FIBA Americas teams will compete with each other, the top two teams gaining automatic bids into the World Basketball Classic. The rest of the team swill be thrown into a single elimination tournament trying to get remaning spots in the Classic. More on how the tournament will work will be announced later.

Group A
USA
USA Virgin Islands
Canada
Puerto Rico

Group B
Brazil
Mexico
Argentina
Uruguay

[Lamrock]

QUESTION. How will this be done?? What game will you use? Will this be ever finished?

[Pistol]

standard fiba format with less teams, after all these groups are done, such as fibaafrica, fibaasia, fibaeurope, are done there wil lbe one world basketball classic...its being done on 2k7...it will be done, over time, updates every few days.

[Pistol]

standard fiba format with less teams, after all these groups are done, such as fibaafrica, fibaasia, fibaeurope, are done there wil lbe one world basketball classic...its being done on 2k7...it will be done, over time, updates every few days.

[Pistol]

standard fiba format with less teams, after all these groups are done, such as fibaafrica, fibaasia, fibaeurope, are done there wil lbe one world basketball classic...its being done on 2k7...it will be done, over time, updates every few days.

[Pistol]

USA Announces Team Captian



Gilbert Arenas was announced by USA TEAM Officials that he would be team captian. When asked to be on team and team captian, he jumped to the oppurtunity and is very excite to represent the red, white, and blue. Arenas is coming off carrer years from 05-07...Gilbert commented, "Agent Zero will be in the olympics this year! Can't wait to be standing on the court with my hand over my heart, with a gold medal around my neck and humming that national anthem of our!" Coach Nelson is excited to have Arenas running the offense. "He is a great leader, kows what he is doing. He is very expolsive and will take this challenge in stride and out perform many of the athletes in this tournament because he wants it so bad, he has great determination. Not to mention one of the best clutch shooters in the NBA," said Nelson of Arenas.