Um... not good. (Arg-USA blog)
by Aaronstampler on Aug 22, 2008 9:45 AM CDT
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PrintIt's 21-4 U.S. with a little more than a couple minutes to go in the quarter. They're on a 18-0 run as we speak with LeBron FTs pending. Manu already has two fouls and looks to have tweaked his ankle. Argentina cannot go two consecutive possessions without a turnover and their point guard, Prigioni, looks hopelessly outmatched.
Oh wait, the quarter is over now and it's 30-12, and that's with Nocioni hitting a running one-handed three at the buzzer. Everything that can go wrong for Argentina has. The U.S. already made like five threes and even when they missed one, it was an airball that went straight to Bosh for an and-1. Meanwhile on offense Argentina is missing all their shots, even lay-ups and putbacks.
In other words, just go back to bed.
Hopefully Manu isn't hurt too bad.
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why
is everyone so anti-team usa? i want them to win. granted i want manu to kick ass too, but i’m still cheering for the us.
i am pro USA as well, but its like your wife and girlfreind being at the same party. simply MUST root for manu and oberto to play well and did want a close game.
chapu did throw that one out….
are argies in the penalty?
if they can get this under 10 before half that would be great.
I am happy. I am proud. - Manu Ginobili
is anyone else
watching on nbc.com? there are no announcers. this is awesome. i wish i could watch spurs games like this. fucking reggie miller.
I am watching on nbc.com
I miss HD, though. I tried to wait for the TV broadcast, but first Regis and Kelly, now Decathlon? F you, NBC! I want the game live!
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Because we're stupid
Javtokas looked good vs Spain as well.
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If he passes that I think DWill has an uncontested layup
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Scola is playing like a beast and Gutierrez and Quinterros are stepping up huge. It’s only a 6 pt game, with 2 seconds to go. Again, Manu is hurt and Delfino is doing nothing.
For USA, Kobe’s chucking is taking them out of the game.
they
just showed teh manu injury clip. i hope it’sn ot that bad. i kinda don’t want him to play. save it manu for the 08-09 season!
49-40 at half.
Three bs Anthony FTs take it from 6 to 9.
They outscored the U.S. that quarter. I’m not sure if anyone has done that this tournament thus far. The guys are playing hard and might even be better coached for all I know, but the talent differential is massive. If the U.S. just shoots threes the rest of the way and Argentina plays the way they’re playing, it might be a game in the 4th.
The real story will be Manu though. If he doesn’t come out for the second half, he’s done for the game and it’ll be panic time in Spurs land.
i think
there was one quarter in some game where US was outscored:
yeah, angola outscored US 23-16 in one quarter.
all eyes will be on manu for sure.
i think that china actually outscored team USA in the second quarter of that first preliminary game. team USA got outrscored in one quater so far in china. it could have been in that no-count game against australia before the actual games, but i think it happened when the chinese were bombing in all those 3s in the first game……..
it’s cool to see ARG hang, but i don’t know how long they can stick it out in their current condition.
If the game is on TV in the west coast (not counting the Olympic basketball channel) then I can’t find it. I’m watching online.
That's disappointing
I think, like a lot of people here, I’m rooting for a Team USA win, but a great Manu performance. An utter disaster from Kobe would be welcome as well.
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How Carmelo didn’t get a technical foul let alone get ejected is beyond me. He just shot Scola with an elbow to the chest, basically threw a punch. Typical shit from him.
That foul on Howard was pretty vicious. Nocioni comically calls for a jump ball after tying up Howard’s face. Game getting chippy…
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I suspect Fab and Chapu and Scola have contributed their share to the physical play.
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Melo's definitely a jackass
Would have been nice to swap him for Paul Pierce.
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God that Gonzalez is one miserable fat piece of shit. I’m in better shape than this guy. How is he on the team?
How tall are you?
In basketball, it helps to be over 6’10". He reminds me of the guys I face in rec ball. I’m like 6’4", 195, and I always deal with guys who are like 6’6", 320. I hate it.
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i often get stuck trying to check those kind of dudes at 6-2. not pretty on the wrong match-up…but this is pick-up style at the local YMCA, so i might just as easily run point the game after.
They are always so sweaty and hairy, too. It’s hard to play defense when to don’t even want to come within 6 feet of the guy you are guarding.
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This game is proving three points.
1. The Spurs letting Scola go for nothing was, is, and always will be completely unforgivable.
2. Manu must be really hurt right now to not be playing.
3. Carmelo Anthony is an assclown.
Unforgivable?
What if Mahinmi turns out to be a superbeast and leads the Spurs to 4 more titles? You wouldn’t forgive the Front Office then?
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If the dude is a superbeast, they wouldn’t have resigned Kurt Thomas. I have zero faith of Pop letting Mahinmi learn on the job.
I repeat, zero faith.
by Aaronstampler on Aug 22, 2008 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions
I read in Sports Illustrated that Kobe’s Chinese nickname is “Little Flying Warrior” and Lebron’s is “Little Emperor.” Those are pretty cool, but still, WTF? Is Yao Ming in charge of assigning nicknames? Who would call those guys "little?
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Personally I would’ve gone with Little Assrapist and Little Whore for those two, but that’s just me.
by Aaronstampler on Aug 22, 2008 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions
Must have been love...
But it’s over now. Lebron hits two threes to end it.
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Is JKidd shaving points?
That’s like 4 consecutive turnovers or bad passes.
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Would it really surprise you if he was? I had a bet for $5 that Arg would keep it within 15 with Manoli’s sister, so now that’s all I’m pulling for.
You don't mean that
Carlos Delfino is Spanish for “JR Smith”
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Outside of the Spurs, I’m cursed. I root for the Eagles in football, the Giants in baseball and whatever team Wayne Gretzky was/Alexei Kovalev is on in hockey. Always get close but no cigar.
Spurs fans with their .4 agony in 2004 or the Manu foul in 2006. Who the fuck cares? Nothing will ever crush me like Game 6 of the World Series in ’02.
(And watch, Matthew will stick the knife in now)
by Aaronstampler on Aug 22, 2008 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
let me
massage manu’s ankle with the blood of 10,000 goats and he shall heel.
see ya guys later.
(man i haven’t been on this site in a while). post mortem nba playooffs.
That’s an awful lot of goats. I think I’d rather just wait for it to heal on its own. I’d feel pretty guilty otherwise.
UNLESS you can make him jump like he did in ‘04-05. If that’s the case, then by all means, we can sacrifice a million of those fuckers.
by Aaronstampler on Aug 22, 2008 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions
It helps to have balance...
Stampler can’t root for champions in every sport. That’s how I used to rationalize my UT Longhorns fandom until Vince Young came around.
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Well, fuck.
Sometimes it’s tough being a fan.
Now it’ll be difficult to even get the bronze, as injured-ridden as we are.
you are very consistent with your posting habits. i guess i ididn’t know your no posting until the game is over rule extended to international play. as good as a short-handed ARG team played for stretches of this game, i think they still have a great chance to medal. manu being around would have made this game much more entertaining. here’s hoping he is well enough to play the bronze medal game.
Well, I hadn’t been part of the previous blogs… I’m ruled by superstitions.
Thanks for the good vibes. We’ll need them.
he can't play for the bronze
Argentina’s team doctors say the ligament in his ankle is “very inflamed” and that it is “virtually impossible” for him to play against Lithuania.
He's Manu Ginobili
by carina_gino20 on Aug 22, 2008 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Now that it's all over
I’m realizing that I wasn’t really cheering for the US or Argentina (not just in this game but for the whole tournament) at all. What I was wanting was for Manu to go through the whole Olympic tourney without any health issues. If you’re rating the outcomes on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being the most important and 10 being the least) — between US wins gold, Argentina wins gold and Manu healthy, I think it would have been:
1. Manu Healthy
10000000. US wins gold
10000001. Argentina wins gold
And now I know that I’ve lost.
Good summary, jollyrogerwilco. I feel exactly the same way.
Just to clarify, it is the same ankle from the playoffs, right? Not the “healthy” one?
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley
same here
My whole mantra since the start of his training this summer was “Please don’t be hurt”. I wanted Argentina to win gold, but not at this cost.
When he went down, I just didn’t care about the outcome anymore.
He's Manu Ginobili
by carina_gino20 on Aug 22, 2008 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
God damnit Manu, why didn’t you listen to pop!?
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by Linix129 on Aug 22, 2008 2:20 PM CDT reply actions
What a sadly predictable waste. How much torture can an ankle take? I am sure Pop will not ask Manu to get on the court until the regular season is underway. No training camp, no pre-season. Just have the doc look at the ankle and let him rest…hopefully he does not need surgery.
"The evolution has been good, and I am much more tranquil now in the face of what comes next,"--Manu Ginobili
Wow that sucked! My country lost in the worst way: with a “what if” scenario…… Manu MAKES a big difference.
Now its time to yell at my computer while Delfino jacks up three after three against the lithuanians….
BTW….. the difference between fans from Usa and Argentina is HUGE. We would never root against or country or be indiferent.
its tough sometimes when half of this blogs contributors have a man-crush on Manu. i love what USA stands for, but i rarely stand for what our politicians crap out of their mouths.
i love our athletes, but its hard to support anything with our standpoint, “democratic” and “republican” included. they both are pulled by the same strings with different ways to spout the same shit.
i really wish we’d focus on our own problems before we try and “police” the world. that is not our job even when countries (nigeria, just an example, etc.) expect us to fix their problems.
dont bother to flame, i wont respond if this offends you. i don’t troll for responses
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the Spurs do not defeat you so much as they grind you into tiny shards of psychological wreckage.
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by Hamer_SpursFan on Aug 23, 2008 3:29 AM CDT up reply actions
It would be different, I think, if Americans weren’t so dominant in this particular sport. Being secure in the knowledge that you are the best in the world at something makes it easier to root for the underdogs. If the rest of the world progresses to where there really is some doubt, I guarantee that the percentage rooting against Team USA would drop. For example, Americans aren’t rooting for Chinese gymnasts or divers.
Also, Americans aren’t used to thinking in terms of national competitions. You root for your local high school teams. Then you sort of follow where the local stars go and root for them to do well in college. When you go to college, you follow where your team’s players get drafted, and pull a little bit for their professional teams. I like the Tennessee Titans, for example, because they have many former Texas Longhorn football players, like Vince Young and Bo Scaife. It’s a similar mindset that would lead to a Spurs fan rooting for Argentina because that’s who Manu plays for. Team Manu vs. Team Kobe, Lebron, and Carmelo? Viewed in that light, it’s no contest whom to root for. I would guess many American fans see Team USA as those individuals, rather than as a team representing the United States.
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Thanks for the information tomasito, it’s nice to hear how things work in other countries.
And Hamer, you are right that here it seems there’s an obsession with Manu.
He is not perfect: he was a below average student when young. Fuck it, who cares about school…. MANU IS PERFECT
You don’t understand. Manu is such a team player and an unselfish individual that he early on realized that performing scholastically to his full potential would only raise the grading curve to impossible levels for his classmates. He then simply performed just well enough to get through school. It came out of his love for others and desire to self-sacrifice. We all know what he’s truly capable of and I for one am very excited to see, after retirement, the diseases he cures and the difficult mathmatical equations he effortlessly solves.
by SgtinManusArmy on Aug 23, 2008 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Spinning, spinning, spinning
effortlessly solves
I’m dying over here, the humor is so intense.
Love the Spin, SiMA. Please keep it up.
I’m so goddamned proud of my team. To me this bronze medal is golden. We had no business beating the US with that hobbling and benchless team, but they still gave me hope. And now they beat Lithuania without Gino and with Nocioni playing his heart off.
What a team. I’ll miss them when they’re gone so bad.
They're Warriors, You've Got To Give Them That.
Every passing game makes their Scola decision look all the more unforgiveable. The guy is a world-class player and would’ve made a huge difference on our team.
Tim-Manu-TP-Scola? That would’ve been insane. Imagine Barry with those four. Hell, imagine me with those four. Unfuckingbeatable.
I don’t know if it was Holt or RC or Pop, but the team blew it big time.
Also, it’s disappointing they’re not at least asking the Bulls what they want for Nocioni, just for shits and giggles.
The whole Argentine team played with a lot of heart and passion and I’m really proud of them. Even their fatty.
And lest I forget, major props to Spain as well, for the way they fought the U.S. without Calderon. I knew they were playing possum the first game in the group stages…
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