Official 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Thread (August 25 - September 10)

WHO WINS?


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Big Blue

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Oilers were still in the playoffs in mid may....you trying to make these things equal is actually whats stupid :mjlol:
Oilers lost in April :duck:. He didn't play in a single season since he won the Hart. Because no one gives a fukk about the World Championships. Bet you he'll play in 2026 though
 

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Oilers lost in April :duck:. He didn't play in a single season since he won the Hart. Because no one gives a fukk about the World Championships. Bet you he'll play in 2026 though


PLaying in a tournment with ur season going on is exactly the same as playing in one in September lol.
 

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3 months off between the end of season and the tournament you fukkn moron.
If the tournament mattered so much, they'd be there right?? :mjgrin: You think the IIHF would start the tournament in April if it was so important to the best players in the world??

Remind me which tournament caused a lockout??? It wasn't the IIHF WCs :mjgrin:
 

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Theres nothing to get you fakkit....one is a yearly event that happens during the NHL season and one is every 4 years in the summer....

and ur still wrong because mcDavid has played in a world championship...

STAY MAD :russ:
Which matters then :mjlol:? Say it with your chest that the random ass World Championships matter more than the Olympics because your full roster won a bronze against the USA B-team. :russ:
 

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Which matters then :mjlol:? Say it with your chest that the random ass World Championships matter more than the Olympics because your full roster won a bronze against the USA B-team. :russ:


It wasnt there full roster youre losing this on all sides.
 

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Final rankings dropped


Based off this (stuff can change by next summer's QT)

The pots would look like

Pot 1
Spain
Latvia
Lithuania
Slovenia

Pot 2
Brazil
Italy
Greece
Poland

Pot 3
Puerto Rico
Montenegro
Dominican Republic
Finland


Pot 4
New Zealand
Georgia
Croatia
Mexico

Pot 5
Lebanon
Ivory Coast
Angola
Philippines



Pot 6
Egypt
Bahamas
Cameroon
Bahrain


If it's like 2020, The Pods will look like this
Pod 1
Group A
Latvia, Mexico, Ivory Coast
Group B
Brazil, Montenegro, Bahrain

Pod 2
Group A
New Zealand, Lebanon, Slovenia
Group B
Italy, Puerto Rico, Bahamas

Pod 3
Group A
Lithuania, Croatia, Angola
Group B
Poland, Dominican Republic, Egypt

Pod 4
Group A
Spain, Georgia, Philippines
Group B
Greece, Finland, Cameroon

Top 2 in each group advance then knockout rounds between Group A and B, winners in each pod go to Paris
 
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