(2024 Olympics) Men's BASK - Notes/Plays

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Nikola Jovic is set to miss the Olympic Games, as he has not fully recovered from his ankle injury.

he plays in the Miami Heat.

Thank you, Lex. Appreciate the information.

I had been monitoring Serbia. Saw that Jovic had not been in the lineup.

I can say this about Serbia. They play with great teamwork. They move the ball unselfishly.

When I watch Serbia, it's almost like the names don't matter. Great team chemistry.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Team USA problem is they need to get use to each other. They are all top dogs. That's hard. In the NBA they don't press. This is more like a collage game. With only 5 fouls they can't give up that lazy one or two for some. Will the players listen to Kerr? Coach K had more pull. I think we will get to the medal rd for sure. The teams that they play now are a lot more talented. Should be fun ride

Will keep posting comments re: Team USA:

1) A lot of what you say is true. My original thoughts on Team USA were:
a) Too old: James/Curry/Durant
b) Too injury-prone: Davis/Embiid/Leonard
c) Way too many Hi-usage guys. Guys that need the ball in their hands. That's > half the roster.

2) The Leonard exit SURELY helps the team. White comes in. That's a 2nd glue guy (like Holiday). Doesn't need many shots. Defense-first, great team player.

3) Versus Australia is just one game. Is that their average level? Conceding 92 points to that team = less than inspiring.

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

Yes! Mills is older. And Delladova is amazingly still on the team, too.

This isn't the BEST Australia team I've seen. But they're pretty good.

Not saying they were. All the teams are going to have players you know.

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

Will keep posting comments re: Team USA:

1) A lot of what you say is true. My original thoughts on Team USA were:
a) Too old: James/Curry/Durant
b) Too injury-prone: Davis/Embiid/Leonard
c) Way too many Hi-usage guys. Guys that need the ball in their hands. That's > half the roster.

2) The Leonard exit SURELY helps the team. White comes in. That's a 2nd glue guy (like Holiday). Doesn't need many shots. Defense-first, great team player.

3) Versus Australia is just one game. Is that their average level? Conceding 92 points to that team = less than inspiring.

Everyone knew Leonard should not be on the team. He was only on the team because of his D. Well also because of Grant Hill feels bad for him. He sees himself in him. Sad shit

[JIBBBY]

If US mens basketball doesn't win the GOLD they will be the laughing stock for years to come. They got everyone on this US team.

[IBetYou]

If there's one glitch for team USA it's that they don;t have a clear leader. It should be Curry, because he's their best player. James appears to be the one. Edwards feels it's him..... probably won't matter when it's all said and done. They're big & bad this year; shored up their lone weakness by recruiting the wh0re Embiid who was selling himself to France prior.

Thing I don't get is these liberals are always on about the exploitation of Africa by the colonists or whatever, and then they go and steal one of their best assets for their NT. WTH?

[IBetYou]

High juice on these games for many years. Used to be if you saw such odds you could assume the books didn;t have a penetrating clue. But the reality is they;ve gotten much better at it and yet they still these odds. Need a competitive bookmaker like Pinnacle to make a comeback -barred from my country these days.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

High juice on these games for many years. Used to be if you saw such odds you could assume the books didn;t have a penetrating clue. But the reality is they;ve gotten much better at it and yet they still these odds. Need a competitive bookmaker like Pinnacle to make a comeback -barred from my country these days.

Yes, I bet. The ARG game I bet was like 30-cent juice. I just thought it was a value line.

I have made this comment in other threads. Appears that 30-cent juice is the STANDARD for Prop bets + Live bets. Why?

A: It has to do with the Betting Public. They don't work at it. They just want something to bet.

Of course they're going to lose. So, what does the juice matter?

Books will price to what the betting public tolerates. If there's no discretion, who cares? Same thing on the Moneyline market, that's juiced to the Moon.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

4th unit on Serbia +14.5 1.93: 1 to win .93.

FYI: This bet is for the Olympic opener on 7/28.
...This bet is NOT for the Friendly being played tomorrow.

[Optional]

They look pretty good today. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

I will put one asterisk on Australia. *I can't believe they're still playing Mills.

If they make it through to the knockout stage they will be battle hardened after facing USA, Serbia, Spain, Canada and Greece on the way there.

Mills defying the skepticism here so far too

[ChuckyTheGoat]

If they make it through to the knockout stage they will be battle hardened after facing USA, Serbia, Spain, Canada and Greece on the way there.

Mills defying the skepticism here so far too

Hey, Opti. Nice win for Australia vs Serbia. Props to Mills on shutting me up.

I saw the hi-lites. Australia looked good. Good ball movement.

I'm a fan of Exum. Aussies in a very tough group. Good Luck to the Boomers!

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Opti, did you know that Dyson Daniels played Aussie Rules FB as a youth?

https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/3122974/dyson-sports-big-v/

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

Todays line is even up +15.5 at some books

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Todays line is even up +15.5 at some books

Buff, I lean Serbia. I actually would bet it. If not for the 30-cent juice-gouging the books are putting on these friendlies.

Bogdanovic missed last game, probably for Rest. Looks like he'll be playing in this game:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/2024/07/17/bogdanovic-ready-to-take-on-one-of-best-teams-ever-as-serbia-face-usa-in-abu-dhabi/

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

Buff, I lean Serbia. I actually would bet it. If not for the 30-cent juice-gouging the books are putting on these friendlies.

Bogdanovic missed last game, probably for Rest. Looks like he'll be playing in this game:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/spor...-in-abu-dhabi/

I did already. I saw one of my other books have it at +14.5. When I saw the +15.5 I jumped on it. It was at -110. To good to be true? oh well lets ride

[ChuckyTheGoat]

I did already. I saw one of my other books have it at +14.5. When I saw the +15.5 I jumped on it. It was at -110. To good to be true? oh well lets ride

You got it, Buff. I hate the outrageous juice. But I like your pick.

Have scouted this out. I expect the Serbs to be competitive today.

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

You got it, Buff. I hate the outrageous juice. But I like your pick.

Have scouted this out. I expect the Serbs to be competitive today.

Any team playing the USA is going to put in 100%

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Any team playing the USA is going to put in 100%

Well, this one is going down as a blowout. Sorry if my opinion swayed you, Bill.

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

Ya team USA looked good

[ChuckyTheGoat]

4th unit on Serbia +14.5 1.93: 1 to win .93.

5th unit = Serbia +16 1.95: 1 to win .95

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

I'm enjoying just watching these start up games. I like the start time. I was able to pick it up from rest time from fishing at camp.

[Eddy Munny]

Another 1 point win today for USA over international powerhouse South Sudan.

[IBetYou]

Another 1 point win today for USA over international powerhouse South Sudan.

They needed a Cameroon player to do it but in fairness SS had an American starring for their team. What a shit-show international competition has become.

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

They needed a Cameroon player to do it but in fairness SS had an American starring for their team. What a shit-show international competition has become.

Why bring your negativity to something you can just watch and enjoy. Oh you can't... Every game they play against the USA is the biggest game the others are playing against. The country is in civil war and cant understand why they would get up for a game against us.

[SundanceKid]

42.5 favorites Team USA was. I didn't even see a pre-game ML for South Sudan but had they of won it would have to been only outmatched by Stanford over USC in 2007 as the single largest ML win ever... Still, nothing will ever top Leicester City to win 2015/16 Premier league at $1 to win $5000. I remember a poster here shared a bet slip from 5Dimes. Tony paid it out too. R.I.P

[SomeDayinBuffalo]

42.5 favorites Team USA was. I didn't even see a pre-game ML for South Sudan but had they of won it would have to been only outmatched by Stanford over USC in 2007 as the single largest ML win ever... Still, nothing will ever top Leicester City to win 2015/16 Premier league at $1 to win $5000. I remember a poster here shared a bet slip from 5Dimes. Tony paid it out too. R.I.P

You need to stop looking at The USA playing against other teams. It sucks to know the last of the last see this. If someone did not put you name out there just to get taken down. All I ask us is don't forget that the people that aren't given it up so soo.

[IBetYou]

WTF are you talking about? Only sense I got out of those posts were that USA got team's best shot, which may be true in some exhibitions but in real games teams actually play hard every game, which is an alien concept to NBA players hence they only notice player going hard against them...

...and that SS were in civil war. Yeah they're picking Africans from all over the globe (chiefly USA) and then also their best player being an American pg that otherwise has no connection to SS. These guys no nothing of war. It's just media bollocks.

[IBetYou]

People can be so gullible about this sort of thing. I remember watching the women's Eurobasket a few years ago. Boz & Herz were the talk of the tournament. What a cinderella team! What chemistry! How do they do it?! Well big Bahamian Jonquel Jones averaging 40 & 20 a game had something to do with it. The rest of their roster absolute trash, yet they knocked out Croatia who had a legit European team with some exciting up & coming talent on their roster. penetrating shit show (sorry for being negative).

[ChuckyTheGoat]

42.5 favorites Team USA was. I didn't even see a pre-game ML for South Sudan but had they of won it would have to been only outmatched by Stanford over USC in 2007 as the single largest ML win ever... Still, nothing will ever top Leicester City to win 2015/16 Premier league at $1 to win $5000. I remember a poster here shared a bet slip from 5Dimes. Tony paid it out too. R.I.P

Yes. I was thinking about the biggest underdog win ever. (Coll FB) Stanford over USC was a good one.

Sep 2, 2017 — Howard defeated UNLV 43-40 on Saturday as a 45.5-point underdog.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Nice article on huge upsets in Intl Bask:

https://www.fiba.basketball/news/when-underdogs-shocked-the-world

[ChuckyTheGoat]

I found this game in the database where India beats China S/U as a 28-pt underdog:

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/basketball-in-a-first-india-beat-mighty-china-65-58-at-fiba-asia-cup-1617177.html

[IBetYou]

North Korea came within an inch of beating Taiwon in the women's '17 AsiaCup as 32.5pt dogs. Now there's a feel good story -didn't need foreign help to show well, and probably not good training conditions either. Nobody knew what to expect from them because... it's North Korea.

[DrunkHorseplayer]

If I were going to bet on the US to win the gold medal, I would've been rooting like hell for them to lose this game.

[IBetYou]

Watching the WUSA vs WNBA at the moment. The B-team winning... Two best guards in the women's game are Clark & Ogunbowale and I don't think it's close tbh. Both snubbed.

People say politics... But you've got to be on a winning team else they're not interested. That's why D.White got on the men's team. They could have gone with Caruso or some other role player but they went with the guy that was on the team that won the title.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Why bring your negativity to something you can just watch and enjoy. Oh you can't... Every game they play against the USA is the biggest game the others are playing against. The country is in civil war and cant understand why they would get up for a game against us.

Buff, how do you see Team USA doing in the Olympics?

I've made my opinion known. There are some quality teams at this tournament.

The bigger teams just don't care about the big names on USA. They will execute and not be afraid. I also think most of the other Intl teams have better team chemistry.