since ike is on tour right now i guess i've gotta step up and cover for my mult. at 10:30 we've got the USA vs the ukraine team who are prolly fortunate to have stadiums right now (remember shakthar donesk!) and well that only bodes well for the adventures of derrick rose and his high performance vagina.

there's no pointless ODI cricket on til tomorrow so well, what the fuck? why not? comeon you scags get in here for a good time! we'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll remember that international basketball is as pointless as adding rap battles to the olympics.

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wait wait wait.... how the fuck does this work?

USA is 4-0 in their group for 8 points.... but the second place team is 2-3 with 7 points.... so you get a point automatically for showing up? what the fuck kind of anti-american-exceptionalism shit is this? we're fucking 4-0 in the group and one point ahead of a goddamn 2-3 team, SO WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE WINS?!?!?

i can see why i'm going to be talking to myself in this thread. goddamn.

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Yeah, I don't understand that either.

If they want to award a point to a losing team, it should be something like, you get 1 point for not getting wang whipped (loss by 20 or more points). Everything else, zero points. Sorry Puerto Rico.

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"this is not a great shooting ukraine team by any means.... so they're going to have to maximize their open looks if they want to stay in this game"

or the USA is just going to have to shoot bricks like every critic of the modern game knows they can. i like to think that steph curry is here to build a shelter for disadvantaged youth.

7-2 ukraine. derrick is coming in to stop this.... stay tuned.

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your update is as follows.

ukraine kept it interesting for about a quarter and change (while the USA was bricking shots) but then in a rather short turnaround the USA got up by ~15-20 by halftime and well that was about that.

derrick seemed to get some decent run today. the announcers were saying he's looked "the most spry" as he has since the first game (where he had ~13pts in ~23mins, his last 3 games had been ~13-17mins and 4-6pts or thereabouts) and i dont have his totals handy, but i caught him making one nice derrick style take/layup and just kind of being there. it's some incarnation of derrick but admittedly the 2nd half was so painstakingly boring i could barely watch, to be honest.

of note is that near the end of the game kyrie irving landed awkwardly on his hip and was hobbling off with a noticeable pimp-limp so does this mean derrick might get runs of ~25+ mins after teh break? we're all happy to laud derrick for this 5 games in 6 days stuff, but basically after the first one he's been keeping it chill, tho i think he must have pushed ~20mins today. he wasn't volume chucking shots which is always !!! to see, but rest assured when he comes back to the bulls it'll be time to attempt those 23 FGs/game and let's see if he can shoot over 35%

so even tho united states was through their group already (which was used to explain their initial sluggishness/bricklaying) now they're undefeated and well, yeah. what it is.

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