Rio Olympics 2016

[Moderator 3]

Anyone watching?  Anything you're excited about?  Swimming has been pretty good so far.  I caught some of the archery yesterday and was kind of surprised how much I enjoyed it. 

[K-Dog]

Olympics.  The event that makes you watch sports you would otherwise never watch. 

[Steve0x]

The Kayaking is cool . 

[K-Dog]

Watching women's rugby at the moment. 

Pretty cool.

[Steve0x]

Some of you who have comcast cable TV press C on your remote look for Rio 2016 then you'll see all kinds of events 

[Moderator 3]

If you have DirecTV, tune to 205 for up to 8 events at once.

[Inqui]

4 hours ago, K-Dog said:

Watching women's rugby at the moment. 

Pretty cool.

The sevens is a great time, just wait until the men's event. The US have a decent shot at gold too.

Sadly I can't really watch the Games this year. Aside from a few things, you can only watch it through a pay TV provider here this year and I'm not paying $90 a month for all that.

[allblackraven]

Looking forward to water polo tournament, sevens and who will take silver in men's basketball.

Obviously track and field but that's still few days off.

Edited August 8, 2016 by allblackraven

[Cville-Raven]

Katie ledecky just annihilated the competition 

[Steve0x]

31 minutes ago, Cville-Raven said:

Katie ledecky just annihilated the competition 

Yeah!!! I saw that!

[Steve0x]

ALERT !!!! Micheal Philps is swimming now!!

 

[Steve0x]

USA!! USA!! USA!! PHILPS WINS!!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/michael-phelps-u-s-win-gold-in-4x100-freestyle-relay-031042707.html

Edited August 8, 2016 by Steve0x

[Cville-Raven]

Phelps still has it. That turn was insane.

[George70]

22 hours ago, K-Dog said:

Watching women's rugby at the moment. 

Pretty cool.

I rather liked the women's rugby - not a bad sport at all.

[Steve0x]

Rugby is Origins to American Football

[BmoreBird22]

19 hours ago, Cville-Raven said:

Katie ledecky just annihilated the competition 

She won the 800 at 15... and it wasn't even close.

Currently holds the world record for the 400, 800 (beaten her own record multiple times), and 1200. Insane.

[allblackraven]

Ref destroying NZ women in rugby final

[Steve0x]

Watching USA Basketball now vs Venezuela. Its a good one

[BmoreBird22]

1 hour ago, Steve0x said:

Watching USA Basketball now vs Venezuela. Its a good one

Basketball is such a joke in the Olympics. America is the only country with a professional team playing at the level that they are, men or women's. The women's team hasn't lost a game since 1992.

I don't think pros should be able to play in the Olympics.

[Steve0x]

20 minutes ago, BmoreBird22 said:

Basketball is such a joke in the Olympics. America is the only country with a professional team playing at the level that they are, men or women's. The women's team hasn't lost a game since 1992.

I don't think pros should be able to play in the Olympics.

I like the pros in the Olympics. The World has to get better than U.S of A!!! Just like when Maryland moved to the BIG 10 conference they gotta get better because thats the toughest conference of all college sports.  

[allblackraven]

20 minutes ago, BmoreBird22 said:

Basketball is such a joke in the Olympics. America is the only country with a professional team playing at the level that they are, men or women's. The women's team hasn't lost a game since 1992.

I don't think pros should be able to play in the Olympics.

They are all pros - Australia, Spain, France, Serbia, Croatia all have teams made of pretty good pro players, lot of them earning their living in the NBA. Granted, nobody comes close to US quality but the other guys aren't amateurs either.

[Steve0x]

Just now, allblackraven said:

They are all pros - Australia, Spain, France, Serbia, Croatia all have teams made of pretty good pro players, lot of them earning their living in the NBA. Granted, nobody comes close to US quality but the other guys aren't amateurs either.

But the Russians don't have any pros. Only in Hockey  

[Inqui]

22 minutes ago, Steve0x said:

But the Russians don't have any pros. Only in Hockey  

I don't know where to begin with this...

[allblackraven]

2 minutes ago, Inqui said:

I don't know where to begin with this...

Don't.

[Inqui]

27 minutes ago, allblackraven said:

They are all pros - Australia, Spain, France, Serbia, Croatia all have teams made of pretty good pro players, lot of them earning their living in the NBA. Granted, nobody comes close to US quality but the other guys aren't amateurs either.

The Australian team has a pretty good future ahead - Mills, Bogut, Simmons, Exum off the top of my head. Andrej Lemanis is a good coach and they've got a good professional league that (mostly) uses the same rules as FIBA. They could be the next big hiccup for the US in the way Spain were a few years ago. There are a lot of good European leagues too, but everything's so fractured (similar populations, but there are 50-odd national teams where all the best US players play for the same team).

It's just a shame the government stopped funding BBNZ a few years ago.

[BmoreBird22]

47 minutes ago, allblackraven said:

They are all pros - Australia, Spain, France, Serbia, Croatia all have teams made of pretty good pro players, lot of them earning their living in the NBA. Granted, nobody comes close to US quality but the other guys aren't amateurs either.

I know they're all pros in other sports, but with basketball, the disparity is so much greater. 

I mean, hell, you could use all college players and still probably win.

[ravensdan]

Honestly I have zero interest in the Olympic basketball. The rugby was exciting. I'd never watched it before. I hope they televise a lot of taekwondo. 

[allblackraven]

13 minutes ago, BmoreBird22 said:

I know they're all pros in other sports, but with basketball, the disparity is so much greater. 

I mean, hell, you could use all college players and still probably win.

No way - USA doesn't have the greatest track record at World Champs, where they also send NBA players but the teams are slightly weaker than what they prepare for the Olympic Games. With college players, they wouldn't contend for medals.

[rmw10]

Lilly King so real.  Got cocky and backed it up.

[allblackraven]

32 minutes ago, Inqui said:

The Australian team has a pretty good future ahead - Mills, Bogut, Simmons, Exum off the top of my head. Andrej Lemanis is a good coach and they've got a good professional league that (mostly) uses the same rules as FIBA. They could be the next big hiccup for the US in the way Spain were a few years ago. There are a lot of good European leagues too, but everything's so fractured (similar populations, but there are 50-odd national teams where all the best US players play for the same team).

It's just a shame the government stopped funding BBNZ a few years ago.

Dellavedova - he had 20+ points and 13 assists vs Serbia.