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Game three, 2012 Olympics: Block of the day (so far)

How about this one from Nicolas Batum, who flies through to catch Lithuania’s Martynas Pocius utterly unawares to start the French fast break amidst Les Blues pulling away for the 82-74 victory?

7 years ago 1 More

Games three, 2012 Olympics: Official Fearless Predictions™

Just enough time to get in some Official Fearless Predictions™ this morning … note that BallinEurope is at 12-0 through two days of Olympic competition. Note, too, that only serious homers and lobotomized octopi should be less than 11-1 at this point anyway, depending on the person/being’s choice for the Argentina-France game. So here goes […]

7 years ago 29 More

Plan Y for Team Lithuania (plus Official Fearless Predictions™)

BallinEurope’s Lithuanian agent Skyped BiE today with two words on his mind: “Lithuania’s doom.” “Today?” BiE countered. “No, it already happened two days ago,” said Y. and he was off with a prescient, simple formula for success after the 23-point blowout at the hands of Argentina.

7 years ago 28 More

USA 98, France 71: The greatest highlight clip you will ever see

You’ve never seen a basketball highlight video like this one … from the folks over at The Guardian comes a reel encapsulating Sunday’s USA-France Olympic game – reenacted with Lego bricks. Seriously, how awesome is this?

7 years ago 2 More

BallinEurope’s Official Fearless Predictions™: 2012 Olympic Basketball Group A

Okay, with just a few hours before men’s basketball tips off at the 2012 Olympics, BallinEurope’s got just enough time for some Official Fearless Predictions™. If done properly, these things are never as easy as they look. Right, starting with Group A, then, we’ve got: 1. USA (5-0) also 5. Nigeria (1-4) 6. Tunisia (0-5). […]

7 years ago 47 More

Seven (or eight) games on which 2012 Olympic basketball will turn

BallinEurope’s Official Fearless Predictions™ for 2012 Olympic basketball will be posted tomorrow, but with the 2012 Olympics opening ceremonies taking place tonight and the men’s competition tipping off on Sunday, BiE got out the virtual calendar to make time for the following seven (or eight) games, matches that should fundamentally shape the greater 30-game picture, […]

7 years ago 26 More

In Spain game, Gelabale gets monster block, ejection, possible suspension

Quel dommage! Eurobasket 2011 runners-up France are finding the road to London bumpy indeed recently. Already losing Joakim Noah throughout the 2012 Olympic Games due to injury, Les Bleus must temporarily sit Boris Diaw and Nando de Colo due to NBA-related insurance issues. And now Mickael Gelabale faces penalties from FIBA, including possible suspension for […]

7 years ago More

Roundup: Recent friendlies of France, Spain, Britain

With “Le Gros Match” about to start and Team USA ready to invade the Continent in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, BallinEurope takes a brief look at some recent results from European national teams in friendlies. And we’ll do this is true TrueHoop fashion, a la bullet-style…

7 years ago More

Now officially Spurs, Diaw and De Colo to sit against Team Spain

You’d think that boasting six NBA players on an Olympic squad would automatically count as a positive against a tough 2012 Games field – but today Team France discovers the down side of running with US-based players. France-based Basket Actu and San Antonio Spurs blog Air Alamo are reporting this morning that, since Boris Diaw […]

7 years ago 3 More

Who can stop Team USA?

This one goes out by request to BallinEurope’s Lithuanian agent Y. … with Team USA coming together to play the Dominican Republic today – with or without Chris Paul – BiE tries to answer the question “Who [if anyone] can beat Team USA?” Good one. A few gauntlets have been thrown by the Americans already, […]

7 years ago 34 More

Upset in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament today: What are the chances?

Right, so BallinEurope has already publicly logged Official Fearless Predictions™ for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament knockout stage in bracket format. Europe’s four representatives – group winners all – take on some decent African and North American competition, but nevertheless the bookies like an all-Europe final four in Venezuela. Indeed, there’s a high probability that […]

7 years ago 61 More

Joakim Noah: “I’m absolutely not ready,” won’t play for Team France in Olympics

Team France’s aspirations for Olympic success in 2012 have taken quite a hit today, as Joakim Noah announced that he will not after all compete in the London Games with Les Bleus. Noah made the announcement today, as reported in L’Equipe, explaining that “I’m absolutely not ready, not ready to run, not ready to jump. […]

7 years ago 4 More
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