Luis Scola’s Dominance of World Championship Continues

Tourney mvp

In my opinion, the best player in the tourney thus far is Lithuania’s (5-0), Linas Kleiza. His game has become so much more well rounded, and he’s grown into becoming a leader. The Raptors stole him from the Nuggets. BC’s still got it. 2 cents

go rox

Thanks larrylegend, can’t wait. Thought Buschi was no longer commentating BBall. And Scola truly shot down Brazil last night. What a baller! Kleiza (and his fantastic/unstoppable turnaround fading jumphook) has been balling out of his mind since he joined Olympiakos last season. Fantastic tournament by him, Scola and Yi, imo.

Sasha Vujacic dreams at night that he plays as good as his older brother Luis Scola.

fiba for me has been almost unwatchable, and it’s all the announcers’ fault. Seriously, reggie miller sounds like huby freakin brown next to these dorks. From pronouncing turkoglu as turk-o-glue (!) to going on and on about how every foul looks like an unsportsman-like one…They are just awful. I’m thankful someone invented the mute button.

Luis Scola and Sasha Vujacic versus Michael Beasley and Delonte West. Which team of brothers wins?

This guy can BALL unlike some Spaniard I know. STOP being SCARED and come to the league already.

Solid skill set and really relentless, he’s definitely a good player, but I don’t see a monster performance out of him when they face the U.S. Saturday. Skill players with limited athleticism like him struggle when playing super fast, super athletic teams such as the one we send from the states… definitely a good INTERNATIONAL player, but that being said, I think the U.S. shuts him down

“Scola goes into video game god mode to finish off Brazil. Wow”
Fantastic quote!!

Y’all got the greek Tmac for Scola…

Aaaand down goes TeamWhine (Spain). An incredibly deep Serbian team just beat them. Navarro was good but also turned the ball over in crucial moments, Garbajosa shot well but turned the ball over in crucial moments. Ricky wasn’t good and turned the ba…. (u see where i’m going with this). A frantic, fastpaced, fantastic game, punctuated by Teodosic (horrible up to that point) dribbled away 20 of the last 23 seconds, then shot an Nba 3 straight into Garbasucksa’s whiney mug. Milos sure has big brass ones. Serbia had 2 players foul out, yet they kept trotting out key player after key contributer. Savanovic, Velickovic, even Bjelica and Krstic were BALLING.

Spain struggling this yr without Gasol is further proof of he being the best PF in the world IMO.

AllenP: now you know why i dubbed them ‘TeamWhine’.

And now everybody found out about Luis Scola…i remember yuor reactions when i was putting him on the “top-10 big men in the world” lists 3 years ago…whatever, doesn’t matter,better late than never (that’s my scope anyway, i don’t care how much time it’ll take, important is to finally wake up to reality ). Funny thing is (and that’s why i love it here) that Luis will be again ranked 40 places BELOW a guy that needs at least 20 years of practise to achive even 50% of the game Scola had 3 years ago(Dwight “super-guffy” howard)…i wonder if my pupil is still waiting for Dwight to develop a bball game (sorry jukai/tavoris ,don’t hold your breath on this one…)…
@kid calling “big balls” Teodosic ‘Milos who’(yeah Dark,it’s you,sorry )……: stop embarassing yourself.

Dark
Yeah, they are a skilled and talented team but outside of Juan Carlos, and the dude Yule or something, they aren’t all that mentally tough. Man, I really like Juan Carlos. He has old man game. If he wasn’t so short, he probably could have done more in the league, but at his height with his limited athleticism and strength, he can’t compete against NBA guards.
I don’t understand why European players commit so many stupid, horrible fouls in the backcourt, nor do I think ANYONE should complain about NBA refs after watching FIBA refs. FIBA refs are ridiculous, just plain horrible. Seriously, after letting every team in the tournament not named USA set illegal moving screens all game long, they decided to call SEVEN moving screens in quick succession in the Serbia/Spain game. It was so random. And they would call touch fouls on two possessions, then watch quietly while a player got mugged. I’ve never seen so many makeup calls in a game, or refs get so intimidated by coaches and benches. It was horrendous.
And the level of flopping in Europe is just ghastly. It’s ugly.

AllenP: true, those moving screens calls (by the american Ref, might i add) were ridiculous. Never seen such a sequence at this level of play before.

“made me wonder why people always say Europeans are the “smart” basketball players”
@AllenP, because the majority of white athletes have the same amount of raw talent as Average Joe and attained their level of success due to their knowledge of the game. This is agreed upon by the entire scientific community.

@pupil….: i know only “BASKETBALL LEVEL”, don’t care about national leagues (spaniard ACB, greek A1, u.s. NBA, etc)and their particularities. And ,of course, real players (Drazen,MJ,Magic,dIRK,Pau,Kobe,Manu,Duncan,Scola,P.Pierce,etc) never-EVER had problems nowhere, especially at the biggest bball stages of em’ll (wORLD’S, Olympics).

I actually luv how this troll digs up stuff i wrote 4 DAYS ago (but never commented on then) to try and discredit me. Hope he sleeps well at night, dreaming up ways to go on a bball site and play the big bully. I guess Rasic winning two games with clutch shooting and tieing one vs Germany with 2 clutch 3′s meant that Mr. Slowfoot Milos was his usual dominating self. Tonight the ‘usual self’ of Teodosic had this wonderful stat line before his ballsy clutch shot, 1-7 shooting from 3, 3 TO’s, a handful of botched passes and as usual, lackluster D for a grand total of 12 pts in 31 mins. But hey, i guess Euroleague MVP’s are held to a lower standard these days. 31% on three’s (in 5 games) sure is a great average for such a star. It’s ok, Troll, i’m glad i made ypur day once again.

Too bad Rasic averages half a point less than super Milo, with a similar avg. on TO’s and 59% on three’s(!), some of them hotly contested, all this in 2 more games played. Yes, Milos is having a fantastic WBC. Cudos to him. Oh boy, there’s a game on, no need to justify my opinion to an insulting troll on a website. You keep on doing what you do, Greek God of Bball.

@all the kindergarden that so heavily underestimate the u.s league(NBA,my favorite by the way)….: the fact that we (NBA) have to promote during the regular season certain “easily edible” features of the game (jump high, run fast,drible like you are in a circus) in order to gain valuable market share and resources($$$) that help our favorite game expand around the world, doesn’t mean that we don’t know who is REALLY the best,who really merits. In the end, only the complete/great players (usually) will get our highest award/praise in a pure bball level(championship). Many Carters,Howards,Iversons&Starburys came and went the past decade (and Dominques and Kemps before them…) but in the end it was the Duncans,Manus,Billups,Sheeds,Gasols&Kobes (and Isiahs&Hakeems before them) that got our highest honor. Please don’t underestimate the pure bball knowledge/relevance of the u.s. league.

The Worlds aren’t really that big. If they were the biggest stage, guys like Gasol/Ginobili/Dirk would be competing in them. The Worlds are sort of the third tier level of competition— Olympics being the first level, NBA being the second level.
The World Championship is sort of minor. I know a lot of European players get annoyed at that and will spit at you and say it’s bigger than the Olympics, but the stripped down rosters for every team says otherwise.
Sorrrrrry.

Hey guys, remember when the Greece team who were in a position to win it all lost to a whiny Spain team w/o two of their starters who then went and lost to a Serbian team who wasn’t suppose to make the Final Four?
I remember that! Yeahhhhhh!

I <3 Greek Dude.