driftinggardener57 said:Kopljar holds his own, I guess, but I honestly have no idea who decides to keep a massive guy like Gojun on the roster or why...
Whenever he steps onto the court, you just know what's coming—either he’s gonna rack up a penalty (I mean, during the FIBA World Cup: USA vs Poland 85:75 game, he maybe played 7 or 8 minutes before getting a 4-minute suspension 🙂), or he’s just gonna throw the ball into the stands, while on top of all that, Vuković doesn't even get a single minute of playing time 🤷
As for the fans, obviously people are gonna boo and chant against the opposing team. There's nothing weird or out of the ordinary about that, especially when the gameplay looks like this...
Honestly, both of you clearly don't get this sport if you're talking like that, and saying Gojun only played 7 or 8 minutes... sometimes it's better to just keep your mouth shut
I know some people here are just trolling for the hell of it, but I’m being dead serious when I say our odds look pretty slim—I’d probably put it at 75/25... those Danes really remind me of how we played back when we hosted everything in 2009
graniteotter6 said:Exactly, there were zero screens or picks, and honestly, they acted like the concept of a Pivot didn't even exist. Our defense held its own—we didn't really let them pull away too much when they moved to that 3-on-4 setup—but man, the offense was just a massive disaster. Every single time we managed to beat them, it was because our perimeter guys were absolutely tearing it up, like in the first half where Kopljar was just on fire... If we had actually kept up the tempo we used to break them down in the first half, we would've walked away with a win, no doubt about it. But once the second half rolled around, I saw exactly where this was heading, and our offense just completely flatlined and died... it was brutal. And in that first half, they were basically forcing almost every single goal. I have no clue why we didn't push even harder right then and there while we had the momentum. So, bottom line—they hammered us on offense in the first half, and then in the second, they just suffocated us on defense.
It was a total beatdown, plain and simple.
And I can't ignore how protected Accambray was again, it's like having Tučkin, Dušebajev, Andersson, Richardson, and LeBron James all merged into one unstoppable force. 😕 I won't even bring up Ivano Balić since he wasn't really in the mix for this one...
And don't even get me started on the lack of plays... I play amateur ball in a local league and we run smarter, faster, and more frequent picks than these pros sometimes do. When they actually try to run a play, it’s so slow and sloppy that you can't even create a decent shot against a standard 6-0 zone...
That's basically the whole foundation of breaking down a set defense—running picks, creating space for a shooter at the wing, finding an opening on the flank, or feeding the guy in the paint—but we just completely lacked that rhythm in some of these games.
The way I see it, Denmark is going to take the championship, though France could easily give them a run for their money since they're looking pretty solid this tournament, maybe just a hair behind the Danes. It doesn't matter to them that they're playing at home, whereas we struggle against teams like Austria if they happen to be the hosts...
Jonathan Barnes5 said:Back when they were actually in their prime, the only time we managed to beat them was in Norway... and honestly, that was only because of Dominiković and that one timeout where he called for Narcissa to move to the right side to target his block...
http://youtu.be/xIYHhf3fH9Y
Just thought I'd drop this here so we can all take a little trip down memory lane...
Major props to Gojun, seriously, but let's be real—he just doesn't have that same level of tactical genius that Dominiković had to pull something like that off...
We’ve basically become totally dependent on fast breaks and transition plays, which is honestly pretty scary because it’s just not sustainable... In the first half, while we were running the break, the team actually looked alive, but once we hit the second half, we’d get maybe one or two transition opportunities and then suddenly the whole team just vanishes... That's the cold, hard truth, and we have to admit that at 6-on-6, we're looking like a super limited, uninspired squad that relies way too much on our shooters having a lucky day... We can't even sink an easy one when we have a 6-on-5 advantage, and once the Frenchmen shut down our transition game in the second half, it was pretty much game over...
But saying the French offense was actually good? Man, that's just total nonsense... They went through massive stretches where they couldn't find the back of the net either, it's just that we completely failed to capitalize on their mistakes... That penalty shot by Čupić really broke our momentum for good, and you just can't be taking shots through the legs of Metuzalem Omeyer when it's 23 to 21...
What really gets under my skin is how about 70 percent of the guys in our section can basically fit their entire mindset into one single sentence—like, "Yo, when's the video dropping????"
To say I wasn't totally on board when they swapped out the old leadership for the new crew would be an understatement, I was definitely against it at first... but honestly, in this short amount of time since they took over, I gotta admit I'm starting to dig what they're doing, they're really putting in the work they're coming up with new banners to rally the crowd, keeping the pyrotechnics going strong, and finally, they started organizing the chants with those three poles and megaphones which is such a killer idea, you can tell these guys truly live and breathe the Kansas City Chiefs and our NFL Ultras
There’s a few hundred people out there who actually get the vision, who listen to the new management and don't cause too much trouble, but man, there's a thousand other people who just don't get it at all, they just want to talk trash and stir the pot,making their own banners without getting the green light from the USSF and all that nonsense, and something seriously needs to happen about them, I don't even know how to fix it myself but we can't just let it slide forever like this...
Man, the crowd in the stands yesterday seriously got under my skin, it wasn't even about how bad the chanting was it’s more about the people who just flat-out refuse to get behind the group I honestly don't get why everyone's being so stubborn for no reason, especially since the leaders were practically shouting through three megaphones everyone else is always making noise and calling out, but the crew is trying their best and people just don't want to sing along... honestly, the fan spirit among 80 percent of the people in the South Stand was basically non-existent yesterday
Listen here, you absolute clown, you think those mayors running things today were actually former NFL Ultras? Hell no, we’re talking about a guy without a college degree who can't even string a coherent sentence together, a guy who basically tanked this entire city and the Kansas City Chiefs for good, a guy who calls former NFL Ultras "urbanists"... and then you have the nerve to ask why? It's because of people like you that a city like Miami falls apart, you total idiot 🙂