Fiba Americas 2009

[Doze06]

Mexicos looking good right now, blowing out teams in the fiba cocaba. Romel Beck is a beast. Im hearing Najera and Watson will also be joining the team for the Fiba Americas.

[ELHURACAN58]

Mexicos looking good right now, blowing out teams in the fiba cocaba. Romel Beck is a beast. Im hearing Najera and Watson will also be joining the team for the Fiba Americas.

For me Romel Beck is already better than Najera.

Puerto Rico played the Tuto Marchand Cup with an incomplete team and the results are as follows:

vs Canada W 60-55
vs Brazil L 70-80
vs Argentina W 67-55

Their final roster

PG Carlos Arroyo, Filiberto Rivera, Christian Dalmau
SG Elias "Larry" Ayuso, Guillermo Diaz
SF Carmelo Lee, AD Vasallo
PF Angelo Reyes*, Ricky Sanchez
C Peter John Ramos, Daniel Santiago, Luis Villafañe

*Alex Falcon will substitute Reyes if he doesnt recover from an injury. Im happy with this selection, though Id rather that instead of bringing old Dalmau, we would give Mike Rosario a chance, or Pellot(if its Pellot then force him to pass cause he sucked in the TutoMarchand Cup)

[VaBoriKua 2.0]

donde esta barrea

[ELHURACAN58]

donde esta barrea

Lesionado, se sometio a una operacion del brazo y Dallas no le permitió jugar con el equipo nacional por razones de salud.

[Doze06]

I hope these games get showed on tv. espn deportes showed this past weeks Puerto Rico games so maybe they ll have them.

[Caxcan]

Najera and Watson wont be playing for team Mexico

After holding a glimmer of hope that Eduardo Nájera may don the green and red for Mexico, that hope crashed when the NBA ruled that it wasn’t in their best interest.

Najera was unable to receive clearance from his NBA club, the New Jersey Nets, to play in the tournament. The Nets invoked their right to refuse Najera because he had not fully recovered from an injury, a hernia surgery he had back in March.

NBA guard Earl Watson will also miss the tournament after failing to obtain the right papers in time.

Without Najera and Watson, the Mexican National Team will reply on a frontcourt featuring veteran center Horacio Llama and Lorenzo Mata-Real, coupled with the scoring of Romel Beck and . Well, that’s if Beck and company aren’t suspended after their fight with Uruguay on Saturday.

http://www.interbasket.net/news/3725...ricas-tourney/

[Caxcan]

2009 FIBA Americas Championship Preview

Event: 2009 Americas Championships
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Discuss: Americas Championships Thread
Info: The tournament will determine which four teams qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championships of Basketball.

The tournament will feature ten teams from Northern and Latin Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

The favorites coming into the tournament is a solid Brazil team and the experienced Argentinians.

Brazil dominated the Tuto Marchand Cup with great efficiency with even contributions from Leandro Barbosa and Marcelo Machado in the backcourt, and Anderson Varejão and Tiago Splitter in the frontcourt.

Despite 2007 Americas MVP Luis Scola down low, Argentina didn’t fare as well in the Marchand Cup (0-3), but were without the services of Pablo Prigioni, who will join the team and run the point.

With Prigioni, Scola, as well as Federico Kammerichs and Leonardo Gutiérrez, team Argentina is still a power even without Manu Ginobili, Andres Nocioni, Carlos Delfino, and Fabricio Oberto.

The unproven Dominican Republic team have looked great in preparation games and is the dark horse of the tournament. The team maybe the best team RD has ever assembled and features three current NBA players in Francisco García, Al Horford, and Charlie Villanueva.

The three top contenders for gold, Argentina, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, will all compete in a very difficult Group B. The other two teams are Panama, who is no slouch either and Venezuela.

In Group A, look for Puerto Rico to give out a good fight, especially playing at home, with veteran mainstays Larry Ayuso, Carlos Arroyo, and Daniel Santiago.

Canada will compete with swingmen Carl English, Andy Rautins with NBA player Joel Anthony in the middle. The other three teams are Uruguay, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Mexico without Eduardo Najera.

The United States will not send a team to the tournament after receiving an automatic bid to the World Championships by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The United States won the 2007 Americas Championship held in Las Vegas by going undefeated in their ten games. The USA was led by Carmelo Anthony’s 21.3 points and LeBron James‘ all-around game and blistering 76% from the field (73-96 FG). Argentina captured the silver medal, and Puerto Rico defeated Brazil for the bronze medal.

This year’s Championships will feature several other high profile players including Romel Beck (Mexico), Esteban Batista (Uruguay), Luis Flores (Dominican Republic), Levon Kendall (Canada), Héctor Romero (Venezuela), and Óscar Torres (Venezuela).

http://www.interbasket.net/news/2617...nship-preview/

[NAPO]

P.R whooped Mexico 88-61.

Nice effort by Mexico.

[Doze06]

man mexico had that game. Everything was good, they were up at the half then they just did everything opposite of the first half.

[ELHURACAN58]

Well this is badly done.... I will arreglarlo

Day 1

Uruguay def. Virgin Islands 88-62
Brazil def. D. Republic 81-68
Venezuela def. Argentina 85-69
P. Rico def. Mexico 81-66

Scorer of the day Leandro Morales (Uruguay) 28 points
Passer of the day Carlos Arroyo (P. Rico) 11 assists
Rebounder of the day Esteban Batista (Uruguay) 13 rebounds

Group A

Uruguay 1-0 +26
P. Rico 1-0 +15
Mexico 0-1 -15
Virgin islands 0-1 -26
Canada 0-0 0

Group B

Venezuela 1-0 +16
Brazil 1-0 +13
D. Republic 0-1 -13
Argentina 0-1 -16
Panama 0-0 0