Friday, August 27, 2010

2010 FIBA World Championship - TV Schedule

The ESPN TV channels will televise all team USA games, the semifinals, and the bronze and gold medal games from the 2010 FIBA World Championship which begins on August 28. The TV schedule for the group stage is below ...

Date Time (EDT) Matchup Network
Aug. 28 12:00 pm USA vs. Croatia ESPN Classic
  (11:00 pm) (re-air) (ESPN2)
       
Aug. 29 9:30 am USA vs. Slovenia ESPN2
  (6:00 pm) (re-air) (ESPN2)
       
Aug. 30 2:30 pm USA vs. Brazil ESPN
  (11:00 pm) (re-air) (ESPN2)
       
Sept. 1 12:00 pm USA vs. Iran ESPN
  (11:00 pm) (re-air) (ESPN2)
       
Sept. 2 9:30 am USA vs. Tunisia ESPN2
(Sept. 3) (12:30 am) (re-air) (ESPN2)

If you are interested in watching other tournament games live, go to ESPN3.com as all 80 tournament games will be availabe ...

source:fiba.com

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

2010 Team USA - The Final 12-Man Roster

The USA Men's World Championship Team roster was finalized unexpectedly yesterday after Rajon Rondo withdrew himself from the team. Although USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said Rondo "had some family matters to attend to and some things to take care of before the NBA season", the main reason of Rondo's withdrawal was believed to be him being unhappy about losing his team USA starting point guard job to Derrick Rose and receiving a DNP (did not play) in his last game ...

Then earlier today, team USA won their final exhibition game easily over host nation Greece 87-59 after former Houston Rocket guard Vassilis Spanoulis and Dimitris Diamantidis committed 15 of the team's 24 turnovers. Now team USA will travel to Istanbul, Turkey to prepare for the 2010 FIBA World Championship which starts on August 28 ...

USA

Player Min FG 3Pt FT Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
Derrick Rose 19 6-7 1-2 0-0 2 1 0 2 0 1 13
Chauncey Billups 18 2-4 1-3 2-4 2 2 0 1 0 2 7
Andre Iguodala 16 2-5 0-3 1-4 0 1 2 1 0 0 5
Kevin Durant 20 6-11 1-3 2-2 7 3 1 1 1 0 15
Lamar Odom 18 0-1 0-0 0-0 3 1 2 4 0 3 0
                       
Eric Gordon 21 6-11 4-7 2-4 2 0 0 2 0 0 18
Rudy Gay 21 2-6 0-2 0-0 5 2 2 0 0 2 4
Stephen Curry 16 2-8 0-4 0-0 0 0 4 2 0 3 4
Danny Granger 15 1-5 0-3 1-2 5 0 2 2 0 3 3
Russell Westbrook 14 2-4 0-0 4-5 3 1 1 0 0 2 8
Kevin Love 12 4-8 0-1 2-2 12 1 2 3 0 1 10
Tyson Chandler 11 0-0 0-0 0-0 3 0 1 0 1 4 0

Totals 200 33-70 7-28 14-23 44 12 17 18 2 21 87

Greece

Player Min FG 3Pt FT Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
Nikos Zisis 19 1-5 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 0 0 4 2
Vassilis Spanoulis 26 2-5 1-4 2-2 2 2 7 2 0 2 7
Stratos Perperoglou 20 2-3 0-0 2-3 2 1 0 2 0 2 6
Antonis Fotsis 23 2-7 2-4 2-2 4 0 0 0 0 0 8
Kostas Tsartsaris 29 9-12 1-2 5-8 5 1 3 1 0 4 24
                       
Dimitris Diamantidis 28 0-2 0-2 1-4 3 4 8 1 0 2 1
Nicholas Calathes 23 3-7 1-2 0-0 1 3 3 1 0 2 7
Giorgos Printezis 14 1-3 1-3 0-0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3
Ian Vougioukas 11 0-3 0-0 1-2 1 1 1 0 0 4 1
Kostas Kaimakoglou 7 0-2 0-1 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Yiannis Bourousis       DNP              
S. Schortsanitas       DNP              
Kostas Vasiliadis       DNP              

Totals 200 20-49 6-18 13-21 22 14 24 8 1 20 59

Monday, August 23, 2010

2010 Team USA - Global Community Cup

Thanks to Derrick Rose's 2 clutch free throws with 17 seconds remaining and Kevin Durant's 2 block shots in the final seconds, team USA escaped in Madrid, Spain with an 86-85 victory over host and defending world champion Spain. After the game, USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Lamar Odom will be their starting center going forward ...

USA

Player Min FG 3Pt FT Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
Derrick Rose 32 5-12 1-2 2-2 4 3 5 1 2 2 13
Chauncey Billups 29 4-8 2-3 0-0 3 1 1 0 1 4 10
Andre Iguodala 27 1-6 0-3 2-2 5 3 1 2 0 4 4
Kevin Durant 37 9-16 2-3 5-5 10 2 2 2 2 3 25
Lamar Odom 33 5-9 0-2 2-5 9 1 3 1 0 3 12
                       
Russell Westbrook 13 4-7 0-1 0-0 4 1 0 1 0 1 8
Rudy Gay 12 1-3 0-0 2-2 1 1 0 0 0 1 4
Stephen Curry 8 3-5 1-3 0-0 0 1 3 1 0 1 7
Tyson Chandler 7 1-1 0-0 1-2 2 0 0 0 1 4 3
Eric Gordon 2 0-1 0-1 0-0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
Rajon Rondo       DNP              
Danny Granger       DNP              
Kevin Love       INJ              

Totals 200 33-68 6-18 14-18 39 13 17 8 6 24 86

Spain

Player Min FG 3Pt FT Reb Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts
Jose Calderon 19 0-5 0-0 0-0 1 3 1 0 0 1 0
Juan Carlos Navarro 29 7-13 3-7 3-3 3 6 1 0 0 0 20
Rudy Fernandez 23 1-5 1-2 2-3 3 1 1 1 1 4 5
Jorge Garbajosa 17 2-6 0-4 0-0 3 0 0 0 0 3 4
Marc Gasol 26 5-12 0-0 7-8 6 1 1 0 0 4 17
                       
Ricky Rubio 21 3-4 1-2 0-0 5 3 5 4 0 0 7
Felipe Reyes 19 5-9 0-1 6-6 1 0 0 2 0 1 16
Fran Vazquez 14 4-6 0-0 0-0 3 0 1 1 1 1 8
Alex Mumbru 13 0-1 0-1 3-4 0 0 1 0 0 2 3
Sergio Llull 11 1-5 0-3 2-3 0 1 1 0 0 1 4
F. San Emeterio 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Victor Claver 4 0-1 0-1 1-2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1

Totals 200 28-67 5-21 24-29 27 15 13 8 3 17 85

source:usabasketball.com

Team USA will fly to Athens, Greece to play their final exhibition game on Wednesday against host nation Greece ...