European fundamentals once again proved superior to USA’s individual talent. Lithuania, led by Vaidas Kariniauskas, shocked the United States 110-104 simply by playing basketball the right way. In this video, BasketNews’ Augustas Suliauskas demonstrates how the NBA stars disrespected the opponents at the beginning, how Lithuania’s coaching staff outplayed Steve Kerr & why going 9/9 from the 3-point land wasn’t luck.
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Wait, there is a country called Lithuania?
That and the fact that most of U.S. best players didn't even participate
World championsđ¤Ą
They beat USA's D-Team lol.
Didnt know michele ballack switched from Football to basketball
To America loserrr…. This is the real world championship and you didn't bring the big Gunz what a shame.
meh. usa didnt really tried assembling a kobe team
no defense in the nba no defwense in the WC. thats no surprising
Pshh, the best players in the world for the USA sat out. We dont care đ congrats on beating our C squad
Love it when Americans get angry. This means they will make the next Olympics tournament ten times more fun to watch. As for the Lithuanians..As a European who first saw Lithuanians playing basketball back in 1987 during the Eurobasket tournament, Lithuania was ALWAYS a land that produced pure talent. Add the Soviet school of coaching, and there you go. I remember then the USSR team had world class Lithuanians like Sabonis, Jovaisa, Homichius, and Marciulionis. Lithuania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, even Latvia, are lands were people play basketball seriously and with a system, since forever. And athletes are almost always disciplined and focused to a plan, that is always based on teamwork and circulation of the ball.
Coach Popovic always talked about how good some of the European coaches and systems are.
For me, all these European teams getting stronger, will benefit the sport. And for those of us who love the sport, who wins or looses is secondary. Watching great games without knowing from before what the result will be, is what rocks my world.
now Lebron James wants to build a dream team. should we remind him of 2005 Greece?
âPlease donât say it was Team C for the U.Sâ
Want the world to lie to you so that you can be proud of yourself?
Solid Analysis , well done!
I happen to be an American but Lithuania earned a well deserved win in my opinion. The arrogance and pure laziness in this game from the USA team was embarrassing. Congratulations Lithuania!
Yall just happy yall got a win over the big bad USA even if it's are throw aways đ
US team take it for granted by sending mediocre players đ
USA The chempiond of whot ha,ha,ha Champions in winning the wooden medal jou loose 3 time camon.
None of you thinks in terms of a test…let's say, the american basketball association plans to include younger players in a certain system that is not their own (meaning FIBA rules etc). They have to plan the way for systematic approach in terms of playing techniques, strategies, rules and adaptation. LBJ, Durant, Irving, Curry…etc. they all know the ways and they've proved it. Now it's the time to acertain what type of players, of younger generation, they have to pick and select that would adopt international rules and regulations and do it in an easy and succesful way. The USA have more registered prof. players than the rest of the world combined…do you really think that they cannot select top tier players for the squad?! They plan and dream big in the terms of the game…do not doubt that. I am not defending USA, I'm from Serbia so my stance is even more indepth. The thing about this championship is that it shows who has the better respect of the game in the certain moment and who has the TEAM…this is team game…two parts, defense and offense…think about that. Peace to all! Respect the game!
A few things. 1) The rest of the world has gotten a lot better. No doubt about that. 2) FIBA & NBA rules are dissimilar. Takes some adjusting for guys who arenât used to it. 3) The US didnât even send itâs B team. This was barely a C-level team.
that was usa's f squad.. they didnt try early because they saw all those white boys on the other team and were overconfident..
World champion of what?… Nba is only commercially overhyped and successful… Talent is in Europe and africa