Please Do Not Take Much From Canada’s Win

The headlines will read CANADA COMES BACK FROM 18-POINT DEFICIT TO REACH QUARTER-FINAL, but they did it playing an absolutely horrendous game. I’m pretty angry I woke up at 6am EST to watch that brand of basketball. A repeat of that performance will not beat the Croatians in the next round. Rowan Barrett and Jermaine Anderson continuously bailed out the Canadians’ broken offensive sets. The Koreans were basically able to shut down the red and white until either a foul call, or until one of those two gunners created a shot on their own.

Canada jacked up bad attempt after bad attempt, but they also jacked up the intensity in the 2nd half, leading to a total of 18 offensive boards and a +19 in rebounds overall. The boards were their savior in this one, but that is highly unlikely to happen against the Croats. They will not be able to muscle around an experienced Croatian squad that overcame a 17-point deficit of their own today against Puerto Rico. Canada will need to be crisp and fluid on offense and they gave no indication of that as they bruised the Koreans. I imagine I’ll be opening my eyes to a brutal beating on Friday. And, hey, Carl English, you’re not being scouted any more, stop shooting and make the right play. OK, I’m done.

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By Tas Melas at 12:28 pm on 07.16.2008 — Tags: International

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6 Responses to “Please Do Not Take Much From Canada’s Win”

  1. Sam Dalembert at 2:34 pm on 07.16.2008

    YOU ARE RIGHT!

    And what’s up with the very random offseason musings? I think like it.

    VIA CANADIA!

    Hey do you know the story of me?

  2. Rob Mahoney at 6:04 pm on 07.16.2008

    OMG OLYMPIC SLEEPERS

  3. onekingdown at 7:34 pm on 07.18.2008

    ahh… what a silly little game to wake up to with 7 minutes left… one offensive trip, near the end of the game, had 5000 rebounds (-12) points …shot clock malfunctions, the announcer having seizures World Cup announcer style…steals (and TOs)… missed FTs… escaping the last shot death…good stuff. … the Koreans were making everything at one point. And then is was back to sleep time.

  4. mando at 2:47 pm on 07.20.2008

    canada.

  5. Carl English at 1:52 pm on 07.21.2008

    Shut your face Melas, you’re not the boss of me.

  6. hiero_yo at 5:31 am on 07.22.2008

    Are we going to get Olympics (basketball) coverage from The Basketball Jones?

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