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Rudy: My moose was bigger than yours Jose, and it was ANGRY
by Norsktroll on Mar 9, 2010 4:32 AM PST reply actions 5 recs
A max of 17 games, and lot of training sessions. More experience for Rudy.
Friendly games: probably around 8 games. Spain played that number of games before the last Eurobasket.
Preliminary rounds: 5 games. Spain will play these games at least.
Then Spain could play Eight-Finals, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals.
And two of those preliminary round games will be very tough: France feat. a ton of NBA players incl. Nic, and Lithuania. Canada maybe too if Dalembert plays (Nash is very unlikely).
Spain
France
Canada
Lithuania
New Zealand
Lebanon
The blazers knew they were signing up for this when they drfted him, so it comes as no surprise to me.
"What people need to know is that those pictures were taken a year and a half ago, and I've grown since then." - Greg Oden
As long as we get a strength and conditioning coach over there to help him get buff, things should work out.
I would presume though that they would have to let Nic go now as well?
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The Ardent Optimist.
Nic should rest
He’ll probably go but he’s had another good (half) season and should really think about resting up and maybe some a very small amount of strength conditioning… though not enough to mess his equilibrium.
As for Rudy, he’s had a very frustrating time and at this point I’d be shocked and maybe disappointed if he didn’t want to compete during the summer.
He'll be fine
His back isn’t hurting anymore and he ended up with a month and a half of rest he wasn’t planning on this season so I’m not worried. Besides, Nate will be there too – the US and Spain have an exhibition game before the Championship even starts so he can check in with Rudy. I really hope neither Rudy nor Nic gets hurt over there, but both of their injuries traced back to last season and have been surgically dealt with!
Besides, I think losing both Rudy and Pao on the National Team would’ve been a blow going into the World Championship. Marc Gasol will move up to starting center I would guess but not sure who move up in Rudy’s place … I’m sure someone would step up (they’re not short of good players on the team) just not sure who that would be.
Until this team has a recent chamionship under it's belt,
its expected they will be loyal to their country first. The only way to deter this is to be one of the elite teams with credibility in the way things are ran. Then maybe they’ll want to be dedicated more towards the team and their requests. I understand the “team pays their salary” argument, but there are a ton of teams that would also pay it. Not only that, most of our Euro’s are under Nate’s sit in the corner and wait for a pass offense. I am sure there is nothing else they would want more than to rep their country and get out and gun.
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