Dillon Brooks‘ NBA season didn’t end well, as LeBron James and the Lakers dismissed the Grizzlies in the playoffs. The offseason has gone a lot better. Brooks signed a lucrative contract with the Rockets, then he played well enough to earn Best Defensive Player honors at the FIBA World Cup, Sportando tweets.
Brooks, who played for bronze medalist Canada, enjoys his reputation as a villian, according to Aris Barkas of Eurohoops.net.
“It’s just a persona. People love him, I have grown to love him myself. It’s like Kobe created Black Mamba. That’s my persona but only on the court. I love my kids, my family, my teammates,” Brooks said.
We have more tidbits from the World Cup:
- FIBA is pleased with how an expanded field has led to more parity and unpredictability, according to The Associated Press. FIBA expanded the World Cup field to 32 teams in 2019, while 80 teams took part in the qualification process leading up to 2023’s event. “Parity is good,” FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis said. “It’s good because it means competitiveness. It is excellent if it comes together with a higher level of play all the time. What we have achieved is we have reached a greater depth in the roster of countries. Nine of the 32 that came to this World Cup did not play in the previous World Cup.”
- FIBA plans to announce the hosts of the four FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments at the end of November, Eurohoops.net relays. Those tournaments, which will determine the last four qualifiers for the Paris Olympics, will be held in early July.
- Hawks swingman and Serbia’s Bogdan Bogdanovic helped lead his national team to a silver medal for the second time, having accomplished the feat in 2014 as well. He’s hoping to get at least one gold medal before his international career is through, according to George Efkarpides of Eurohoops.net. “I was second once. I’ll be happy to get the gold as well. To finish the tournament with a win,” he said. “Unfortunately, sometimes luck is not on your side. We missed some shots, we missed some opportunities. That’s the game of basketball. That’s how it works.”
The brooks hate needs to stop!
Fun fact the last 7 times USA played in the WC they only won 2 of them. Only player on both winning squads. Curry! He needs to play in 2024 Olympics.
Real Fact …..
They have played since 1950 every 4 yrs. The USA has won 5 times out of 18 tournaments.
Yougoslavia has won it 5 times.
Last two wins, 2014, 2010
Rose and Gay were on both teams too. Probably more I stopped counting lol.
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Hopefully we get a real coach and not Steve Kerr!
More like facing facts that the B team from USA is no longer good enough to beat the rest of the world’s A teams
How was Serbia without Jokic an “A” team. The same goes for Greece without Giannis Antetokounmpo. What’s the excuse for losing against a Lithuanian squad that fielded only one NBA player?
Today’s WWE no-defense NBA vastly overrates itself. Rigged refereeing, 250+ combined points per game without defending, rewarding of poor performances that sees half the teams tanking for better draft positions by mid-season. Emphasis on athleticism instead of basketball fundamentals. Iso ball trumping team play. And the list goes on.
you just nailed it waldfree
Size across the board, and matchups matter. Names dont matter outside of a handful of players. Skillsets and fit matters, and are relatively similar for basically everyone that isnt a top 5ish player. Its extremely hard to be in the NBA right now b/c the talent pool is better and deeper than it ever has been, which is why we need more NBA teams. Its ridiculously hard for guards and bigs to stay in the NBA, that probably should be in the NBA
Most games are going to come down to basically a couple of possessions. Even blowouts can be narrowed down to the difference of just a handful of possessions
Waldfee who the heck else in Serbia is better at basketball than those who played? (Outside of Jokic) lol Your rebuttle made no sense my point was clearly the rest of the world other than the USA had the best available players in their country suiting up. You are talking about a team missing one elite player. And the rest are the best of the best in Serbia
USA literally has 15 or more better players than those who suited up for this team. Curry, LeBron, Durant, Tatum, J Brown, D Book, Lillard, A Davis, Beal, Lavine, Green, Bam, Butler, Holiday, Zion,PG . I could keep going.
Werent like half of those guys on the previous roster that got 9th, or wherever they finished
Obviously you never played the game. Kerr made numerous mistakes in coaching that loss. Three words Steph Curry’s Greatness!
Yeah, let’s find a coach who stacks rings!
Oh wait……..
According to the track guy’s logic, since Dillon Brooks won the defensive award on that stage, he’s the best defensive player in the world!
Dillon out here pretending like he’s in the WWE…
You ain’t Kobe Dillon… You ain’t even a Ric Flair…
You are Santino Marella as a heel…
So in your comparison, he’s pretty entertaining, which is all that matters in that company (not that I saw that run b/c I prefer other companies only for like 17 years now). He’s over right now as a heel, so I guess he’s doing his job. People want to watch him lose, if you’re even acknowledging that
I dont really participate in whatver issues people have with him. I’m not that aware, but I do know he said something that was a poor choice of things to say, I think in the playoffs, but it is what it is. Saying 1 dumb thing doesnt define a person, but in today’s world of social media sickness, I guess it does
That being said, dude was officiated like James Harden last night. He made a couple of big shots too though
As a character he’d be a tag team heel…
Maybe a GM level like Vicki Guererro…
But basically someone out for cheap heat who doesn’t have the skills to do more than annoy…
So technically super over then, of that’s what you’re saying…that’s a lot more than he was before, when he was pretty underrated for a while. His game is different than it was his first couple of years, in my opinion, so for him to be more recognized now means he’s doing something right
Kerr sucks ……. just ask Marty. Biggest Warrior fan on here.
USA doesn’t play to win. Coaches and players. They just show up. Olympics is where they will try to win. One day that will stop too.
Since 1936 the USA has won 16 Gold medals in BBall.
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