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Consolation tournament:

The remaining teams are now all European as the winners of HCA for the other confederations has been determined. So winning this tournament is a must for these teams if they want HCA.

Quick Results:

Slovenija 83 at Magyarorszag 100
POTG: Robert Bocz had a game high 27 points, 7 assists and an 18.5 rating.

Latviga 91 at Nederland 111
POTG: Douwe van der Pennen had a game high 31 points, a game high 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and an 18.0 rating.

Srbija 102 at Hellas 97
POTG: George Bordeianu had a team high 23 points, a game high 22 rebounds, and an 18.0 rating.

Portugal 125 at Mexico 92
POTG: Vitor Correia had a game high 28 points, and a 15.5 rating.

Eesti 80 at Schweiz 92
POTG: Timo Heigel had a game high 33 points, and an 18.5 rating.

Suomi 87 at France 114
POTG: Cedric Brassart had a game high 25 points, a game high 13 rebounds and a game high 21.5 rating.

Slovensko 97 at Hrvatska 120
POTG: Leon Karabatic had a game high 26 points, a game high 12 rebounds, and an 18.0 rating.

Turkiye 81 at Ceska Rep. 111
POTG: Radslave Urbanek had a game high 23 points, 8 rebounds, and a game high 19.5 rating.

Great reports! I don't understand why China used 2-3 defense. I don't like that defense because it's so susceptible to outside attack it's always a coinflip. It's true it's very good against Look inside and Low post, but it's so bad against all other tactics it's just not worth it.

They tried to emulate USA ;-)

World Cup

Final Pool:

Results:

Poland 101 at Italia 76
Polands highflying offense coupled with their HCA resulted in a simple victory over the very good Italia squad. Both teams will be advancing to the semifinals and have good shots at making it to the finals. Poland looked stronger then ever today, which is not good for their future opponents. POTG: Radoslaw Podniesinski had a team high 16 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and a 20.0 rating.

China 106 at Uruguay 111
Battle of two opposites types of teams here. Uruguay with their LI and China with their RnG. Seems like Uruguays 3-2 was the difference maker in this game, that did not decide much other then world ranking. POTG: Guillermo Magnano had 20 points, a game high 11 rebounds and an 18.0 rating.

United States 93 at Chile 98
United States used extra effort to try and win this one and force a rematch in the semifinals, it backfired and now they face with Poland with diminished enthusiasm and only a small sliver of hope to win that one. POTG: Ulf Gornitz had a game high 35 points, 14 rebounds, and a 19.0 rating.

Espana 100 at Australia 115
Espana TIEd and Australia CTd in this game. Had Espana won theyd be in the semifinals instead of the United States, they must've figured that saving enthusiasm to give it their best shot at Poland was better then guarateeing a spot in the final four, but with virtually no chance at advancing further. POTG: Sun Cunming had a game high 27 points, game high 11 rebounds, and a 16.0 rating.

It was great enjoyment to read this thread during whole season so I'm waiting for few last reports ;-)

I made some statistics of World Championships (by player and by team), You can find them here:
http://bbtools.x10.mx/files/BB-Stats-WC-NT-s16.ods
What do You think who should get MVP award?