Warriors fans root for USA (Steve Kerr!) vs Germany in #FIBAWC: watch party/live chat/commentary/PVO
37Game is being broadcast on ESPN2. #Warriors #GoldenStateWarriors\n\nTOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:\n(to be filled in as we go, timestamps are not available until after the stream has ended)\n0:00 my feed is the one left over from Canada-Serbia
4:00 Serbia looks good, imagine them with Jokic -- I'd almost call them the favorite for the Olympics
6:45 German coach (and Latvia's) speaks English to team, also Franco Finn (who was the auctioneer for Steph Curry's $50,000 golf bag at the Workday fundraiser, for which we have a 25-min video coming up tomorrow)
8:00 X-Factors: JJJ (foul trouble per usual), whomever is guarding Schroder, not to underestimate Obst
8:26 tipoff!
9m20 Mikal Bridges on Schroder
8m57 Obst 3 (I told you so)
12:00 Franz Wagner kinda resembles a tall Sarunas Marciulionis
5m35 we don't have the chemistry of Serbia and rely on double step-backs from Ant Edwards or generating something from nothing
0m00 33 points given up is too much after Q1 (like 40 in NBA)
35:15 Kuminga's interview from BWB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqrOV9ObTc&pp=ygUfa3VtaW5nYSBpbnRlcnZpZXcgam9oYW5uZXNidXJnIA%3D%3D
43:30 on USA getting better on D as the game goes along (same as my strategy of traveling tournaments back in the day)
46:00 Obst says my bad to Schroder after a foul, funny how they speak to each other in English
49:45 on the Chiefs bad play Thursday night vs Detroit Lions paralleling start of 2022-23 season for Warriors, although we won the game vs Lakers (which didn't help the psyche/urgency)
54:15 halftime: if Haliburton doesn't throw the lead pass to Hart away, we would've had the ball for the last shot, instead, Theis gets a putback, with 5 sec left, Kerr doesn't use a timeout (we saw this with Serbia before halftime) after the made basket
59:00 on loving the TV series Foundation (better than Star Wars imo)
59:45 on Latvia pg Zagar being solid
1:00:15 I didn't know Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Shai are cousins\n1:02:45 looking up salary details of Theis: $9M or so, which is more than Looney
1:04:00 on USA not having bigs, JJJ, Embiid -- best thing to do is to have Draymond
1:04:45 HOT TAKE: gonna need Dray next summer to defend Jokic
1:05:30 let's speculate! Dray doesn't come to the team unless Steph Curry is there (same with Klay), you would think Steve has some influence with Grant Hill
7m16 Q3 Steve huddle audio: "go with Open Chase" -- turns out to be iso PNR Tyrese x Paolo
7m00 Franz uses his body really well, draws FTs again
1:24:30 feels like in FIBA they give you the FTs more than in the NBA (Bonga fouled Banchero on the drive)
1:35:15 if you can't defend Obst off of two screens on a curl, you don't deserve to win!
1:47:00 USA will need Steph next summer, we don't have enough passing
2:04:00 on Curry: next summer he has his Underrated Golf tour that has a stop in Europe, so that makes me wonder if he's penciling in the Olympics. Taking a look at the Underrated Tour schedule...?
2:11:00 Wiggins' shoe company Peak is the Germany uniform sponsor
2:12:00 on NBA champion vs world champion: comparison is thief of joy
2:18:00 on Kerr getting pummeled on Twitter: it's the chemistry and guys like Jalen Brunson not being able to take over
2:21:00 I understand why USA can never really have their best, not the same for other countries
2:24:30 postgame audio with Kerr and Brunson: "weren't ever able to get them to feel us defensively"
2:28:30 Steve says it's just not possible to have continuity like the European teams
2:43:15 Gordon Herbert (Germany head coach) says all the players commit to three years
\nNext livestream: Team USA (Steve Kerr!) game Sunday 9/10 at 1:30AM PDT.