This may well be a new contender for stupidest thread ever.

Another harddone Greek, are we ?

Thanks for your insightful comments George. Intelligence like yours is wasted on a basketball forum.

Does Mummy know you're playing with the Internet again?

^lol

I watched almost all of the qualifying round tournament on FIBA pass. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Greece vs. Nigeria and Macedonia vs. Dominican Republic games were rigged.

It was two of the most obvious and blatant match fixes I have ever seen. It would actually be interesting to get to the bottom of it, as to why FIBA did it.

Paul, stop being so sensible. You're not supposed to talk reason while George is busy being ridiculous.

http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/nigerias-performance-olympics-proof-fiba-rigged-olympic-qt

could these be from the same person i wonder...

Nigeria had three games against a BBL/London select team in Lambeth - South London in the week leading up to the olympics.. Won each by about 20, so not sure where the 3 days gaff came from!!

The three days thing is a pretty lame excuse for Nigeria embarrassing themselves in this tournament but for the OP to say the refs rigged the qualifying tournament they played just before this is ridiculous.

Yes, that tournament was rigged. Anyone saying otherwise is a liar. The FIBA website was being flooded with so many complaints that they actually had to permanently remove the comments section from it.

That would never happen if they didn't rig those games. They didn't even have to shut down the comments section after the Serbia - Turkey game in 2010.

So that right there tells you how outrageous the reffing was.

Let's look at some of the results with and without the QRT refs.

This summer's games,

Greece beat Russia 66 - 63

Greece beat Lithuania 82 -70

Lithuania beat Nigeria 72 - 53

USA beat Lithuania 99 - 94

Russia beat Spain 77 - 74

USA beat Nigeria 156 - 73

Those are all results of games played this summer without the refs that were at OQT.

I think it is pretty obvious that there is something extremely strange about what happened at the OQT.

It's amazing that Greece could easily beat Lithuania (who lost by 5 to USA) and Russia, who also beat Spain, but they could not somehow beat Nigeria, which is an embarrassment so far at the Olympics.

Either Nigeria beating Greece is the greatest upset in the history of international basketball, or the refs rigged the game.

Greece were terrible in that tournament, relied on reffing to beat puerto Rico and only got close to Nigeria because the refs gave them a million free throws in the first half, especially the koala spanoulis, and they still couldn't hold onto the lead despite all that help.


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Greece 98 - Puerto Rico 84

It's really strange for someone to claim a 14 point game was decided by the refs. You clearly have an agenda.

I looked back at results from this summer.........

Greece 66 - Russia 63

Greece 82 - Lithuania 70

Then how Nigeria beat Lithuania at the qualifiers, where a lot of teams filed complaints about the refs - and then Nigeria got blown out by Lithuania at the Olympics.

Lithuania only lost to USA by 5, and Russia has already beaten Spain.

Obviously, Greece has an extremely good team if they were able to beat both Russia and Lithuania, and Nigeria is either the worst or second worst team at the Olympics. I think the worst actually, as I think Tunisia would beat them 2 out of 3.

So there certainly is something very fishy about that Greece and Nigeria game. If we are to take it as fair reffing, then it's without a doubt the biggest upset ever for FIBA senior men's basketball.

But even if you go to the Euroleague's website they said that the game was very controversial, due to the refs. So, I think it's quite rude and ignorant to bash people for wondering and being suspicious about the game.

If we are taking it as fact that the refs were fair, it was for example a much bigger upset than it would be if Australia beats the USA in the quarterfinals.

So anyone saying there is no reason to have suspicions about the game is at the very least ignorant, and is actually more likely biased or has some sort of anti Greek agenda.

To anyone with any brains at all, that game is very suspect.

It's not really that complex. Nigeria are playing horribly at the moment, not a shadow of their OQT form. To me their preparation has a lot to do with it, they aren't fit and sharp after weeks off.

I was court side for Greece v Nigeria and my assessment on the night was Greece got the better of the refereeing, which is backed up by the stats (Nigeria called for eight more fouls). The Greek coach spent the entire press conference blaming the refs in a vain attempt to save his job.

Two nights before that they beat Lizthuania despite being called for four more fouls. In those games they had a combined offensive rebounding advantage of 28-9 and shot 32 more field goals, that was the decisive area in two close games.

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I was present at the game, and without any doubt Greece was robbed by the refs.