Rio 2016 Women’s Basketball Tournament (day 6)
Group A will slowly begin to take shape as the hosts look to save their Olympic tournament with a challenging encounter against France, but...
European champions a combined 0-5 but all is not lost
The Serbian women's national team's defeat to the USA still leaves them searching for their first win at Rio 2016. And with Spain's men...
Rio 2016 Mens basketball tournament – an analytics look – Day 5
Day 5 Serbia - France 75 - 76 Simple Quarterly break down of the game: Brief notes of the game: Surprise player for France : N. DECOLO Surprise player for Serbia : B. BOGDANOVIC Turning...
Rio 2016 Men’s Basketball Tournament (day 5)
Group A of the Olympic basketball tournament reaches the half-way point with France, Serbia, Australia and USA all in action with China and Venezuela...
Rio 2016 Women’s Basketball Tournament (day 5)
After having the spotlight to themselves yesterday, Group A have taken a well earned day of rest, leaving Group B to take to the...
Rio 2016 Mens basketball tournament – an analytics look – Day 4
Introduction After the Day 4 games played yesterday the current scoreboard for the Mens basketball tournament and general statistics are shaped as below: Day 4 Spain - Brazil 65 - 66...
Rio 2016 Men’s Basketball Tournament (day 4)
Hosts Brazil and one of the USA's supposed nearest challengers Spain faced off against each other in what is the pick of the three...
Rio 2016 Women’s Basketball Tournament (day 4)
Day four of the women's basketball tournament marks a rest day for the teams in Group B, as the two undefeated teams in Group...
Rio 2016 Mens basketball tournament – an analytics look – Day 3
Introduction After the 3rd day games at the Rio Olympics Mens basketball tournament while the overall outlook of the teams is still shaping and the...
Brief history of Olympic basketball
Basketball in the Olympics debuted during the Berlin games of 1936. Now in 2016, we are celebrating its 80th year in this much awaited...
Shane Lawal out for remainder of Rio Olympics
Nigeria will be without big man Shane Lawal for the rest of the Rio Olympics after he was injured in their opening day defeat...
Rio 2016 Men’s Basketball Tournament (day 3)
Serbia and Australia highlighted day three of the Rio Olympics as Patty Mills and Milos Teodosic locked horns in an intriguing battle at the...
Rio 2016 Women’s Basketball Tournament (day 3)
The USA begin day three of the Rio 2016 women's basketball tournament aiming to make it two wins out of two against a talented...
Rio 2016 Mens basketball tournament – an analytics look – Day 2
Introduction After the 2nd day games at the Rio Olympics I wanted to share my overall analysis and lineup break downs. Given the games played over...
Rio 2016 Men’s Basketball Tournament (day 2)
Day two of the Olympic men's basketball tournament saw Group B begin their campaigns with Spain, Lithuania and the hosts Brazil in action. Group A...
