Game Date---------Time (EST)
Saturday, Sept. 1
Semi Final Game 1 - 4:00 p.m.
Semi Final Game 2 - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 2
Bronze Medal Game - 4:00 p.m.
Gold Medal Game - 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Semi Final & Final Rounds
Quarter Final Round
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Venezuela vs. Uruguay - 3:30 p.m.
Canada vs. Argentina - 6:00 p.m.
Mexico vs. Brazil - 8:30 p.m.
Puerto Rico vs. USA - 11:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
Canada vs. Mexico - 3:30 p.m.
Venezuela vs. Puerto Rico - 6:00 p.m.
Argentina vs. Brazil - 8:30 p.m.
USA vs. Uruguay - 11:00 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 30
Mexico vs. Venezuela - 4:30 p.m.
Brazil vs. Uruguay - 7:00 p.m.
Puerto Rico vs. Canada - 9:30 p.m.
Argentina vs. USA - 12:00 a.m.
Quarter Final Round Results
Game Date
Monday, Aug. 27
Canada 95, Uruguay 88
Argentina 98, Venezuela 63
Puerto Rico 97, Brazil 75
USA 127, Mexico 100
An Ugly Win Is Still A Win
LAS VEGAS, August 27, 2007 — “Everybody’s waiting for you to fail, and we did do that last year,” U.S. assistant coach Mike D’Antoni said earlier Monday, referring to the team’s loss to Greece in the World Championships, where, as he noted, a couple bad quarters derailed its hopes of bringing home the gold medal.
Later in the night, D’Antoni and the rest of the coaching staff saw their team struggle for another couple quarters, before finally pulling away from the Mexican national team for the 127-100 victory in the teams’ opening game of the quarterfinal round.
“I think everybody was just a little stiff tonight,” Kobe Bryant assessed the team’s sluggishness. “We had a hard time getting loose, getting going. It took us a while to find a rhythm in our legs and once we did we were able to make a pretty good run at it.”
“I think it was us,” fellow starter, Carmelo Anthony agreed. “We came in, looked at the crowd – wasn’t nobody in the crowd. We didn’t have any energy. LeBron (James) came in at halftime and said, ‘Look, the energy man has woken up.’ We just tried to find a way to get some energy from somewhere tonight.”
Some of that stiffness and lack energy could have come from the face it was the team’s third game in as many days, including a hard fought win over Brazil only 24 hours before. The 12 players on the U.S. roster are accustomed to a back-to-back, at most, during the 82-game NBA season.
source : NBA.com
Magic Sign Marcin Gortat
Orlando, FL – The Orlando Magic have signed forward-center Marcin Gortat (MAR-chin GOR-tat) General Manager Otis Smith announced today. Per team policy, terms of the deal are not disclosed. Gortat was originally selected by Phoenix in the second round (57th overall) of the 2005 NBA Draft. His rights were acquired by Orlando on draft night (June 28, 2005) in exchange for cash considerations.
Gortat recently played in all five games with the Magic during the Pepsi Pro Summer League, averaging 10.0 ppg., 6.8 rpg., 2.6 apg. and 3.20 blkpg. in 30.8 minpg. He has participated with Orlando’s summer league team the last three years.
Gortat (6’11”, 240, 2/17/84) has spent the last three seasons (2004-07) with RheinEnergie Koln in Germany’s Bundesliga I league. Last season, he averaged 10.4 ppg., 5.6 rpg. and 1.1 blkpg., while shooting .596 from the floor in 14 games of Euroleague action. He also played in 44 games in the German League, averaging 8.9 ppg., 6.2 rpg. and 1.4 blkpg., while shooting .575 from the field. Gortat was selected to the Polish National Under-22 team after having played basketball for only six months. During the summer of 2004, he was invited to play for the Polish National Team.
source : NBA.com
Celts pick Posey to get tough
Reggie Miller would have added a nice offensive punch off the bench.
But James Posey, the 6-foot-8 forward who agreed to a two-year, $7 million contract with the Celtics [team stats] yesterday, offers an upgrade in two areas of greater need.
The swingman, who alternated with Antoine Walker as sixth man when the Miami Heat won the 2006 NBA title, is one of the most energetic players in the league, as well as one of its finest defenders.
That combination makes Posey one of the NBA’s most highly regarded role players, and it has earned him a reputation for tough defense and the eternal scorn of Chicago fans after two playoff appearances against the Bulls.
As playoff matchups against Richard Hamilton, Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson and, in particular, the Bulls’ Luol Deng and Tyrus Thomas have illustrated, Posey is a rugged defender who relishes tough assignments. His defense on Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki during the 2006 Finals was vital to Miami’s defeat of the Mavericks. His rough play against Deng, Thomas and Kirk Hinrich over the last two playoff seasons has earned Posey two ejections.
In terms of grit, no addition could have been more important for a Celtics team that already has Paul Pierce [stats], Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen.
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source : celtics.bostonherald.com
The Road Back: Chris Mihm
When Laker center Chris Mihm suffered a severe sprain of his right ankle in March of 2006 little did he realize how long it would take him to get back on the court.
Not only was Chris unable to play the rest of that season, but he continued to be plagued by pain and swelling through the summer and into training camp the following October.
The decision was made in November of 2006 that Chris’s best chance to resume his career at a high level was to have major reconstructive surgery, essentially changing the biomechanics of his ankle and forcing him to miss the entire 2006 -2007 season.
Following the successful surgery, Chris’s ankle was immobilized and he was non-weight bearing for over 2 months. Following this period, Chris was allowed to begin partial weight bearing and some gentle passive range of motion exercises. (These are exercises where the clinician moves the joint rather than the patient). Gradually Chris was able to work his way up to full weight bearing and active range of motion (the patient actively moves the joint themselves), and active resistive range of motion (the patient moves the joint with additional resistance such as elastic bands or weights).
One of the challenges with any patient is failing to recognize that the focus can’t be limited to the joint that’s been injured. Chris now had significant loss of strength and range of motion throughout his kinetic chain including but not limited to his knee, hip and spine, that all had to be addressed.
Under the supervision and guidance of Head Athletic Trainer Gary Vitti, Athletic Performance Coordinator Alex McKechnie, and myself, Chris gradually worked his way back to having essentially normal pain free function in his daily activities. This was obviously still a long way from meeting the demands of playing basketball at the highest level in the world, and there was still much work to be done.
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source : NBA.com
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