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Luuuc

Years ago

Sydney to host 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup

Dear Luuc the top 12 teams in the World don't qualify for the tournament.

Did the standard of the u14 club champs increase or decrease when the number of teams increased from 16 to 24?

I will give you a hint, the standard didn't increase.

Dear Anonymous,
My main point is this:
The whole point of a tournament is to produce results that accurately reflect how good the competitors are.
If you've got 10 days to rank 2 teams, you can do that very fairly
If you've got 10 days to rank 100 teams, you've got no hope of doing it fairly
Everything in between is a sliding scale.
The fewer teams you have, the fairer it is. That's it.

Bizarre irrelevancies about the standard of the u14 club champs? lol, whatever

FIBA now have an ongoing system of region-based tournaments and qualifications to separate the wheat from the chaff.
As ME pointed out above, the depth in women's basketball is just not there yet. Teams 13-16 are not going to challenge teams 1-3 for a medal.
When the depth improves then by all means expand the tournament.

I don't get what the problem is with having fewer teams. I'm more than happy for someone to change my mind, but just listing a bunch of mediocre teams like Brazil, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Czech Republic & Hungary is no kind of an argument.

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hoopie

Years ago

Any team which can be competitive with one of the top 8 deserves a place.

We want to encourage the growth of the game around the world, but we don't want blow-outs, and if we only chose teams which had a realistic medal chance then we'd probably end up with 6 teams.

Hell, how many wrote off Cairns, and look where they ended up.

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Luuuc

Years ago

(as for Belgium being better than us, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one)

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Luuuc

Years ago

It's very slim pickings on that list *ONCE YOU GO PAST CANADA* IMO

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Luuuc

Years ago

By the way I'm not saying it isn't "nice" to have more countries there, but if you're serious about the fairness of a tournament then the fewer countries the better. It's a balance between fairness and niceness. I'd be cool with 16, but personally I think 12 is better.

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Luuuc

Years ago

It's very slim pickings on that list once you go past Canada IMO

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Luuuc

Years ago

Half of those ^ teams have zero chance of snagging a medal even if everything goes perfectly for them
When you look at the 2018 tournament, teams 11-16 had zero impact.

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TheREALGWB

Years ago

Women's basketball isn't as deep as mens. In the men's competition you had about 16 of the 32 teams that are genuinely competitive with eachother. And I'd even say there were too many shit teams at the last world cup. Whereas with womens, 12 is deep enough. There will already be a pretty big chasm between the USA, Australia, Russia and those level teams to the bottom 6.

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Perthworld

Years ago

and the winner is... Sydenee!

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Luuuc

Years ago

Really pathetic by fiba, even less teams in tHan last WC, only 12 teams, 2018 was 16 teams.
These days it should be 24.

I disagree. No way should it be more than it already was.
Fewer teams means a fairer tournament, and all the pre-qualifying stuff that happens these days means it will be a good group of 12 that participates.
I like the change.

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TheREALGWB

Years ago

If we can stage this successfully then it bodes well for us getting the men's world cup for 2027, which apparently we are actually lobbying for. So if this world cup interests you and you're able to I implore people to get down to the games and support it, if of course we're not still dealing with some sort of Kung Flu

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hoopie

Years ago

Excellent news! I look forward to watching it.

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Dunkman

Years ago

Great news. ::)))

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Anonymous

Years ago

This is just awesome news.

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Luuuc

Years ago

Players like Jawai, Ogilvy, Newley and Barlow. Are there chances that they come to NBL.

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