• Azzu@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If I understand it correctly Germany is now NBA champion.

    (Shameless btw)

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        1 year ago

        NKD e.V. (why would you have English words in a German Verein name).

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            That was mostly because the US was so important to the sport. Obviously now that Germany is the centre of the basketball world that will have to change too and the US will have to loan “Korbball” from German.

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                So you are saying if we define a third meaning it will have one more than “football”? Sounds like a good start to become the most popular sport.

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                  Additionally the third “Korbball” will be hosted in Germany only and is only accessible to german teams in the NKL, but we still call it the Weltmeisterschaft (World Championship).

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    Germany went 8-0 in the tournament, becoming the fifth consecutive champion to go unbeaten.

    Sounds like that’s inherent to the structure of the games. Either you win all your matches, or you don’t win the world cup.

    A notable outlier is Serbia/FR Yugoslavia/Yugoslavia. Serbia is the only team in the last 5 tournaments to go into the final with losses (and then lost). In 2002 and 1998, FR Yugoslavia went into the final with losses, and won. In 1994, the USA was unbeaten. In 1990, Yugoslavia won with one loss. Past that they’re no longer an outlier, in 1986 the USA won with one loss.