Tiago Splitter at the 2010 World Championships

Splitter has done well his first 2 games:

vs Iran: 13 pts, 4 boards, 1 stl, 1 block in 23 min
http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe ... /game.html

vs TUNISIA: 16 pts, 4 boards, 1 stl in 23 min
http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe ... /game.html

oh and tomorrow is the big day Brazil vs USA; so if you want to see Splitter against NBA players tune into ESPN at 1:30 p.m. cst tomorrow August 30th

game is about to start

http://espn.go.com/extra/fiba/boxscore?gameId=300832917

boxscore to Brazil vs USA; Splitter had a great 1st half and played really good defense

he is dominating Odom on both sides of the court!!!

Splitter played well today, very encouraging. He did have a couple of ugly turnovers but otherwise played a nice game. His rebounding was impressive, he has a nose for the ball. His post up game and D looked good too.

due to a Brazil win today and a Argentina loss; both teams will play each other on Tuesday in the playoff round; so we get a Splitter vs Scola match up!!!!!

ace3g wrote:due to a Brazil win today and a Argentina loss; both teams will play each other on Tuesday in the playoff round; so we get a Splitter vs Scola match up!!!!!

WOOT - I hope Splitter pummels Scola's team

If you watched the game or if you didn't and looked at the boxscore, don't overreact; like I said when the ARG / Brazil game was announced you shouldn't expect Splitter to score more pts or outplay Scola on the offensive end because of how each player is used on their respective teams: which was the case, Scola score 37 pts and was the man for ARG, he didn't miss a shot in the 4th quarter and scored I believe the last 12 pts for ARG in that game.

Splitter (for some reason he didn't start the game, yet started all the rest of the matches in the WC, which may have been strategy from the Brazil coach, who coached ARG in the 2004 Olympics that won gold) played 25 min scored 10pts, 5 boards, 1 blk. If it wasn't for a ton of bad plays from Barbossa (who thinks he is MJ and can take over the game whenever he wants to) Brazil would have won that game and a few others in the tournament.

The one thing Splitter needs to work on (one thing Scola definitely has an adv over him in) is his midrange jumper, he sort of forces himself into the low post and doesn't even consider taking the mid range jumper.

While on the offensive end Splitter still needs to make a few adjustments; from a defensive stand point he is better than Scola and has the size and mobility in the middle that the Spurs need.

The best news is that Splitter can come to SA and rest prior to training camp in a few weeks and get ready for the NBA season. A article came out today saying in the match prior to the one against ARG, he injured his right hamstring, basically the same type of injury he had in his left hamstring prior to the WC. So that could have been another reason why he was benched to start the game and didn't play 30+ minutes in the match.

All in all he had a good tournament stayed relatively healthy and showed Spurs fans many of the things he can bring to the table at the NBA level.

For the 6 games he avg:
12.8 pts
5.2 boards
1.8 assists
54.7 FG%
70 FT %
http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe ... ofile.html