Canada's "B" team loses to...

[HuskyNan]

...Montenegro? Seems to me even a B team should be able to beat a team from a country with a population of 620,029. Canada's population is 34 million. You'd think that would make for a slightly larger talent pool.

Canada loses second game

 

[Vowelguy]

Lots of eastern European countries are good in basketball. Look at Lithuania and Croatia on the men's side.

And population/size of talent pool only take you so far. Think of Ansonia HS football -- they're often not just the best in class S, but best in the state.

 

[cohenzone]

Larry Bird from French Lick IN and Jerry West from Cabin Creek WV. If they'd both shown up on the same team, that would be a pretty good team. Maybe little Montenegro has two lightning in a bottle players (at least compared to the Canadian B team, if not compared to the Uruguayan B team). Have they beaten anyone besides Canada B?

 

[Moose]

Wow... I remember Serbia-Montenegro having a good men's team for the Olympics or the World Champs. It's a bit complicated because the team was Yugoslavia, then Serbia-Montenegro and now it's split into the two teams. In 2002, Yugoslavia won the men's FIBA World Champs (link).

Of the players mentioned on Canada "B":

• Taryn Wicijowski is a RS sophmore at the U of Utah. As a freshman she averaged 14.8 pts and 6.3 rebs and was the MWC Freshman of the Year.
• Wumi Agunbiade is a rising sophmore at Duquesne. She was the A10 Rookie of the Year averaging 11.2 pts and 7.2 rebs.
• Colley and Williams play for two different Canadian Universities (St Mary's and U of Windsor).

 

[rjp172]

Things happen. Canada beat eventual gold medal winners USA and ended up not making the medal round in U19 Worlds. Team USA had a roster full of future NCAA AA and a who's who of all the US rankings of the past couple years including a few #1 ranked players.

 

[Kibitzer]

Look at that football team they have in a small town in Wisconsin.

Something to do with the packing industry.

 

[trb123]

Does anybody seriously think that the Canadians care?

 

[rjp172]

It's not hockey. They let their national developmental center disband a couple years ago. Shame because it was working.