How Puerto Rico Eliminated Lithuania From Olympics 

We know your are a super basketball power and we admire your game, this was our time only. We always know that any game against Lithuania will be super hard. Our admiration for your game, thanks for your words. See you in the next game, hope competition give both of us great games, regards from Puerto Rico.

We played very good.

let's see how they do against White and Holiday

@@gabepizzaas a Puerto Rican Celtics fan I will be very conflicted 😂

​@@gabepizzaStill crying?

Muy cierto,, en cualquier evento

Fr. Asi se habla bro

​@@lfl077Hasta con Maripili😅

@@yielenedizz lol

With all do respect with don't have superstars neither starts .. basacly we are made of role players 🇵🇷

And some are 100% from here lmao

It's our moment 🔥🔥 Olympics here we come 🇵🇷🔥

Puerto Rico is the best!

No, it was Argentina, FR Yugoslavia, Spain and Italy before Puerto Rico

@@costis1979 nope.... the first NBA team was PR do the research they show the way to those teams.

@@costis1979 No my friend, the first team to win a dream team was Puerto Rico, no one else do that, go and make a search in google, that will clear your doubts;.

@@carlosaymerich6453 no mate, do yours. I've done mine perfectly

​@@costis1979 IN the Olympics he means. USA had never lost with NBA players in the Olympics until they played PR in 2004. PR was the 1st one to beat them. Those you said beat them in the 2002 World Cup.

Also Mitoglou,, He is coming from the bench and he was one of the best of Pana

Greece got a pretty tough team to beat. Puerto Rico use to be in the Olympic, till 2004 after beating down LeBron and the Dream Team. We had 20 years of slumb.

@@melazaconsabor2028 i remember this game, Greece also beat them in 2006 in the semifinals of the world cup game

And shabbaz napier wasn’t there too

@@TitoHernandez-px6sb Shabazz Napier will never go lol

@@AnelRuiz-e7x he already played with PR

@@TitoHernandez-px6sb not anymore bro 🤣 two games and then disappear forever

Both are from lithuania

Thank you! Our federation has not yet published what scrimmages they will have

Latvia played at home too, it isn't the end all be all factor

There were articles published about the "played at home" thing. Actually, historically, in more than 90% of all olympic qualifiers, the home team LOST and didn't qualify. It looks like for more teams it just adds pressure.

Lithuania was 6th in the World Cup.

@@gabepizza The trend Is much more indicative than a single Summer.

@@vulee100 Latvia Is extremely overrated. They had One good Summer After years of mediocrity and now people suddenly believe they are a strong NT. A team that loses vs the Philippines Is not that good. Also, Brazil was a Better team

yeah it seems that many European teams lack good PG and need to nationalize Americans. Spain with Lorenzo Brown, Poland with AJ Slaughter, Georgia with Joe Thomasson, Montenegro with Kendrick Perry, Greece with Thomas Walkup, and Croatia with Jaleen Smith. All European teams, nationalized American PG (except Slovenia with an American center). Europe is great at producing great big men but not so good at producing centers. Even look at France and Serbia, two favorites to medal but they strength is their bigs, not their front court. What happened to the days of Tony Parker, Spanoulis, Jasikevicius, Calderon, etc..?

They are so tall, their guard is way too tall. Puerto Rico had 4 guard, was using 3 and had one in reserve.

Blame FIBA and the International Olympic Committee. For, allowing territories to compete in international sporting events. Otherwise Puerto Rico wouldn’t be eligible.

literally the big basketball culture lik ex Yugoslavia. Look at Serbia ,how much they are struggling, traying hard to get out of the mud and reorganize.. all the best ind the future.

Seems that Latvia and Lithuania could both use a naturalized player. But both countries have too much pride to do that, to their detriment.

​@@andrewsandoval1383Whole naturalization thing is stupid, but yes if everyone does it, ig we have no choice.

@@todazrpsk8 Serbia is something else. Cannot really compare to anyone in this world. Just look at the upcoming Olympics, we have men's national team, women's national team and 3x3 men's team who are multiple world champions.

Esa isla muy pequeña como tú dices ya a ido 10 veces a unas olimpiadas y tiene más miss universos que toda Europa combinada y lo más probable más que tú País 😏

PR and Lithuania have basically the same population lmao.

Reinforcements??...LOL.....only ONE is a native Puertorrican...Romero is CUBAN....LOL......Donald Trump is more puertorrican than any of the PR players....lol

why u crying?

Puerto Rico usa gente EU son de PR y EU usa gente PR son jugadores pueden representar ambos países son ciudadanos americanos no es son extranjeros es difícil entender ? Yo estuve comité olímpico PR por yudo pero también competí una ocasión por EU , lo puedo hacer igual lucha olímpica , tenis tenemos chica que compitió EU entrenó toda vida PR decidió jugar dobles por EU ganó oro olimpiadas por EU otra que entrenó EU o sea no en PR compitió por PR y ganó oro por PR ustedes no acaban entender no traemos de EU gente como si fueran extranjeros es PR es parte EU nacemos ciudadanos americanos y ellos pueden jugar aquí y nosotros allá , y deportistas deciden siendo boricuas si tus padres nacen PR y naciste NY o Florida eres boricua misma ciudadanía naces en PR eres ciudadano americano igual no traemos extranjeros ni vamos jugar país extranjero somos los mismos parte de EU pero a diferencia 50 estados tener auton mía deportiva otras áreas tenemos comité olímpico a parte pero ser ciudadano EU todos , los allá y acá decidimos competir EU si tenemos oportunidad por conviene en algún momento o por PR se siente es por tu nación y es deber hacerlo eso decide el jugador pero opción es , peloteros son de PR compite mundial equipo EU recuerdo uno compitió un mundial EU otro mundial estuvo equipo de PR así somos no parece resto mundo logré entender eso no trajimos extranjeros , son ciudadanos americanos igual q nacemos PR y de padres boricuas o criaron EU pero hay boricuas también no han salido de PR , aunque tenemos boricuas NBA

Hey now, then proper pronunciation is "Puelto Rico."

And if we become a state we lose that sport’autonomy’ you’re talking about .

@@latinoman1868 Que autonomía ? Equipo PR es de EU ? La medalla oro tenis es EU la de pista Camacho es de EU ? Qué autobús es esa necesitas compita gente entrene EU para ganar ? Mejor se estado tienes recursos más atletas entrenen ganen olimpiadas él se destaca lo hará será boricua igual Gigi Fernández ganó por EU o vasallo por EU eran primeros boricuas ganar oro tenis y natación aunque compitiera EU su crianza fue PR y mérito es mismo o son menos atletas que gringos están compitiendo por PR ?

😭😭you need a shoulder to cry😂

In a sense, all 12 are US born, because Puerto Rico is a US territory. There’s a huge Puerto Rican diaspora in the mainland US because of how awful the treatment of Puerto Rico has been over the last century. The infrastructure is bad, the government is hamstrung by federal interference, and Puerto Ricans cannot vote if they live on the island.

they are all of Puerto Rician heritage though

Technically all Puerto Ricans are USA citizens, still though all of the players in the NT besides Romero, are of Puerto Rican heritage

@@aidansmith266Puerto Rico is not an independent country it’s a USA territory and commonwealth. But, in international sporting events specifically. FIBA and the International Olympic Committee view Puerto Rico as a separate entity/country. Of the USA. So, if the entire intention is to be Puerto Rican and not American. Why does Puerto Rico select USA-born players to represent their country?😂

Doesn't Puerto Rico want to be a part of the USA? Which basically (not formally) is for decades...

Funnilly enough all you said applies to PR. In a very real sense PR is the lithuania of the americas.