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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 694759" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>well the NBA is really basically the "world championship" as they like to call it, those really are the 30 best teams in the world (some with lots of int'l flavor like the champs Spurs) although it's true for most Americans the Earth is made of 51 US states, and maybe border areas with Canada and Mexico on a good day.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>yeah good point there, and there everybody will agree...:</p><p>you listen to pundits and fans, or even the very players themselves, and at the end of a World Cup you always hear that question "did the best team win the WC this year ?" which is decisive enough as far as this debate goes. It means we all accept and *know* the WC is this partial, quick run of a still artificial setup that certainly means <em>something</em> but that just by default can only be a very exciting, emotion-laden and obviously very high stake profile tournament, but that it's far too short lived to legitimately proclaim a team as the single best, and the runnerups as 2nd 3rd 4th etc...</p><p></p><p>Not to return to that discussion, but the circumstances in which the All-Blacks won the last RWC being ambiguous and very peculiar - every All-Black fan was defending his case, and also every neutral was conceding ultimately that "well at the end of the day, the best team won the Cup". Which says it all, and that's that for me as far as this conversation: nobody denies the WC is very important, exciting, puts the teams in a unique setting, it's exotic, fresh each year, rare (every 4 years) therefor the buildup to it is huge and a crescendo emotionally...etc...etc.....BUT - but but but ! - around that question of world rankings and which team is truly the best, the answer lies elsewhere, and we all know it. Everybody knows it. It may be a confirmation of things, but it may very well not.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p>I will add this:</p><p>the All-Blacks are the best team in the world each year, and they've only won 2 out of 7, and both times with an asterisk even (no Boks in '87 then the controversial final), let's be honest and real. So there is a certain added value to the WC as it does still represent the biggest stage, and seeing the very best has only won 2 and the second best only 2 (out of 6) also, something can be debated over that...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 694759, member: 57076"] well the NBA is really basically the "world championship" as they like to call it, those really are the 30 best teams in the world (some with lots of int'l flavor like the champs Spurs) although it's true for most Americans the Earth is made of 51 US states, and maybe border areas with Canada and Mexico on a good day. yeah good point there, and there everybody will agree...: you listen to pundits and fans, or even the very players themselves, and at the end of a World Cup you always hear that question "did the best team win the WC this year ?" which is decisive enough as far as this debate goes. It means we all accept and *know* the WC is this partial, quick run of a still artificial setup that certainly means [I]something[/I] but that just by default can only be a very exciting, emotion-laden and obviously very high stake profile tournament, but that it's far too short lived to legitimately proclaim a team as the single best, and the runnerups as 2nd 3rd 4th etc... Not to return to that discussion, but the circumstances in which the All-Blacks won the last RWC being ambiguous and very peculiar - every All-Black fan was defending his case, and also every neutral was conceding ultimately that "well at the end of the day, the best team won the Cup". Which says it all, and that's that for me as far as this conversation: nobody denies the WC is very important, exciting, puts the teams in a unique setting, it's exotic, fresh each year, rare (every 4 years) therefor the buildup to it is huge and a crescendo emotionally...etc...etc.....BUT - but but but ! - around that question of world rankings and which team is truly the best, the answer lies elsewhere, and we all know it. Everybody knows it. It may be a confirmation of things, but it may very well not. [COLOR=silver][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] I will add this: the All-Blacks are the best team in the world each year, and they've only won 2 out of 7, and both times with an asterisk even (no Boks in '87 then the controversial final), let's be honest and real. So there is a certain added value to the WC as it does still represent the biggest stage, and seeing the very best has only won 2 and the second best only 2 (out of 6) also, something can be debated over that... [/QUOTE]
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