Well, he may not be a Piston for long, but just incase...

They've had 3 prep games for the FIBA WC so far in a mini-tournament (Super 4 Santa Fe). Delfino has apparantly been playing pretty well. Earning big minutes despite playing behind the 2 stars of the team (Ginobili and Nocioni). Atleast that is the word out of Argentina. Apparantly he came up huge in the 4th quarter of the gold medal game. Info is a little hard to come by for the first two games, but I found some decent stuff for the Gold Medal game (they won BTW)

Game 1: 9 points

Game 2: 12 points

Gold Medal Game: Argentina over Brazil, 103-97.
Stats

Argentina
Delfino 21 mins 18pts (5/7 FG) 5boards 2steals 2asts
Ginobili 19pts 3asts 4boards
Scola 14pts 10boards 2asts
Nocioni 16pts 6boards
Oberto 10pts 6boards

Brazil
Barbosa 12pts 3boards
A.Varejão 15pts 13boards
Tiago Splitter 17pts 7boards 1steals

A (translated) press clipping from the final game...


I'll post more as they have more games...

Good for Carlos. Can't say I'm surprised.

Thanks FP22

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."

If Carlos did that good imagine how good Mo Evans would do. .

He'll never play now. Flip has to sit him since he playes defense.

I 2nd that, thanks FP22.

If you've got the inside info, keep it coming.

This info is pretty hard to find.

...arrive at the end but calm...
They won easy?

Today's game (8-2-06)
Argentina 85 : 75 New Zealand

Delfino: 15 min, 11 points (3/6 FG), 3 steals
Manu: 32 min, 12 points (4/9 FG)
Nocioni: 22 min, 17 points (6/10 FG)
Scola: 33 min, 30 points (12/15 FG)

They're playing some small ball with Manu-Delfino-Nocioni at the SG-SF-PF spots to get Delfino some more minutes.

Good enough to compete for minutes from Ginobili and Nocioni, but not with Evans?

Looks like he had a good game against New Zealand also:

Craig Bradshaw led a scoring spree in the final quarter, sinking three three-pointers, and the Tall Blacks cut Argentina's lead to four points with 2 1/2 minutes to go.
But New Zealand could not reply when Argentinian guns Carlos Delfino and Ginobli each sank three-pointers and the home team pushed the margin out to 13 points by the end of the game.
"I was exceptionally encouraged by the second-half performance," Baldwin said. "We played the best basketball of this campaign."

Is it me, or should New Zealand stop calling themselves the Tall Blacks?

NZ's Rugby teams are known as the All Blacks for the colour of their uniforms. Tall Blacks is just some less than stellar marketing.

I wonder if the basketball team performs the Haka (Maori War Dance) prior to tip off the way the Rugby teams do. The Haka is truly one of the awe inspiring rituals in international sport.

You can watch it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DX_8-uXUk

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."