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Filed under: Bucks, FIBA, FIBA World Championship

Ersan Ilyasova scored 19 points to help host Turkey reach the semifinals of the basketball world championship for the first time with a 95-68 win over Slovenia.

The undefeated Turks will face Serbia on Saturday after burying Slovenia by hitting 10 of 17 3-pointers, while beating their rival to nearly every loose ball.

"The guys, they flew," Turkey's coach Bogdan Tanjevic said. "They played the best of these seven games."

The teams traded leads five times until Kerem Tunceri's 3-pointer with 6:35 left in the first quarter put Turkey up, 12-11.

That was the second of four threes Turkey hit in the span of three minutes, each one drawing huge roars from a highly partisan capacity crowd of about 15,500, packed with red and white.

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Filed under: NFL Sleepers, Draft Advice

Twitter has ingratiated itself with the Internet era so completely that there's no getting rid of it. That is, until the next popular networking craze takes hold. While tweeting (or as your dad calls it, twittering) is still the go-to cultural reference of the era, let's take advantage by posting 50 fantasy football predictions for the 2010 season. At the risk of looking foolish in six months and crazy in six years, here we go.

1) Vincent Jackson won't play a single down this year, and you'll petition your commissioner to hold next year's draft on Labor Day.

2) At least once this season, you'll jump for joy when you see Mike Williams' fantasy line on the ticker before realizing it's the other one.

3) Jabar Gaffney finishes the year as a top-20 fantasy receiver and a top-15 guy in PPR leagues. #ForgettingBrandonMarshall

4) @ShanahanHatesUrTeam Keiland Williams is the new Olandis Gary. Broncos fans know what I'm talking about.

5) Max Hall will start more games for the Cardinals than Derek Anderson and finish as a top-20 QB in fantasy points per game.

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Filed under: Nets, WNBA, FIBA, NBA Injuries, USA Basketball, FIBA World Championship, The Works

In The Works today: quiet assaults Jerry Colangelo's grand Team USA plan; Angel McCoughtry, the woman who flies; and microfracture claims another victim.

But first, does Luis Scola or any international champion really matter?

The Great Examination: Luis Scola went into, as Rockets GM Daryl Morey described it, "video game god mode" against Brazil on Tuesday, dropping 37 points, including 10 in the final three minutes. Scola's performance is a perfect battle line for those who love and hate international play.

On the one hand, it was an epic performance at a pretty high level of competition -- Scola is a legit starter in the NBA, and he looked as good as ever against Brazil, a team with two NBA big men as well. And beyond that, it was really, really exciting. On the other hand, does anyone ever see Scola doing this in a big NBA game? (For the record, Scola once dropped 44 on the Nets. But this was last March, when the Nets hardly counted as an NBA game and when the Rockets were effectively out of the playoff chase.)

Critics of international basketball as entertainment use that line of reasoning -- it's not NBA-level competition -- often, and it's hard to argue it. It creates a weird double-standard when it comes to Team USA, though, especially when the Americans use a so-called B-team. If Eric Gordon and Kevin Love can play like champs for a virtual All-Star team, why wouldn't their NBA coaches make them team focal points?

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Filed under: FIBA, FIBA World Championship

ISTANBUL -- Plenty of Serbian players no doubt had sore arms after their team hoisted 30 3-pointers Wednesday against Spain.

Milos Teodosic likely left the Sinan Erdem Dome with sore lips.

After the Serbian guard hit a straightaway 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds left for a 92-89 win over defending champion Spain at the World Championship, he got kisses from every team official who could get close enough. That's the custom in his homeland.

The win sends Serbia into the semifinals Saturday against the winner of a later game between Turkey and Slovania. And it will send Spain, which still will play to try to finish fifth, home without a medal after it had won gold at the 2006 Worlds and silver at the 2008 Olympics.

"It's hard to say what I was thinking about,"' Teodosic (pictured above) said about hitting the dramatic shot. "But it was a team win. My shot would not have happened had we not played so well."