Top 10 takeaways from the World Basketball Championship

10) Once you go to inter-national rules, Luis Scola is an unstoppable killing machine

9) Between their undefeated World Cup and their WBC win over Lebanon, this is the best year for New Zealand since they invented orcs

8) Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlin are not only still alive, but actually relevant to the Chinese

7) When the U.S. sucks out wins at the buzzer in toss-up games, that either must mean they are bored or clutch, rather than just lucky

6) Hamed Hadadi lead the Iranians to their first win ever in a FIBA world championship, causing the entire nation to embrace peace, feminism and religious tolerance

5) Australia was led to an easy win over Germany by a player named, and we are not making this up, Patty Mills

4) Shockingly, the team from the Ivory Coast was outmanned and didn't win any games

3) Powerhouse teams inclide clubs from Spain and Lithuania, because while the world might care about these championships, most NBA players do not

2) Nenad Krstic done plain lost his mind

1) If the U.S. wins, it's what's supposed to happen, and if they lose, it's all Kevin Durant's fault