Vampyrian
Vault Dweller
France is much better than Germany. Germany is a one-man team. France has multiple NBA players. Lithuania is very good, but they have developed collectively huge egos. When all is said and done, probably will be Greece and France (Spain is automatically in, if I recall).
It doesn't matter, anyway. Team USA is looking scary again, and they actually are making the team play together for years before the Olympics. I don't see anyone beating them in Beijing.
Spain has of course already qualified and 2 other teams will go on automatically aswell I believe. Then I think 4 European teams also go into another set of qualifications for the olympic games.
As for USA wining the olympic gold... It's a high possibilty. But I also believe Argentina have a big chance aswell, of course USA beat them in the american cup, but Argentina were without Manu Ginobili, Andres Nocioni and Fabricio Oberto for example. And then there's Spain, Greece and Lithuania (who hasn't been defeated in the Eurobasket 2007 so far). Russia seem quite dangerous so far aswell, might also be a contender at least for bronze or something. We'll see... Still a long way to go. I think it will be between USA/Argentina/Spain/Greece/Lithuania.