Find myself rooting against Team USA

[spursnatic]

Just curious of how many of you SPURS Fans out here root against Team USA when they are facing our guys?...I am born and raised in the U.S and usually root for U.S...But have been rooting for Argentina and France when they went head to head...Not sure I would when it comes to Brazil or Australia though?...

[DesignatedT]

no

[KoryK1]

Actually, yes. I'm a little torn about it. I don't want to be unpatriotic, but sometimes they're just hard to root for when they're playing a TEAM like Argentina. It's a bit embarrassing to me when people like Westbrook prance around and taunt the other team's scrubs when they're up 20.

[Spurtacus]

I'm not really cheering for them nor against them. When Tunisia was giving them a run in the first half I was rooting for the underdog. I want to watch good, contested basketball games. I cheer for certain players on opposing teams...such as Parker and Manu, obviously.

[Andthentherewas21]

There is nothing wrong with cheering for other teams, or other players. Manu and Parker are both US citizens, and its not like whoever wins is advocating anything against the US. If you like the players more on another squad rather than Team USA, you should root for them, same as if you liked the Spurs more than you liked the Lakers even though you lived in LA.

With the amount of basketball talent the US has compared to the rest of the world they should win every game, and blowout teams like Tunisia who have zero NBA talent on their teams. Personally I root for the teams that accomplish more with less, like Argentina.

[Wild Cobra Kai]

There is nothing wrong with cheering for other teams, or other players. Manu and Parker are both US citizens, and its not like whoever wins is advocating anything against the US. If you like the players more on another squad rather than Team USA, you should root for them, same as if you liked the Spurs more than you liked the Lakers even though you lived in LA.

With the amount of basketball talent the US has compared to the rest of the world they should win every game, and blowout teams like Tunisia who have zero NBA talent on their teams. Personally I root for the teams that accomplish more with less, like Argentina.

What? No they're not!!!

[8FOR!3]

Basketball's one sport this year where I have a hard time cheering for the US. I just don't prefer the style in which they represent our country. I root for underdogs with heart in this case a la Manu Ginobili.

[therealtruth]

It's actually good to root for the underdog I think. It raises the competition level of everyone. The only way you get better is by playing against guys that are better than you. Guys tend to play their best basketball against good competition.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i root against my country when the media builds them up like its done and sealed for them to win...onlly for them to choke and the media backlash after it is just priceless....certainly the athletes didnt ask for the limelight build up, but fck the media for jumpin on the bandwagon and shoving everything down our throats when they havnt proven anything yet...

[gambit1990]

rooting for manu.

[Obstructed_View]

I haven't rooted for the US basketball team since "FIBA sucks".

[ElNono]

tbh, the only team I would love not to medal is Spain...

My ideal 3 medaling teams would've been ARG, Brazil and Team USA (in whatever order), but unfortunately, with ARG and Brazil playing eachother, it's not going to happen.

[dbestpro]

Too many of the players like to blow their own horn. As Americans you want to cheer for an American team as they represent you, but arrogance and lack of humility is not how most Americans want to be represented.

[Obstructed_View]

I haven't rooted for the US basketball team since "FIBA sucks".

Actually I think I started to generate some enthusiasm when they invited Bruce Bowen and talked about role players and defense. Then they cut everyone who wasn't top ten in jersey sales.

[hooperflash]

no

[ducks]

I would only root for the best team in ncaa play in there not these superstars

[Solid D]

Manu and Parker are both US citizens.

Tony yes, Manu no.

[ducks]

manu is above becoming one
he stuck up motherfucker

[FkLA]

I always root for Latin/Hispanic countries first. If theyre not in it then Im rooting for the underdog. So Im basically always rooting against team USA, tbh.

[AussieFanKurt]

I couldn't support a team with LeBron in it tbh. I haven't watched their games so I wouldn't know if they are being arrogant etc. but tbh I rather the underdog win always if Aus aren't competing

[jimo2305]

hey ill root for anybody period.. it's not like stern's runnin' the show .....
he's not.... right?

[mavs>spurs]

OP and all his sympathizers are unamerican faggots.

[hsxvvd]

Club before Country. Always.

[SA210]

I root against them, and I'm not torn about it at all.

Go Manu, Go Tiago, Go Tony!

[AussieFanKurt]

OP and all his sympathizers are unamerican faggots.

So anyone not american is an unamerican faggot? why?

[justinandimcool]

Yeah, why not? It's just basketball. I literally DGAF about any non-Spur basketball player. If Kawhi ever gets on team USA, or if Pop coaches, I'll root for em.

Players I'm fans of >>> players I couldn't give two shits about.

[AussieFanKurt]

Yeah, why not? It's just basketball. I literally DGAF about any non-Spur basketball player. If Kawhi ever gets on team USA, or if Pop coaches, I'll root for em.

Players I'm fans of >>> players I couldn't give two shits about.

:toast

[Russo21]

As an Australian i am rooting for the Aussies with young Spur Patty Mills running the show for the green and gold. I'd love to see him go totally nuts, thus giving him added confidence for next NBA season. (Can we please sign Aussie David Anderson to? That mofo has game and can knock down the three, play d and rebound, making Matt Freakin Bonner totally expendable.

I have enjoyed following Brazil, Argentina and France also, keeping an eye on our Spurs.

But being an Australian, and once again having an australian playing for the spurs i'm going for Australia over Team USA in a mad underdog way. Theres no Spurs on Team USA so i really dont give a fuck about them.

So my order for the Olympics

Australia
Argentina
Brazil
France
USA

Go the Patty Mills and Australia, go any other Spur player, and fuck the spurless americans up along the way.

[UZER]

When other teams have made the game competative, its sucks to see the NBA players gradually falling back into the habits of running and crying to the officials after every whistle. This isn't the NBA. Just go out there and play your heart out. If your that much better than everybody then you shouldn't have to cry to the refs.

I don't root against the US, but I wouldn't be crushed if this group of players lost either.

[sammy]

I can't root for Team USA, bunch of arrogant idiots with their trash talking and showboating is just ridiculous! They make our country look bad as they don't handle winning without any grace or class! :bang

Rooting for Argentina, France, Brazil and Australia as they have our Spurs are playing Manu, Tony, Diaw, De Colo, Mills and Splitter.:toast

[Juggity]

Yeah, I don't care if Team USA wins anything. The fact that they are so wildly inconsistent — winning by 80 points one game and 5 points the next — makes them impossible to like. The point of the Olympics is to bring the "America, Fuck Yeah" goods, and if Team USA isn't living up to that reasonable expectation of annihilating international competition, I hope they get unseated from their sense of entitlement and complacency. Particularly by a team featuring Spurs players.

[MannyIsGod]

I wonder how people here would view the Dream Team. Jordan was as arrogant as they come. Karl Malone and Stockton were on the team. Larry Bird was arrogant as hell too. Charles Barkley was an ass and even elbowed that Angolan player. Christian Latener was a straight up asshole. They ran up the score every game. But they had David so I'm sure most of you would be lapping it up.

But man, this team is full of assholes! :( :( :( :(

[MannyIsGod]

I wonder how people here would view the Dream Team. Jordan was as arrogant as they come. Karl Malone and Stockton were on the team. Larry Bird was arrogant as hell too. Charles Barkley was an ass and even elbowed that Angolan player. Christian Latener was a straight up asshole. They ran up the score every game. But they had David so I'm sure most of you would be lapping it up.

But man, this team is full of assholes! :( :( :( :(

[urunobili]

If I was American as a Spurs fan, it'd be difficult to root for this team.

The 92 one needed to reclaim gold after losing in 1988 so they were more likeable.

[urunobili]

If I was American as a Spurs fan, it'd be difficult to root for this team.

The 92 one needed to reclaim gold after losing in 1988 so they were more likeable.

[dbestpro]

I wonder how people here would view the Dream Team. Jordan was as arrogant as they come. Karl Malone and Stockton were on the team. Larry Bird was arrogant as hell too. Charles Barkley was an ass and even elbowed that Angolan player. Christian Latener was a straight up asshole. They ran up the score every game. But they had David so I'm sure most of you would be lapping it up.

But man, this team is full of assholes! :( :( :( :(

The dream team was arrogant, but professional. They left the arrogrant shit back in the NBA and understood what it mean't to represent with dignity. They're was no chest thumping due to a blowout as they played with a common focus. In a word one team had class, while the other team is crass.

[mavs>spurs]

So anyone not american is an unamerican faggot? why?

Obviously this doesn't apply to foreigners rooting for their own country, but some of these cucks are Americans and should be ashamed.

[MannyIsGod]

The dream team was arrogant, but professional. They left the arrogrant shit back in the NBA and understood what it mean't to represent with dignity. They're was no chest thumping due to a blowout as they played with a common focus. In a word one team had class, while the other team is crass.

What a difference 20 years makes.

[DesignatedT]

I really don't see a problem with how our guys are acting this time around. I know I've seen some shit in the past when we've had some thugs on the team but this year they seem like they are all acting just fine.

If other countries were beating people by 60 pts they wouldn't know how to act. I've seen Scola act like a little bitch at times on the court this Olympics but 'he's just really competitive" is the excuse and everybody still seems to love Argentina.

I understand the rooting for the underdog thing in sports and I do it as well but not when it comes to this. I hope USA skull fucks every opponent. Spurs or no Spurs.

[Bill_Brasky]

I wonder how people here would view the Dream Team. Jordan was as arrogant as they come. Karl Malone and Stockton were on the team. Larry Bird was arrogant as hell too. Charles Barkley was an ass and even elbowed that Angolan player. Christian Latener was a straight up asshole. They ran up the score every game. But they had David so I'm sure most of you would be lapping it up.

But man, this team is full of assholes! :( :( :( :(

:lol I was just thinking about posting something like this, fucking spurfan and their :cry I don't root for classlessness! :cry

[Juggity]

Obviously this doesn't apply to foreigners rooting for their own country, but some of these cucks are Americans and should be ashamed.

Maybe if the American players would consistently do what they're supposed to do as upper echelon members of the NBA — leave no doubt that they're the best players in the world — they wouldn't be such an unlikeable team.

Also, there's no reason why Americans, or any country's citizens for that matter, should be obligated to support their national team. I root for the players that want to win, not the ones that ride a sense of entitlement and barely coast by on their way to victory. Anyways, the olympics is about human triumph, not national triumph, which is why the Olympic Committee doesn't give out a trophy to the country with the most medals. The media is the entity that pumps up the national medal count as if it mattered.

[shyne]

Obviously this doesn't apply to foreigners rooting for their own country, but some of these cucks are Americans and should be ashamed.

Says the faggot with the biggest faggot in the NBA on his avatar.

[redskinfan]

I hate tough guy Durant!

[cd98]

In the NBA, I root for the Spurs. Probably because I grew up in S.A. and have watched them all my life.

In the Olympics, I root for every USA athlete because they are not just competing for themselves, but they are representing the country and I want them to win. That includes Team USA. I want the Spurs players representing their country to do well, and I wish them well, but I want the U.S. to bring home the gold.

The U.S. is the powerhouse of basketball, and I'm not ready to give that up, even if it means supporting the Thunder players, who incidentally most people around here liked until they beat the Spurs in the playoffs.

I respect a U.S. citizen's right to root for Argentina over the U.S., or one of the other countries, but it's not for me. Yes, the U.S. is an "arrogant" team, but we are also considered an "arrogant" country, so if we are going to be the world's bad guy, might as well take full advantage.

[Proxy]

As an american I'll always go for USA... but as a fan of the game I'm rooting for Argentina [secretly]

[Lincoln]

Maybe y'all should stop worrying about who to root for and work on not being diabetic San Antonian fat fucks. I went to SA this summer and they have some of the fattest and ugliest people I have ever seen. Not to mention that city is a shithole with nothing to do besides see a dirty ass river and the Alamo that no one gives a fuck about.

Seriously, is the high be@ner concentration the reason why almost everyone there is a fatass? :lmao

[cd98]

Maybe y'all should stop worrying about who to root for and work on not being diabetic San Antonian fat fucks. I went to SA this summer and they have some of the fattest and ugliest people I have ever seen. Not to mention that city is a shithole with nothing to do besides see a dirty ass river and the Alamo that no one gives a fuck about.

Seriously, is the high be@ner concentration the reason why almost everyone there is a fatass? :lmao

Have you seen some of Dirk's girlfriends?

[BUMP]

In a word one team had class, while the other team is crass.

What's up with Spur fan and their use of retarded cliches?

[Lincoln]

Have you seen some of Dirk's girlfriends?

I've seen his new wife and she isn't bad at all.

I assume you're a fatass from that shitty city SA?

[Lincoln]

:lmao 2nd fattest city in the US
:lmao 29.1% of your population is morbidly obese
:lmao 12.1% has diabetes

[Juggity]

:lmao 2nd fattest city in the US
:lmao 29.1% of your population is morbidly obese
:lmao 12.1% has diabetes

Used to be number 1, I think. Making progress :lol

[dbestpro]

What's up with Spur fan and their use of retarded cliches?

Since it's the offseason we are trying to be polite and not talk above Mavfans comprehension.

[cd98]

I've seen his new wife and she isn't bad at all.

I assume you're a fatass from that shitty city SA?

No. I run 5 miles a day. I lived and worked in downtown Dallas for six years. I liked the city and all, but Dallasites have this "short man's" complex about being considered a "big city" like NY, Chicago, and L.A.

[Gagnrath]

Other than Love field does Dallas have anything of note or worth? From the time I've spent there it just seems like an overgrown prairie oil town.

[spurs10]

Maybe y'all should stop worrying about who to root for and work on not being diabetic San Antonian fat fucks. I went to SA this summer and they have some of the fattest and ugliest people I have ever seen. Not to mention that city is a shithole with nothing to do besides see a dirty ass river and the Alamo that no one gives a fuck about.

Seriously, is the high be@ner concentration the reason why almost everyone there is a fatass? :lmao
I, fortunately, have been all around the world. Without question the city with the most uncool, shallow people is Dallas. Like yourself for instance, an obviously irredeemable, rascist, piece of shit. You represent Dallas perfectly. :toast

[spursnatic]

In the NBA, I root for the Spurs. Probably because I grew up in S.A. and have watched them all my life.

In the Olympics, I root for every USA athlete because they are not just competing for themselves, but they are representing the country and I want them to win. That includes Team USA. I want the Spurs players representing their country to do well, and I wish them well, but I want the U.S. to bring home the gold.

The U.S. is the powerhouse of basketball, and I'm not ready to give that up, even if it means supporting the Thunder players, who incidentally most people around here liked until they beat the Spurs in the playoffs.

I respect a U.S. citizen's right to root for Argentina over the U.S., or one of the other countries, but it's not for me. Yes, the U.S. is an "arrogant" team, but we are also considered an "arrogant" country, so if we are going to be the world's bad guy, might as well take full advantage.I didn't like OKC before or after they beat us in the Playoffs and I live in OKC and I was born here...They have no class...That's why I root for a real team with class...Fuck Thunder

[spursnatic]

Maybe y'all should stop worrying about who to root for and work on not being diabetic San Antonian fat fucks. I went to SA this summer and they have some of the fattest and ugliest people I have ever seen. Not to mention that city is a shithole with nothing to do besides see a dirty ass river and the Alamo that no one gives a fuck about.

Seriously, is the high be@ner concentration the reason why almost everyone there is a fatass? :lmaoWho the Fuck let Barkley post on here...

[spurs10]

Who the Fuck let Barkley post on here...
:lol