USA 93, Turkey 92 (OT)

[Play Boban]

Poop :lol

He's not even going to medal, is he?

I'm embarrassed to be an American because of poop......

Getting taken to OT by the No. 17 ranked basketball nation in the world. After taking an embarrassing L to a scrubby Australia team in a friendly. :wow

[Blake]

Lol blaming Pop for the middling talent on the team

[Play Boban]

Lol blaming Pop for the middling talent on the team

It all starts at the top.

[Play Boban]

I wouldn't be surprised if Serbia beats the USA by 20 tbh.

[Play Boban]

:pop: "A win is a win" :pop:

[Play Boban]

:cry

[Arcadian]

Was this an official game, or another exhibition?

[Play Boban]

Was this an official game, or another exhibition?

Official game

[FrostKing]

Lol blaming Pop for the middling talent on the team
Further illustrates that Team USA in International competiton are mentally weak with lazy motors. Rely on talent and large numbers.

There is truly nothing funner to witness in International competition than an overhyped and egotistic black American athlete lose. Multi kulti of shit

[Killakobe81]

Pop has a shit squad...
But taking out his bigs so Ersan Illosoyva can snag two late offensive boards... I seen this somewhere before...

[Yogatti]

:pop: It's just basketball, who cares. What about Trump not releasing those brown kids at the border?

[turkish spurs fan]

lol osman

[Brazil]

:lol we should celebrate Pop to be able to coach this joke of a roster to a win against Turkey tbh...

[FrostKing]

:lol we should celebrate Pop to be able to coach this joke of a roster to a win against Turkey tbh...
Lashing out at your precious black athletes

[Killakobe81]

lol osman

This... instead of a lowly Cavs team he cost Turkey its biggest international win.. Maybe ever?

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

:lol we should celebrate Pop to be able to coach this joke of a roster to a win against Turkey tbh...

This.




I do think this roster could have been assembled a little better for international play, but it's obvious the USA team is not used to FIBA's allowing players to be more physical on defense. Plus our offense against a zone sucks ass. Serbia is going to be tough to beat. The Americans better learn the international game quickly or it will be a 20 point Serbia blowout.

[FkLA]

Derrick White: 11 mins played

Give him all of Smart's minutes, get him to 20+ and the team improves significantly, imo.

[Blake]

Derrick White: 11 mins played

Give him all of Smart's minutes, get him to 20+ and the team improves significantly, imo.

Or give him 5 minutes so he stays fresh for the NBA season

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/my3XFd8/Screenshot-2019-09-03-19-17-27-1.png

[ambchang]

:lol today’s nba.

[Spurtacular]

AAU prodigies; it was bound to happen.

[DJR210]

With Colangelo's rules do the dropouts automatically disqualify from playing at the actual Olympics now?

[turkish spurs fan]

This... instead of a lowly Cavs team he cost Turkey its biggest international win.. Maybe ever?

yep. with a one of the weakest turkish teams in last 25 years. usa are also weak but you know still usa.

[bdictjames]

Giannis needs to have a better feel of the game, instead of trying to ram it every single play. Half of the time he doesn't even make the correct pass. Needs more training from Kobe or something.

[MultiTroll]

With Colangelo's rules do the dropouts automatically disqualify from playing at the actual Olympics now?
Ya I'm trying to find out the similar thing on the other side.
Amazing how nothing in the media about this.

https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2018/04/mnt-roster-announcment.aspx

[DAF86]

NBA players will always have a harder time in FIBA, where there's less room to operate and more contact allowed. Also, yeah, NBA talent (outside of the true elite ones) is overrated, but still, Pop is arguably the GOAT coach. Him not being able to lead an all-NBA roster to a FIBA win would be blemish to his resume.

[Killakobe81]

yep. with a one of the weakest turkish teams in last 25 years. usa are also weak but you know still usa.

I didn't wanna sound like a ignorant American... Wasn't sure if Hedu had led a better win...

[endrity]

NBA players will always have a harder time in FIBA, where there's less room to operate and more contact allowed. Also, yeah, NBA talent (outside of the true elite ones) is overrated, but still, Pop is arguably the GOAT coach. Him not being able to lead an all-NBA roster to a FIBA win would be blemish to his resume.

To be fair, this is a very weak team. It seems to me clearly weaker than even the 2002 World Championship team that finished sixth. There is one true potential perennial All-Star in this team, Donovan Mitchell, who is still very young and very raw. Other than that it's a group of mostly role players, without major talent other than athleticism.

For the first time since that 2002 team it will also face the reality that they might have games where the single best player on the court is part of the opposition. Dirk gave them hell in 2002 but the rest of the team could not compete, so did Manu with a much better team, and then Peja and Vlade were awesome against them. It's clear that Giannis and Jokic are the two best players in the competition this year, and neither is with the US.

Therefore no, it shouldn't be seen as a major surprise that this ragtag team could lose. In fact, it should be seen as an achievement if they manage to win it.

Their one saving grace might be that other national teams to me seem to also be on somewhat of a rebuild phase. There is no single international team, I think, as complete as Yougoslavia, Argentina, and Spain were during the '00s. The average talent across the world has improved drastically, but I don't think one single nation has as much star power as those teams did. The best bet is clearly Serbia, it's just that most of its key players are still young and developing. They are also clearly hurt by the Yugoslav break-up. You add Doncic, Dragic, Vucevic to this Serbia team and they become overwhelming favorites even against a much better US roster.

However, looking into the 2020s, it's interesting to see that most of the current American stars are probably done with international competition. LeBron, Durant, Curry, Kawhi (the 4 most important players of the decade arguably) are never playing summer ball again. Likely the same for Harden, Westbrook, Paul George, Klay, Draymond, Cousins. It's going to be Kyrie and AD, if they are healthy, and a bunch of still young players.

On the other hand, a large part of the up and coming NBA tier 1 stars are all international players. Giannis, Jokic, Embiid, Doncic, Simmons, Porzingis, KAT are not suiting up for the US. There is a window coming in the next 5-6 years where you could see US teams legitimately lose competitions even if they manage to get together better rosters than this one - simply due to the fact that the best player on the court might very well be on the other team.

[FrostKing]

To me it proves athleticism in the game of basketball is overrated. It is not the NFL where the brainless physical freak will always prosper.

Now that everyone in the NBA is tall/lengthy, runs fast & jumps high you need to be able to consistently hit open shots (free throw included) and many times that is mental.

[turkish spurs fan]

usa players all want to drive to rim but zone defense kills their ambition. non american players more adapted to play diffirence plays. i think it s the biggest problem of usa team. turkey game will push them to work how to offense againts zone.

[FrostKing]

https://youtu.be/5cL8Sw_iOIY

[endrity]

To me it proves athleticism in the game of basketball is overrated. It is not the NFL where the brainless physical freak will always prosper.

Now that everyone in the NBA is tall/lengthy, runs fast & jumps high you need to be able to consistently hit open shots (free throw included) and many times that is mental.

I think it's been a two-way street. More and more international players have better athleticism to begin with. Some is due to the fact that they come over for college and work at their bodies, some it's because basketball has grown around the world to the point that even European teams can now hire proper trainers for their players since early ages.

The other part is that the game has changed, or at least the way it is now seen and coached. Decision-making and shooting are paramount at every positions, and those are skills that can be coached and taught all over the world.

Last but not least, I think the NBA should really go all-in on this new wave of globalization. It has stars from almost every corner of the world right now in a way that neither soccer does. All team owners should really set aside part of the league's profits and go invest it across the world, build courts and facilities, hold exhibition games with all 30 teams across the world, etc. Yes, the are investing in the game, not the league per se, but sooner or later all the elite talent will come to the NBA. Everyone will profit from it.

[Mitch]

:lol spurs about to cost us another gold
:lol overrated coach
:lol almost lost to some pseudo Europeans

[Play Boban]

Serbia will castrate the USA.

[Play Boban]

Just imagine if Yugoslavia was still around. That team would be stacked. Might have a chance to beat a Team USA even with the American stars playing tbh.

[FrostKing]

Serbia will castrate the USA.
PAYBACK


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[AussieFanKurt]

Serbia will castrate the USA.

Agree

[Otaku]

Serbia will castrate the USA.

:rolleyes