Official 2024 Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament Thread

[skin27]

US might win this game lol

[Brazil]

US can thank Curry tbh

[spurraider21]

TD 21 going to melt down over golden boy carrying the US

[itzsoweezee]

Just suffocating defense by the US

[Raven]

they had a chance, they choked.

[TD 21]

Funny how Embiid is shrouded in criticism, but Golden Boy, who continues to look as he has for a few years, which is as a s of his former self, continues to struggle while being handed a glamor role and media won't say a peep about it.

Can't wait until the inevitable progression to the mean stretch where they pretend he's been doing it all along, while continuing to largely ignore the non hype machines playing well.

TD 21 going to melt down over golden boy carrying the US

Golden Boy guzzler obsessed with me.

To think the US stealing Embiid might end up proving to be the difference maker.

I lost all respect for him pulling a Durant/Warriors start on the 2-yard line and pretend you're a champion.

[Brazil]

not sure who is going to take the biggest beatdown... France or Germany

[lefty20]

Jokic ducking Wemby, tbh.

[Fireball]

great game

[skin27]

US vs Wemby for Gold medal

[DAF86]

not sure who is going to take the biggest beatdown... France or Germany

Germany beats Serbia by double digits, tbh.

[DAF86]

Serbia choked this. You can't give up a 10-2 run in little more than a minute, tbh.

[TD 21]

Who is willing to admit they were secretly either hoping to or fine with losing?

Now they'll prance around arrogantly pretending they did something worthy of praise when all they really did was barely avert disaster against a team with one player who'd make their team thanks in large part to having to "recruit" (should be beneath them) the best player on the team . . . and yet that won't be the story the agenda driven, propaganda media will tell. What a disgrace.

[itzsoweezee]

The US might be in a tough spot in 2028. The talent drop off from the old guys, Durant, Lebron, Curry, Embiid, is tremendous

[Dex]

USA ed around and almost found out

Wild game. Looked like Serbia had it in firm control until the final minutes.

Embiid had a dominating stretch, then Durant/Curry/James closed it out

[Dex]

Who is willing to admit they were secretly either hoping to or fine with losing?

Now they'll prance around arrogantly pretending they did something worthy of praise when all they really did was barely avert disaster thanks in large part to having to "recruit" (should be beneath them) the best player on their team . . . and yet that won't be the story the agenda driven, propaganda media will tell. What a disgrace.

I never cheer for the USA to lose, but not gonna lie I was already imagining the chaos it would have had on the internetz

[itzsoweezee]

Who is willing to admit they were secretly either hoping to or fine with losing?

Now they'll prance around arrogantly pretending they did something worthy of praise when all they really did was barely avert disaster against a team with one player who'd make their team thanks in large part to having to "recruit" (should be beneath them) the best player on the team . . . and yet that won't be the story the agenda driven, propaganda media will tell. What a disgrace.

Full on boomer meltdown

[rjv]

Who is willing to admit they were secretly either hoping to or fine with losing?

Now they'll prance around arrogantly pretending they did something worthy of praise when all they really did was barely avert disaster against a team with one player who'd make their team thanks in large part to having to "recruit" (should be beneath them) the best player on the team . . . and yet that won't be the story the agenda driven, propaganda media will tell. What a disgrace.

. . . and Ledeuche will come off as patriotic when that a-hole is just trying to pad his GOAT resume with another gold. F Lebron.

[DAF86]

To think the US stealing Embiid might end up proving to be the difference maker.

Pretty much this, tbh. The US had to steal a player to not get eliminated in this tournament, yet there was "this team is better than the dream team" talk.

The days of team US being a lock to win every gold are long gone. On any given bad night there are more than a handful of teams that can beat them, just like the Spurs could beat the Nuggets at the end of the regular season.

Lebron and Co. are lucky Germany wasn't on the other side of the floor tonight. A more experienced, cohesive unit wouldn't have wasted a 14 pts lead in the 4th, imho.

[TD 21]

Full on boomer meltdown

I'm neither a boomer nor having a meltdown, I'm just a truth teller, who calls it like I see it, doesn't suffer fools and isn't concerned with perception.

[Chinook]

Anyone suggesting Embiid the best player on the USANT isn't making a serious take.

FIBA is an old man's tournament. Lebron is pretty unambiguously the best player on any team.

[DAF86]

Expect a very unticlimatic final, tbh. France doesn't have the perimeter players to keep up. It can get ugly. Let's hope Wemby can at least have a good individual perfomance.

[Robz4000]

At least Wemby or DWhite get a gold medal tbh.

[DAF86]

Anyone suggesting Embiid the best player on the USANT isn't making a serious take.

FIBA is an old man's tournament. Lebron is pretty unambiguously the best player on any team.

lol "unambiguously"

The best player on any team is the, undoubtedly, best player in the World: Nikola Jokic.

[Chinook]

At least Wemby or DWhite get a gold medal tbh.

If Serbia wins on Saturday, the Spurs would have draft picks on each medal team.