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Yeah, you’re right, he’ll definitely have a shot or two, health willing.
It's perfectly natural to dislike a guy that's being overly obnoxius, tbh.
Yeah, you’re right, he’ll definitely have a shot or two, health willing.
Love that moment between KD and Wemby.
Says some lardass sitting on his couch.
AT least now Wemby can come back and start focusing on the Spurs again. It's going to be an exciting season
Exactly. To each their own but that’s just not my thing and I’m glad Spurs players have never been like that.
The USA is about to crater hard. This is the end of a great US generation. They had to pull lots of guys in their late 30s to win this last Olympic gold. From now on it's the likes of Tatum and Edwards and they're a huuuuuuge drop in talent and overall ability.
When was the last MVP who was American? When was the last American even remotely in the conversation? Need to see a huge infusion of great American players or they're going to get waxed.
It reminded me of that moment when TD had a moment with LeBron when he was young, telling him the league will be his soon. I’m sure Durant said something similar to him.
Yeah, as I alluded to a few weeks back, obviously far too early, but I'm leaning this way too.
I hate it period but it's even worse when facing compe ion that's virtually incapable of beating you.
It's why the rest of the world hates the U.S. when it comes to sports (and other things, but I'll stick to the former).
It doesn't have anything to do with winning. The Spurs won plenty and yet many were apathetic towards them.
And no, I'm not old, white, mad or anything else you might be thinking.
Wemby kept it compe ive with essentially an NBA champion level team in a championship level elimination game. That’s all you could have asked for.
Are you sure I can't interest you in a discussion about US imperialism?
i deleted that post. That was a bad look on my part.
I always immediately drift towards coarse/ discourteous comments after a San Antonio player doesn't perform exceedingly. Won't happen again.
Trash ass Gobert. Shoulda just let old ass Porky get his spot tbh.
Mathias Lessort: 10 minutes
Coulibaly: 21 minutes
WTF, what are these game times? Collet forgot to scout his own team's last two games, or what?
Team USA wanted to win a gold medal. Vincent Collet thought it was a jubilee to honor his old friends on the team who hadn't played for two games and two victories.
I'm not against losing against Team USA, but at least we play basketball instead of handing out invitation cards to our old friends. What were Coulibaly, De Colo and Gobert doing on the floor? Congratulations to a collectively mediocre USA team, saved by three exceptional players who will no longer be there in LA. It was the last dance. Collet should retire, we're reaching the end.
Wemby played well
France needed him to play out of this world, and a couple more perimeter players to hit a few more threes
They were right there but Curry just went nuclear at the end, ggs
The USANT is in no danger to not being the most talented team in the world. Even France is going to have multiple non-NBA players on their roster in 2028 and 2032. The US has a giant population and focuses on basketball as one of their main sports. The talent pool is just much deeper than anything other countries can match. Of course, other teams like France may well have the best top players. But the new FIBA rules are going to prevent them from having the consecutive years of summer player Argentina and other national teams used to be able to use to build chemistry. The best players for all national teams are going to be in the NBA and thus locked out of most qualifier tournaments. Team USA more than most can pull guys from the same NBA team to add some instant chemistry. They've done this in 2021 and 2024 so far. As they move from being an All-Star roster to having to build a functional roster, they should be adding elite role-players like White, Holiday and Milddleton. They'll still have plenty of those to choose from.
If the USANT doesn't adapt its team-building and coaching to take advantage of the legs up it will still have, they will probably suffer a string of losses over the next six or eight years. If they do adapt, they'll continue to be a heavy favorite, albeit one with a much smaller margin for error.
I would have replaced Gobert with Diaw.
The penultimate 3 Wemby took (and missed) was the key moment to keep it 1 possession
And YOU COLETTE (this mf will still be in place and France's main handicap in 4 years)
Would've had a chance to steal at the end if they hadn't bricked so many free throws tbh
yep
and he and KAT are getting older
Spurs can swap pics in 31
What are these new rules?
Yeah. I would have loved to have seen an alternate reality version of the game at 82-79 if Steph didn't hit those threes. France were right there, but can't go back in time. Maybe Steph hits those shots again anyway.
Team USA is still the strongest. I thought I heard the next Olympics is in LA? If so, they gotta be favourites again. The world has caught up, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're close to being better.
Basically qualifying tourneys happen during the NBA season. That's was going on when d-leaguers were losing to random teams over the past few years. Back in the day, all those tournaments were during the summer, so players like Manu could play every off-season with their national teams. The thing that used to give teams a punchers' chance back when the USA had a wider lead in elite talent is that guys on other squads would play together almost every year where the USA stars treated it like a one-year commitment. Now, the WC and Olympics and the immediate qualifying tournaments that are hosted in the lead-up to those tournaments, are the only times NBA players from any country can participate. This used to be a huge boon the rest of the world had over the US, since overseas league often paused for those tournaments. But now that so much of the elite talent is the NBA regardless of talent, it's more of a shared burden.
The idea of Wemby, Traore, Sarr and Risacher playing constantly for the FNT like Tony and Boris used to is a little outdated. If USA Basketball builds its roster carefully, they should be able to use those rules to gain a chemistry advantage.
EDIT to add a link to the qualifiers schedule to show what I'm talking about: https://www.fiba.basketball/mens-calendar/qualifiers
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