Do one better and send the 1st 7 players on the NBA Champ team and then fill in the other 7 spots with All NBA ballas.
Take that World.
I do'nt beleive that roster win this year. They don't even get past Serbia.
I guess they could finsd other ways but remove Curry this year and they might not win. They needed all of Lebron (top 2 in history) /Durant/Curry (best shooter in history) to get it done.
This is the Olympics, not the NBA. That's just not the spirit and honestly doesn't make you look good.
They are prospects, not elite players. Even Coulibaly should not have been selected and only owes his presence to being a friend of Collet. The best player not selected is Hifi, by far, with Mouss Fall. Just a year ago, Risacher and Sarr were role players in the young French team, they are far from being useful in a collective.
Olympic basketball tournament was fun to follow with a lot of high level close games. USA were the better team and deserved that win, props to them.
French NT did way better than expected. Their future should be fine with a lot of talented players born between 2002 and 2006 to play alongside Wembanyama.
+100000
i was really worried by an eventual injury tbh… but the kid is awesome, he had his best game in final and get out healthy… we are blessed. Now time to sleep and enjoy a break
Well the most highly paid millionaire basketball players in the world won the Gold. No surprises. Jim Thorpe lost all his Olympic medals when they found out he had earned about $50 playing baseball for a summer. New age.
Next Olympics should be interesting. Unclear who “the next man up” is for the US, though, they should still be able to field a greater number of great player than any other team. That’s their biggest asset.
Serbia is good but not sure what their younger crop is looking like. Are they another 2016 Spain or 2008 Argentina, or are they gonna keep it going?
Germany and Canada look good on paper, but the way they ended this tournament left a lot of questions.
France is the best positioned to beat the US by far. That young pipeline look promising.
This is a sporting event, not a UN summit. Don't have a cheering (and booing) crowd there if you don't want guys to play to it. When Yabusele or Wemby starts beating their chests to the crowd, it's fine, but when Curry and James do it, it's unprofessional?
It reminds me of the spurs defense too many double teams for no reason.
The REAL Team USA Basketball is playing now 8:30 AM CST
I think the Celtics would't have reach the final 4
Just bc of their lack of bigs and the adaptation of the FIBA rules
With just one decent PG France could've won it and Serbia (best team of the Olympics imo) beat themselves in the 4thQT (0/10 on 3s)
Showboating is different than just showing emotion
People don't wanna see shoulder popping insufferable s I guess
Some people have a problem with Curry. Given his massive popularity most don't.
USA Women tied 25-25 at halftime. Looking kinda sloppy out there
I don't understand why people can't see the difference. I have no problem with showing emotion like Manu used to, or some of the other players in these Olympics.
I also had no problem at all with Lebron showing emotion, but guys like Curry and Edwards are rubbing it in IMO (that's how it comes off to me - maybe it's not how they intend it, but that's how I perceive it). Edwards laughed at the French players after that lob dunk pass.
The refs are helping the US team A LOT
I should back pedal a bit here and say hats off to Curry and Team USA Men's basketball. Just a powerhouse dream team roster and honestly kinda badass how staggering the talent was. They won convincingly and you just gotta tip your cap. The better team won.
Curry is obnoxious and I will say that I personally do view the Olympics as more hallowed or whatever so I had a problem with the mix there of this kind of revered tradition and the brash American at udes of Curry and a few others. It doesn't help that I'm a Spurs fan and so those teams are always full of players I hate anyways because of NBA drama that bleeds over lol. Always rooted for Argentina and now I guess it's France because somehow San Antonio Spurs > Team USA in my mind.
I do love DWhite glad to see him get gold! Holiday is one cool player got tons of respect for him. Bam is cool. , Ant and Booker are punks but I absolutely love it. Huge difference between cheeky confidence and arrogant.
Curry, AD, Bron, KD, Kerr, Lue, and Joel (strictly basketball, don't give a about the nationality debate). Spolstra actually seems pretty chill just sleazy.
But I will say god damn Curry, Bron and KD were lethal out there. Pretty cool to see them get that swan song tbh. And I do like Curry's career barring the KD era which I refuse to recognize. Built not bought, elite home grown talent, dynasty franchise. You have to respect what Curry did and he's going down as a total GOAT. The 2022 prove it ring was the cherry on top. Curry took over in one of those 22 Finals games to put the nail in the coffin on BOS not unlike the Serbia and France game performances of his this week. Curry should've been the MVP imho. Sure there were some easy path debates but you can't shake Curry's legacy.
You could kinda tell this Olympics meant a lot to Bron and Curry somewhat for KD too. Bron's still elite but nearly 40 and time is undefeated. Curry just broke up his band and wants to prove he can fill seats solo. Just a lot to prove for these guys and they showed up.
Also was thinking it's gotta be an incredible summer for White, Holiday and Tatum lol. Jeez these dudes touched so much gold in one summer, LOB and Olympic Gold in the span of two months. And didn't Holiday do just that in 2021 too with the Bucks ring plus Tokyo?
I was expecting a home cooking tbh, hence my surprise
You can have massive respect and admiration for his game, but find his constant disrespect of his opponents pathetic and lacking class.
You'd neve see MJ, Kobe or any of the greatest behave that way
That was a damn good game
France one half-step away from sending it into overtime on a miracle heave
What a crushing ending
Congats to those ladies, the made us proud
Curry is one of the greatest. Lebron is one of the greatest. So yeah, we definitely see some behave that way. MJ and Kobe disrespected the game far more with their off-court than anyone on Team USA this year.
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