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Cool thanks Kori
When I talked to someone at FIBA a while back, they said some of them would but the contract with the US broadcasters wasn't done yet, so they didn't know specifics.
I'll follow up and try to find out.
Cool thanks Kori
THIS IS BIG NEWS BECAUSE HE COULD NOT GO TO THE DRAFT NEXT YEAR
La France va gagner tout les matchs, et Tony Parker va marquer 30 points tout les matchs.
Vive la France!
Bowen isn't just "a good defender". He's a "lockdown defender". That is why he has a chance to start. He just doesn't slow people down. He shuts them down, plain and simple.
I like this list.
Well this really blows. I am happy for Bruce but the fact is he is 35 years old and playing summer games when he needs to be resting. Last thing this team could afford is having a burned out Bowen before the playoffs start. We really need to find that long 3 or this could be a serious concern for us.
Hola!
For those of you who have the spanish programing on direct tv cable, i just heared that TyC ( torneos y competencias) channel got the rights to transmit the WC games.
I will let u know asa i get more info about it.
It sure is. Maybe he won't get cut now.
Thanks for the news. Please keep us informed.
This is what I mean about realistic-- It is not realistic to claim that Bruce will START for the US team in the WC. Bruce's role will be to go into the game if some player on the opponent- other than a traditional post-up big man- is scoring at will. He will be sent into the game to slow the guy down- to annoy him- to get him out of his rhythm... but he won't start.Bowen isn't just "a good defender". He's a "lockdown defender". That is why he has a chance to start. He just doesn't slow people down. He shuts them down, plain and simple.
Wade blocked more shots last season than the Spurs new starting center.
Well Bowen's still the best defender of the lot no doubt
Ive seen Melo improve his D quite a bit last season but as for Lebron, ive never even seen him want to try and guard the other teams best player
Melo loves to try and guard Lebron when they play but Lebron never guards Melo, not even on the game winning posession
And for that reason he has a chance to make it all the way to the final cut.
whether he declares or not, even if he sits out and declare for the draft he still be top5 pick
I will be extremely interested in watching and pulling hard for my country thanks to Bowens' participation. Even if he weren't a Spurs player, he's such an inspirational, humble, intelligent, hard worker. As we've been hearing lately either from Bruce directly or Express News beat writers, he truly is living an American dream, i.e. comes from nowhere but through assbusting hard work makes it to the summit of his chosen profession. Way to go, Bruce!
A starting five of Brand, Howard, Bowen, Redd, Paul, would be deadly IMHO. Enough size, enough defense, enough outside shooting, Perhaps lacked of wing penetration a bit. But all you have to do just insert Wade and (healthy) Kobe, it would work as well. Melo might impress in the TC, but i still doubt his game in real, compe ive games of the incoming tournament.
The finalists will be announced tomorrow at a press conference at 10:30am Pacific time.
http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_4086805
Not sure if you guys knew already, but apparently Bowen already got cut.
Article Launched: 07/24/2006 01:00:00 AM MDT
usa basketball
U.S. players new to cutting edge
Team stocked with stars sure to leave some home
By Marc J. Spears
Denver Post Staff Writer
Las Vegas - It's one thing for Bruce Bowen to be cut by the Miami Heat and a Continental Basketball Association team when he wasn't a household name. It's another thing to be cut by USA Basketball when you are.
On a U.S. roster filled with NBA stars, Bowen is one of the few who have been cut. But when the U.S. trims its national team roster from 24 players to 15 on Tuesday and from 15 to 12 by mid-August before the start of the world championships in Japan, many stars are certain to be cut. Bowen, on the bubble to make the final roster, believes his past will help him deal with the outcome.
"I had it a few times," Bowen, a two-time NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs, said of being cut. "With Miami, I've been cut. With other teams in the CBA. So I think I have an advantage being that I've been through this situation before. The difference is nobody knew me. So when I got cut it was nothing to it.
"Now, I am coming into a situation where people know about me. They know I have two championships. I've been on the (all- NBA) defensive team. I have more backing now than I did when I last tried out for a team."
U.S. rosters have taken hits in recent years, losing players to injuries and family reasons. Injuries will keep Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and J.J. Re from playing in Japan. Family reasons will keep Chauncey Billups, Michael Redd and Lamar Odom home. But picking from a talent-rich pool of 24 players, the U.S. will be able to make up for absences.
U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke will make initial cuts Tuesday and three more after exhibition games in South Korea and China next month. Projected bubble players include Shane Battier, Kirk Hinrich, Adam Morrison, Luke Ridnour, Antawn Jamison, Brad Miller and Amare Stoudemire, a Phoenix Suns star coming off a knee injury that caused him to miss most of last season. U.S. assistant and Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said he believes Stoudemire's knees are sound enough to play. Krzyzew- ski has said Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony has a good chance of being on the team that goes to Japan.
"They are on the (national) team for three years," Krzyzew- ski said of his players. "They may not be the 12 best players (going
Nope. the article says he has been cut by other teams before this selection.
to Japan). (Decisions are made on) how they adapt to the system and how we see them react to one another."
Anthony, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are among the high-profile players in training camp, with Re , Morrison, Ridnour and Battier at the other end of the spectrum. Regardless, players say everyone is being treated fairly in camp.
"Everybody's brought down to the same level here," Bowen said. "I've been amazed with how guys take it. You don't have room for guys to be a knucklehead right now. No one is guaranteed anything here and they understand that, so it's about competing."
Battier, a former Duke star who was cut from the U.S. 1999 Goodwill Games team, said: "(The bigger names) aren't acting like they should be treated different. That's a difficult lesson to learn as a 24-year-old superstar. That's made this run a lot smoother."
Gilbert Arenas, a two-time NBA all-star guard, said he would take being cut in stride.
"If I get cut, I'm not sad," he said. "I got to come out here and show my talent. This is the biggest stage. I get to go home with this (USA practice jersey)."
James, though, said he would "go home and probably not be there" for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games if he did get cut.
"I wouldn't waste their time," he said. "If I couldn't make the travel squad this summer, I wouldn't be good enough to make the Olympics."
Cuts could be more difficult when the next Olympics arrive.
"That makes it a little harder because that's what this whole process is all about, the '08 Olympics," Billups said.
Staff writer Marc J. Spears can be reached at 303-820-5449 or [email protected].
My bad, misread the article.
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