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Ricky Rubio, Jose Calderon, Pau Gasol and Mark Gasol are scrubs?
Team USA is not the ultimate weapon they almost fall against some Team Spain full of scrubs and people loves to think they are the best thing ever.
Ricky Rubio, Jose Calderon, Pau Gasol and Mark Gasol are scrubs?
Since when Rubio is elite? he is a sore loser, Calderon is a good player and the Gasol brothers are good not elite, you have 3 good players and nothing else.
The Spurs have one elite player. Team USA has 10+. They actually have one player that would make the Team USA roster. If team USA played the Spurs 100 times in a row, they'd probably win 99. The one loss would be due to coasting and boredom.
Btw, none of those players I mentioned are scrubs.
Rubio is a thief, Team USA can have 15 elite players and still they have no game plan at all, thats the reason why Spain almost won, Spurs are better than Team Spain I think you are giving too much credit to those big american names, as Genjuro said they are just a summer team and of course every other country nightmare because there is no other single country in the world with that kind of basketball talent but they are humans and not the ultimate weapon (it sounds nice for a legend, maybe a movie).
In most sports everybody knows professional teams are usually better than national selections, simply because they're used to play together a lot more. Maybe people in basketball are delusional.
In a 7-game series I'd take Team USA in 5. They'll probably win one game by semi-figuring out how to attack Durant and allowing Westbrook to go full-re but they can't beat a roster with stars from #4 to #15 and is coached by Mike Krzyzewski.
Might be true sometimes but a lot of times it's not the case. That's why they are the national selection. They are the cream of the crop of players.
Real Madrid and Barcelona are not gonna beat their national selection when 70% of their selection are filled with RMA and FCB players
Did you missed the parts were the refs let the Spurs do anything against Miami without calling a foul?
Lol I think I missed that part, too much going in my mind at that moment
You can split Real Madrid and Barcelona players in two so one half would be playing for Spain and the other for the respecting team
What you can do in cases like that is stuff like Barcelona before that useless Neymar vs Team Brazil, just my 2 cents.
Actually, I wasn't giving them credit. You're make a lot out of PD. Team Spain wasn't going t beat Team USA. The Spurs are a team that would struggle to beat OKC with Ibaka. Now, you're talking about beating a team of LJ, D-wade, D12, Liliard, LMA, Harden, Westbrook, Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Blake Griffin , Andre Drummond and among others. Where exactly do the Spurs have an advantage. You're using this together as a scapegoat. For all this togetherness, the Spurs haven't won a championship since 2007. , the Heat had less comradery and won a championship in its second season together.
It's also not like Team USA doesn't have practices. They don't just show up and play. Coach K. has Team USA prepared.
You are mixing different stuff together and making a big turd sandwich, at first after 2007 bowen and horry were done and pop and rc found ty replacements like Mason and some others I prefer to forget,at second the Heat played in the Leastern Conference against no compe ion whatsoever what a pussy conference, they had a good team and killed OKC, and third roach K sucks, and fourth big names means you must go and fight... they won in a lame fashion against Spain.
One more thing TEAM USA IS FULL OF MONKEYBALLERS
I'm keepin it even keeled. How easily forgotten it is that this so called world's greatest nearly lost to the eighth seeded Mavs. This happens evey year. Spurstalk gets a big head just before getting their teeth kicked in. Nothing says coceited and homeristic more than a fanbase that hasn't even won the championship yet but thinks it can take down Team USA (The best players in the world). Do you know why Spurstalk is the butt of a joke around the internet? It's threads like this.
The whole internet is a joke if you are not into studies or scientific stuff, Mavs played better than Charlotte and Chicago I take it, Spurstalk gets a big head...last year we were robbed IN THE FINALS, this year we are going to play IN THE FINALS again, you are just butthurted because 2007 went bad for the Cavs and I blame the weak Leastern Conference that kid with some real compe ion would never get that far.
The Spurs ARE Team USA... in reality. They are like Team America... "everything is bon" -TP
Actually Spain national team has been so good mostly because it's pretty much the same team as FCB, and Barcelona was incredibly strong during those years.
It was not uncommon in the past (when few players would go and play abroad) to have several players from one club (usually the one dominiating the local league) represent the backbone of a national team, and those national teams tended to do well compared to others (assembled in the regular fashion of selecting the "best" available players, wherever they came from).
As several people have already pointed out, this question isn't really as absurd as it initially seems. Obviously, Team USA is far more talented than the Spurs, but games aren't played on paper. Team USA is essentially a conglomeration of star players thrown together for a 2-week tournament. They have virtually no chemistry or cohesion, and simply win games on the strength of their raw talent. For evidence that putting together a bunch of big names on a single team doesn't always lead to the best output, one need look no further than the 2012 Lakers (who had Kobe, Nash, Dwight, and Pau), or even the 2010 Spurs, where the addition of a supposed 4th star player in Richard Jefferson yielded nothing better than a mere 50-win season and 2nd round exit.
Part of what makes a basketball team so great is its capacity to seamlessly intertwine its various cons uent pieces to form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Team Argentina was able to do that in 2004 when it beat the far more talented Team USA (which had Duncan, by the way) with only one legitimate NBA player at the time in Manu Ginobili. And the 2014 Spurs, obviously, are the epitome of team basketball right now.
Team USA isn't as invincible as it appears on paper either. In the 2012 Olympic Finals, they only beat Team Spain by 7 points, despite the fact that the latter only featured 7 NBA players (only 3 of which--Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol, and Serge Ibaka--could be considered bona fide stars). The Spurs are obviously better than Team Spain, so it isn't really a stretch of the imagination to argue that the Spurs would at least make the final margin much closer (if they didn't beat them altogether).
To me, though, the most interesting aspect of this thread has been the dissenting views from various members. American Spurs fans have mostly remained silent on the question. International Spurs fans are mostly the one's arguing in favor of the Spurs. And American fans of other NBA teams are the one's who are most likely to consider the question absurd. Observing the dissenting and often conflicting views of different people from different backgrounds has made this thread an interesting case study on how one's personal and national affiliations influences one's perception of reality.
Most heat fans can't read.
Oh yees. I was surprised as well. It will very likely beat it.
Maybe the "love" 4 team USA gets in the way of some obvservers... maybe it's the fact that they regard teams as an addition of talent, which is unrealistic.
In comparison, take Barcelona, RM, and many other not so talented rosters in soccer... they have very good chance to beat any national soccer team, in spite of these national teams having more chemistry and friendlies and so on...
What's with the Coach K -slobbering? Win or lose, there's not much he could do to influence the outcome for Team USA one way or the other. He's just another guy on the bench as far as I'm concerned.
lol What?
Back in the good old days Barca beats Spain 11 times out of 10. Spain was basically Barcelona minus the best player in the World.
The same could be said about Bayern and Germany, City and England, PSG and France, Juventus and lolitaly, etc, etc, etc.
Can the Spurs beat Spain, tbh?
If you think is laughable the idea of the Spurs beating Team USA then you're not a very knowledgeable basketball fan.
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