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LeBronze is the appropriate way to spell her name in Olympic context.
Durbeta is a choke artist. Always has been, always will be. He can't handle the pressure of the Olympics without LeBron there to hold his hand.
LeBronze is the appropriate way to spell her name in Olympic context.
That's funny, Jorge. I seem to recall "LeBronze" dragging the US to gold in 2008 while Kobe was busy shooting 4-13 against a bunch of starving Angolans.LeBronze is the appropriate way to spell her name in Olympic context.
You seem to have problems understanding:Yet you roast Kobe for not ousting a loaded Suns team with the likes of Kwame Brown, Smush Parker, Chris Mihm, and Luke Walton by his side? Then you give Jim a pass when he was flanked by LeHype, D-Whistle, AI, Melo, and a championship coach on the sideline? He won Bronze with THAT supporting cast? Is that about right? -2,004 points son! BAAAAAHAHAHA!
1) Finishing first and finishing top 8 out of 15 teams
2) Playing together for a week, then playing against compe ion that has been together all their lives vs. playing on a team and against team that have equal practice times
3) Playing under a totally different set of rules vs. playing under the same set of rules that you are accustomed to
4) Lamar Odom and Caron Butler existing vs. them not existing
5) LeBron, D-Wade and Melo not getting minutes as rookies vs. them getting minutes
when this got finds himself in a position to lead
They would be unstoppable if they built the team in a conventional fashion, with stars complimented by role players, tbh..
I haven't watched a second of this (rarely watch FIBA ball, it's absolute trash, although not as bad as NCAA ball), but you'll have a difficult time dominating when you have players like Demar Derozan on the team..
That's funny, Jorge. I seem to recall "LeBronze" dragging the US to gold in 2008 while Kobe was busy shooting 4-13 against a bunch of starving Angolans.
Another tester. Against a French team way past their prime. Sigh.
They're not winning gold. They are making things so much easier for the opposing teams by playing stagnant offense. The fact that Melo and kyrie get so much isolations possesions with about 5-10 better players than this is laughable. Mike facezwaski is not even coaching...
Their sucess is largely thanks to convicing superstarts to play.
Watch out for a possible upset in the knockout stage when everything gets tight
I'd be tickled pink.
Still loling at this team giving Carmelo the free reign to do whatever the he wants...He's almost always killing the sets. The players around him are so beta to tell him what to do in sets.
I don't think they should be blowing them. Blowing them out maybe.when this got finds himself in a position to lead
Jordan should start. They need more defense in that starting lineup.
No Wade, No Lebron, No Kobe... No surprise tbh. They'll win in the end because teams like Spain have fallen off, but when Melo's your best leader you're ed. Also, this team isn't dominating defensively like in 08 and 12. Coach K should start Deandre. Boogie's a bad fit for the event.
Why is Durbeta just letting Melo play heroball? Oh wait, it's because he's a pussy who's scared of the moment.
They've got the easiest matchup in the quarterfinals... an easy win there should get them back on track...
Tell me the olympics dont matter watching Gino get love from his team-mates ...
and in freaking tears ...
Spur fan is full of ...this DOES matter.
KD taking a wet shot on your thread:
Outside of Tim Manu is my favorite spur.
Dude may make some boneheaded mistakes ...
but the dude is nails with balls sometimes bigger than his brains ...
but he is fearless.
Much respect to the greatest international player in Spurs history.
Only david is close.
Relative to an NBA le, it doesn't. Lebron, Westbrook, Kawhi, Anthony Davis thought it mattered so much they didn't even show up.
I would not trade 5 Spur les for 5 more Olympic golds.
mid full of . It mattered to MJ, Magic, Pip, Bird, Barkley, etc.
Sure Deandre is a ing idiot. Of course an nba le is more significant to a legacy than an Olympic Gold ...
but what do you expect from a clipper? They have no clue about what les mean.
But LeBron & Wesbrook already have gold medals LeBron in fact has two so why does he need another? Plus he avenged his bronze even if many excuse him because he did not play heavy minutes.
Davis has been injured so it made no sense for him to play this summer ...
But saying it means less than a LOB ... is far different than saying it does not matter.
When Kiwi medals in 2020 just like it did with manu tonight ...it will matter to spur fan.
When the GOAT PF fails to medal it does not matter though ...
The thing about an Olympic Gold is that it matters to anyone but US basketball players because of the dominance that US had enjoyed through the years. Winning a gold is akin to a 73 win team winning a le, it is what you SHOULD do. You don't gain any extra brownie points for doing something you should do, but you certainly get points taken off for not winning it.
I agree the bronze is a stain on Duncan's legacy, because they were supposed to win at the outset of the program. But then when you actually look at the construction of the team and the total lack of practice time, and you know why they didn't win.
FIBA focuses much more on perimeter play and passing, and the typical 90s/00s type of ball the NBA plays is exactly opposite to that type of play. Think of the greatest FIBA players of all time, they all have superior perimeter/passing skills. Oscar Schmidt, Drazen, Sarunas, Manu, Sergei, Kukoc. Even their bigs, like Divac, Sabonis, Cosic have extremely advanced perimeter and passing skills. Divacs was basically the best passing big the NBA ever saw along with Walton, Sabonis was nailing threes and throwing these insane passes in traffic even after he was injured and lost both of his knees.
To expect Duncan carry such a flawed team with limited perimeter shooting, and horrible passing to a gold is just ignorance. It's a different game that is played, and these casual observers still couldn't get it 12 years down the line. Sure, Team USA should have been able to tell these issues since they are basketball experts and should have foreseen these things, but hindsight is 20/20 and they didn't have the benefit of hindsight back then. It also shows the level of arrogance of Team USA in general, which led to the lack of effort and care put in to construct the team.
The 2000 team was already experiencing some close calls, and instead of looking into team construction and making something out of it, Team USA decided to ignore the problem and let it turn into a disaster.
To put the blame of the bronze on Duncan says more about the lack of your basketball knowledge than it does about Duncan's legacy.
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