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My apologies. I just got home from practice and just saw the games. I was like, "Mother-trucker"Good you didn't start a new thread.
Good you didn't start a new thread.
My apologies. I just got home from practice and just saw the games. I was like, "Mother-trucker"Good you didn't start a new thread.
im going to make this a serious post.
this team has not grown up. ESPN is saying how much more mature Melo, Wade, James have become. dont fool your selves. thats nonsense. the stupid salute that they do. they act like theyre trying to be funny. when they dunk on somebody they will just stand there staring at a player so the camera will capture them.
but when it comes to crunch time, they are a one-on-one selfish team looking to point fingers. on the bright side, they atleast are getting better teammates i.e. Battier, Jamison, Miller, Bowen, J. Johnson who arent looking to bask in the spotlight. this is a step ahead of Marbury, Jefferson, AI, Duncan.
The only time Coach K has ever won anything is when he's had teams with far and away the best talent. He's never taken an average team and made it better. For as much talent as he's had at Duke, his success hasn't been all that great.
And it's not like he breeds winners. The only Duke player to ever win an NBA championship is Danny Ferry.
If the US was serious about winning they'd name Phil Jackson, Jerry Sloan or Pop as coach.
They will. Sooner than you think.
He had sooo much talent but just Ferry won a championship - interesting.
Let me get this...
He won his les with loosers who had far and away best talent?
Then he can't be that bad.
You are going a bit too far on Coach K. He built the Duke program from scratch. You could say he got lucky along the way, but he has to get a lot of the credit. Coach K is not only the face of Duke basketball, but the face of the entire university. That alone is an accomplish in its self.
Pop is a good coach but he has been blessed with numerous all stars that have given him 3 rings and a coach of the year award. It's all about what you do with that talent that matters.
the holy do ent of fiba law shall not be changed
so sayeth the timvp
This epitaph is worthy of hanging in any basketball locker room.
...
thou shalt not tamper with thy gravestones.
(it says RIP for a reason)
Shane Battier "hustling" means grabbing an opposing player's leg while you are on the floor.
Carmelo Anthiony likes to shoot.
Free throw shooting is important?
Team USA loses.
very clever Slomo.
I watched the replay of the game just now and the Greeks could have won that game in any arena in the US, rectangle or trapezoid lane. The Greeks ran a pro-style offense, lifting their players and then ran dribble hand-offs and high screen rolls. They had nice perimeter rotation after the penetration. Most importantly they hit their shots.
It became grossly obvious that Team USA was ill-equipped to handled this offense. They switched the screens 90% of the time and none of the help defenders did much to rotate to help other than flag at the roll man or driver. Heinrich and Paul are horrible help defenders and Joe Johnson wasn't strong enough to stay in front of his man after the first move.
On offense, the US team seldom ran a zone offense. They didn't screen enough, they didn't reverse the ball enough, and they didn't use many ball-fakes to move the zone or skip passes either for that matter. Four things you need to do to attack a zone. They just passed it around the perimeter a couple of times and either settled for 3s or resorted to one-on-one dribble penetration.
Maybe the coaching staff didn't have time to put in a rotating team defense but I saw no creativity nor imagination. We are used to seeing Pop or Avery calling a timeout when a team gets to the basket on two straight possessions with weak help D. We saw none of that today with Team USA.
Greece runs alot of Rick Pittino's stuff. I think the Americans were expecting them to play zone D because Germany's tactics were quite successful for a couple of quarters.
Greece did run a Zone...a lot. In fact, when Greece went to the 2-3, it helped to send them on their 22-5 run.
YEAH DWIGHT HOWARD! MY BAD!! LOL
how many captains? 3
if you can't chose the chief you go nowhere
and all the captains want to be superman for save the country
Better knowledge of the FIBA/Euro game is a bull argument. I mean it's not rocket science. I'm too lazy to review the game but if you would put aside all the calls/TO that were a result of the rules difference, I believe the US would still have lost.
Also it's not about who plays or has played team basketball longer together it's the willingness to do so. I'm convinced that the US has the needed talent to overcome any lack of knowledge of the FIBA rules, what it lacks is a team spirit. So for that reason Mike D'Antoni is just as wrong a choice for head coach as K. was/is (although D'Antoni as assistant is probably a good thing). You need a coach who will be able to shape the players in to a team, a coach that will put discipline before popularity when deciding who's on the court.
And finally you need a coach who not only preach defense but actually makes it a priority. Was Bruce indispensable to the US team? I don't know but him not making the cut definitely sent the wrong message.
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