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    Exactly, I still can't figure out how Shaq gets the royal treatment and AI gets the boot. It can't be about age.
    Couse Bowen or Shaq would be invited in every team full of centers or wing players.

    The same cannot be said about AI. I would care about Spurs if they were
    TD-AI pair of players. That's not a team to cheer for or even to win a championship with. That would be Trailblazers re-run.

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    The thing that pisses me off the most about AI being left off the team...he was one of the few on the 02 team that actually was happy to be on the team representing his country. That should count for something...that he wanted to be there., actually it should count for a lot...

    AI deserves better treatment and Colangelo is a for omitting him.

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    AI doesn't help a basketball team if he doesn't have the ing ball in his hands 90 percent of the time. That's why he wasn't chosen.

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    Ya....who wants a former league MVP who annually finishes in the top 10 in PPG, apg, spg, FT and FTA pg, and is one of the fastest players in the world....he's garbage.


    It's too bad LB did't let AI be AI on our last Olympic team...we probably would have won.

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    Ridiculous to leave AI off the team. The problem with the '04 team is that there weren't enough shooters on the court. You don't take away guys who can penetrate and create scoring opportunities for themselves and others. You get rid of the Richard Jeffersons. I'm not sure what the logic is here. , it takes a miracle to get stars to want to represent their country. AI is a rarity in that he's willing to do that.

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    AI doesn't help a basketball team if he doesn't have the ing ball in his hands 90 percent of the time. That's why he wasn't chosen.
    ooooo . . . GILBERT ARENAS???????

    Your argument completely falls apart.

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    shoogarbear i love your avatar with the caption Hedo layup drill. is the pic and the caption go together? i just love it

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    Sugar Bear fumbles golden crisps like Turkish basketballers miss passes against the Lakers.

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    And does anybody have that pic of AI making Antonio Daniels his ?

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    ooooo . . . GILBERT ARENAS???????

    Your argument completely falls apart.
    In what way? Iverson is a shooting guard that they had to convert into a point guard so he could bring the ball up and they could just dispense with the formality of having to pass the ball to him. Last I checked, AD runs the point for Washington.

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    Wasn`t Iverson originaly a point guard? And what does Antonio Daniels (AD I assume?) have to do with this?
    It doesn`t really matter which position Iverson plays. I mean, again, GILBERT ARENAS instead of IVERSON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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    Its about creating a team.

    Not a skilly compe ion.

    When building a TEAM, you build around the stars.

    Ridenour, Paul will be willing to defer to Kobe and Lebron.



    Also, Coach K, you think hes gonna put up with the turd that is Allen Iverson?

    "We talkin bout practice"

    Right there.

    You think a guy that says that, is willing to TRY OUT, for a team!?!?!


    Get real peeps.

    This isn't a roster created of the best players, THAT FAILED.

    Everyone is getting the STARS problem again.


    Guys like Battier, Bowen, Miller are great ROLE players.

    Something that everyone here said they needed in 04.


    Get the studs, Kobe, Lebron, then get the peeps that will say

    "Hes the stud, were gonna help make the team better"

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    While all that is true, how does Arenas fall into that picture? And hasn`t Iverson improved his at ude?

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    The only reasonable explanation for leaving Iverson off is the combination of age and injuries. With each passing year more and more prognosticators are saying, "This could be the year that AI starts breaking down." While it hasn't happened yet it's still a possible (even likely) prospect in the next few years. I know that the same could be said of Shaq and he got a standing invite. I don't have a good explanation for that other than the fact that the media nut rides him constantly. Perhaps it's because AI doesn't have the same cuddly image. The informed fan is up in arms over Arenas getting in over AI, but there's probably just as many average whitebread fans who are saying, "Good. Iverson's a thug." Whereas if they left Shaq off most intelligent people would applaud, but the sheep fans would clammer that he's still "the most dominant force in the game." I could be wrong.

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    In what way? Iverson is a shooting guard that they had to convert into a point guard so he could bring the ball up and they could just dispense with the formality of having to pass the ball to him. Last I checked, AD runs the point for Washington.
    I honestly don't get what you're trying to say. But it doesn't matter because:

    1. If AI is a 1 and Arenas is a 2, AI is STILL a better 2 than Arenas.
    2. If AI is a 2 and Arenas is a 1, AI is STILL a better 1 than Arenas.

    No matter what facet of the game you may chose to think of, AI is better. Including (maybe especially) coachability and at ude.

    And, finally, AD is not the Wizards' point guard. The entire offense starts and ends with the ball in Arenas' hands.

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    Fine. Allen Iverson is the greatest player of all time. That's why he's won multiple championships and olympic gold medals. That's why he won all those national championships in college.

    Oh, wait. No, he's never won at any level no matter who his teammates are. There's a word for players like that. The word for him next year will probably be "ex-76er".

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    And Gilbert Arenas did?

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    And Gilbert Arenas did?
    Gilbert Arenas is ten years younger. What the , people? Iverson is better than Brad Miller, too.

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    The thing that pisses me off the most about AI being left off the team...he was one of the few on the 02 team that actually was happy to be on the team representing his country. That should count for something...that he wanted to be there., actually it should count for a lot...

    AI deserves better treatment and Colangelo is a for omitting him.
    Whottt is right. Instead of asking a guy who actually WANTED TO BE THERE, they keep being rejected by Shaq, KG, etc. They are not going to win with a group of players that don't really want to be there.

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    AI got jobbed.

    He deserves it a of a lot more than Arenas and PROVED when he was there the last time that he was a team player when none of the other yokles did...

    Sept Timmy of course...when he wasn't on the bench...

    heh

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    I'm just waiting for Chris Carrawell to be selected for Team USA.

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    Kobe is the focus of Team USA. and A.I. is not a role player.

    Its the Olympics not the All Star Game...last year they brought home a bronze...let this team play then start judging who messed up.

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