Game Thread: USA vs Brazil

[hater]

Brazil should hire some american coaches for their U-17 and U-19 teams to teach those ers how to play defense and against defense. The brazilian coaches just teach them to chuck trees all day and ignore defense. Some talented kids go play in the soft and y Spanish league. Not a good deal.

the only reason USA players cause turnovers is due to their athleticism and speed. They are not a good defensive team IMO.

Magnano runs circles around most "american coaches"

[hater]

Harden, what a selfish pOS he had Davis alone and decided to take it to the hole vs. 3 brazilians

[Mayhem321]

Splitter back in for dat final push for the win

[PingPong]

the only reason USA players cause turnovers is due to their athleticism and speed. They are not a good defensive team IMO.

Magnano runs circles around most "american coaches"

Yeah, he raped the us team in 2004. But he is the main team coach only. The rest is relegated to some old s, mostly former players without a college degree. The brazilian backcourt can't play against Curry-Harden,-Irving-Thompson, lol

[manufan10]

Harden 3-1 break, and takes it himself.

[GB20]

team USA is about dunking and that is it. they need to start moving the ball

[Brunodf]

That's game

[hater]

Splitter just got ted on

[TE]

There's nothing old school about Harden drawing fouls. Old school players would slap Harden.

[TE]

Davis is a ing beast

[TE]

Boheim's zone is so overrated. I can't wait till it's exposed on a bigger scale versus teams like Spain.

[hater]

Davis is a ing beast

yup easily best athlete in the NBA and best bigman. plus he got range and the right at ude. Good for the nba

[PingPong]

Splitter, this is not the Spurs.

[testies]

USA is good, but most of it is sheer amount of players to rotate. Brazil has to put in Larry Taylor and Raulzinho to rest starters -.-

[ElNono]

save for a couple of monkeyballing plays, Rose was pretty meh

[daslicer]

The score is deceptive but it was a lot closer for most of the game up until Davis blew this game open. Davis was a huge reason for the US winning this game.

[ElNono]

It's a practice game... Im sure both coach K and Magnano are gonna save the good stuff for when the games matter... still, good game overall

[testies]

Down 5 to start the 4th, now they are down 22... mental midget Brazil will mental midget always

[testies]

James Harden 11 Fts =/

[pgardn]

Splitter is very good on this team.
They need him.

The Spurs will keep him also.
Overall, Tiago had a good game.

And overall, this illustrates how bad a bunch of good players can be.
This is simply barbaric basketball won by the team with the big club just bullying.

[TheyCallMePro]

The players that withdrew from Team USA just don't get it.

All of these games will be on ESPN. 10's of millions of people will be watching. The player's brands will gain value, and NBA teams will be watching to see who to sign come next free agency.

America cares. The world cares. And the players should absolutely care. The players that withdrew (including Kawhi) are the ones who look like fools for missing out on all of this.

[PingPong]

Any chances to the Spurs get Davis?

[ElNono]

Pretty clear this team goes as far as Davis takes them...

[TE]

The players that withdrew from Team USA just don't get it.

All of these games will be on ESPN. 10's of millions of people will be watching. The player's brands will gain value, and NBA teams will be watching to see who to sign come next free agency.

America cares. The world cares. And the players should absolutely care. The players that withdrew (including Kawhi) are the ones who look like fools for missing out on all of this.

Should a player risk globalizing his "brand" to possibly get a bad injury? Before the Paul George injury, this was a question I'm sure ran through the minds of these players. Now even more so.

[ElNono]

Next game is vs Dominican Republic, Wed at 7PM EST on NBTV