Reply With Quote
Why is Bosh a sure thing? He licked balls last time. I'd rather take Griffin or Aldridge or both.
When USA Basketball sends a dozen players to the Olympics in London this summer, the roster will come from these 20 finalists, released by USA Basketball on Monday:
Guards: Dwyane Wade, Deron Williams, Chris Paul, Eric Gordon, Russell Westbrook, Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant
Forwards: LeBron James, Andre Iguodala, Rudy Gay, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Blake Griffin, Lamar Odom, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love.
Centers: Dwight Howard, Tyson Chandler.
This is similar but a little expanded from the list leaked last week.
I don’t envy Coach Mike Krzyzewski and the cuts he has to make to get this down to 12. (Cuts he will have to make without a training camp as the Olympic roster has to be sent in by June 20, before the NBA finals likely end.) As I said before it really gets hard because I think you need to keep both Howard and Chandler on the roster at center to match up with the size that Spain will throw out there with Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol and Serge Ibaka off the bench. Spain and the USA are the two clear favorites to meet in the Gold Medal game.
If you keep those two plus the sure things such as LeBron, Durant, ‘Melo, Bosh, Kobe, Wade, CP3 and Rose and suddenly you are down to two final spots for a lot of good players. I think you need Kevin Love (his game fits well with international ball). Then with that last spot do you take Griffin or Aldridge for size, Odom for versatility, E. Gordon because he can shoot or a slasher like Iguodala or Gay? Let go of Chandler so you can take two of them?
Tough choices. But that is going to be one stacked team?
Why is Bosh a sure thing? He licked balls last time. I'd rather take Griffin or Aldridge or both.
Only pussies & assholes do Olympics.
Rose, Paul, Williams, Wade, Bryant, Durant, Anthony, James, Love, Griffin, Aldridge, Howard
Odom is one of the 20?
Wade, Paul, Gordon, Rose, Kobe
Lebron, Gay, Melo, Aldridge
howard, chandler
racist much?
Why is Bryant playing? Your old, let the young guys have their time
Kobe won't let someone else have their time & shine
Billups & Bryant shouldn't be playing. It's 2012 not 2006
NewcastleKEG ain't the brightest poster on this forum, dets for sure
He probably scored lower than Derrick Rose on his SAT's (pre-cheating)
You had your time Kobe. Now step aside and let the younger guys establish their own legacies. Go away already
^Against the Griz, New, really?
Grizz are legit. But yeah not having Rose (BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE) made the difference^Against the Griz, New, really?
Dude, we don't do injuries here on this Forum. Only pussies & assholes do the injury card.Grizz are legit. But yeah not having Rose (BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE) made the difference
You lost to the Grizz like a bunch a pansies.
We can put D-league players out there and still beat Greece by 50+
Spain is gonna put up a fight tbh
i'm pretty racist but not in this post
I'll go with:
Chris Paul / Derrick Rose
Kobe Bryant / Dwyane Wade
Kevin Durant / Carmelo Anthony
LeBron James / Blake Griffin / LaMarcus Aldridge
Dwight Howard / Kevin Love
I'm having a tough time for the 12th spot. Could go a number of different directions. Maybe Chandler for Dwight Howard foul insurance. Or maybe Iguodala for perimeter defense. Deron Williams in the mix as well.
why not gordon bro? international game is very friendly towards shooters. not having any shooters screwed us that year we got the bronze.
Easier to get away with less shooting when you have the very best players on the roster. Other than Duncan and arguably Iverson, the 2004 team had third tier US born NBA players. This team still has LeBron, Dwight, CP3, Kobe, Wade, Melo, and Durant. When you have a bunch of top 10 players in the league, it's a little bit different. And there is shooting with Durant, Love, Aldridge, Wade, Kobe. Maybe not prolific three point shooters other than Durant. But probably good enough considering the overall talent on the roster. Gordon probably wouldn't get much run anyway.
I can live with no Gordon but I don't really like the idea of Love at center. We need a solid anchor in at all times to play good team D tbh.
No Tim Duncan = Fail
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
