Yet another ST meltdown for no reason thread
scrUbSA will easily win gold next Olympics even if they send B team of:
Chimpchuck
Butler
Pg
Green
Aldridge
Book it
Calling it
Called it
Yet another ST meltdown for no reason thread
Where did I say France good? You're unhappy when I use Trump vocabulary to describe San antonio?
Well played. Well played.
lol no, they ain't winning with that awful lineup.
Also, I don't know why the US doesn't select size anymore. FIBA isn't the NBA. You can still get away with playing traditional lineups.
I understand going "small" when you have guys like Lebron and Durant playing the forward spots. But if your option is Harrison ing Barnes, just go with a physical beast which FIBA players aren't used to deal with. Cousins would have been a good option for a spot.
Last edited by DAF86; 09-12-2019 at 03:26 PM.
If you go small, you have to have 5 three point shooters. That's what was weird about this team. It had no ability to play big, but when it went small, it didn't have any shooting. Just a weird combination of players.
04 team had two recent MVPs and several players a year or two away from being all NBA. This team was nowhere near as good as that one, it barely had a couple (east) all stars.
Life will go on. Let's not pretend FIBA matters much at all.
Pop did well to avoid a 20 pts loss vs Argentina, imho.
Truth nuke tbh. Argentina would've castrated the gringos. Worse than 2004 tbh.
This.
Let the naysayers and cry babies ("he said that 'life goes on, other things are bigger than basketball or he doesn't like Trump" wah) tell every loss in USA history since '04 (when he was an assistant coach) is on him.
Mother ers meltdown and cry like es even when it isn't about the Spurs.
Basketball is a compe ion and eventually other countries WILL CATCH UP. Especially, when the tournament is so poorly scheduled and a lot of top tier, 2nd tier and 3 tier American talent stays home.
Most likely. NBA coaches are very overrated.
It's hard to talk about a lack of depth when Lopez is sitting on the bench watching Gobert have his way with small guys. I don't know if he would have fared better, but that's a coaching decision not a lack of depth. Lopez is past his prime, but he had the best shooting season of his career this year. The Spurs scored something like 5 points in the last 5 minutes, and none in the last two. I really thought after Scola had that performance against Serbia that Pop would take a hint about the way FIBA, and the way the game is called.
But, hey, life goes on.
The only meltdown and -crying I see here right now is from one person. "Someone disagrees with me. They're being mean to Pop. Waaaah!" I'm tempted to go back and see if you get like this around the middle of every month, but some things should remain private.
So many genius coaches in ST
Has the world ended? Nope. Pop is Nostradamus!!!
There are elements of randomness involved in every basketball game. There's a reason we have playoff series and no a simple one off game. That is because in a single game, you can win and not be the best team. It can even happen in a series, but that's far more unlikely. We see this time and time again in the NCAA tournament. There's a reason the best team doesn't always sweep a series. There's a reason the best team doesn't always go undefeated.
As for Pops comments, IDGAF. I also DGAF if you care. But to say the best team always wins is demonstrably wrong.
Very true. And the NCAA tournament is a great testament to that, you're right. No one can say Maryland-Baltimore County was the better team when they beat Virginia as a 16 seed a couple of years ago. Any team can beat any other team in a single game because sh!t happens.
Matchups don't really matter.
I'm sure Red A, Phil J, Pat Riley, John Wooden and other legit greats would have Patty take it to the rack vs these guys. Also be paid Fiddy for Five.
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