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GOAT sweat tbh
That’s the point.
GOAT sweat tbh
Exactly
Glad you agreetodays nba perimeter players are benefitting from rule changes. Or more precisely, different enforcement of rules.
Should Team USA let the stars join for the Olympics or let this current (less talented) core grow?
"Let"? You couldn't drag some of them there with a tractor.
Team USA Bball is rare National Team in sports one can show up at the Olympic games skipping most qualifying.
Rare in other sports
With Putin & Biden asses & elbows...the former.
It's a sweetheart deal, Frosty, *1972 withstanding, tee, hee.
*denotes Russia striking Gold.
https://sports.yahoo.com/who-should-...160132205.html
Lol at mentioning Zion, but imagine thinking any international squad would have a snowballs chance against Curry/Tatum/Booker/James/Bam. Then you have guys from the current team mixed with other players like Jimmy Butler, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis playing as reserves.
They talk all these players into playing then the rest of the world has no chance. They will still be decent games, but they will never be in question
National media needs to stop pretending James, Durant and Curry solve the biggest issue, are in their prime or that the current version of them and other veterans will be exactly the same next off season.
If this were a series, they'd be locks for gold. In a one and done, 40 minute game against players more familiar with international rules/officiating and continuity, they're obviously still favorites, but this isn't '92-'00 or '08-'16.
True, but America ain't a good loser and won't stand that gaffe for long. ADDENDUM:::They try, they honestly try and play it fair & square, get their ass handed to 'em and the folks back home start wandering the streets and wringing their hands. Tempers flare, a team is formed, raw meat is provided, the choker chains are released and the slaughter ensues. Then? Well, then you have the backlash..."We're sorry, we won't do that again, ever. We'll send the kids instead of the HOF'ers. We promise." And the cycle is repeated again & again.
Ahhh ... I am surprised you care about the world championships. That was seriously a B team, at best, likely a C or even D team. There are at least two or three teams that are better and none of the players on team USA would make those teams.
Is the sole purpose of Team USA to be to qualify so a future completely different team of NBA stars will go the World Commercialism Games aka Olympics?
I don't care about any exhibitions. I'm just observing the ebb and flow of the NBA participation in order to quell what they perceive as defeat & humiliation.
This all started in the '72 Olympics when Russia busted our hole there late. That was it; "Send the NBA. Send the Troops. Send an Atom bomb, maybe two like in Japan. Do something. Oh, God!"
Like I said we don't take losing well, on any platform; political, sports, even playing musical chairs in the school house.
72 was hilarious. After 50 years the US of A is trying to blame all other factors. They replayed the ending until the soviets win! Which is why I’m surprised you don’t love the suns, they are the quintessential US team. They blame everyone else.
There you go again trying to start a fight because you can't sustain a friendship, amb.
No intention of it. The US did try to blame everything but themselves for 72. The soviets won the game. Let it go.
The suns are still ing about every single game they lost. Match made in heaven.
Some of the Silver Medals are still in a vault somewhere in Switzerland. The guys (I remember Tom McMillen for one) wouldn't accept 'em.
lebron is arguably the best player to ever pick up a basketball (almost unanimously top 2) and the guy hasnt played internationally in over a decade. its pretty fair to say the US doesnt have their best talent out there. durant alone basically carried the US to the gold last time. but there was no lebron, no curry. it was durant and tatum carrying.
but even with all the "these great players just dont care enough to play" excuses, the US simply doesnt have the centers to compete with the international guys. you look at, say, the top rebounders in the nba, and its sabonis, giannis, jokic, gobert, vucevic, capela, valanciunas, embiid, then finally julian randle, and he's not a center. you have to get to... ayton and jarrett allen, and thats a depressing picture
I don't see it whatsoever. Never have. He's never survived and delivered under a gun.
FFS where do you rate Lebrons take down of the Golden gots in 2016?
An arrangement out of New York.
A game, no not a game but a series, no not a series but a Finals series rigged to defeat the Golden gots 2015 - present?
Dale you've gone bonkers.
A game, no not a game but a series, no not a series but a Finals series rigged to defeat the Golden gots 2015 - present?
Dale you've gone bonkers.
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