USA Basketball

Good game

we couldn’t have done it without lloyd pierce

the shenanigans at the end there notwithstanding, this ended up being a pretty drama free run to the gold. they basically played poor first halves vs spain and australia but still blew both of them out and they were in control this entire game it never felt like france was gonna take the lead let alone hold it

2024 should be fun with a lot of guys on this team coming back and adding ja, zion, trae, cade etc

that was fun. adios basketball, see you in a few months

Nice to see dame have a good game finally

I'm guessing the weird, slick, oversized international ball threw off Dame's shot more than a little. Other players, like Tatum, seemed to adjust to it better.

i was pretty sure they had it wrapped up, but dame missing those two fts made me a little tense.

feel like team usa needs another good center to back up or even play with bam, but i'm not really sure who my first choice would be.

Ben Simmons

myles turnerrrrr

_Nice to see dame have a good game finally_

I'm guessing the weird, slick, oversized international ball threw off Dame's shot more than a little. Other players, like Tatum, seemed to adjust to it better.

Really think jrue and draymond were the key to a lot of the teams success.

Who else in the nba would call out kd like this

Draymond Green yells at Kevin Durant for not contesting the three. On the next possession KD blocks a three point attempt pic.twitter.com/Ru8PYFUZ9e

— Thomas Sullivan (@Yfz84) August 7, 2021

dame couldn't play his normal game where everything on the court revolves around him, and some of his three shooting was a bit off. it's such a small sample at the end of the day. but he was better tonight.

It’s the same size.

According to this site the official NBA ball is 29.5 inches in circumference and exactly 22 oz. (~625 grams), while the official international FIBA ball is 30.7 inches in circumference and the weight can vary between 567 and 650 gm.

feel like team usa needs another good center to back up or even play with bam, but i'm not really sure who my first choice would be.

― circles, Saturday, August 7, 2021 12:39 AM (thirteen minutes ago)

anthony davis will be 32 in 2024 it's not out of the question that he could play. otherwise it's basically like myles turner and christian wood lol. jarret allen and mitchell robinson are like the next rung, not very inspiring.

but by 2024 you'd have wiseman, evan mobley as potential options, chet holmgren. zion could be considered a center. this team just had a weird dip with the bigs.

Pamela and JaVale McGee are now officially the 2nd mother / son to both win Olympic gold medals - first for the USA. The other pair was Valentina Rastvorova (URS/FEN-1960) and her son, Yevgeny Grishin (URS/WAP-1980).

— Bill Mallon (@bambam1729) August 7, 2021

According to this site the official NBA ball is 29.5 inches in circumference and exactly 22 oz. (~625 grams), while the official international FIBA ball is 30.7 inches in circumference and the weight can vary between 567 and 650 gm.

― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, August 7, 2021 12:58 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok the allowed variation in weight of the fiba ball is insane

Yah they are both 29.5 I dunno what that’s on about? Inflate it to death?

Dray having himself some fun on twitter dunking on the disbelievers

is this the first time US lost an olympic game and still went on to win the gold?

Oh man

It looks like Aron Baynes' injury during the Boomers' bronze-medal run in Tokyo is more serious than initially thought. 😢 pic.twitter.com/SFThluDZev

— theScore (@theScore) August 7, 2021

whaaaaat

aw, that sucks, i didn't realize he'd been hurt.

i feel like in the team usa context, centers who can protect the rim and play good man defense on other teams' skilled centers are the priority. shooting, passing, switchability are all nice, too, but go-to scoring ability is not important when they usually have that from 1 to 4.

if he's healthy and wants to play, brow is the best option, but i'm skeptical that both of those things will be true. myles turner should fit well. he obviously should have made the team over kevin love this year. if any of wiseman, mobley, and holmgen look good in three years, that'd be awesome. would love to have zion on team usa, but he doesn't really bring the stuff i'd want from a center on defense. i'd rather have him wrecking guys at the 4.

kawhi out.

looks like canada has the 2nd best roster on paper

derrick white replacing kawhi is a very weird choice imo. but i guess they want two way guys and no egos or weird energy?

they needed more guard defense and now theyve got the best defensive backcourt in nba history on board

wonder if they wanted jaylen but couldnt do it cause hes in mecca

yeah three celtics but not jaylen is interesting

derrick is a perfect fit but jaylen def couldve filled that slot too

as a kawhi replacement if they were looking to go 1 for 1 then jaylen makes more sense but they probably figured out something else they needed once scrimmages started

yeah i mean you look at their guards theyve got jrue but then its hali steph ant book outside of hali its not terrible but more defense there would be nice and then white can shoot doesnt need the ball is a great connector, wouldnt be surprised if they wanted jaylen first tho theres a lot of overlap in their skills but hes huge and athletic and can do more on his own

plus he is the nba finals mvp

think specifically usa guards pre white were vulnerable to lil quick guys

Canada released their roster today:

Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Toronto, Ont.)
RJ Barrett (Mississauga, Ont.)
Khem Birch (Montreal, Que.)
Dillon Brooks (Mississauga, Ont.)
Luguentz Dort (Montreal, Que.)
Melvin Ejim (Toronto, Ont.)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Hamilton, Ont.)
Trey Lyles (Saskatoon, Sask.)
Jamal Murray (Kitchener, Ont.)
Andrew Nembhard (Aurora, Ont.)
Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, B.C.)
Dwight Powell (Toronto, Ont.)

Their best line-up ever on paper, but almost no NBA quality bigs

cmon theyve got kelly o

crazy what a basketball factory greater toronto has become

dort brooks NAW SGA are some solid defensive players. hope they meet in the gold medal game

it should be easy to advance to the knockout rounds, 8 of 12 advance to quarterfinals

group a
australia
greece
canada
spain

this is the toughest one, spain isnt what it used to be but theyre no slouches, greece has giannis, aus has a lot of experience together and nba talent, canada should win this group tho.

group b
france
germany
japan
brazil

weakest group, france should cruise (germany's world cup win last year notwithstanding).

group c
serbia
south sudan
puerto rico
usa

puerto rico is scrappy, but serbia and us should cruise.

apparently that group of death is that way cause they do the seeds based on some multi year ranking system that way underrates canada cause they havent been good for that long

@nike this what we doing ?

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) July 10, 2024

whats the story with that?

nike run team usa and jaylen is not a nike athlete

theres a handful of dudes on there that arent nike

yeah but have they tweeted that nike is unethical

is it true that nike runs the team what the story with that

ever since citizens united yeah

lol

thought they looked horrible in the 1st and it was mostly to do with embiid looking completely unplayable

think theyre gonna settle in on a steph / ant / kd / lebron / ad lineup as their best/closing lineup. maybe booker in place of ant

they shld go w white jrue tatum bron brow celtics-lakers national unity line up

that’s a pretty good lineup