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kyrie, klay, durant, draymond, boogie is a great starting 5

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl-4_iIUkAAm0iw.jpg

photographer must have been fond of that backdrop

lol durant

lol I just got that pic.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmAn8ssXEAEk8rK.jpg:large
did they use puff paint for the lettering or what

why are they covering their dicks

they all have NRBs

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/2016-olympics-basketball-united-states-dream-team-rankings

lol Nike stuck all the non nike dudes in the back and burned out their shoes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqtzYHVMAAxrJb.jpg

ha nice

Nick DePaula ‏@NickDePaula 56m56 minutes ago
A USA tradition since 2008, when players lined up in reverse order so Coach K himself could block Dwight's adidas
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqyxTNUMAEzjNs.jpg:large

a company man to the core

kobe wearing the generic team shoes or is everyone wearing kobes

btw was thinking the other day abt how kidd wldve been an alltimer if only he knew how to shoot

lmao this usa roster is all wings except for boogie and deandre

wow that 2008 pic, so obvious. yah looks like everyone wearing generic Kobe's unless they had their own line (CP/Melo jordans, LBJs). looks like wade almost got any with one there but nah converse owns nike

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 16s17 seconds ago
Report: Marc Gasol not playing for Spain in Olympics

bummer

Aww I always enjoy the full double gasol Spain lineup

lol draymond has made like 4 shots so far in 5 games, hitting nothing but backboard often.

france just got blown tf out by australia while looking extremely shook

2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

here

Colangelo stepping down from USA bball

highlights from the usa vs aus game this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw1wVCsxFnk

3 minutes left USA down 4 to Aussies

patty thrillz BALLIN

first win over the usa by australia

this usa team is gonna have to actually play good basketball

teams thatve been playing together forever can close big talent gaps

if yr team is bron kd et al u dont really have to worry about it but if kemba is yr best guy...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl-4_iIUkAAm0iw.jpg

this was a good pic

was all the negative space editorial foreshadowing or

One of the worst chokes in sports history from Turkey. Up 1 with 9 seconds left and they miss 4 consecutive free throws

Erdogan’s fault

Kanter cursed them to help his new teammates.

Curry has committed to play at the Tokyo olympics.... wonder if colangelo will allow him to play...

so has dame

Curry has committed to play at the Tokyo olympics.... wonder if colangelo will allow him to play...

― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:13 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i mean are you really wondering about this?

No was being facetious

Thought that colangelo quote was idiotic.

probably time to give the reins to somebody else

hill seems like an interesting choice. definitely a very different career path than colangelo.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31188277/usa-basketball-picks-grant-hill-replace-jerry-colangelo-managing-director

Team USA announces basketball roster:

Bam Adebayo
Bradley Beal
Devin Booker
Kevin Durant
Jerami Grant
Draymond Green
Jrue Holiday
Zach LaVine
Damian Lillard
Kevin Love
Khris Middleton
Jayson Tatum

Coaches:
Pop
Steve Kerr
Lloyd Pierce
Jay Wright

very strange team. i dont get the k love inclusion at all

cant really remember which teams can compete but here are the FIBA rankings
https://www.fiba.basketball/rankingmen

I’m trying to stitch together a starting five from that and it’s like dame, booker, kd, bam, draymond? that team doesn’t have a real center at all!

i think their plan is to just outgun everyone and punish the gasol bros and jokic and gobert and whoever else

durant is not actually playing right

he loves to ball

i see it more like starters:

dame
beal
khris
kd
bam

2nd unit:

jrue
booker
lavine
khris/tatum
dray

spot minutes:

grant
love

you could swap jrue and beal defense for offense depending on the matchups

_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.