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2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro - hoops thread

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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

durant is not actually playing right

― k3vin k., Monday, June 28, 2021 4:40 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

why wouldnt he?

kd will play c

some center but wont start at center

why wouldnt he?

― pure rim rest (Spottie), Monday, June 28, 2021 7:58 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

he’s getting old and just had a huge injury?

This team will lose

to whomst

big mistake going away from the all celtics team if anything they should have gone with more celtics

theres no way you can defeat top level international competition with only one celtic

why doesn't this team have more of "the young guys"

does spottie thing kris middleton is better than jayson tatum???????????

if i'm making a team for the olympics it's like

lamelo
booker
tatum
zion
ayton

trae
donovan mitchell
ingram
bam
myles turner

ja
brown

idk just spitballing but i think they're all under 25 and this would be way more fun

and they would just athletic those euros out of the gym

does spottie thing kris middleton is better than jayson tatum???????????

guess i'm in charge of team usa now, it's a burden but i will do my best for my country

https://acegif.com/wp-content/uploads/flag-america-usa.gif

if i'm making a team for the olympics it's like

lamelo
booker
tatum
zion
ayton

trae
donovan mitchell
ingram
bam
myles turner

jabrown

idk just spitballing but i think they're all under 25 and this would be way more fun

This team will lose

Judging on past games, international rules and officiating appear to be a difficult adjustment for US players who haven't been exposed much to them. That, plus developing a sense of your teammates by playing together, have always been the weaknesses of the US teams. The talent is always off the charts.

and they would just athletic those euros out of the gym

I respect your hoops opinions more than just about anyone, but this doesn't happen! We've been burned before with this mindset

yeah youre prob right but still it would be fun to see them try

very strange team. i dont get the k love inclusion at all
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Monday, June 28, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/jalen-rose-on-the-nba-playoffs

You recently said that the Cavs forward Kevin Love was chosen for Team U.S.A. because there was a desire for a team that wasn’t all Black. You then said you misspoke. What do you think now about the way the team is chosen?

So being a multimedia personality, it’s like being a referee. When I blow the whistle, the team that gets the call, they go to the free-throw line and they are happy that they got the whistle in their favor. The team that the call went against, they want to challenge the call.

For me, there’s two different styles of media. There’s the news-style media, for example, that I do on “N.B.A. Countdown.” That’s where you have the stats, right, you have the facts, right, and want to make sure that you’re delivering and you’re sticking the landing. A show like “Jalen & Jacoby,” that’s a variety show. It’s an opinion show. So what you do, as you know, is to try to entertain your audience in a provocative way. You do it, in this case, through sports. So as somebody that has covered and followed the N.B.A. for as long as I have, when I first saw Team U.S.A.’s roster, the first thing that came to mind to me was that Kevin Love, based on his play this year, didn’t deserve to be on that team.

I really hate that it kind of became what it became, because everybody that we speak on—this will be my nineteenth consecutive year covering the N.B.A. on television—each of the players that I cover or talk about, or coaches, I’m one text away from that person at all times. So my first overarching point was if we had to pick twelve players to go represent Team USA, I didn’t think he should have been one of those twelve players. So then it’s, like, O.K., what is the reason that he’s on the team? My conclusion about tokenism was just an opinion; it wasn’t personal. Me saying that in 2020, that it’s O.K. to have an all-Black team, it didn’t mean that I didn’t know that we didn’t have an all-Black team in the past. I clearly do know that. But, also, when you’ve been doing this for so very long, you assess yourself. One of the reasons that I feel that I went wrong is because I’m integrated in the N.B.A. family. If that’s going to be somebody’s opinion, which is a valid opinion that a lot of people are going to have when they see that roster—if that’s going to be said, I deduced that it shouldn’t be said by me.