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yeah, other than australia which has some great young talent (if this team comes back with a seasons ben simmons and dante exum? could be cool), im worried about the international competition getting weaker in relation to US. argentina will be trash in 2020 sans manu and scola and delfino and nocioni...holy shit theyre old. spain probably wont have the gasols in 4 years (maybe marc?) and other than rubio, who else? nene and barbosa are on their last legs for brazil. it's weird, it feels like the nba got more international but the international teams arent closing the gap that well. is it that good (but not great) euro players stay in the euro leagues and dont get to face NBA-level competition?
croatia and serbia are developing some good youngsters, so maybe the eastern euro squads make a leap with australia next time.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
should say "seasoned" ben simmons
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
team usa are always going to be better, they have a much larger talent pool than any other country
― micah, Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
canada's gotta make the next olympics
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
i'm still really bitter about missing this one
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
think they have a replay online?
― Spottie, Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
if you could form teams by continents it would actually be really cool imo
― micah, Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
Canada could maybe be okay next cycle xps
― Clay, Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
― micah, Wednesday, August 10, 2016 11:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well yeah, im not suggesting absolute parity, but 2004 happened. spain made some things competitive once. i guess australia is in that spot now. but im more thinking of outside of the us, there seemed to be many countries getting in the mix for medals and it feels like some of those power countries (russia gone, argentina and brazil will be, what will spain look like, etc) arent necessraily getting overtaken by equally powerful teams.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Thursday, 11 August 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
nice manu and argentina team tribute
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/17262551/manu-ginobili-built-legacy-love-team-storied-career
― circles, Friday, 12 August 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
just finished reading it, i want manu to adopt me
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 12 August 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
he seems like he would be a good dad.
― circles, Friday, 12 August 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
"It's just winks and blinks with Manu, mate," Mills said.
― circles, Friday, 12 August 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
coach K sucks.
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
7 point game in the 3rd vs serbia
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
KLay has been soooo garbage these olympics
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
visions of the future competing with KD for touches???
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
probably just smoking too much weed and not caring
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
he also may just hate the smaller ball
Jokic puttin in work
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
he's so good. nuggets gonna be fun this year
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
4 pt game 7 min left
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
usa looks vulnerable, tho i never feel like theyre doomed due to ability to jack up score very fast.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
man kyrie is fun to watch
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah seems like he and melo are the only ones that are going all out.
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
all 3 warriors been pretty bad/invisible whole olympics from what i've seen
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
yah, draymond still got the effort but his offense has been bad
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
marv keeps calling Jokic "Jokavic"
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
respect to serbia tho
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
USA zero ball movement
yeah these dudes are ballin
ya draw up some plays, coach. key-rist.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
WOWWW 3 point game serbias ball
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
so lucky, why did draymond leave his guy!
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
what a game
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
went for the steal, no?p george: "we're relying on our natural talent too much. makes it easy to guard us". sums up team usa since I can remember.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
Was just surprised that was a pretty big gamble. Paul George otm.
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
uh apparently the press and or people have started calling this USA group "The Meme Team" so let me be the first to say aussie aussie aussie oy oy oy
― Clay, Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
The double overtime Brazil-Argentina game was excellent
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 August 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
yesssss nocioni hopped in that wayback machine. scola was trash. manu couldnt shoot worth a shit but did plenty of manu things. campazzo was trying to get nominated for best baller in a short body award.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Saturday, 13 August 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Missed that game :/
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Manu's chasedown perimeter block was sweet
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Sunday, 14 August 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
USA tearing it up in women's swimming and gymnastics
― Treeship, Sunday, 14 August 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
hoops, treesh, hoops! this board is I love hoops.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 14 August 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
BISE do your worst
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Sunday, 14 August 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
yellow card def warranted
― Clay, Sunday, 14 August 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
Lol I was gonna say something but I think I've hardmanned Treeship enough
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 August 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
Boogie is not a good fit for this team. or for int'l ball.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 14 August 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
or for the kings. he might be bad at basketball.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 14 August 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
like i know he's incredibly productive, but he just turned 26 and seems to be kinda bad at defense and passing and knowing where to be.
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 14 August 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link