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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 5339093, member: 7511"] Not exactly my point. While developing players to compete at the international level is always a goal, what I am more focused on is the tendency by USA Basketball to select players who are past their prime when younger players who will develop into international stars are available. The Olympic team must be a meritocracy. Players should be selected on the basis of what they will do, not what they have done in the past. I love DT. She will always be the GOAT imo. But I caught some grief for suggesting that DT should not have been on this last Olympic team. She averaged just 1 ppg, shooting only 16% (11% from 3). In 3 of the 5 games she played in she had 0 points and she never saw the floor in the intense championship game against France. I felt bad for DT. That was not the way the GOAT should end her tremendous Olympic career. There were a number of younger players who I would have preferred to see on the roster. [/QUOTE]