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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 4983608, member: 2839"] Irrelevant. For one thing, the 1980 USA hockey team was not a squad of individual All-Stars, per se, The players invited to camp were selected specifically to engineer a team to beat the Soviets at that specific time and place. Brooks also had a nationwide pool of the best individual American amateur players in the country from which to select the right one. As dominant as they were, UConn can draw upon only the 2024 squad, who are a collection of players recruited over a 4 year period to win a college national championship. Also, If Hurley had his druthers a key player or two would not have been on the 2024 team. The full court press for Cam Spencer was triggered by Nick Timberlake choosing Kansas. It's arguable that Plan B has ever worked out better. There's a story about Brian Scalabrine who played 11 seasons in the NBA and was the Chief Playoff Towel Waver on the 2008 World Champion Boston Celtics (KG, Pierce, & our own Walter Ray Allen, Jr.). "[I]Playing this YMCA rec league, I dropped 60 in a game,[/I]" Scalabrine said on [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3zQoy6lL2Y']Duncan Robinson's podcast[/URL]. "[I]I wasn't trying to brag or anything like that. It was just like, 'Yeah, I had a good game. I had 60 the other night in my rec league.' So, people immediately started tweeting, 'You suck, Scal. I'll beat you.' I'm like, 'Listen. [B]I may suck for an NBA player. Those guys are pretty good. But I don't suck compared to you. You suck compared to me. ...[/B][/I] Scal played 4 guys one-on-one, including a player with D1 experience. He outscored them by a combined 44-6. [I]..."[I]There's a legendary quote that came from that, which is that, [/I][B][I]'I'm way closer to LeBron than you are to me,'[/I]"[/B] the Miami Heat sharpshooter said.[/I] FWIW, DraftKings put the Pistons as a -45 favorite vs UConn. I think UConn might cover that, but they aren't winning a single game, outright. [MEDIA=youtube]hNHFM8ezUpg[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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