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Message: [QUOTE="bbsamjj, post: 3997928, member: 1738"] I think this issue that Chiney brought up on twitter (and Derek Fischer reiterated) is that if they did indeed have a long talk with Nneka, this would be the second/third time they've had the talk with her. And apparently the talk in the past wasn't "you're not good enough," it's...wait your turn, you're very important to us, we see a big future for you on the team. So to be told that, and to do everything right (win a WNBA MVP, be on the WNBA all defensive teams, and show up whenever USA calls and perform well) and STILL get left off definitely feels unfair...even if I understand it from a purely basketball perspective. We'll never know exactly what conversations were had by Parker and USA basketball, but according to Candace, she felt blind-sighted. The most positive spin, which Voepel [URL='https://www.espn.com/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/15353813/leaving-candace-parker-rio-team-bad-call-usa-basketball']wrote[/URL] about at the time, was: [I]"Some will say it's strictly strategic: that the U.S. team somehow felt it had a surplus of what Parker does, and despite her being on the short list of "best in the world," she was the odd woman out."[/I] [/QUOTE]