Olympic women's basketball tournament (5x5) (SPOILER ALERT)

[hoophuskee]

No I wasn't. I wasn't looking at her facial expression. What I was looking at was
her holding the ball high over her head without immediately looking to pass in a
way to make fun of her shorter opponent for all to see. The referee's smile suggests
that she was successful.

You didn't see it that way. Fine.

Okay I didn't feel that way at all. But I understand what you’re saying. No problem.

But I felt she was holding it high waiting to make a pass. But the way Japan was very aggressively up in Team USA's faces with guard play and being so physical while trying to push tempo- I felt this was nothing more than similarly a guard dribbling 30-35 feet from the basket.

Matter-of-fact prior to this photo being showed here- I spoke of DT never getting ahead of herself and part of that means "don't get rushed." When I made this type of comment I had recalled this play briefly (among others). I liked it. In some cases Japan "wants" the quick pass. I felt what DT was doing was nothing more than slowing pace and would not allow herself to be rushed so a Japan player can jump/pickoff the next pass.

 

[phil sampieri]

Okay I didn't feel that way at all. But I understand what you’re saying. No problem.

But I felt she was holding it high waiting to make a pass. But the way Japan was very aggressively up in Team USA's faces with guard play and being so physical while trying to push tempo- I felt this was nothing more than similarly a guard dribbling 30-35 feet from the basket.

Matter-of-fact prior to this photo being showed here- I spoke of DT never getting ahead of herself and part of that means "don't get rushed." When I made this type of comment I had recalled this play briefly (among others). I liked it. In some cases Japan "wants" the quick pass. I felt what DT was doing was nothing more than slowing pace and would not allow herself to be rushed so a Japan player can jump/pickoff the next pass.

Who says some of the boneyard fans don’t know basketball. Great observation and an example being set tongue young players

 

[BBallF]

Did not meant to suggest they were PGs. Gray and Ionescu are the closest to "pure" PGs in the league right now, outside Bird and Vandersloot. I'm a big fan of Cloud in DC but I don't think she's a good enough shooter to make the team.

I think this began with youth and AAU coaches. If a guard, show you can score, shoot the 3 and drive. You don't get attention with assists. I don't see a lot of choices in the future and I do believe you need one to dominate.

 

[Argonaut]

I think this is a really not fair competition , and both the ref and DT are smiling .

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Take this out if the Olympics and put this into a C-level gym in Ohio, and this very well could be a picture of me playing basketball in high school.

Note: I am not the Diana in this situation.

 

[Plebe]

Not Dee twerking lol

Ha apparently it's been quite a hit on Twitter. One retweet I saw said: "I didn't have Diana Taurasi twerking on my 2021 bingo card."