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Kerr in midseason form, I've heard him give alot of these type of quotes after Warriors losses the last couple of years

 
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It is amazing how well LeBron moves at his age. This is unlike anything we have ever seen. Jabbar played forever but by 39 he was not nearly moving like an elite athlete. Brady played forever and was able to avoid getting injured by huge, fast and strong young men. But not because of athletic ability. James is just amazing the way he moves, how quickly he elevates, I mean he could play another three four years easy IMO.

As for the game. The team showed indifference…..did not play defense and ran into a team that was making all their shots. They would have been blown out by any of five teams that will be in the Olympics. Even with better effort do not see this team winning gold. It will be an accomplishment just to get to the medal round.

It is even hard to call this group a team. There are too many agendas to keep track of with all the drama starting with Brown and White situation.

I would not have even watched was just passing time waiting for the Stars of Storrs game to start.
 
Hunt for 7 said:
It is amazing how well LeBron moves at his age. This is unlike anything we have ever seen. Jabbar played forever but by 39 he was not nearly moving like an elite athlete. Brady played forever and was able to avoid getting injured by huge, fast and strong young men. But not because of athletic ability. James is just amazing the way he moves, how quickly he elevates, I mean he could play another three four years easy IMO.

As for the game. The team showed indifference…..did not play defense and ran into a team that was making all their shots. They would have been blown out by any of five teams that will be in the Olympics. Even with better effort do not see this team winning gold. It will be an accomplishment just to get to the medal round.

It is even hard to call this group a team. There are too many agendas to keep track of with all the drama starting with Brown and White situation.

I would not have even watched was just passing time waiting for the Stars of Storrs game to start.
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And now we reach the point where we jump off the deep end
 
Hunt for 7 said:
Even with better effort do not see this team winning gold. It will be an accomplishment just to get to the medal round.
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They're still the prohibitive favorite to win gold. There's a ton of talent on the team compared to the rest of the world. But they'll need to take the games more seriously than they did against South Sudan. I'm sure they will.

Who are the other teams that you think have a better chance to win medals?
 
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I understand they will be prohibitive favorites which is part of the reason I think they will get beat. They will walk into the gym with the completely wrong attitude and a team will jump them to start the game. There is a history of this and that is what happened yesterday.

I understand the talent level with AD, Ant, Tatum, Durant, Curry, LeBron et al is not comparable. But with one open position they bring in White. To me that was a tell on what management thinks about this team. They were not looking for more talent they just wanted less drama, availability and effort. Hoping maybe it will rub off on the team.

As for the teams that could bet them:

Serbia because when it matters Joker will make everyone on that team better when they are on the court with him.

France who knows maybe this is where Wemby controls every aspect of a game or two but as currently constructed if a team plays defense against them they may have trouble scoring.

Canada has a very good roster with SGA and he could go off. Barrett nice complimentary piece and they will bring effort and Barrett always plays with a chip on his shoulder and has gotten better since leaving New York and that pressure. And they have ten nba player on their roster.

Greece is the Freak playing? If so he is also capable of making everyone else on the floor better when they are playing with him.

Australia has seven nba players on their roster. There history against us sucks but maybe they are due.

But I am not basing my opinion on any of the other teams. I am basing it on what I see or don’t see when I watch this group of great players play a basketball game. Now maybe everything picks up a notch when the games start, but let’s say AD gets hurt which you know has been known to happen….and they lose an early game. Can they deal with the conflict and let’s be honest the rest of the world rooting against them…without fracturing.
 
Hunt for 7 said:
It is amazing how well LeBron moves at his age. This is unlike anything we have ever seen. Jabbar played forever but by 39 he was not nearly moving like an elite athlete. Brady played forever and was able to avoid getting injured by huge, fast and strong young men. But not because of athletic ability. James is just amazing the way he moves, how quickly he elevates, I mean he could play another three four years easy IMO.

As for the game. The team showed indifference…..did not play defense and ran into a team that was making all their shots. They would have been blown out by any of five teams that will be in the Olympics. Even with better effort do not see this team winning gold. It will be an accomplishment just to get to the medal round.

It is even hard to call this group a team. There are too many agendas to keep track of with all the drama starting with Brown and White situation.

I would not have even watched was just passing time waiting for the Stars of Storrs game to start.
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Agreed.
The fact that he has stayed relatively healthy his entire career, along with coming straight out of high school, I find it hard for anyone to replicate is durability for generations.
 
Anthony Davis is so much better as the USA 5 over Embiid that it's not even close
 
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Haven't seen Neil's on the court yet.

USA having tough time to pull away. Up 59 to 55
 
Kerr still sticking with this starting lineup even tho it's been poor throughout the friendlies. KD will replace either Booker or Jrue but I still don't think Embiid is the right choice at the 5
 
Marat said:
Haven't seen Neil's on the court yet.

USA having tough time to pull away. Up 59 to 55
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I don't see him playing much, he had a pretty good role in the last Eurobasket in 2022 but he was already being phased out in the World Cup that took place last year.
 
Tatum should not be this big of a downgrade from KD at this stage of his career, he is awful to watch in international play
 
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Too much one on one from USA. Not looking great. They need Hurley as coach to teach them how to play as a team.

End of 3rd Q, USA down by 3 to Germany.
 
nothing but dumb iso ball to end the quarter meanwhile Kerr has Hali sitting on the bench with Antman playing mindless hoops. Again, dude needs to be a one and done Team USA coach.
 
Marat said:
Too much one on one from USA. Not looking great. They need Hurley as coach to teach them how to play as a team.

End of 3rd Q, USA down by 3 to Germany.
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Yup. And rotations and substitutions have not been on point.
 
Marat said:
Too much one on one from USA. Not looking great. They need Hurley as coach to teach them how to play as a team.

End of 3rd Q, USA down by 3 to Germany.
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If Hurley isn’t going to the NBA anytime soon, becoming coach of USA to be thought of as the best coach in basketball still like a Coach K would be a great next move.

It would continue to take us to another stratosphere too.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Not good. Talent isn't what it used to be
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It absolutely is. It's more equally distributed now, that's all.

Of course, South Sudan was a 43-point underdog for a reason and that was almost an upset of historic proportions.
 
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uconngb said:
I’d rather watch curling than this sorry group. Zero entertainment factor.
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That was entertaining as hell! USA almost got run out of the building, made a gigantic comeback, choked it away, then needed LeBron to score and the team to play D for one last possession.

It certainly wasn't a good game for the US by any stretch of the imagination but if that's not entertainment I don't know what is. Beating teams by 40?

Although maybe the US should focus on trying to avoid making things "interesting." Up 3 on Germany.
 
It’s honestly crazy a 40 yr old is their best player still. Kerr can’t coach outside of the perfect system, and US’ defense is pretty awful.
 
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