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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 5050233, member: 1026"] I'm a basketball fan posting on a niche basketball website, so of course I follow Olympic hoops. That's how I knew the best player for Deutschland was a Wagner, who is not even an all-NBA talent - so you artfully avoided the question and listed all of the NBA players in the tourney. It is hyperbole, but this might be the most competitive [B][I]international[/I][/B] basketball tournament ever, however we will see. Yet in terms of highly competitive basketball its proven a notch below even by your way of substantiating the quality. Your talent proof is to list NBA players. However, the Wagners and Schroeder as your leads would be underdogs in an NBA playoff series. Different rules of course and the international squads are experienced playing together, but very likely teams 2-7 on the list would struggle to get out of the first round in an NBA playoff series. To test international vs NBA it could be cool if they invite a few internationals to the NBA Cup every year to play that out. That's more CRAZY talk I suppose that maybe should be qualified as a theoretical construct even on a superfluous college hoop fan message board. [/QUOTE]