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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 5057263, member: 12414"] I was wrong. I went to far calling you a troll, I do apologize for that, I was wrong for doing that as your posting history has too much cred for me to have gone down that road. But looking at it now winning the gold was an accomplishment not a given which is kind of where I was from the beginning. I am not shocked they won the gold medal. In fact calling it an accomplishment turned out to be a pretty accurate assessment of how things turned out. Not sure you are old enough to remember the gold medal game against Russia. The older Collins was on that team made of college players lost the game as Russia was given three chances to win the game. I was a young kid. I think it was the 72 games so I was not even ten years old but I was mad as heck about that and I definitely cried after that game. That game meant a whole bunch as we were still ducking under our desks in school during the nuclear bomb drills. I hated Russia for having to watch the kids in my class start crying every time that alarm went off and we had to get under our desks and prepare to die. So for me that is my reference point. That game mattered a whole bunch more than any Men’s BB gold medal until the dream team ended all speculation. If Russia and China were going to use grown men who were as professional as you could get we did the same and showed the world the real deal. As I have outlined I was not rooting for other countries. The US had some players or at least one player who is a straight up jerk. Is anyone really a fan of Embid, I will never forget him grabbing Robinson leg and twisting when he was on the ground in the playoff series against the Knicks. Embid is everything in a player that as UConn fans we despise. Doubt he would have been recruited by our staff when he was entering college. Embid just played for the US because he wanted a gold medal. For me this was all about character and desire. As for the team I knew they would be challenged and as I have stated my problem except for Curry and LeBron, I have issues with how some of the players on this team conduct themselves. But as you noted I am fine moving on and I do apologize for the troll reference. But I am six figures better on my betting app betting against them to cover during the last two games. [/QUOTE]

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