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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2476900, member: 7874"] Yeah! It was pure politics selecting Taurasi, Bird, Catchings, Augustus, Moore, Fowles, McCoughtry, Charles, Whalen, Stewart, Delle Donne, and Griner. These are the winningest of the winners and you want to give some poor college kid a shot just because it is their turn. Poor babies! If they can play like Stewart, I'm all for it. You do understand how good she is ... don't you? Why not go back to the USA only sends amateurs to the Olympics and enjoy watching the USA teams lose to the other nations' professionals? Yeah, the USA men's Dream Team should have never happened. Should have send all college kids. Heck, the Dream Team's opponents could not wait to lose so they get their picture taken with the Dream Team. So they could show people these are the giants of basketball that kicked our collective behinds and we loved every moment of it. AND we got our picture taken with them! Autographed no doubt. Reread the aforementioned names. Yeah, the giants of women's basketball. "But we don't care. Their turn is up." It is up when they are beat out for their position. If a young player can do this, put them on the team, post haste. Is USA Basketball perfect? No, nothing is perfect. Is the world unfair? Yep, sure is. Perhaps these kids need to learn this lesson early in life. Have a good cry or two or three and move on with life and learn how to deal with it. Such as practicing to become as good as the aforementioned players so they can EARN a place on the USA Olympic and World Championship teams. [/QUOTE]

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