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Heim

Heim

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They showed South Sudan who invented basketball. As a 43 point favorite they hung on for dear life. 101-100.

Raise your hand if you knew South Sudan had a team.

This U.S teams seems very dis-jointed imo. A bunch of square pegs trying to fit in a round hole. Their scrimmages with college players led by Flagg (Duke super frosh) were close.
 
mr merlin

mr merlin

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Good, I hope we lose early in the games, every opening ceremony those cocky american bastards march into the stadium like they own the place, very irritating.
 
Heim

Heim

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The current Olympians don't take this serious anymore. You watch their practices in Vegas...photo oops with Kamala, dicking around with half court shooting. It's definitely not a lock anymore. AUS almost beat them last week.

Naturally they're going to medal. I'm curious what the Gold Medal odds are on them?
 
kane

kane

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Heim said:
I'm curious what the Gold Medal odds are on them?
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Three of my outs have a price up, one of them is using -500 the other two are -650, the only team that can beat team USA is team USA, if they show up and bring their A game, they'll win the gold, if they play with a lazy attitude and assume other teams will roll over for them, they can be beat
 
kane

kane

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Heim said:
The current Olympians don't take this serious anymore.
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Just the other day I saw a doc called "The Redeem Team", about the 2008 Men's olympic basketball team, really good, some great behind the scenes stuff, Coach K went to great lengths to get them to not take winning for granted, to keep them from being overconfident
 
Heim

Heim

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Lebron's layup with 8 seconds left was the go-ahead basket Saturday as the U.S. Olympic Team squeaked by with a 101-100 win over South Sudan in London, avoiding what could have perhaps been the biggest upset in the program's history.
 
Heim

Heim

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I would have chuckled at a Fezzian ML here with the knee jerk USA wins this game 99 out of 100 times 🙄
 
B

boston massacre

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Heim said:
They showed South Sudan who invented basketball. As a 43 point favorite they hung on for dear life. 101-100.

Raise your hand if you knew South Sudan had a team.

This U.S teams seems very dis-jointed imo. A bunch of square pegs trying to fit in a round hole. Their scrimmages with college players led by Flagg (Duke super frosh) were close.
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Anybody on That South Sudan Roster Play on an NBA Team ?

Never Even Knew South Sudan Had a Team.

Never Knew a South Sudan Existed.

Knew a Sudan Existed , But Not a South Sudan.
 
kane

kane

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Kobe set the tone for the team, he refused to let them take winning for granted, this is a short clip of Kobe's mentality



 
Heim

Heim

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USA eeks out a win v. Germany thanks to King James late. Curry looks like shit, ANT can't orchestrate a pick and roll
to save his life. Tatum looks worn out.

I have Canada at +1100, I hate this U.S team.
 
Heim

Heim

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It goes to show you, in international play, the 'bigs' are more important than the NBA. See CAN v. FRA
 
Heim

Heim

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Interesting, without Jokic to set picks and roll to draw defenses, Murray looked like Bronny James in Olympics.
 
Heim

Heim

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I had a good laugh the other day when Rodman said Kerr doesn't do shit he just rolls the balls out
and points to the basket...

In defense of Kerr, what are you going to tell these future HOFers? They actually ran a back door
to Durant yesterday versus Brazil.

They haven't been running much.
 
choslamshe

choslamshe

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Understanding how young and raw he still is, Wemby has mostly looked gross to me this tournament - today's knockout game no different. Cordinier, Lessort, and Yabusele been their best/most consistent players. Gobert not a part of the rotation much, for every 'baller' game you get out of Fournier, you get 2-3 that you forget he's on the team.
 
Heim

Heim

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I don't understand not playing Tatum in these games. Kerr is treating him like a red headed step child. Today, only Steph, Lebron and Embiid showed any offense, they couldn't use Tatum's offense and rebounding!?
 
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The majority of 'experts' on social media are 'dogging' the USA for almost losing to Serbia who only had 2-3 NBA guys. Aside from USA being together only a few months, they don't understand, these AS on USA become role players just like other countries. There's only one basketball. Teams like Serbia that have grown up together in their respective leagues are always going to have a chance.

NBA guys on other countries rosters will shine more and have more of a opportunities to show their skills like FRA Fournier.
 
Heim

Heim

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France gave USA all they could handle. The difference, like versus Serbia, that Curry guy.

Last note, Didn't understand Kerr's infatuation with Booker. Complete non factor most of the Olympics especially in with Curry when they're the same type of players.
 
kane

kane

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Heim said:
France gave USA all they could handle. The difference, like versus Serbia, that Curry guy.

Last note, Didn't understand Kerr's infatuation with Booker. Complete non factor most of the Olympics especially in with Curry when they're the same type of players.
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Curry with back to back throwback games, and I still don't understand the decision to take Booker over Jaylen Brown, maybe they didn't want four Celtics, and Tatum should have been playing at the end instead of Booker, nothing against him, he's a good player, but not better than Tatum or Brown, besides Curry, the difference was the USA's ability to get stops when needed, the rest of the world is catching up to the US in basketball, but they haven't caught them yet. BTW, that Yubesele guy who played so well was a former first round pick of the Celtics, played for them for a bit before going back overseas
 
railbird

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kane said:
Curry with back to back throwback games, and I still don't understand the decision to take Booker over Jaylen Brown, maybe they didn't want four Celtics, and Tatum should have been playing at the end instead of Booker, nothing against him, he's a good player, but not better than Tatum or Brown, besides Curry, the difference was the USA's ability to get stops when needed, the rest of the world is catching up to the US in basketball, but they haven't caught them yet. BTW, that Yubesele guy who played so well was a former first round pick of the Celtics, played for them for a bit before going back overseas
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europe is way ahead of america in basketball, they just get broken up to 20 countries in the olympics
 
jimmythegreek

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choslamshe said:
Understanding how young and raw he still is, Wemby has mostly looked gross to me this tournament - today's knockout game no different. Cordinier, Lessort, and Yabusele been their best/most consistent players. Gobert not a part of the rotation much, for every 'baller' game you get out of Fournier, you get 2-3 that you forget he's on the team.
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I think "gross" is quite far get hed when it comes to describing Wemby's effort this afternoon. France hung around quite a bit and he finished with 26 and 7. Just because overall the team is a step down you can't take away criticizing their best player.
 
kane

kane

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Only three players have ever been named first team All NBA, won a championship, and won a gold medal all in the same year

Michael Jordan
LeBron James
Jayson Tatum
 
kane

kane

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jimmythegreek said:
I think "gross" is quite far get hed when it comes to describing Wemby's effort this afternoon. France hung around quite a bit and he finished with 26 and 7. Just because overall the team is a step down you can't take away criticizing their best player.
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In two years Wemby will be a top 5 player in the league, he's 20 years old and hasn't even scratched the surface of his potential, his ceiling is as high as any young player I've ever seen, including LeBron
 
choslamshe

choslamshe

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WNBA allstars completely embarrassing themselves in the gold medal game.

20 points in 15+ min of the half.
14 turnovers
10 offensive rebounds given up

Yet they lead by 2 because France, like many other countries not the WNBA allstar team, is comprised of a bunch of scrubs/WNBA subs.

Funny to watch...
 
choslamshe

choslamshe

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USA will prevail against an offensively inept France team, but the arrogance of this team - zero effort rebounding, total carelessness with the ball.

France will suck every second out of every possession and play high energy...so they'll be in it to win it in the final 5 minutes.
 
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