2021 USA Basketball @ Tokyo Olympics

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The big rotation is fine with Bam/Draymond/McGee. We never post up in the Olympics and they aren't the ones launching iso 3s leading to long rebounds. I didn't see any of the wings playing down hill towards the basket with ample opportunity to get scores when the long jumpers weren't falling..

Only one of those players can defend....

 

[pete clemenza]

American players are too Hollywood now. They've been getting their asses kissed and pampered since they were in High School.

Prospects are groomed to just secure the bag. They want to live a rappers lifestyle and be pretty rather than develop their craft or grind in the dirt.

It's like Rocky III when Rocky thought he could take Clubber Lang and Mick had to pull Rock aside and say You've gone too soft, he'll eat you alive.

That's why the trend is outwards. You can pay some overseas talent one third of a spoiled American player and get the same job done and more. Ya'll too Hollywood.

This is a tournament that's once every four years. So you're saying NBA players don't work on their games and grind to get where they're at? Team USA is simply constructed poorly, that's all. Evan Fournier, Rudy Gobert, and numerous other internationals are guys that get ripped to shreds during the regular NBA season but now because of the Olympics they're the guys who aren't spoiled and who have worked on their craft? You guys sound as if most NBA players made the league from nepotism and connections and never once "shot in the gym".

 

[jilla82]

American players are too Hollywood now. They've been getting their asses kissed and pampered since they were in High School.

Prospects are groomed to just secure the bag. They want to live a rappers lifestyle and be pretty rather than develop their craft or grind in the dirt.

It's like Rocky III when Rocky thought he could take Clubber Lang and Mick had to pull Rock aside and say You've gone too soft, he'll eat you alive.

That's why the trend is outwards. You can pay some overseas talent one third of a spoiled American player and get the same job done and more. Ya'll too Hollywood.

thats a crazy chart to look at.

those numbers will probably double in the coming years

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

was you saying this in 2016? nikka its one game.

Durant was 8th in net efficiency rating for the '16 team. You actin like he was the reason they won or something.. he wasn't

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

did steph decline or he wasn't picked?

 

[jilla82]

This is a tournament that's once every four years. So you're saying NBA players don't work on their games and grind to get where they're at? Team USA is simply constructed poorly, that's all. Evan Fournier, Rudy Gobert, and numerous other internationals are guys that get ripped to shreds during the regular NBA season but now because of the Olympics they're the guys who aren't spoiled and who have worked on their craft? You guys sound as if most NBA players made the league from nepotism and connections and never once "shot in the gym".

less nonsense calls...
...you cant hide as much in international ball

ISO + long 3's arent going to cut it

 

[FAH1223]

 

[wire28]

broke the team down to the last molecule

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Guys dont attack the paint like they used to

 

[Tom Foolery]

This is a tournament that's once every four years. So you're saying NBA players don't work on their games and grind to get where they're at? Team USA is simply constructed poorly, that's all. Evan Fournier, Rudy Gobert, and numerous other internationals are guys that get ripped to shreds during the regular NBA season but now because of the Olympics they're the guys who aren't spoiled and who have worked on their craft? You guys sound as if most NBA players made the league from nepotism and connections and never once "shot in the gym".

Yeah sure. Whatever you say.

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

Anyone with a brain saw this coming. Y'all really don't understand that leadership matters and its a reason people like KD and Kyrie always got excuses for not winning.

After this Olympic run is over for KD, his cypher will be complete as a certified Uber sidekick.

 

[Stone]

Anyone with a brain saw this coming. Y'all really don't understand that leadership matters and its a reason people like KD and Kyrie always got excuses for not winning.

After this Olympic run is over for KD, his cypher will be complete as a certified Uber sidekick.

They just won in 2016 though

 

[2 one 3]

These nikkas lost to France???

 

[Juggalo Fred]

KD loses on a stacked team yet again, people actually try to compare this guy to MJ??

 

[pete clemenza]

less nonsense calls...
...you cant hide as much in international ball

ISO + long 3's arent going to cut it

I agree. Coangelo, Pop, etc. have to pick/find out who's available and best suited for international ball to go along with the 7-8 superstars/stars that are going to be the face of the team