2021 USA Basketball @ Tokyo Olympics

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Slovenia is gonna win gold and the Luka stans won’t let us hear the end of it

How good is the rest of the team? I believe they have Dragic but idk who else. Do they have bigs that can bully Bam?

Their starting 5 is arguably the best with: Cancar, Dragic, Blazic, and Tobey (his size is gonna give us problems), but they're limited outside of that.

 

[Serious Face]

Dame is just an offensive player. That's it. He doesn't bring much of anything else.

 

[GunRanger]

They missed it by half a point. I'd have been irate.

Instead, it was a comfortably secured bag.

If they play Slovenia, i'll deploy a similar strategy: wait until the coli is the most toxic against the USA... which signals it's time to place the bag on the USA to come through.

Though there's always the risk that the USA actually plays focused from jump... but nah

Not a given the US beats australia first

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

Jrue
Whoever
Tatum
KD
Draymond

is prolly the lineup i like most. Dray and KD chemistry is still there from the GS days. Would like to see Javele get more of Bam mins.


EDIT: I’d be scared to play Dame and Bam together tho, neither plays defense.

 

[King Static X]

I hope that Argentina beats Australia. FIBA Patty Mills is even more dangerous than FIBA Ricky Rubio

 

[GOAT]

be real, them dudes were playing against plumbers when the world wasnt into hoops like that yet. and they never got to play yugoslavia

You said best team USA has assembled. And that is unquestionably the Dream Team. They would blowout any version of Spain and the Gasols would be locked down by Ewing/Admiral while Mike would be baptizing them every time down

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I hope that Argentina beats Australia. FIBA Patty Mills is even more dangerous than FIBA Ricky Rubio

Patty is going to be the least of our worries.

Top-to-bottom, Australia are essentially a younger and more athletic version of Spain. Landale and Baynes are gonna give our frontcourt fits, then you've got the size of Ingles and Thybulle as well.

 

[GunRanger]

Didnt even realize gallo is on italy. Hope they ipset

 

[King Static X]

Patty is going to be the least of our worries.

Top-to-bottom, Australia are essentially a younger and more athletic version of Spain. Landale and Baynes are gonna give our frontcourt fits, then you've got the size of Ingles and Thybulle as well.

Yeah, I know. That's why I don't want them to face Australia.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I love Pau, but he & his brother and Rudy Fernandez were looking super today

Spain had a great run but their talent pipeline has completely dried up the last decade. Hernanogomez is the only Spanish player in the NBA under 31.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Yea Spain is in bad shape if Rubio gotta be Jordan.

but USA still had trouble with them in the first half

 

[GunRanger]

Spain had a great run but their talent pipeline has completely dried up the last decade. Hernanogomez is the only Spanish player in the NBA under 31.

Garuba was just drafted by the rockets. He's 19


And the Grizz just drafted Altama

 

[FAH1223]

I hope that Argentina beats Australia. FIBA Patty Mills is even more dangerous than FIBA Ricky Rubio

Argentina doesn't have enough to beat Australia IMO

But we'll find out in a few hours

 

[im not you]

You said best team USA has assembled. And that is unquestionably the Dream Team. They would blowout any version of Spain and the Gasols would be locked down by Ewing/Admiral while Mike would be baptizing them every time down

if you could read youd know i was referring to 2012 as the best american team ever and they had trouble with that spain team but u got it lil buddy

and the dream team aint unquestionably anything, especially not when u stack them up against a team with kd melo kobe bron cp3

 

[GunRanger]

Italy is no joke. Theyre taking it to france