2021 USA Basketball @ Tokyo Olympics

Would you want your stars playing in Olympics?


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Breh, you were damn near rooting against Team USA just because of your anti-KD agenda. Now you’re bigging up Jrue holiday to spite him. It’s see through.

Sounds like you are just a Durant stan (or anti-LeBron knowing how this board operates). Jrue deserves the praise... but for some odd reason you don't wanna give it.
 

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Congrats to USA bball, finally Pop gets his gold, mostly happy for Jrue Middleton and Booker, losing right after the Finals would've been BRUTAL. Some random thoughts :

- US really won thanks to KD, Jrue and Dray to a certain extent. And defense.
- The whole "iT waSN't EveN ouR beST teAm" talk needs to stop. When you win it's like "Oh we beat everyone without our best guys", when you lose it's like "Doesnt matter, we played without our best guys". No one's stopping the US from sending it's "best" team, and injuries are part of the game. It's basically the international version of asterisk NBA rings. Whoever you send, that's your team.
- France really dealt well with its transition post TP-Diaw-Turiaf etc era. Solid. Looking good for the future, only De Colo is up there in age iirc.
- Spain and Argentina are at the end of an era. At least Spain still has Ricky and Willy Hernangomez but that's about it. They're gonna have some tough years ahead imo.
- Slovenia is legit. Lost in the Luka magic is that they got a legit squad that was a Batum block away from being in the Gold game for their first ever Olympic appearance. Other Balkan countries need to step up. But Luka needs to stop bytching to refs.
- FIBA Patty Mills is must see TV
 
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USA don't win shyt w/o Jrue makin the trip. What a year for him. i'm left unimpressed by that squad. Gold is gold but a lot of the good Euro teams weren't there.. The world is starting to catch up.

It’s not the early 2000s. The rest of the world already caught up in 2004. :russ:

Since then, Team USA has done nothing but dominate the Olympics even with this years shytty B roster.
 

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- US really won thanks to KD, Jrue and Dray to a certain extent. And defense.
- The whole "iT waSN't EveN ouR beST teAm" talk needs to stop. When you win it's like "Oh we beat everyone without our best guys", when you lose it's like "Doesnt matter, we played without our best guys". No one's stopping the US from sending it's "best" team, and injuries are part of the game. It's basically the international version of asterisk NBA rings. Whoever you send, that's your team.
If thats the case I dont want to hear any “oh they only won by 5 points”
 
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