2021 USA Basketball @ Tokyo Olympics

[distinguishedNOW]

I know Garland, Bey and Johnson are basically temp players but it's still saying something that those are the next level guys from the Select team. That's a weak ass B-squad to be pulling from for a US team if those were the best options available.

 

[MikelArteta]

Stop playing dumb, nikka. You know exactly what I mean.

Beal is like the 4th or 5th best American at his position and he’s starting and closing out games. 2019 team had Kemba as the go-to-guy down the stretch and he wasn’t top 5 at his position in the country.

If Team USA had everyone from their talent pool available, how many players on this roster would make the team?

I wasn’t even talking about this game specifically in that post, nor was I saying that they don’t have enough talent to win the Olympics this year with the roster they have. The discussion was about the talent gap between the US and other countries and what the long term outlook could be. So again, were you reading to comprehend or just looking to argue?

thecoli dot com

Bradley beal was second in the nba in scoring this year

There's not even 5 people in the world who can score like bradley beal can't


You lost to a team that not one of their players even played more than 21mpg in the nba this year

 

[madness]

It should be no way this team could lose to Nigeria

Team USA Select squad with Tyler Herro, Anthony Edwards, PJ Washington, Miles Bridges etc probably beats this Nigeria team by 10

 

[No1]

I know Garland, Bey and Johnson are basically temp players but it's still saying something that those are the next level guys from the Select team. That's a weak ass B-squad to be pulling from for a US team if those were the best options available.

The really next gen guys didn’t want to do it or are hurt. Ingram, Fox, Zion, Mitchell, Brown, Towns, etc.

 

[trick]

I mean the US literally fielded this team today

Bam Adebayo - nba all star avg 19 and 9
Bradley Beal - nba all star 2nd in the league in scoring at 31
Kevin Durant - nba all star, nba league mvp, nba finals mvp - avg 27ppg and 7 boards
Jerami Grant - avg 22ppg
Draymond Green - defensive player of the year, first team all nba defense, all starr
Zach LaVine - nba all star avg 27 a game 50% from the floor 41 from free throw and 85% from the free throw line
Damian Lillard - nba all star, one of the most clutch players in history, 3rd in points 7 in assists
Kevin Love - washed but a former all star
Jayson Tatum - 10th in league in scoring avg 27ppg

And Nigeria got 17 pts from Caleb Agada, dude played in fukkin Hamilton last year and was cut from the Canadian team. He's going to get a two way after this game

 

[froggle]

No defenders, no playmakers, no big men.

I thought Draymond could lock up Kareem

 

[jeh]

Was Apollo Crews in attendance

 

[MikelArteta]

Team USA Select squad with Tyler Herro, Anthony Edwards, PJ Washington, Miles Bridges etc probably beats this Nigeria team by 10

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Josh okogie can't even start on the nba team that had the third fewest wins
precious achuiwa , gabe vincent and kz okpala got 12 minutes a game on the heat (heat have 5 naijas on their roster )
chimezie metu got 13 mpg on the sac kings
jmiye oni got 9 minutes per game in utah

 

[MikelArteta]

crazy thing nigeria was missing okafur who would have prob beasted inside and jordan nwora whose a good young player whose on the bucks

 

[MikelArteta]

And Nigeria got 17 pts from Caleb Agada, dude played in fukkin Hamilton last year and was cut from the Canadian team. He's going to get a two way after this game

And didn't have Okafor and nwora

Caleb Agada from burlington ontario
canada basketball y'all

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

The world caught up

 

[trick]

And didn't have Okafor and nwora

Caleb Agada from burlington ontario
canada basketball y'all

Canada Basketball would rather have Aaron Doornekamp, he can't catch or shoot the ball but he's got great intangibles

 

[ALonelyDad]

KD gonna drop 50 on him next time

 

[SchoolboyC]

thecoli dot com

Bradley beal was second in the nba in scoring this year

There's not even 5 people in the world who can score like bradley beal can't


You lost to a team that not one of their players even played more than 21mpg in the nba this year

And if LeBron, Kawhi, Harden, PG, Butler, Klay, etc. had all been in the player pool and willing to go to Tokyo, would Beal have made the team? And if by chance he did make the team would he have been starting and closing games? Again, stop playing dumb

They lost tonight because they got outplayed, not because they didn’t have enough talent, simple as that. On paper this should have been an easy win but they blew it. That’s not what was being debated in my post you originally quoted. You would’ve known that though if you actually comprehended the post

 

[chkmeout]

Team USA Select squad with Tyler Herro, Anthony Edwards, PJ Washington, Miles Bridges etc probably beats this Nigeria team by 10