Old Going For Gold: USA Men's Olympic Basketball - Next Up The Main Event vs France (8/10 @ 3:30pm ET)

[MikelArteta]

Shots fired

 

[BK The Great]

Next, needs to give LaMelo some gold medal ankles

LaMelo has to really get himself into shape, he's hurt every year and it's hurting his lasting power. he was good in his rookie year.

 

[Henry Orbit]

5 AM in Paris Mt Rushmore Tweeter

KD gonna be up Tweeting for the next week

 

[NYC Rebel]

No defense ass Euro ball. I can’t wait until it’s Ant’s turn to cook they asses regularly

 

[NYC Rebel]

Booker was a key piece in all of this

He was like the Draymond of 2020. A glue guy. I left so impressed

 

[Controversy]

You trippin. Chet and Paolo are going to be elite by then. With the outside shot that Chet will be able to play the 5 by then. As far as size/defense Bam is the critical piece. If he’s still healthy and near -prime he’s the anchor at the 5. And then the wildcard is Donovan Clingan

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Damn @Henry Orbit you wasn’t kidding

In the parking lot of Stats and it’s packed out here

@42 Monks lol Cuz Pull Up

 

[havoc]

I don't get his point. The NBA isn't about entertainment. If it was, Team USA wouldn't have won 5 straight Olympic GOLD medals. International players need to learn how to adjust to the NBA players because Euro players always get out hustled, outplayed defensively and offensively in FIBA by the American players.

 

[GunRanger]

You trippin. Chet and Paolo are going to be elite by then. With the outside shot that Chet will be able to play the 5 by then. As far as size/defense Bam is the critical piece. If he’s still healthy and near -prime he’s the anchor at the 5. And then the wildcard is Donovan Clingan

The wild card is Mobley. Why you so high on clingan

And yeah Chet is tailor made for FIBA. He already went head to head with wemby before

 

[Astroslik]

Nah Halliburton is in. He’s gonna avg 20 and 10 on elite efficiency plus they have an ascending squad. Plus that continuity across Olympic teams is needed

Brunson will be old. Maxey and Cade can still get in. Ja is in. Trae, nope. Derrick white, hell no.

All the shyt I was saying before this Olympics as far as we need to stop purposely selecting role players is gonna be even more true in 2028. Go ahead and add Derrick white for feel good purposes nggas will lose

Cooper Flagg got next

 

[#1 pick]

So you have in no order the 4 giants: Russ, Wilt, Duncan, and Kareem. 2 SF in Bron and Bird. 2 points in Curry and Magic. MJ the Goat.

Who is your tenth?

Shaq, Kobe, KD, Oscar, Kareem, Moses?

Bron the goat
MJ 2nd
KAJ 3rd
Duncan 4th
Russell 5th
Magic/Bird 6th/7th
Wilt 8th
Steph 9th
Kobe 10th
Shaq 11th
Hakeem12th
KD 13th
Big O 14th
Moses 15th
Jokic 16th

Embiid and Luka got a chance to Crack the top 15. Jokic is likely to be top 10, maybe top 5.

Jokic got the best chance to break the top 5 of the active players

 

[staticshock]

Real Atlanta nikka

 

[Braman]

The wild card is Mobley. Why you so high on clingan

And yeah Chet is tailor made for FIBA. He already went head to head with wemby before

Ahh forgot about him. Him too

I’m high on Clingan bc he could be a Gobert clone but with a lil more offense

With Mobley my fear would be another JJJ. Long and athletic but exposed against physicality

 

[Braman]

Real Atlanta nikka

‘Steph got here 3 days ago’

Ant is so important man. The league and really culturally there’s nothing but quiet ‘cool’ nggas nowadays (Tatum, Booker, Bam). You need a Bron type personality on the team. To quote grant hill about Bron , Ant is a ‘connector’

 

[the artist known az]

Booker was a key piece in all of this

That's one of the things about Olympic basketball I like seeing. The couple of players that shine in FIBA basketball.