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

[MikelArteta]

He pulled some out of touch, old coach move. They always come up with some lame excuse of why a certain player didn't play.

Yup
hell Tatum, jrue holiday, durant, booker and adebayo only guys from the tokyo olympics team where tatum was second in scoring. Yet Dude can't get a minute? It's a slap in teh face

 

[MikelArteta]

He 100 percent won’t be brought back to coach USA off this Tatum shyt. You can’t just DNP of the faces of the future.

exactly and not like Tatum hasn't proved himself at a olympic level already. The worst thing is I would understand if you played tatum a few minutes and it wasn't working and he didn'ts ee the rest of the game. But dude didn't even get ONE MINUTE. Kerr was putting out two center and 3 guard lineups. Tatum is on the cover of 2k25.

Evebn in the promo for the team,

it was Steph, lebron, kd and TATUM

 

[SchoolboyC]

I agree
NBA 2k25 cover athlete, ALL NBA first eam, all star, nba champion, most important and best player on the best team in the nba. And he couldn't even get a minute?

All would be solved by moving AD into the starting lineup and taking Embiid out of the rotation as he's clearly the player that sticks out and not in a good way

But as has been said, they probably gave Embiid certain promises to get him to pick the U.S. over France

And also it's hard to complain when you just blew out one of the top teams

 

[wire28]

I don’t see the issue. We all know Jrue and White are the people that made the Celtics world champions

 

[Houston911]

Kyrie should be here

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

He’s the most popular player on the team that just ran through the NBA from beginning to end. That’s gonna guarantee hate off GP

nikka I can’t find a Steph or Lebron Olympic Jersey for shyt
But guess who I can find
Tatum is like J.Cole in the Kendrick vs Drake beef
nikkas weaponizing one nikka when we know what that nikka truly is about
Tatum nice but you have three nikkas
One who is 39 on peak health
One who is a walking bucket anytime he is on the floor
One commands so much attention that they have to triple team him every position
Ant who just brings energy
Jrue/White with defense
AD actually wanting to play
I’m hedging on that talent alone before fukking Tatum
The narratives you nikkas run with
Do yall know watch the games or just highlights

 

[Flight]

exactly and not like Tatum hasn't proved himself at a olympic level already. The worst thing is I would understand if you played tatum a few minutes and it wasn't working and he didn'ts ee the rest of the game. But dude didn't even get ONE MINUTE. Kerr was putting out two center and 3 guard lineups. Tatum is on the cover of 2k25.

Evebn in the promo for the team,

it was Steph, lebron, kd and TATUM

The main 3 players for the next Olympics are Ant, Tatum and Paolo…and you just benched 1 the whole game. I know phone calls are being made today…Kerr is one and done after this

 

[SchoolboyC]

nikka I can’t find a Steph or Lebron Olympic Jersey for shyt
But guess who I can find
Tatum is like J.Cole in the Kendrick vs Drake beef
nikkas weaponizing one nikka when we know what that nikka truly is about
Tatum nice but you have three nikkas
One who is 39 on peak health
One who is a walking bucket anytime he is on the floor
One commands so much attention that they have to triple team him every position
Ant who just brings energy
Jrue/White with defense
AD actually wanting to play
I’m hedging on that talent alone before fukking Tatum
The narratives you nikkas run with
Do yall know watch the games or just highlights

nikka what the fukk are you even talking about

That post was about why he catches heat on social media, nobody talking about him getting minutes over Bron and KD nor was it related to where he fits in on Team USA

Learn how to read to comprehend instead of reading to respond

 

[GunRanger]

Whiite aint doing anything, breh still looking like the coach's son getting in there

White played great. He and Jrue are more valuable than Tatum is to this team

 

[JoelB]

 

[CantStop]

tatum might be the first player ever to have his legacy lowered after winning a title and a gold medal

 

[bl2k8]

Kerr gotta be smart about the dnp shyt. 2028 is probably going to be the closest we come to not being favorites vs the field.

 

[skyrunner1]

It’s sad most of the focus on this game seems to be that Tatum didn’t play. Can’t enjoy shyt.

Its not sad, it dont make sense.. Its gonna stand out and overshadow everything.. Kerr created this..

 

[MikelArteta]

I remember a clip of isiah talking about not being on the team and he was like MJ, majic, bird if they didn't want me on the team cool but Scottie Pippen?

Tatum prob sitting around like bron, Durant, curry cool

But Derrick white getting minutes over me

 

[Sauce Dab]

Twitter is killing Tatum