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

[Controversy]

And this is what Celtics fans dont realize. Tatum is not on that Bron, Kobe, or Durant tier. Worst multi-time all nba 1st team player ever.


Stop making this comparison. At age 26 Kobe was unquestionably the best wing player in the game. There’s no coach on earth who would bench or dnp Kobe in favor of his peers.

Tatum is not on Kobe's level but he's a better player than 2024 KD & Bron

Two short yrs ago, Tatum humbled KD in the offs 1v1 on both sides of the ball

What Kerr is doing is unconscionable

 

[4-Rin]

Durant today showed why Olympic Melo and Durant are my two favorite Olympic players.

They are the most tailor made players for the Olympics I’ve ever seen and why the 2012 team is my GOAT.

The coli thought it was a game when they saw KD practicing his jumper in the club

 

[Henry Orbit]

@DropTopDoc We rooting for Sudan, right?

She gotta be East African, I ain’t ever seen no light skinned Sudanese before

 

[Mister Terrific]

@jetflyinglimousineriding its not that serious but might want to change the title to South Sudan just to keep it respectful.

 

[NYC Rebel]

The coli thought it was a game when they saw KD practicing his jumper in the club

KD, Melo,, and Chris Mullen are the best Olympic U.S. shooters I’ve seen. If they played internationally, they would be Gods

 

[skyrunner1]

 

[cartierhoe]

Seeing KD just shut shyt down immediately was incredible, and it just shows the level of talent on this team that STILL can't be fukked with

But but bu NBA teams can't call themselves world champions because they didn't play Real Madrid. FOH every NBA team would blow that shyt out the fukking water, pause.

 

[UpAndComing]

Durant today showed why Olympic Melo and Durant are my two favorite Olympic players.

They are the most tailor made players for the Olympics I’ve ever seen and why the 2012 team is my GOAT.

Both are ISO heavy mid-range assassins. NBA analytic nerds must be furious

 

[Mister Terrific]

Seeing KD just shut shyt down immediately was incredible, and it just shows the level of talent on this team that STILL can't be fukked with

But but bu NBA teams can't call themselves world champions because they didn't play Real Madrid. FOH every NBA team would blow that shyt out the fukking water, pause.

Kendrick Nunn was the best player on the Euro League champs

 

[cartierhoe]

Kendrick Nunn was the best player on the Euro League champs

The Euroleague MVP just washed out of the league too after shytting the bed with Sacramento

 

[Braman]

and today it was Tatum and Hali. It might not be that way the next game. White played today and played well so you don't have a leg to stand on with regards to White's PT today in a blowout win against their toughest matchup in pool play.


Tatum not playing today isn't some war crime. They'll be fine.

Why do people keep saying this. By what metric? It was a blowout win and we’re the ducking USA, by and large everyone is going to ‘play well’. It’s also an unfair barometer since he’s literally not asked to do shyt. So he’s gets a block and some deflections he ‘played well’

Which ironically comes back to Kerr. He was a career role player. He’s scared shytless of draymond green, overhypes his role. Kerr clearly is a dumbass who over-values role players and that mentality. Tried to have Ant gone off the bench in favor of Keldon Johnson n shyt Drafted Wiseman over Melo. Almost fumbled Kuminga until he publicly cried out for help. Kerr is an idiot it’s his mentality I promise it will rear its head in these Olympics.

 

[Mister Terrific]

Why do people keep saying this. By what metric? It was a blowout win and we’re the ducking USA, by and large everyone is going to ‘play well’. It’s also an unfair barometer since he’s literally not asked to do shyt. So he’s gets a block and some deflections he ‘played well’

Which ironically comes back to Kerr. He was a career role player. He’s scared shytless of draymond green, overhypes his role. Kerr clearly is a dumbass who over-values role players and that mentality. Tried to have Ant gone off the bench in favor of Keldon Johnson n shyt Drafted Wiseman over Melo. Almost fumbled Kuminga until he publicly cried out for help. Kerr is an idiot it’s his mentality I promise it will rear its head in these Olympics.

You’re not wrong. Kerr definitely doesn’t understand superstar mentalities. It’s why he couldn’t keep Durant in Golden State.

But I think playing White, Drue and Book heavy minutes was the right play given how Serbia is structured. Running a billion pick and rolls with small guards trying to get you to go under screens so they can launch 30 3’s or get Jokic in a mismatch. The intensity the U.S. was able to bring with their guards wore down Serbia. Plus Lebron and KD being on demon time made it hard to sub them out.

I bet Tatum plays 20 minutes or more vs South Sudan.

 

[RadaMillz]

can't wait to see US vs South Sudan

I know US gonna win but I want to see SS put up a good fight

 

[bl2k8]

It was high key inexcusable with so many players with foul trouble. I thought he'd bring in him after AD picked up 2 fouls and instead brought back LeBron.

Steph and Book are defending pretty well. He can cut into some of JRUE's mins.

Exactly. We already know Jaylen Brown ain’t never coming back, Tatum could potentially say fukk it next time around. Nobody in the entire starting 5 will be playing next to Olympics. AD probably won’t be good enough. That leaves Halliburton, Book, Ant, Bam

Bruh better be handling them young boys egos behind the scenes

 

[kdslittlebro]