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Signet
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TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On August 05 2012 07:35 Itsmedudeman wrote: Honestly, if we took out the african american community from USA basketball we'd probably lose a ton of games and wouldn't even medal. With that said, USA are made or broken at the 3 point line like I've said probably 50x. If those don't start going in then there's not much synergy within the team with 3 big men out and injured. Nah we'd probably get silver or bronze. Tyler Hansbrough Jason Kidd a lot of college kids brian scalabrine lol | ||
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Holcan
Canada2593 Posts
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
On August 05 2012 07:54 TommyP wrote: Nah we'd probably get silver or bronze. Tyler Hansbrough Jason Kidd a lot of college kids brian scalabrine lol Everyone knows Jason Kidd is black, duh. I think Barea is from Puerto Rico, so he might count as American. David Andersen, David Lee, Kevin Love would be effective bigs. Bonner can hit 3's. Hansborough and Chris Andersen (kiddy porn allegations aside) could work as more traditional bigs. JJ Redick, Kyle Korver as wings? Mike Miller before back problems? Mr. Kardashian? I feel like there's a lot of white defensive shooting guards that I'm missing. And a bunch of people on the 2011 houston rockets. And the Jazz a few years ago and Indiana now. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
On August 05 2012 03:57 Order wrote: Hey guys. Lithuanian here. What can I say? Great game today. To be fair, we didn't expect to beat the USA team, but the bar where I watched the game went balistic over the course of that game. Even tho you won, we still consider it a pretty big "moral win" for us. I know that USA is better but everyone has bad games. Maybe today was your bad game. We also lost to France which we should have beaten to be honest. That was our bad game. I see a lof of you are saying that it was more "USA losing" than "Lithuania winning" today and maybe that's true. But you don't even imagine what games like those bring to our hearts. We say basketball is our second religion and we've been saying it with a straight face for like 5 years now. We have to remember that basketball itself is very different in Europe and America. I don't want to take anything from the USA team - they are the best in the world after all, but to me it compares with what happened to the dutch in this years euro2012 soccer championship. A team with nothing but international superstars - didn't even pass the group stage. Just saying there's a slight chance for us. So proud of my team. Also: Remind me to add Lithuania as a country I must visit one of these days. If the basketball atmosphere there is as good as you say it is I should feel right at home. Today's game was pretty interesting to say the least. We saw the United States playing some pretty terrible basketball, and the Lithuanians playing some pretty incredible basketball. Take away a lot of the bad turnovers they had and they would have won that game. That said, even playing well below what you'd expect the US still got the win so I guess that just says how good our team really is. | ||
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TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On August 05 2012 10:06 igotmyown wrote: Everyone knows Jason Kidd is black, duh. I think Barea is from Puerto Rico, so he might count as American. David Andersen, David Lee, Kevin Love would be effective bigs. Bonner can hit 3's. Hansborough and Chris Andersen (kiddy porn allegations aside) could work as more traditional bigs. JJ Redick, Kyle Korver as wings? Mike Miller before back problems? Mr. Kardashian? I feel like there's a lot of white defensive shooting guards that I'm missing. And a bunch of people on the 2011 houston rockets. And the Jazz a few years ago and Indiana now. He looks white to me lol. | ||
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
and hope Lehigh > The World | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
On August 05 2012 14:17 Itsmedudeman wrote: Let's not kid ourselves here. Any college team would get dumpstered hard. I always hate when people claim that the top college teams would be able to beat some NBA teams cause no, no they wouldn't. That's why we started sending pros in the first place, and ever since the college teams actually started losing, the international scene has gotten 10x better. Just remember we had a big argument just this past year that Kentucky state was actually better than some NBA teams.... College Basketball fans, some of the more fanatical ones anyway, are truly convinced that the level of play they are a fan of would be competitive with the professional level and it just isn't. Can't convince them though they'll fight tooth and nail on the point. I was actually just having a conversation with my dad and he was wondering aloud when and why the olympics changed their once upheld rule that the Olympics was for amateur athletes only and professionals were banned from participating. I offered the view that under those rules communist or socialist societies held a huge unfair advantage because they could train professionals that technically weren't professionals because they never made a profit off of what they did but rather had all of their needs and wants taken care of by the state, and that athletes from capitalist societies had to be paid to support themselves to ever truly match that level of skill and talent. Basketball reminds me a lot of that in a lot of respects. If the US decided tomorrow to just stop sending top NBA players to the olympics that doesn't mean other countries would follow suit, and we'd end up losing medals that otherwise we would have won just because we didn't send the best we had to offer. And isn't that what the olympics are all about when you think about it? a competition to see who the true best in the world is? That's my rant for now. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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EchelonTee
United States5245 Posts
On August 05 2012 07:35 Itsmedudeman wrote: Honestly, if we took out the african american community from USA basketball we'd probably lose a ton of games and wouldn't even medal. With that said, USA are made or broken at the 3 point line like I've said probably 50x. If those don't start going in then there's not much synergy within the team with 3 big men out and injured. Why would you even consider taking out the African Americans from the usa team... | ||
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On August 06 2012 00:36 krndandaman wrote: anyone know where to watch highlights/recaps of usa basketball games? T__T desperate ESPN.COM | ||
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Arceus
Vietnam8333 Posts
On August 06 2012 00:33 EchelonTee wrote: Why would you even consider taking out the African Americans from the usa team... well a team consists of JKidd, DWill, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love will still be gold-medal contender  Even washed-out veteran like Tim Duncan could still put up a good show | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On August 05 2012 07:35 Itsmedudeman wrote: Honestly, if we took out the african american community from USA basketball we'd probably lose a ton of games and wouldn't even medal. With that said, USA are made or broken at the 3 point line like I've said probably 50x. If those don't start going in then there's not much synergy within the team with 3 big men out and injured. I've always wondered why a vast majority of the top white players are not American. Are they choosing other sports or what, I don't get it. He is mixed race | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
On August 06 2012 01:47 Arceus wrote: well a team consists of JKidd, DWill, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love will still be gold-medal contender Even washed-out veteran like Tim Duncan could still put up a good showGriffin is black too. | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
Everyone you named except Kevin Love are black. | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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krndandaman
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