USA vs. Argentina....
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Spoiler!!!!!! ARGHHHHH.
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Djaughe said:
It is tape delayed out here. Stupid NBC.
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Wade and Marbury are horrible.
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Good to see we're playing defense ...Ginobilli is shooting 80% from the field...yikes!
...Ginobilli is shooting 80% from the field...yikes!
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Ugh - are we not even gonna medal in this thing?
Oh and why the hell is NBC tape delaying this out west - because that many more people are gonna watch at 1 instead of 10 - piss poor.
Oh and how the hell can we allow the entire ARG team to shoot 59 percent - Okay - I'm right back to loathing this team. How many times can they get BLOWN OUT and still have your support. I don't care that they have a lack of shooters - they should be able to D ANYONE up enough to at least keep some of these losses close - and with the royal ass kickings we've suffered at the hands of Puerto Rico, Italy and now apparently Argentina - I think it's safe to say these guys have no heart and I am now in the Larry Brown has done a poor job coaching this squad.
Oh and why the hell is NBC tape delaying this out west - because that many more people are gonna watch at 1 instead of 10 - piss poor.
Oh and how the hell can we allow the entire ARG team to shoot 59 percent - Okay - I'm right back to loathing this team. How many times can they get BLOWN OUT and still have your support. I don't care that they have a lack of shooters - they should be able to D ANYONE up enough to at least keep some of these losses close - and with the royal ass kickings we've suffered at the hands of Puerto Rico, Italy and now apparently Argentina - I think it's safe to say these guys have no heart and I am now in the Larry Brown has done a poor job coaching this squad.
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cheesebeef said:
If they lose today they play for bronze.
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Argentina wins
up 8 with 26 seconds left.
up 8 with 26 seconds left.
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Good riddance - and a big F*CK YOU To all those guys sitting at home who decided not to represent their country amid "secuirty concerns" or their maginas hurting. All around embarassment - the players on the court to the players off the court - GO NBA - IT CRAPTASTIC!
Good thing we got lucky in one game and hit a barrage of threes - could you imagine if we didn't even medal - oh wait - there' sone more game - we might not - YIPPPPEEEEEEEEE!
Pathetic.
Good thing we got lucky in one game and hit a barrage of threes - could you imagine if we didn't even medal - oh wait - there' sone more game - we might not - YIPPPPEEEEEEEEE!
Pathetic.
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I think Larry Brown made a mistake by not figuring out how to use either Stoudemire or Okafor. I didn't watch the game, but according to the box score, Duncan fouled out while playing less than 20 minutes. That left the U.S. playing a small lineup most of the time, which doesn't work at any level. Trying to man the power positions by using only three players -- Duncan, Boozer, and Odom (who isn't really a PF anyway, in my opinion) -- has been a risky strategy all tournament long, and it looks like today it caught up to them.
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Larry Brown did a bad job. No question.
To top off the game Scola ended it with a fastbreak dunk with 5 seconds left...
To top off the game Scola ended it with a fastbreak dunk with 5 seconds left...
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You jumped off that bandwagon awfully fast there, Cheese.cheesebeef said:
I'm still a believer that if we can't win a tourney against a couple of NBA players and a bunch of 'oh by the way' castoffs and never was, our game is in the crapper. You have 2 MVP caliber players, 2 ROY's, and a bunch of young legs, many that didn't go deep into the playoffs, not able to adjust to a different style.
Let's see if the Bronze comes back with us. If not, Sterno's got some work to do.
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Ya, Larry sucks. Just another shining example of the man keepin' 'em down. What a load. IF they buy into his game plan, they're playing for the gold. They didn't. It was a cluster throughout, and now it's going to be everyone's fault but the sacks of crap that can't play team basketball.slinslin said:
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Lars did you ever check out this article?
After your hiphop, wrestling and NBA comments I'd guess not.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/040826
After your hiphop, wrestling and NBA comments I'd guess not.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/040826
Wade and Iverson combine for 4-20. Ugh.
Amare and Okafor don't play.
You want to know why we lost this game? I don't see a legitimate shot blocker in the game when Duncan is out.
I don't understand what Larry Brown was thinking not playing the few big men he had.
Oh and Lars...having Shaq or Garnett alone on this team would be huge.
Amare and Okafor don't play.
You want to know why we lost this game? I don't see a legitimate shot blocker in the game when Duncan is out.
I don't understand what Larry Brown was thinking not playing the few big men he had.
Oh and Lars...having Shaq or Garnett alone on this team would be huge.
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My problem with this team (and I have rooted for them in every game) is they play with no heart and passion. Is it Larry Brown's fault? Is it the players fault? Is it the NBA's fault? I don't know, but they came into these olymics with the Idea that all they had to do was show up and someone would hand them a gold medal. Well SUPRISE, obviously that didn't happen.
One other point. Do you think that if the 92 Dream Team had played this crop of Olympic basketball teams that the blow outs that we saw in 92 would not be there. My point being that the rest of the world may have caught up with NBA basketball but it isn't because the rest of the world has gotten better but the NBA has gotten that much worse. I would bet that we could assemble the 92 dream team (with the same players 12 years older) and they would probably blow out the world almost like they did then. Again, my point being that the 92 Dream team knew how to play basketball and this current crop of NBA players, doing a terrible job of representing their country, does not. I only got to watch 2 games and it was painfully obvious that they didn't know how to run an offense, no drivin, cutting, and the passing was attrocious. Someone in the NBA is going to have to learn how to teach these young guys that are comming straight from High school into the pro's or migrating from Europe to the USA at 17 years old how to run an offense the way that it is supposed to be run because the NBA is turning into terrible basketball.
One other point. Do you think that if the 92 Dream Team had played this crop of Olympic basketball teams that the blow outs that we saw in 92 would not be there. My point being that the rest of the world may have caught up with NBA basketball but it isn't because the rest of the world has gotten better but the NBA has gotten that much worse. I would bet that we could assemble the 92 dream team (with the same players 12 years older) and they would probably blow out the world almost like they did then. Again, my point being that the 92 Dream team knew how to play basketball and this current crop of NBA players, doing a terrible job of representing their country, does not. I only got to watch 2 games and it was painfully obvious that they didn't know how to run an offense, no drivin, cutting, and the passing was attrocious. Someone in the NBA is going to have to learn how to teach these young guys that are comming straight from High school into the pro's or migrating from Europe to the USA at 17 years old how to run an offense the way that it is supposed to be run because the NBA is turning into terrible basketball.
