The Perpetual NBA Thread

[empy]

olympics update: the US team LOSES its exhibition game to second-tier team Italy, 95-78.

shocker....


this is not good at all

[ssaloon]

gone are the glory days of the dream team.

[baiskee]

USA team nowadays is not a DREAM TEAM.

dapat gawin agreement ng USA with NBA...kung sino manalo sa NBA ALL STAR GAME sya ilalaban sa mga international games.

[kimpOy]

international team got better din.
also intl teams are use to the FIBA rules
iba rin ang type of games nila.

set play, spot up jumpers
motions,

sa USA isa lang ang play nila

Isolation. he..he

[ssaloon]

Results of the 1992 Men's Tournament of the Americas:
USA 136 Cuba 57
USA 105 Canada 61
USA 112 Panama 52
USA 128 Argentina 87
USA 119 Puerto Rico 81
USA 127 Venezuela 80

Results at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona:
USA 111 France 71 (Pre-Olympics in Monte Carlo, Monaco)
USA 116 Angola 48
USA 103 Croatia 70
USA 111 Germany 68
USA 127 Brazil 83
USA 122 Spain 81
USA 115 Puerto Rico 77
USA 127 Lithuania 76
USA 117 Croatia 85

Subsequent United States teams have had the "Dream Team" moniker attached, but they now typically feature middle-of-the-road NBA players, rather than an all-star team of the game's greats. This has led to increasingly less extraordinary performances (nearly losing to Lithuania at the 2000 Sydney Games, and being embarrassed into sixth place at the 2002 World Championships), so many regard such a moniker as no longer appropriate.

[empy]

Originally posted by ssaloon
Subsequent United States teams have had the "Dream Team" moniker attached, but they now typically feature middle-of-the-road NBA players, rather than an all-star team of the game's greats. This has led to increasingly less extraordinary performances (nearly losing to Lithuania at the 2000 Sydney Games, and being embarrassed into sixth place at the 2002 World Championships), so many regard such a moniker as no longer appropriate.

there's a lot of anger in the US at these prima donna 'stars' who won't play for their country. sure, it's their right to refuse, and i know that they would be risking injury - but still, there's a lot of disappointment in these guys who many people look up to as heroes.

of course, some of them have valid excuses like injury (Kidd) or legal entanglements (Kobe), but what's Shaq's excuse? KG's? T-Mac? i can go on...

btw, that 1992 US men's basketball team in the Barcelona olympics is, in many people's opinion (including my own), the best team in the history of team sports

[ssaloon]

security purposes yung kadalasan nilang ginagamit na reason to opt out of the olympics eh.

[kimpOy]

boo-hoo! security purposes my arse!

di ba jordan had the luxury of walking at barcelona's town proper early in the morning.

also mas nightmare-ish yata for any security
kung ang binabantayan mo si jordan/magic w/ HIV/bird, barkley

for Tmac alam niya na mahihirapan ang USA ngayon Olympics,

Shaq??? contract extension period, he will play if USA will pay him 30M

Vince? Kailangan tip top shape siya sa honeymoon niya.

KG? RIP? BIGBEN? declined.

why is michael redd not in the roster, kailangan nila ng perimeter shooters

[empy]

Originally posted by ssaloon
security purposes yung kadalasan nilang ginagamit na reason to opt out of the olympics eh.

yeah, i heard that - but that excuse just doesn't fly. with the security they have there, it's far more likely that they die in a car accident at home than get killed by terrorists.

and what message are they sending? that the terrorists run their lives? how about the 20 million new yorkers who live every day knowing they live in the #1 terrorist target in the world...

[theveed]

Di rin excuse yung pagod... yao plays the whole year... hehe center pa sya!

isang factor din siguro na di "star struck" ang kalaban sa mga current usa team... i mean, kahit gano ako kagaling, kung kaharap mo jordan, magic, bird, drexler, barkley, robinson, etc etc etc... hehe di ka talaga maglalaro nun.