Your Euro team would be too big and too slow but good luck doing anything inside the key with them
you'd have like Giannis, Schroder, Gobert, Wemby, Jokic or something like that
this is why embiid not going to france was probably a smart move
like how are you going to win games with wemby, gobert and embiid all squished in the paint together
Embiid is an American now!
It actually would be kind of amazing if they had All The Centers as a team, though. Just throw them all out there on the floor and see what happens.
I mean, they'd probably lose 150-125, but it'd be fun to watch one team constantly raining 3's while the other team gets a guaranteed 2 every possession.
I prefer the NBA to stack the Team USA squad with the biggest stars available, even if it leads to a less good team and a higher chance of losing than if they really built a Celtics-like squad of the best players available. The only reason I really care about the Olympics for basketball is because I want to see these All Star teams play together in a competitive environment. I like Steph throwing alley oops to Lebron. I like seeing AD come off the bench with Bam. I like the bit of tension of how these superstar guys fit (or don't) into a less role. If we just put together the best actual team that the US could field, it'd look a lot like a really good NBA team, and I already get to see those.
If the US loses sometimes, well, ok. That just makes it all the more dramatic then. I'm not going to cry about that. I also don't hate to see the big time American NBA players get their ego checked a bit with losses to other countries.
honestly its also pretty cool to see other countries grow their basketball programs to the point where canada has a legit superteam too and some other countries are getting close
like France honestly should be doing much better than they are in pre-olympics competition given their talent on paper
like in the next 5-10 years, i could see 2 or 3 other countries on their way to an NBA level starting 5, maybe not like 5 starting franchise players like we have but like 5 solid current NBA starters
imagine if all the European countries combined for one Euro team, it would be pretty formidable. At least the starting 5, which is like most of the All-NBA First Team.
Off the top of my head I feel like the problem would, ironically enough, be defense. They'd also be tremendously big-heavy. Out of Jokic and Giannis, whom do you give more minutes? And if you need defense, do you put Rudy out there with them? Does Wemby get any play? What about good-but-not-All-NBA players like Markannen and Sabonis?
For the life of me I can't think of any non-bigs other than Luka. I feel like there are a bunch of good guards who just play in Europe with names I can't remember.
It would be incredibly interesting to see Jokic and Luka on the same team, though. I wonder if they'd even be able to coexist, or the best they could manage is "one for you, one for me".
It would be a very big team. The guards other than Luka wouldn't really be stars, but more fringe guys (Evan Fournier???). Is Ricky Rubio fully retired (e.g., still playing Euro League)? Probably their next best bet for the point.
No huge surprise here, but anonymous Lakers summer league player confirms the Lakers used the entire team to spotlight Bronny despite him being undeserving, at the expense of non-"billionaire nepo baby" players who have worked their entire life for a shot at playing in the NBA:
The attention he attracted was "very frustrating" for the players to see, and his alleged star treatment caused friction among the team, which went 0-5 to start the tournament, per a Lakers insider.
"That kind of tension didn’t help the group of players to build chemistry," said the source, who noted they have "nothing against" Bronny.
"And you could feel that there was no unity [between] this group of guys as Bronny was the main guy and the others didn’t feel that it was right, that he deserved that."
"And with dealing with Bronny’s attention and treatment, plenty of the other young guys that are trying to make the roster for next season couldn’t show their best side and show their A game."
"I ended up being very frustrated because I was never put in the best situation, or even put in some plays or game plans because they wanted Bronny to show his skills and shine," he said.
"If you talk to any other player that was part of the roster of the California Classic and the Summer League, most of them would tell you the same thing.
"The tensions were visible, and pretty much we were all thinking about the end of the Summer League to get out of here and focus on our next step in our careers."
Can confirm central time zone is the time zone of True Americans.
And 7:30 Pacific time starts are anathema.
I was thinking I wouldn't be super upset if stuff started at 5:30 Central, so take one for the team and let's do 5:30 pacific so that I don't have to stay up until midnight on work nights.
As Americans we can all agree that Paris time zone is just straight ordures
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Pacific time zone has Monday night football and Late Night talk shows airing in the daylight. It's the worst TV time zone and that's saying something considering half of all TV comes from there
Pacific time zone has Monday night football and Late Night talk shows airing in the daylight. It's the worst TV time zone and that's saying something considering half of all TV comes from there
I'm just happy Warriors games got moved to 7pm. It actually makes a huge difference versus a 7:30pm start.
So while we were sleeping, all the favorites win their first matchups including France over Brazil, Germany over Japan, and Australia over Spain, next up Canada vs Greece and US vs Serbia which should be somewhat compelling
Giannis against the world
Giannis just doing everything he can
I don't know if the bucks should've let him play without forcing some of his team mates to get Greek citizenship to help him out
This is gonna be a long off season grind for him
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Embiid is an American now!
It actually would be kind of amazing if they had All The Centers as a team, though. Just throw them all out there on the floor and see what happens.
I mean, they'd probably lose 150-125, but it'd be fun to watch one team constantly raining 3's while the other team gets a guaranteed 2 every possession.
he's a splash serb
It would be a very big team. The guards other than Luka wouldn't really be stars, but more fringe guys (Evan Fournier???). Is Ricky Rubio fully retired (e.g., still playing Euro League)? Probably their next best bet for the point.
fuckin time zones
Everything should start at 7:30pm Pacific, thank you very much.
God's chosen time zone.
And 7:30 Pacific time starts are anathema.
I was thinking I wouldn't be super upset if stuff started at 5:30 Central, so take one for the team and let's do 5:30 pacific so that I don't have to stay up until midnight on work nights.
I'm just happy Warriors games got moved to 7pm. It actually makes a huge difference versus a 7:30pm start.
Giannis against the world
https://x.com/dmai21/status/1817283097374638131#m
I don't know if the bucks should've let him play without forcing some of his team mates to get Greek citizenship to help him out
This is gonna be a long off season grind for him
The color guy for Greece/Canada sounds like Dwyane Wade
that's a faute
Keep having a horseshoe in their pocket if it's going to let them draw fouls from that
olympics are supposed to bring us all together
Both DNPs. Haliburton is expected, but Tatum??? White got into the game before him. Very interesting...
I'm really looking forward to Wednesday's game against them. The warm up game was ridiculous.
I'm scared
Takes a second L to Spain which almost guarantees elimination