Driblo has a question…
By Fig Jam (on behalf of Driblo, the Lion mascot of “Afrobasket” 2007)
So, is the USA Basketball team good again, or is this just like when the USA soccer team won the Gold Cup by beating up on inferior squads (except Mexico). I ask because I legitimately don’t know. My first guess is that they are good again, but this based largely on looking at the roster and determining that it could never lose. This however, would also have been my impression for the Athens Olympic team which lost three times and took home only the bronze.
Maybe having a college coach (whose last name is a nonsensical assortment of letters… seriously, there is no proper pronunciation for that mess) in there teaching “team” basketball to all these superstars is actually having a positive effect. Maybe the likes of LeBron, Carmelo, and Kobe are all accepting lesser roles that make the whole stronger than the sum of the parts. Maybe they are just kicking the crap out of poor teams that couldn’t win the PAC-10 conference this season. Anyone else have any ideas on this? Can I resume walking around the Puget Sound area with a certain international basketball arrogance again?
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I think we’re better because we’re trying? I honestly don’t know. I suspect no one will know until we actually are facing full strength Argentina, Italy, and Yugoslavia. It’s embarassing that it’s a question whether our superstars can beat that assortment of countries, but that’s the way it is.
If we just put Kobe out there with three shooters and Dwight Howard, we would win every game. Just tell Kobe that his defender insulted him and watch him rip the guy to shreds.