USA Basketball

2016 team
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl9gDMZVEAAQ9hG.jpg[img]
http://olympics.si.com/olympics/2016/06/27/usa-basketball-roster-2016-olympics

whoops
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl9gDMZVEAAQ9hG.jpg

this team is weird and therefore I think will be fun to watch

what other teams are even good anymore? Spain seems super old at this point. France and Brasil might be good, Lithuania?

http://www.fiba.com/rankingmen

Uh oh Dray could cause an international incident

this team def the first one thats vulnerable to loss since the last time they loss, dont know if any of the other teams are good tho

really want kd to back out then wed be onto something

australia maybe? idk

if the last FIBA cup squads were any indication, the one that got furthest before ultimately being defeated by USA was...lithuania? spain generally good but they'll be down a major gasol

lithuania-USA game also almost had a fight between boogie and jonas v lol

croatias got a bunch of young dudes iirc prob too green tho

French roster p good w batum, TP, Diaw, laveurgne, ajinca,
http://www.eurobasket.com/France/basketball-National-Team.asp

spain, i forgot about rudy and sergio yeah they should be p good
http://www.eurobasket.com/Spain/news/451456/Spanish-National-Team-2016

and mirotic. pau and juan carlos and calderon are all just old tho

pau cn still get buckets

def, always balls out w international ball too

Who you guys think the starting five is for the title game

boogie-kd-pg-klay-kyrie

tough call between DJ and Boogie

ya thats the one i was puzzling over

could also see them starting Melo over PG

u cld conceivably go w D at the 1 with lowery too but idk

i think if melo starts then DJ starts. if PG starts then boogie starts

rather have pg being a jack of all trades low usage guy than melo out there hoisting imo

Dunno if he'll start but melo always tears it up in international ball

Melo is our all-time hoister in international competition, he's gonna be the splash older cousin this time

This roster just seems weird overall though so many swing guys who could all conceivably play the 3, guess they'll spread out from 2 to 4

yeah i think it's time for him to take a lesser role but he def loves international ball and may get the nod cos of experience

yeah there isnt a trad PF on that roster xp

I want to see Boogie and Green play together :)

goon ball gonna be v hype

i am excited for this roster tbh

also no white dudes on the team

no truly good NBA wites this year, least not american wites

this does remind me that mason plumdawg made the 2014 fiba team and gordon hayward didn't and it brought great consternation to a handful of jazz beat writers on twitter

hayward more deserving than harrison

i think he got an invite but said he wanted to hang out w his new kid

oh

espn users

93% kyrie
43% klay 28% george 24% butler
74% durant 13% melo
36% green 31% melo 22% durant
57% cousins 28% jordan

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4041877-155/utah-jazz-gordon-hayward-to-skip yea he got baby no. 2 on the way xp

kyrie, klay, durant, draymond, boogie is a great starting 5

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl-4_iIUkAAm0iw.jpg

photographer must have been fond of that backdrop

lol durant

lol I just got that pic.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmAn8ssXEAEk8rK.jpg:large
did they use puff paint for the lettering or what

why are they covering their dicks

they all have NRBs

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/2016-olympics-basketball-united-states-dream-team-rankings

lol Nike stuck all the non nike dudes in the back and burned out their shoes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqtzYHVMAAxrJb.jpg

ha nice

Nick DePaula ‏@NickDePaula 56m56 minutes ago
A USA tradition since 2008, when players lined up in reverse order so Coach K himself could block Dwight's adidas
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqyxTNUMAEzjNs.jpg:large

a company man to the core

Canada released their roster today:

Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Toronto, Ont.)
RJ Barrett (Mississauga, Ont.)
Khem Birch (Montreal, Que.)
Dillon Brooks (Mississauga, Ont.)
Luguentz Dort (Montreal, Que.)
Melvin Ejim (Toronto, Ont.)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Hamilton, Ont.)
Trey Lyles (Saskatoon, Sask.)
Jamal Murray (Kitchener, Ont.)
Andrew Nembhard (Aurora, Ont.)
Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, B.C.)
Dwight Powell (Toronto, Ont.)

Their best line-up ever on paper, but almost no NBA quality bigs

cmon theyve got kelly o

crazy what a basketball factory greater toronto has become

dort brooks NAW SGA are some solid defensive players. hope they meet in the gold medal game

it should be easy to advance to the knockout rounds, 8 of 12 advance to quarterfinals

group a
australia
greece
canada
spain

this is the toughest one, spain isnt what it used to be but theyre no slouches, greece has giannis, aus has a lot of experience together and nba talent, canada should win this group tho.

group b
france
germany
japan
brazil

weakest group, france should cruise (germany's world cup win last year notwithstanding).

group c
serbia
south sudan
puerto rico
usa

puerto rico is scrappy, but serbia and us should cruise.

apparently that group of death is that way cause they do the seeds based on some multi year ranking system that way underrates canada cause they havent been good for that long

@nike this what we doing ?

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) July 10, 2024

whats the story with that?

nike run team usa and jaylen is not a nike athlete

theres a handful of dudes on there that arent nike

yeah but have they tweeted that nike is unethical

is it true that nike runs the team what the story with that

ever since citizens united yeah

lol

thought they looked horrible in the 1st and it was mostly to do with embiid looking completely unplayable

think theyre gonna settle in on a steph / ant / kd / lebron / ad lineup as their best/closing lineup. maybe booker in place of ant

they shld go w white jrue tatum bron brow celtics-lakers national unity line up

that’s a pretty good lineup

kept reading that as brow brow and thinking yeah if they have two of him you gotta roll that out

team of two brows three celtics

they shld go w white jrue tatum bron brow celtics-lakers national unity line up

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 11, 2024 3:56 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly not the worst idea theres at least some continuity and familiarity there lol

Im not afraid of you or your resources

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) July 11, 2024

getting a bit sad. you got the miss congeniality trophy for playing the best in a short sample on an unstoppable team, honestly for optics I would have chosen you too, but have a little bit of self respect!

I mean picking White over him to replace Kahwi is criminal, and blatant Nike politicking. Yeah he's not exactly being graceful here and it creates some ugly tension with his teammate, but I feel for him. And I'm well aware of him basically being a quiet, better with the press and teammates version of Kyrie

have a little bit of self respect! --kevin nike

chip on his shoulder is a big part of Jaylen’s whole thing, he had to recapture it somehow after winning finals mvp

if nike really snubbed him thats what we call a legitimate story, ppl in this thread trying to psychologize jaylen and give him a poor comportment mark for making three tweets about it is kind of odd

i would use a stronger word than “odd” tbh

psychologize yes, poor comportment mark no way. chip on the shoulder is a key motivator for many top tier athletes!

Been Rosell, Neymar, Barcelona and the Brazilian national team snubbing non Nike players there's been stink and the Nike finger hanging over a lot of decisions in the past and no one's batted an eye. They've had Olympic athletes per differently for team photos if players didn't wear Nikes to hide the logo. Corporate corruption is definitely a more of an Occam's razor for me here. But who knows, maybe Kerr or LeBron really wanted White on the team instead lol

Been -> With

per -> pose! Damn phone

Nike trying to create dissent among the Celtics to sabotage the dynasty and save NBA ratings

one thing that was pretty apparent watching the usa-canada game is that compared to some past usa teams this one isn't very athletic. ant is the only non big who plays above the rim. we don't have a ton of speed, even tho canada couldn't score there wasn't a lot of fastbreak happening. halliburton was kinda the only one really pushing the ball but it seems like he may not even play much in the real games. none of this will matter in fact it might be conducive to winning international basketball, however for entertainment purposes i like to see guys in usa colors streaking down the floor and leaping 1 million feet into the air above a bunch of europeans to finish an alley oop and derek white isn't doing that. free jaylen

LeBron was sick but I feel the same way. I like Canada but Jaylen would’ve crushed them.

Nike stock has been down a fair amount these past few months. it's not unthinkable that they could be doing some arm twisting of the USOC to get the maximum publicity benefit out the 2024 Paris Olympics.

nikes having their worst stretch in at least a long while sales/profitwise, theyve blamed it on going too hard for direct to consumer retailers feeling ignored, lot of industry people saying no one likes their new shoes most of their sales are designs that came out 20+ years ago and are too expensive too, theyve lost the running market to smaller more innovative companies at a time when people are buying a lot of running shoes, they shouldnt take it out on jaylen tho hes innocent

jaylen does have some beef with the sneaker industry he hasnt been signed to anyone in a while hes worn a bunch of diff shoes with the labels removed or blacked out, not sure exactly what his issue is cause like with many things hes not really into explaining himself but i did read him say something like the shoe companies pretend they want to have a partnership with you but its just marketing bs, he has his own clothing line so im thinking he wants to design his own shoe but no one will let him so he thinks theyre fake friends now, which obvs they are and if he doesnt want to take their millions of dollar to wear shoes on court more power to him, personally i think nike should let him design his own shoe and be on the olympic team its the right thing to do

ok I was unnecessarily mean to jaylen but to not even congratulate your teammate is a little strange I think! also looks like he deleted the “really nike” tweet lol

gotta keep derrick grounded hes getting a big head

noooooo derrick catching strays

its getting real in the usa basketball thread

Is Edey no longer a Canadian citizen or is him being an nba rookie keeping him off Canada national team.

I’d figure if they need a big dude, he’s a big Canadian.

Never mind, I see now he pulled out to play in the NBA summer league.

god made derrick white’s head that big, not his fault.

So close, South Sudan.

does not seem like a great result for the usa

They’d really benefit from Brown.

I don’t know what to write about Embiid. It can’t feel good when South Sudan is steamrolling you.

As far as other Celtics, Tatum is frustrating per usual, Jrue winning games per usual, and Derrick White looks great.

whats up w embiid knee still fucked up

Also just not a great style for international play