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Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #75 on: July 11, 2024, 03:28:25 AM »

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Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #76 on: July 11, 2024, 07:04:08 AM »

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AD would be natural on Celtics as they age . If he?s healthy, it?s a dynasty.  Danny was right about going after him .  AD just made a HUGE mistake listening to Laker crap , Bron and Irving .  He d win more way more with Boston than the clown show team.

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« Reply #77 on: July 11, 2024, 07:40:41 AM »

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AD would be natural on Celtics as they age . If he?s healthy, it?s a dynasty.  Danny was right about going after him .  AD just made a HUGE mistake listening to Laker crap , Bron and Irving .  He d win more way more with Boston than the clown show team.

Yeah, a lot of things went wrong at the same time to ruin Danny's vision.  There's a world where our team is Horford / Davis / Hayward / Brown / Irving.  Or, if luck breaks our way, maybe we keep Tatum instead of Brown.
 Instead, we got the Hayward injury and the Irving drama.

But, I'm very glad how things worked out in the end.  We've got an incredibly likeable team built around two home-grown stars.  And, relevant to this thread, two of our "role players" are on Team USA, which is wild.  (In a perfect world, JB is also on Team USA, and KP is healthy and playing for Latvia.)


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« Reply #78 on: July 11, 2024, 07:24:47 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA
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« Reply #79 on: July 11, 2024, 08:33:48 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.

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« Reply #80 on: July 11, 2024, 09:10:09 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.
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« Reply #81 on: July 11, 2024, 09:20:35 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.

Mullin was all NBA second team in ?90-91 & all NBA first team in ?91-92.

However, the larger point stands that the original dream team didn?t take all the best players at the time and that team certainly had its politics. Jordan & Isaiah being example A.


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« Reply #82 on: July 11, 2024, 09:28:27 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.

Mullin was all NBA second team in ?90-91 & all NBA first team in ?91-92.

However, the larger point stands that the original dream team didn?t take all the best players at the time and that team certainly had its politics. Jordan & Isaiah being example A.

Ok fair enough.  I was never a huge IT fan so I didn't see it as big of a slight as others.   

My BIGGER point was that you had the ECF MVP - Finals MVP evidently wanting to play and available, and you need two way players with all the old guys on the current team.   Why you don't pick that guy who along with Tatum destroyed the NBA in the regular season and in the playoffs?   Maybe a better analogy is Pippen?   Either way something odd happened in the selection.  Maybe JB p---ed someone off, maybe something else.   It is such an obvious snub that it makes you wonder what happened.

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« Reply #83 on: July 11, 2024, 10:03:06 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.

Mullin was all NBA second team in ?90-91 & all NBA first team in ?91-92.

However, the larger point stands that the original dream team didn?t take all the best players at the time and that team certainly had its politics. Jordan & Isaiah being example A.

Ok fair enough.  I was never a huge IT fan so I didn't see it as big of a slight as others.   

My BIGGER point was that you had the ECF MVP - Finals MVP evidently wanting to play and available, and you need two way players with all the old guys on the current team.   Why you don't pick that guy who along with Tatum destroyed the NBA in the regular season and in the playoffs?   Maybe a better analogy is Pippen?   Either way something odd happened in the selection.  Maybe JB p---ed someone off, maybe something else.   It is such an obvious snub that it makes you wonder what happened.
The dumber part was taking Laettner as some sort of bone to throw towards the tradition of taking only college/amateur players.
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« Reply #84 on: July 11, 2024, 10:58:23 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.

Mullin was all NBA second team in ?90-91 & all NBA first team in ?91-92.

However, the larger point stands that the original dream team didn?t take all the best players at the time and that team certainly had its politics. Jordan & Isaiah being example A.

Ok fair enough.  I was never a huge IT fan so I didn't see it as big of a slight as others.   

My BIGGER point was that you had the ECF MVP - Finals MVP evidently wanting to play and available, and you need two way players with all the old guys on the current team.   Why you don't pick that guy who along with Tatum destroyed the NBA in the regular season and in the playoffs?   Maybe a better analogy is Pippen?   Either way something odd happened in the selection.  Maybe JB p---ed someone off, maybe something else.   It is such an obvious snub that it makes you wonder what happened.
The dumber part was taking Laettner as some sort of bone to throw towards the tradition of taking only college/amateur players.

Yes, and even worse, they passed on Shaq for that amateur spot too.

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« Reply #85 on: July 11, 2024, 11:02:11 PM »

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I think the question I wanna know is why are Devin Booker and Tyrese Haliburton on this squad? Both are garbage and perennial losers...Jaylen Brown should be in their place.

And Joel Embiid should be suiting up for Cameroon smh.


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« Reply #86 on: July 11, 2024, 11:03:48 PM »

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Team USA director Grant Hill went on SiriusXM with @TermineRadio and explained the decision to add Derrick White: He is someone who is accustomed to playing alongside great players. He plays with two great young stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So he knows how to be a complimentary piece but also stand out in his role. And so obviously we have tremendous star power on this team. But he is a guy that whether he sits for two games or he plays in the fourth quarter, he is going to have a great attitude, he is going to be Derrick White. via Twitter JaredWeissNBA

This isn't directed at you Goldstar, but did we do that in 92 for the 1st dream team?  Ummm no!  We took all the best players, not players that can 'be complimentary'.   It is obvious that for some reason, they didn't want JB on the team.   It was a pretty big slight, so JB probably has a right to be polishing that chip on his shoulder.   It is a huge honor to go and play in the Olympics.   The honor should probably go to our best players.
3 things. 1 the original dream team was special and can never be replicated. 2. The original dream team didn't take all of the best players as they had a guy like mullen and not thomas. 3. The world is a lot better now. The US started losing because they didn't make a real team.

Now all that said, they should have picked Brown over White.

Mullin was all NBA second team in ?90-91 & all NBA first team in ?91-92.

However, the larger point stands that the original dream team didn?t take all the best players at the time and that team certainly had its politics. Jordan & Isaiah being example A.

Ok fair enough.  I was never a huge IT fan so I didn't see it as big of a slight as others.   

My BIGGER point was that you had the ECF MVP - Finals MVP evidently wanting to play and available, and you need two way players with all the old guys on the current team.   Why you don't pick that guy who along with Tatum destroyed the NBA in the regular season and in the playoffs?   Maybe a better analogy is Pippen?   Either way something odd happened in the selection.  Maybe JB p---ed someone off, maybe something else.   It is such an obvious snub that it makes you wonder what happened.
The dumber part was taking Laettner as some sort of bone to throw towards the tradition of taking only college/amateur players.

Yes, and even worse, they passed on Shaq for that amateur spot too.

Yeah that would have been a lot more fun looking back.   I remember even Larry Bird was mentioning how great an NBA player that Shaq was going to be before he got drafted.

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« Reply #88 on: July 12, 2024, 04:54:19 PM »

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Anyone know when the next exhibition game is?
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Anyone know when the next exhibition game is?

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