No. Some teams just look bad because they don't play a lot together and or they look bad because the level of talent against team is too big a gap. A team of just NBA lower level bench players can beat the best high school teams easily. The lower teams in this tournament are equal to a that. So think of the biggest gap is (U.S.A.) NBA team 10* deep of all-stars vs decent top 20 college team.
I bet Oak Hill could beat some of these teams. I do not think all these guys could do well in the NCAAs let alone NBA. That being said, there are some that would do well and have done well in the NBA. It's been a sham without the USA being involved all those years, we may have lost one or two years but we would have easily won the rest. I think a lot of good NCAA teams could smear some of these teams, not Spain though. My reasoning is this, that our wash ups who don't make in the NBA get to play easily in Europe or Turkey.
Also, behold this:
http://www.nationofblue.com/2014/08/official-boxscore-kentucky-vs-puerto-rico/http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/12/3376381/live-uk-basketball-vs-puerto-rico.htmlA FIBA team, killed bu UK. 58 points in the paint given up. Out rebounded by 22 and held the opposing team to less than .36 from the field. These are boys playing men. This is not soccer, this is our sport.
In fact, if we wanted to play hardball and made are best players play and disallowed foreigners in the NBA, I doubt we would ever lose. But the league has chosen the world market and I think it is the right call. It certainly brought in some top talent overseas like Dirk and the Gasol Brothers.
No. Some teams just look bad because they don't play a lot together and or they look bad because the level of talent against team is too big a ga
I would bet our guys have played together less. Not like they are all team mates.