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Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #585 on: August 08, 2024, 04:52:08 PM »

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Curry too at end

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #586 on: August 08, 2024, 04:53:03 PM »

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Curry went nba finals game 4 in Boston tonight

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #587 on: August 08, 2024, 04:53:21 PM »

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Will be interesting to see if Kerr continues to ride Embiid, who I feel will be an awful matchup against Wemby with how slow he is on the perimeter.

You have to think that?s a big Tatum game, but who knows with Kerr.

Wemby is too skinny to check Embiid. Embiid can abuse him inside if USA actually made an effort to get him the ball inside. Embiid would do much more damage in the paint than Wemby will do on the perimeter.

What is Wemby shooting like 30% on 3s?

Embiid would feast on him in the paint.

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #588 on: August 08, 2024, 04:53:56 PM »

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Embarrassing display after winning this game in my opinion?shoutout to joker and the Serbians for their performance and classiness in defeat, they shouldn?t have had a chance

Classiness?  With Bogdanovic and half of their team looking to start s*** after every play they made?  Did we watch the same game? 

I credit them for playing hard but they were full of front-running antics all game long. 

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #589 on: August 08, 2024, 04:54:57 PM »

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Yeah bogo was a mouthy ass the whole game

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #590 on: August 08, 2024, 04:56:00 PM »

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Jokic 17pts on 17 FGAs. 0-6 from three.
Bogs 20pts on 18 FGAs. 3-10 from three.
Micic 8pts on 10 FGAs. 2-7 from three.

Their big scorers / NBA players weren't able to score efficiently enough. They got the help they needed from their supporting cast who gave them plenty of scoring & efficient scoring at that. It was their stars who couldn't do enough to get it done.

Combined 45pts on 45 FGAs. 5-23 from three.
Rest of team 46pts on 26 FGAs. 10-16 from three.

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #591 on: August 08, 2024, 04:56:09 PM »

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Poor France is going to die Saturday.

Be nice if everyone got to play in that game

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« Reply #592 on: August 08, 2024, 04:56:14 PM »

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Embarrassing display after winning this game in my opinion?shoutout to joker and the Serbians for their performance and classiness in defeat, they shouldn?t have had a chance

Classiness?  With Bogdanovic and half of their team looking to start s*** after every play they made?  Did we watch the same game? 

I credit them for playing hard but they were full of front-running antics all game long.
They?re playing a team full of some of the best players of all time and have joker, bogs and literally no one else, but yeah let?s thump our chests and throw a huge celebration

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #593 on: August 08, 2024, 04:56:20 PM »

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Was JT injured?  Did he play at all tonight?  Kerr sucks as a coach....
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Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #594 on: August 08, 2024, 04:56:24 PM »

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That was more competitive than I thought it would be. Fun game, just wish I didn?t have to watch on mute.
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Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #595 on: August 08, 2024, 04:57:26 PM »

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well they got the win I guess.   needed 9 threes from Curry to move on.
I watched the last couple of minutes.   Embiid and Curry are so unlikable to me.
Embiid with the flopping, Curry with the showboating at the olympics.

Tatum with 0 minutes again right?   lol I think it is time for some new coaches for Team USA.

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #596 on: August 08, 2024, 04:57:44 PM »

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Steve Kerr is such an idiot.  If they wanted a player to play off ball, stand in the corner and be ready to shoot, they should've freaking taken Brown over Tatum.  That's his role on the C's.  What's most infuriating about Kerr not putting Tatum in his normal role (hence his struggles in the Olympics), is that the starting SF (LeBron) is a point-forward, and Tatum does literally everything that LeBron does ... there is not a single aspect of LeBron's game that Tatum also doesn't do well.  So, it's 100% logical to have Tatum backing up LeBron at the point-forward role.  He would have excelled.

But, Kerr had a different agenda.  Infuriating. C's gonna be motivated as he!! for a repeat!

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« Reply #597 on: August 08, 2024, 04:58:12 PM »

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Embarrassing display after winning this game in my opinion?shoutout to joker and the Serbians for their performance and classiness in defeat, they shouldn?t have had a chance

Classiness?  With Bogdanovic and half of their team looking to start s*** after every play they made?  Did we watch the same game? 

I credit them for playing hard but they were full of front-running antics all game long.

That?s fine, but I?m pretty sure joker immediately took the defeat like a real man and was hugging and congratulating the us all star team while they were screaming and flexing lol

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #598 on: August 08, 2024, 04:58:13 PM »

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Curry is the greatest shooter ever. He?s the only player that I feel like every shot he shoots is gonna go in

Re: Team USA Basketball 2024
« Reply #599 on: August 08, 2024, 04:58:38 PM »

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This question may have already been posted, so forgive me for not wading thru 40 pages of comments.

Though it is technically impossible to create such a game due to roster overlaps, just for the sake of discussion - who wins 2024 Celtics vs 2024 Olympic team ?
The Four Celtic Generals:
Russell - Cowens - Bird - Garnett

The Four Celtic Lieutenants:
Cousy - Havlicek - McHale - Pierce