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Mutt · 08-27-2004, 02:24 PM

any American who writes the three losses at this Olympics off because a bunch of spoiled thugs refused to play for their country is an idiot in denial. It's most likely true that if Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Carter, McGrady, Kidd answered their call to duty they would have won gold but the team that was sent included two NBA MVP's,Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson and many All-Stars and the two most hyped players by the NBA marketing machine Carmelo and Lebron. It's not long ago that a team like that would have breezed to a gold medal. Just like Canada learned in hockey in the 1970's Americans will now have to accept that the world has caught up to them in basketball. Excuses are for losers. I keep hearing sports pundits whining that the team was poorly composed, that it wasn't a 'team', no role players with talents that meshed together - that's true but a team with Michael Redd and Brent Barry on it still would have had trouble against the best teams in the world.

Shaq will be an old man in 4 years - stop using him as a crutch.
McGrady, Kobe, Carter, Pierce are the same player - three or four of them on your team would have been a mistake. Kidd is overrated and hasn't won a thing.

As long as the NBA sells its individual players rather than its teams nothing is going to change. Blame David Stern as much as anybody. In what other team sport do you hear games promoted that way? Carmelo Anthony vs Lebron James. That's what's wrong - that NBA philosophy has permeated every level of US basketball.

08-27-2004, 02:24 PM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	any American who writes the three losses at this Olympics off because a bunch of spoiled thugs refused to play for their country is an idiot in denial. It's most likely true that if Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Carter, McGrady, Kidd answered their call to duty they would have won gold but the team that was sent included two NBA MVP's,Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson and many All-Stars and the two most hyped players by the NBA marketing machine Carmelo and Lebron. It's not long ago that a team like that would have breezed to a gold medal. Just like Canada learned in hockey in the 1970's Americans will now have to accept that the world has caught up to them in basketball. Excuses are for losers. I keep hearing sports pundits whining that the team was poorly composed, that it wasn't a 'team', no role players with talents that meshed together - that's true but a team with Michael Redd and Brent Barry on it still would have had trouble against the best teams in the world. Shaq will be an old man in 4 years - stop using him as a crutch. McGrady, Kobe, Carter, Pierce are the same player - three or four of them on your team would have been a mistake. Kidd is overrated and hasn't won a thing. As long as the NBA sells its individual players rather than its teams nothing is going to change. Blame David Stern as much as anybody. In what other team sport do you hear games promoted that way? Carmelo Anthony vs Lebron James. That's what's wrong - that NBA philosophy has permeated every level of US basketball.