US leads France 45 - 37 at the half of game 1.
The constant switching on defense allowed the bigs for France to kill us. Lackluster performance all around.Popovich has to be the most overrated coach in the history of anything.
Yep. Imagine Mexico's big Cinco de Mayo celebration is a victory over...France?Losing to France.......yeeeesh
Welcome to the thumbs down club, He15Man. Wear the honor proudly!I find this absolutely hilarious. The arrogance of today's NBA and NBA player is unsurpassed.... a bunch of self-absorbed, self-righteous megalomaniacs. Bring back players like Jordan, Barkley, Magic, and Bird and I'd start watching again; at least those guys didn't bitch about having to play during the regular season and view Team USA as an offseason distraction to their "recovery." These guys we have now are overpaid disgraces.
I hear a lot of this and do wish a ton of NBA players today would complain less and be less soft... but maybe if Bird did rest occasionally his back wouldn't have shortened his career by 5-7 years... just offering a bit of a differing opinion.I find this absolutely hilarious. The arrogance of today's NBA and NBA player is unsurpassed.... a bunch of self-absorbed, self-righteous megalomaniacs. Bring back players like Jordan, Barkley, Magic, and Bird and I'd start watching again; at least those guys didn't bitch about having to play during the regular season and view Team USA as an offseason distraction to their "recovery." These guys we have now are overpaid disgraces.
...at least those guys didn't bitch about having to play during the regular season and view Team USA as an offseason distraction to their "recovery." These guys we have now are overpaid disgraces.
1) The guys who are there aren't the ones thinking like this. This makes no sense. Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton could still be stateside going apeshit celebrating their title, but they hopped on a 15-hour flight to Tokyo instead.
2) The compressed NBA schedule the last two seasons has been absolutely brutal, resulting in the rash of injuries that affected this year's playoffs. Not surprising that guys with a short window to make millions per year want to extend that window as long as possible.
Hopefully it will be a wake up call for not only the players but for the coaching staff as well.
Yeah I want guys with no egos! like….*checks notes*….Larry Bird?I find this absolutely hilarious. The arrogance of today's NBA and NBA player is unsurpassed.... a bunch of self-absorbed, self-righteous megalomaniacs. Bring back players like Jordan, Barkley, Magic, and Bird and I'd start watching again; at least those guys didn't bitch about having to play during the regular season and view Team USA as an offseason distraction to their "recovery." These guys we have now are overpaid disgraces.
i'd be in favor of
1) dropping the NBA players
2) get a team composed of College players, maybe 1 or 2 G League players, a couple of guys who play pofessionally outside of the USA, and maybe 1 or 2 recently retired NBA players
I hear what you're saying, and i realize what i'm saying isn't a widely held belief, but i just personally can't watch or respect today's NBA at all. I don't even see how it's arguable that that today's players aren't nearly as competitive as the Jordans, Barkleys, Ewings, Olajuwons, etc. And before anyone jumps down my throat, what I mean by "competitive" is that these old timers wouldn't have DREAMED of playing on or creating super teams or "Big 3's." I'm sure players today are competitive in the sense that they want to win, but I don't see ANYTHING relatively close to how the superstars of the 80s and 90s were... the guys who literally lived and breathed competition and would rather die than give their opponent the satisfaction of JOINING THEM after getting beat. Are there exceptions in the NBA today? Obviously. But for the most part, all I hear from our superstars are how hard their schedule is, how unfair something is, how they shouldn't be expected to play most of the season's games, how All Star games are a big inconvenience, or how the honor of representing your country isn't worth your time (or, better yet, turn it into a political thing....). It's just pure insanity coming from guys that are making 20, 30, 40 MILLION per year! Anyone here can disagree with me all they like, but it'll be a cold day in hell when i feel sympathy for a guy that makes an annual salary capable of setting up 3 generations of their family.1) The guys who are there aren't the ones thinking like this. This makes no sense. Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton could still be stateside going apeshit celebrating their title, but they hopped on a 15-hour flight to Tokyo instead.
2) The compressed NBA schedule the last two seasons has been absolutely brutal, resulting in the rash of injuries that affected this year's playoffs. Not surprising that guys with a short window to make millions per year want to extend that window as long as possible.
Who said anything about egos? I couldn't care less about a guy's ego. Just don't complain about your life and how overworked you are when your contract is worth more than the GDP of most small countries -- and THEN go lose to freakin' France after acting all big and bad.Yeah I want guys with no egos! like….*checks notes*….Larry Bird?