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Am I the only one who finds its really difficult to root for Team USA? I just don't like any of these guys, except for KLove, Chandler and maybe Durant.
I've been rooting against them the entire time. lol
I haven't been following it either though, don't really care about the olympics in general. I might catch it if Andy and The Brazilians play them. (if they're even still alive)
Lol. Same here. When they were down in the 4th the other day, I so wanted Kobe and Lebron to choke it away. I take no pleasure in watching them dominate Nigeria and Egypt or whoever.
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i'm pretending that there is no basketball in the Olympics
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I'm not actively rooting against the mens team but its hard to get excited about rooting for them..... one because I dislike a lot of the personalities on the team and secondly because its sort of like rooting for the 190 pound kid to take the 120 pound kids lunch money.... They gave up 59 points in a 20 minute half to a team whose best scoring option is 35 years old and is only a 15 ppg player in the NBA.... . 
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It's not like Manu is some scrub. FIBA is perfect for his style of play.
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It's not like Manu is some scrub. FIBA is perfect for his style of play.
yup, and don't forget the ridiculous officiating and the fact that they are shooting from barely above high school 3 pt distance.
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It's not like Manu is some scrub. FIBA is perfect for his style of play.
Manu wouldn't make the US team... and we gave up 59 points in a 20 minute half.... if this was a 24 minute half, like the NBA plays, that equates to 71 points... in a half. With the best players on the planet allegedly playing defense... As the 3rd quarter showed, they can play defense when they want to but from what I've seen they want to play it like its an all-star game for a while, knowing they can turn it on when they need to and clamp down....
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Am I the only one who finds its really difficult to root for Team USA? I just don't like any of these guys, except for KLove, Chandler and maybe Durant.
I mentioned this awhile ago, in how it was going to be really hard to cheer for this team ... in 4 short years we went from the hungry group of youngsters you could pull for as they looked to redeem USA Basketball and win gold for their country ... back to the group of guys that are spoiled, whine, flop, strut-around, act like they gold is already theirs and are generally impossible to root for. 
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i haven't watched, but were you expecting them to play it like the NBA Finals?
these guys are on vacation, playing some fun hoops, and helping out their global brand. to say it's much more than that is foolish.
it's why NBA players shouldn't have been allowed into the Olympics (same goes for pro-tennis players, etc.)
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I just hate NBA athletes in general. In terms of my fab 5 of douchebaggery it goes like this:
CP3
Wade
Kobe
Lebron
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Blake Griff doesn't even make the top 5? Ouch!
Blake hasn't really done much himself. It has more to do with the media.
The other 5 have done something at some point to be labeled a jerk
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you'd think he would (especially with those Kia commercials), but I agree with Candy's list
CP3 - punched a guy in the nuts, considered NBA's dirtiest player
Wade - "South Beach" orchestration, injury theatrics
Kobe - "who the hell is Andrew Bynum speech" + Shaq fued + giving up in the game7 vs. Suns series + a whole lot more
Lebron - umm, yeah.
Dwight - ditto.
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I don't think I want Kyrie Irving anywhere near our Olympic team. Actually, it was pretty much downhill for Lebron after the 2008 Olympics too. 
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I swear I was talking about when he was at Wake, then I click on Yahoo! Sports and see this:
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Anthony staggered to his feet and screamed to Facundo Campazzo for jabbing him between the legs and running away.
"Campazzo got hit in the [groin], too" Argentina's Luis Scola said. "That stuff happens."
"Because before, Chris Paul punched me," Campazzo said.
So Campazzo apologized to Anthony too?
"No," he said. "Chris Paul didn't apologize to me."
Paul does have a history of delivering low blows in his career
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--carmel...-argentina.html
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I swear I was talking about when he was at Wake, then I click on Yahoo! Sports and see this:
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Anthony staggered to his feet and screamed to Facundo Campazzo for jabbing him between the legs and running away.
"Campazzo got hit in the [groin], too" Argentina's Luis Scola said. "That stuff happens."
"Because before, Chris Paul punched me," Campazzo said.
So Campazzo apologized to Anthony too?
"No," he said. "Chris Paul didn't apologize to me."
Paul does have a history of delivering low blows in his career
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--carmel...-argentina.html
I thought you were talking about the Wake-NC State incident too.
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you'd think he would (especially with those Kia commercials), but I agree with Candy's list
CP3 - punched a guy in the nuts, considered NBA's dirtiest player
Wade - "South Beach" orchestration, injury theatrics
Kobe - "who the hell is Andrew Bynum speech" + Shaq fued + giving up in the game7 vs. Suns series + a whole lot more
Lebron - umm, yeah.
Dwight - ditto.
Yeah, I'd probably agree too ... sad state of affairs when you still have a bench of:
Blake - "All I do is dunk ... and flop"
Bosh - Mr. Fall-down-two-seconds-after-an-elbow-goes-past-my-face, but at least he's the most "likeable" star in Miami.
Deron - "It's the coach or me! Oh, he quit? trade me anyway! Oh, this team sucks? I'm just going to pack it in."
Camelo - "Trade me Denver or I'm pulling a Lebron" and "Get rid of that Jeremy Lin guy or else!"
Westbrook - Not really as bad as the others, but he's still the only guy who can stop Kevin Durant. 
Anthony Davis - Still a likeable guy ... but he's starting to head down "that road" with quotes like, "I didn't want to shave my unibrow, because it wouldn't be good for 'my brand' ".
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I should start a "Top ten pro athletes you hate" topic.
I could honestly do a 40 or 50 list easily.
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I don't think I want Kyrie Irving anywhere near our Olympic team.
I agree. Keep him far far away.
I can't imagine that this is a good thing for Durant, either.
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I stopped watching Olympic basketball after the original dream team. Yes we know the NBA players can beat anybody by 30 points. It's time to bring back the college kids and give us Olympic basketball worth watching. Olympic basketball in the true spirit of the Olympics.
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I stopped watching Olympic basketball after the original dream team. Yes we know the NBA players can beat anybody by 30 points. It's time to bring back the college kids and give us Olympic basketball worth watching. Olympic basketball in the true spirit of the Olympics.
i agree, but that is why Stern/Cuban want the age limit. other countries have to sign off on not having their pros as well (as they have gotten so much better - I wouldn't mind seeing our college kids take a crack at Manu and Pau and such, but I doubt the NBA or the US Olympic Committee signs off on that).
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I stopped watching Olympic basketball after the original dream team. Yes we know the NBA players can beat anybody by 30 points. It's time to bring back the college kids and give us Olympic basketball worth watching. Olympic basketball in the true spirit of the Olympics.
I thought the Olympics were about being the best..not well the best under a certain age limit or personality? Who cares how much money they make or how old they are. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world whether he is making 1 dollar or 1 million whether saint or sinner.
I don't see china wanting to put only grade schoolers in ping pong because they dominate it so much. I don't see Canada only playing with College players in their hockey games.
The United States has an amazing basketball program and just because its better than everyone's elses doesn't mean we should deny them the right to represent their Country. The Olympics are coming together and seeing who is the best, why should America handicap itself?
Just because the team is full of unlikables, bullies..etc? Whatever it doesn't take away from their athletic prowess which the Olympics are about. Get over your hateraid man, if you don't like them don't watch, root for the other team, or go root for buffalo. Personally I'll root for them because athletes are for entertainment not moral guidance.
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If we did an under 23 for the mens basketball we still would win gold with Kyrie, Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Blake
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I thought the Olympics were about being the best..not well the best under a certain age limit or personality? Who cares how much money they make or how old they are.
the Olympics are about being the pinnacle of athletic achievement. our NBA players treat it as a way of strengthening their global brand.
honestly, if the rule becomes to just eliminate basketball from the Olympics, then I'd be okay with that too (they eliminated baseball, so why not do the same thing and have a World Cup Basketball instead).
probably just me seeing the Olympics as something slightly different because of how they were when I was growing up.
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I thought the Olympics were about being the best amateur athletes. I know sometimes what being an amateur is is up for debate but clearly NBA players are not amateurs. And I never said anything about age or personality. I couldn't care less if we field an over 50 team. I just think amateurs competing brings an excitement that we don't see with professional. And I think it should apply to every country not just the USA.
And it shouldn't just apply to basketball either. I used to love Olympic hockey but I stopped watching when they started using NHL players.
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The Olympic hockey with NHL'ers has been amazing.
Those guys give a damn more than the NBA players. It's a huge deal. The US/Canada rivalry is one of the best rivalries in all of sports. It doesn't get much run, but it's a huge deal.
The NBA guys care in the Olympics, but it's clear they don't care that much. I probably wouldn't watch if they used amateurs though. I dunno, maybe I would, it would be the best college players from the upcoming college season.
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I was just telling someone this the other night, actually.
Olympic hockey > Every other Olympic sport, IMO.
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I was just telling someone this the other night, actually.
Olympic hockey > Every other Olympic sport, IMO.
That gold medal game in 2010 is one of the best hockey games I have ever watched. That game had the intensity of a game 7 in the NHL playoffs.
I'm glad they did away with the olympic rink setup as well. There is absolutely no reason to ever play hockey on an olympic rink.
I enjoy basketball in the Olympics, but I don't like some of the FIBA rules, and I think the fact that Team USA is just so much better than everyone else, takes away.
Canada should be like that for hockey, but they really aren't. USA has closed a pretty big gap. Their junior team actually won the world championship a few years ago over Canada. That's a huge deal. That tournament takes place right after Christmas every year, and in Canada it's a bigger deal than the NHL.
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I thought the Olympics were about being the best..not well the best under a certain age limit or personality?
Actually the debate raged for quite a long time about whether the Olympics should be strictly an amateur event and if so, what exactly constituted an amateur... The acceptance of professional athletes in the Olympics is a relatively new thing...
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I thought the Olympics were about being the best..not well the best under a certain age limit or personality?
Actually the debate raged for quite a long time about whether the Olympics should be strictly an amateur event and if so, what exactly constituted an amateur... The acceptance of professional athletes in the Olympics is a relatively new thing...
That's what made the miracle on ice so unique. They were technically amateurs, but that Russian team may as well have been professional. Communism kept them from having that tag. They had literally been together for like 15 years.
It's a unique situation that should never really be compared to anything else. It's just not going to happen that way ever again.
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That's what made the miracle on ice so unique. They were technically amateurs, but that Russian team may as well have been professional. Communism kept them from having that tag. They had literally been together for like 15 years.
It's a unique situation that should never really be compared to anything else. It's just not going to happen that way ever again.
on the amatuer vs. professional, sure that is unique.
i still believe Rulon Gardner defeating the invincible Alexander Karelin is the greatest upset in the history of the Olympics. He was undefeated for 13 years of international wrestling competition before that loss. He hadn't even given up a single point in the previous 6 years.
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That's what made the miracle on ice so unique. They were technically amateurs, but that Russian team may as well have been professional. Communism kept them from having that tag. They had literally been together for like 15 years.
It's a unique situation that should never really be compared to anything else. It's just not going to happen that way ever again.
on the amatuer vs. professional, sure that is unique.
i still believe Rulon Gardner defeating the invincible Alexander Karelin is the greatest upset in the history of the Olympics. He was undefeated for 13 years of international wrestling competition before that loss. He hadn't even given up a single point in the previous 6 years.
It's very hard to compare solo sports and team sports.
My point about that was more on how that Russian team was "amateur" in name only.
They were literally wiping the floor with any team they went across. NHL teams, NHL all star teams, and any national team that stood in their way. The fact that a bunch of American college players beat them is in incredible.
I would say it'd be like a college basketball team beating an NBA team in a meaningful winner-take-all tournament, but even that is not a fair comparison. American college hockey compared to the NHL is not even close to the comparison of American college basketball with the NBA.
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I wish Kyrie played for the Aussies.
why? so chris paul could punch him in the groin?
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I wish Kyrie played for the Aussies.
Yeah, but then we'd all be worried about him, Luc Longley, and Andrew Bogut forming a super team down in Sydney.
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I wish Kyrie played for the Aussies.
Yeah, but then we'd all be worried about him, Luc Longley, and Andrew Bogut forming a super team down in Sydney.
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That actually would have sounded better. Bogut was the first name that came to mind after Longley
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That actually would have sounded better. Bogut was the first name that came to mind after Longley
I have no idea who Longley is. Was he the scrub that played for the Bulls?
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Longley, Wennington and Perdue formed the 3 headed monster.
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