OT: World Championships

[Rastapopoulos]

Did you know that the US hasn't won the World Championship since 1994!?

I'm guessing that's not about to change.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

That frontcourt looks disgustingly bad. They'll pretty much require Durant to carry them and I doubt it'll happen against such experienced international players. I don't even know if we'll place in the top three.

 

[Paxil]

Basketball is a team sport, but the NBA has slid toward individuals and superstar treatment. The teams we lost to didn't up individually... but yet we did lose. I actually love to see it because I think the NBA game has become pretty ugly.

The NBA created superstars like Shaq, with less skills than a typically grade school player, with his main skill of spinning to knock a player backward and then dunking or putting up a short shot. We relaxed traveling calls so just about anything that ends in a dunk goes. We drafted younger and younger players and shoved them on rosters with less and less skills... hoping someday they would learn the game. We annointed players as all-stars before they even stepped on the court.

Anyway... until we have a team that actually PLAYS together... it will be hard to always win. I think we'd have a better shot at sending our NBA champs honestly... instead we send a collection of players with very little experience together. Fine for gold.. but Basketball is a team sport.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I count maybe 3 or 4 reliable shooters in that group and not nearly enough skill players at the pivot. They're going to get run.

 

[Natebishop3]

The fact that Tyson Chandler is on the team pretty much says it all.

 

[LameR]

The fact that Tyson Chandler is on the team pretty much says it all.

+Javale McGee

 

[The Sebastian Express]

Lopez just dropped out. They are a really, really bad front court now.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Lopez just dropped out. They are a really, really bad front court now.

Only the lesser Lopez. The more talented one remains.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

...but they may have just lost David Lee.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

Only the lesser Lopez. The more talented one remains.

Oh, the realgm headline originally said Brooke. I guess I should have expected it to be incorrect considering whoever writes their wiretap is apparently incompetent most of the time.

 

[THE HCP]

See, Lee got hurt! I'm very cool with our guys NOT playing.

 

[jlprk]

xChris Sheridan predicts cuts to get to 12 players

C
xTyson Chandler
Brook Lopez
xJaVale McGee

F
Kevin Durant
Lamar Odom
Gerald Wallace
Kevin Love
Rudy Gay
xDanny Granger
xJeff Green
xAndre Iguodala

G
Derrick Rose
Tyreke Evans
Chauncey Billups
xRajon Rondo
xO.J. Mayo
Russell Westbrook
Stephen Curry
xEric Gordon

first "real" game Aug. 28

 

[THE HCP]

They play France at MSG right? Get 'em Nic, you smelly Frenchie!

 

[MARIS61]

At least ONE former Blazer and ONE current Blazer are World Champions:

2006 World Championship: finished 1st among 24 teams

Pau Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro, Jose Calderon, Jorge Garbajosa, Rudy Fernandez, Carlos Jiménez, Carlos Cabezas, Bernardo “Berni” Rodríguez, Felipe Reyes, Marc Gasol, Alex Mumbrú, Sergio Rodríguez (Coach: Jose Vicente “Pepu” Hernández)

Our American players have repeatedly refused to cut into their vacation time to represent their country.