Originally posted by: thedealmaker
I don't have time to watch olympics. But I am pretty sure that USA will win basketball. Come on, no other countries are basketball crazy like USA. So don't need the monitor because I am sure that USA wins basketball.
Care to bet?
Not really up on current events are you?!
Let see, Puerto Rico, Lithuania almost Italy and now Argentina. ... Dude, they'll be lucky to win the bronze. Too bad they can't:
a. Play defense
b. Play teamball
c. Sink 3's consistently
d. Make freethrows more than few percentage points more frequently than Shaq.
Yeah, we as a country may be moderately crazy about basketball, well, during the playoffs, in a non-strike year, when the stars aren't spoiled brats, rapists, fresh-out-of-highschool punks, or a bunch of whiners that is...
Actually I like basketball a lot but somebody screwed up this year and didn't take into account that there is a style of basketball in the world other than good ol' US of A streetball... and nobody bothered to research it and learn that they'd have to be able to break down a plain old zone defense. Remember the zone from junior high? The one you had to either dominate inside through very good teamball & passing, or nail with jump shots from the outside? Team USA can't do it!
Well, let me clarify that, the men's team can't. Lisa Leslie and the gals kicked serious BUTT.