USA Basketball LOSES AGAIN!!

[Gander]

Coach K is a first class jerk. He may be a great coach but he is very arrogant and a snob. I hope him and his team lose all their games.

I'd rather be poked and prodded with a red hot iron than watch Olympic basketball.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Gander

Coach K is a first class jerk. He may be a great coach but he is very arrogant and a snob. I hope him and his team lose all their games.

I'd rather be poked and prodded with a red hot iron than watch Olympic basketball.

To each his own...I think Coach K is the best basketball coach who ever lived, this coming from a lifelong fan of Dean Smith. The USA should NEVER lose in basketball but we simply don't take it seriously enough, it's a year-round job....planning, recruiting, teaching. We need a national team with a coaching staff paid to only coach them...that isn't likely in our culture. This was a good team but far from our best...Anthony, James and Wade are superstars, the rest are good players but we lacked a center and our point guard play was just OK. Greece exposed our lack of defensive coordination (I mean really, they ran the same play over and over and we couldn't stop it) and exposed (once again) our weakness at the foul line and beyond the arc...NBA players that can't shot uncontested jumpers from the shortened arc...that's simply unacceptable! We needed Kobe, T-Mac, Shaq, AI...but more than that, we needed a team that played together! The international game is simply too different to take for granted...being the best athletes carries you only so far...about the semi-finals to be exact!