Here is the US team for the upcoming FIBA 3-on-3 tournament.
The team members are:
Damon Huffman, who played his college basketball at Brown and a college called Moore that I have never heard of.
Daniel Mavaraides, who played at Princeton
Zahir Carrington, who played for Lehigh
and Craig Moore, who is by far the most accomplished player on the team having averaged about 14 ppg while hitting 40% of his threes for Northwestern a decade ag
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Ummmmm... if four nobodies who didn't even play mid-major NCAA basketball represent the US in the Olympics and they fail to win the Gold Medal, there is going to be some serious pushback on USA Basketball.
This could be a major TV ratings event if you allowed NBA players to participate. In my imaginary world, there would be a 10 team field. You would have 2 pools with a 4-game round-robin. The bottom team in each pool is eliminated and the rest play an 8-team tournament to determine the winner.
USA 1 (Warriors - Curry, Durant, Thompson, and Green) They would probably win as they would already have teamwork on their side
USA 2 (Harden, Westbrook, Kwahi, and either Davis or Butler) Tempted to take Harden off and just put Butler on the team. The D these guys would play (minus Harden) would be scary.
Canada (Wiggins, Murray, Cory Joseph, and Olynyk) A medal contender, but probably the 4th or 5th best team
Spain (Gasol brothers, Ibaka, and Rubio) Too big, not enough outside shooting
Germany (Dirk, Denis Schroder, Paul Zipser, and... uhhhhh... I dunno) Might surprise you, but probably the 6th-8th best team
Australia (Ben Simmons, Paddy Mills, Dante Exum, Thon Maker) This could be a real sleeper. Could sub Delavadova for Maker to give you more outside shooting
Dominican Republic (Towns, Al Horford, Charlie Villaneuva, and we need a guard!) Can Charlie still play?
France (Parker, Fornier, Gobert, and one more) Parker is likely over the hill by 2020
Adriatic team [Italy, Greece, Turkey] (Greek Freak, Marco Belinelli, Danilo Gallinari, and Ersan İlyasova) This team could win this thing!! Major medal contender.
And I am sure China would want to field a team, even though they would get their butts kicked.
-Jason "Make this happen, FIBA and NBA! " Evans