Lillard and DeRozan back out …
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2...iba-world-cup/
Last one in the gym, turn off the lights when you leave.
USA has won the championship only 5 of the 17 times it has been played (including the last two times): 1954; 1986; 1994; 2010; 2014
MVPs from USA: Kirby Minter (1954); Shaq (1994); Durant (2010); Kyrie (2014). When the USA won in 1986, Petrovic of YUG was the MVP ... David Robinson was only USA player on first team in 1986.
1986 gold-winning team had Amaker on it. Here's the final game against Russia (2-point USA win): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu__2mMYjH8
Lillard and DeRozan back out …
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2...iba-world-cup/
Last one in the gym, turn off the lights when you leave.
We should still be a big favorite. Current roster below:
Still enough for a great starting lineup and bench. As an example for the starters:
Walker - Mitchell - Middleton - Tatum - Turner
(That's just what I would do but could see Millsap or Tucker in for Jayson. In fact, I like the ability to have great role players / glue guys like PJ Tucker on the team. It potentially can be more like a real team, maybe.)
Not to derail the thread (but it probably will; it's July) ... I have no memory of the 1972 Olympics. I grew up hearing how the US was robbed -- egregiously so. Decades later, I finally read up on it all and tried to look at it in a somewhat in-depth manner (might've been spurred by some anniversary or a newspaper account) and I recall coming away from the closer inspection with the feeling that it was a series of somewhat understandable refereeing decisions -- reasonable in the moment -- and not egregiously wrong or ill-motivated. In other words, the Duke football "loss" to Miami on Halloween a few years ago is still the biggest injustice in the history of sports.
All this talk of dwindling numbers and a preference for young players with star potential has got me wondering...where is Devin Booker? As far as I can tell he was part of the player pool a year ago, but didn't get an invite this year. Seems like his shooting would come in handy, and he's still just 22 years old. Great time to represent his country and get some experience in elimination games (goodness knows he's not getting that in Phoenix).
Anyone know why he hasn't been invited?
if they are indeed destined to lose, could it be arranged for the responsibility to fall squarely in the lap of HWMFNSNBM?
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
Not sure where Booker is. He was previously on the list - https://www.nba.com/suns/devin-booke...onal-team#gref
What was Lillard's reasoning? Seems like a good time for him to take his game to another level.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Mason Plumped has been added to the National team roster (where he will compete for one of the final 12 spots) and Bagley was chosen for the select team that will scrimmage them.
Congrats.
PLUMLEE. +$%- autocorrect. Too late to edit.
Wasn’t Mason on one of the Coach K World Cup teams?
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
there's no way this many guys pull out if Coach K is still the HC. As great a coach as Pop is, he doesn't have the relationship building ability K has.
Well the picture of Bronnie in a Duke uniform tells me that LJ thinks a lot of Coach K and their time together so I too think it has to do with the leader. I would bet at least $100 that the US does not win the WC. I’m wondering if this team without a STAR will be a problem in that just about everyone of them will think they should be the STAR and it will take someone special to get them to play together and I do not think Pop is the answer. Coach K proved he could get stars to come off the bench and I don’t think Pop can do that.