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Up 7 with 17 seconds shooting 2 ft became up 3 with possession wth 10 seconds left. YIKES.

but yay!
 

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Impressive showing by France. Never rolled over even when Team USA started putting the screws to them. A well earned silver medal, with a lot more talent in the pipeline (hello Wenbamyama).
Don't forget Begarin!

However, FIBAEvan really drives that team and there's not another scorer like him currently on the FRA roster.
 

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International rules, no replays, and less TV timeouts makes this a much better 4th QT product than the NBA.
The no replays made watching more fun in what is basically an exhibition game but given how horrible the refs were, can you imagine how ballistic people would be with all of the terrible calls and no replay if something was on the line?

Also was funny watching Decolo (I think) asking twice for replay.

The limited number of time outs also helped viewing but I'm sure the NBA would never do that.
 

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We know how France plays. It’s been less than 2 weeks
We won the last 4 games by an avg of 31 points and people are complaining......what is going on here? We were up in the 1H when we were at 1-10 threes. Then we were up 14 in the 3Q until Yabusele and Ntilikina thought they were Steph and Klay. The game was still never in doubt.

I doubted this team as much as anyone entering this tournament but the way they fought back against France in the first game after half the team flew over the night before and came together in the ensuing games this has been nothing short of impressive on such short notice. It isn’t like this France team are pushovers......their entire lineup is filled with NBA players who know how to play together and under FIBA rules.
 

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Nice night for Tatum. Second in points and first in rebounds, despite losing his starting spot to Booker. Speaking of Booker, he followed up his only really good game of the olympics by picking up twice as many fouls (4) as he had points (2). Took look for a guy whose only above average skill is scoring.

Some nice work for Team USA, but I've seen enough of Pop. Fingers crossed for someone else next time around.
 

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Ever since I called JaVale McGee a scrub after SRN hyped him up despite playing 9 mpg for the Warriors, he has gone on to win 3 NBA titles and a gold medal in the Olympics.
 

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It’s a lot better
I've been saying that all year.

Also the flagrant foul for stopping the fast break is a no brainer. Why on earth does the NBA allow a foul that punishes the team with the advantage and takes away exciting transition?
Also allow forearm contact on drives, call plays on the ball in the paint a little tighter. Suddenly big guys are not useless.
 

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Nice night for Tatum. Second in points and first in rebounds, despite losing his starting spot to Booker. Speaking of Booker, he followed up his only really good game of the olympics by picking up twice as many fouls (4) as he had points (2). Took look for a guy whose only above average skill is scoring.

Some nice work for Team USA, but I've seen enough of Pop. Fingers crossed for someone else next time around.
Booker did draw two charges.
 

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Booker did draw two charges.
Yeah Booker made a couple of plays, and Lillard hit some nice shots. But anyone who watched these games saw that Tatum was the second best American player and it wasn't that close. Dray and Bam were more impactful than Booker and Dame last night too. Western Conference guards come up short (no pun intended) when the game tightens up. We watch it every year in the playoffs.


*Curry excepted of course
 

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Yeah Booker made a couple of plays, and Lillard hit some nice shots. But anyone who watched these games saw that Tatum was the second best American player and it wasn't that close. Dray and Bam were more impactful than Booker and Dame last night too. Western Conference guards come up short (no pun intended) when the game tightens up. We watch it every year in the playoffs.


*Curry excepted of course
I would have had Lillard in the starting lineup over Holiday and was glad to see Pop make this change at the half (even though it was likely due to protect Jrue from a 3rd foul early. He’s a more rhythm player than Jrue whose impact defensively can still be strong off the bench.....maybe stronger. Jrue could still have gotten his minutes and many of them paired with Lillard rather than with Booker.

Bam got better with rotations as the tournament carried on but Dray was vintage Dray the entire time in Japan. He was our second most valuable player and to me it wasn’t really close. He drew the most difficult asssignments against low post 5’s and only had 5 fouls to work with (really only 2 in the 1H). Dray was our glue on the interior along with Jrue on the perimeter and so underrated on this team.
 

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I would have had Lillard in the starting lineup over Holiday and was glad to see Pop make this change at the half (even though it was likely due to protect Jrue from a 3rd foul early. He’s a more rhythm player than Jrue whose impact defensively can still be strong off the bench.....maybe stronger. Jrue could still have gotten his minutes and many of them paired with Lillard rather than with Booker.

Bam got better with rotations as the tournament carried on but Dray was vintage Dray the entire time in Japan. He was our second most valuable player and to me it wasn’t really close. He drew the most difficult asssignments against low post 5’s and only had 5 fouls to work with (really only 2 in the 1H). Dray was our glue on the interior along with Jrue on the perimeter and so underrated on this team.
Draymond knocking the free throw out of the cylinder late in the fourth was just vintage Draymond. Would anyone else on Team USA have made that play?
 

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Some nice work for Team USA, but I've seen enough of Pop. Fingers crossed for someone else next time around.
The only criterion for Olympic basketball coach is that stars want to play for you. Which is not necessarily a defense of Pop — other than Durant, there’s no one on this team who I might have expected to turn down an invite. But I’m not sure who’d be better.
 

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Really heartening to watch him. He still has to tighten up his passing, but he's a willing distributor and can score from absolutely anywhere on the floor. So excited to see what he does next year.
I’m extraordinarily bullish on him for next season. I think he puts up stupid numbers, and the team wins 48-50 games. He ended the olympics with shooting splits of 49/45, 8-11 from the line as well. Something that I REALLY loved was how physical he was in the post.

View: https://twitter.com/JaredWeissNBA/status/1424012872909086725?s=20
 

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The only criterion for Olympic basketball coach is that stars want to play for you. Which is not necessarily a defense of Pop — other than Durant, there’s no one on this team who I might have expected to turn down an invite. But I’m not sure who’d be better.
Kerr seems like an obvious choice. Or maybe Jay Wright.
 

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Draymond knocking the free throw out of the cylinder late in the fourth was just vintage Draymond. Would anyone else on Team USA have made that play?
I have 6'4 high school kids doing this. It's really nothing in FIBA. A guard from Spain did this the game before.
 

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He looks fitter than he did as a C, but his offensive game is still awful and he'd foul out in about a quarter if these were NBA refs.
Yeah, I'm on board with your fitness comment. Maybe French cuisine isn't that fattening.
 

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It's not the ones during the course of a 48 minute game itself that are so bad. It's the ones at the end of the game that kill the flow. College is just as bad. If they limited time outs in the last two minutes to one apiece, I'd be happy.
College is worse, with the mandated timeouts at under-16, under-12, under-8, and under-4. Also, the moronic rule that the first timeout of the second half has to be a full timeout, no matter the circumstance.
 

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College is worse, with the mandated timeouts at under-16, under-12, under-8, and under-4. Also, the moronic rule that the first timeout of the second half has to be a full timeout, no matter the circumstance.
Thank you network media contracts.
 

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College is worse, with the mandated timeouts at under-16, under-12, under-8, and under-4. Also, the moronic rule that the first timeout of the second half has to be a full timeout, no matter the circumstance.
As a coach ncaa used to be the standard to learn from, but with all Canadian bball going fiba it is useless to me for learning x's and o's. The ability to call so many TOS is big difference