I strongly doubt Tatum turns down an opportunity to play for Team USA in an Olympics that is hosted in the US. But I have no doubt that he’ll quietly stew over this treatment for a while, at least until the regular season starts.
And they needed Tatum today. He would have rebounded and defended. They needed his length and I don't think they would have been in that deep of a hole with him. The 3 guard lineups did not work, they gave up so many open 3s and second shots.
I'm not familiar with Olympic/NBA rules.. can they play more than 10 players? Is it similar to the NBA where only 13 are active?
Tatum probably coulda gotten Bookers 6 points while providing better D.
I like that flopping doesn't seem to get much respect and that the refs basically don't respond at all to complaints. It's really confusing what is a foul though.. Bogdonavich hacked players all game and was rarely called for it.. even with time running out he was only called for what seemed like his fourth or fifth hack on Curry when he may have been trying to intentionally foul. Basically seems like body is rarely called and hands out in space/slaps are what is. On one of the late threes by Curry his defender flew by him but still hit his arm as he was moving to gather which would seem to have thrown someone off who wasn't one of the best shooters ever.
Holiday played four less minutes than Booker and only had three points.. but he had 7 assists only second to LeBron.
Sure, they can play all 12 in a game. Many teams do just that.
To clarify, I dont think James told Kerr to bench anyone - my wild ass guess is that he does discuss lineups and strategy with his main guys (Curry, LeBron and KD) and gets their input. Kerr et then has to figure out whom to play and how much so my complete internet message board conjecture is that given match-ups and input of the staff plus the senior guys, he settles on a rotation.
What?? Fine he listened to Lbj, kd and curry. Why would they ice tatum in favor of booker or ant (who has been trash). This isnt Boston fandom, this is the best players available
Completely off topic, but speaking of hoops in Greece, I’ll be there in a week and just watched this:
Wiggins going supernova defensively was one of the stranger feats.
They scored once more in the next 5 possessions on a bad double by KD leading to the dunk. It wasn't absurd and it was game.
Baby meet bathwater. You are only discussing minor, eas=ily changed things while admitting the shameful type of play permitted in the NBA.
Kerr seems to believe Booker is the guy Dwayne Wade thinks he is, rather than the guy he actually is.
You're mostly preaching to the choir in this thread. Many of us have been saying this for years, usually in FIBA tournament gamethreads. The refs aren't any better - they miss as many calls as your Tony Brothers types - they're just trained to do some things and not do other things that make for a more consistent and visually appealing game.
"The results are good, therefore the process that led to them must have been good" is definitely not a take I expected to hear from a guy who works in the financial markets.
Setting aside how relevant my career is to this discussion (weird and not part of my post), the rotation is only really a story in Boston and on X where you can find enough mad folks + bots to make a case that the entire universe is big upset with Kerr. But I just did this Google search:
If Kerr does the exact same thing he did today, they will lose to France. Either Booker and/or Curry will be played off the court and/or absolutely get destroyed on a cut. FIBA has let Yabusele and Lessert absolutely goon in the lane and on offense, and Wemby is swallowing guards on the perimeter. Yabusele might be the only guy in the tournament that is thicc enough to bang LeBron off his path.
I guess, but I don't feel special when I accept what you are saying.
We're not losing to France. We just played the second best team in the tournament, who went on a heater, and it still wasn't enough. It'll be worth watching because there will be a few Wemby Moments but it won't be a game in the 4th quarter.
Yeah, I wouldn't change the NBA's game length, 3 point line or some of the other things, but the body contact limits, transition calls, the other stuff you mentioned - it just makes for way more watchable ball. If Embiid gets called for that travel in the NBA instead of getting gifted a foul call like he expected, our gamethreads' blood pressure would be down at least like 10-20%.I guess, but I don't feel special when I accept what you are saying.
To me the loss is the greatness in the players we are denied by the current state of reffing.
Yes, the headlines aren't focused on that because, well.... the big story is that they actually won.
I think 40 works better in the Olympics for teams outside the us who can’t put together teams with 12 all stars.
No, sorry, but no, it doesn't matter to just Boston/Tatum fans.
That’s likely because Tatum is quiet, doesn’t do self-promotion, and is basically one of the more nondescript superstars out there. He could be making this into a much bigger story but, to his credit, he is not despite being fully justified in doing so. If he had Jaylen’s personality, this would be a much bigger story, IMO. It’s only a non-story because of Tatum and I don’t think casual fans pay much attention to Olympics hoops, especially when the games are happening late morning or early afternoon.
Love ya bud.
So reading between the lines your Warrior buddies have come to the conclusion that Kerr is a petty dick using his position to play childish head games.
Since I didn’t see it, no idea but he shot 8-11 and was the US’s second leading scorer with 19. Also Curry… wow.
Cmon man. Fine maybe your circle isn’t getting ‘exercised’ over Kerr’s rotations.
Cmon man. Fine maybe your circle isn’t getting ‘exercised’ over Kerr’s rotations.
i am playing poker in a DC casino and the dealer at my game mentioned unmpropted that Kerr has coached very bad throughout the tournament and thatTatum must have done something to piss him off.
