USA Olympic Basketball Team

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  1. benni...

    benni... BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 23, 2004
    Chocolate City
    Only 2 pg's
     
  2. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  3. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    What's with the constant booing when an American goes to the FT line?
     
  4. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Despite having barely won today against Serbia, Coach K needs to light a fire under his team's ass because that was not simply good enough.
     
  5. Jcc21

    Jcc21 Member

    Feb 3, 2015
    Toronto
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Most people outside of America don't like Americans
     
  6. Ombak

    Ombak Moderator
    Staff Member

    Flamengo
    Apr 19, 1999
    Irvine, CA
    Club:
    Flamengo Rio Janeiro
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    You know how Americans see Russians as the villains in the Olympics? Many in the rest of the world put the US in that role. Maybe villain is too strong, but, they just root for the little guy and that sure as hell ain't the US.
     
  7. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    #82 Gilbertsson, Aug 13, 2016
    Last edited: Aug 13, 2016
    Racial reasons. Serbian fans were present in the hall, they have that antagonism in Serbia.. Serbian people have antagonism directed to US society, culture, because of this. Serbs adore Russians. It can go very far in the past.:D

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

    Even players made often "The Three Finger Salute". It was visible among the fans. Usual nationalistic activity among sports people and fans.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-finger_salute_(Serbian)

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  8. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    But many of them would like to come, work and live in USA.:D Interesting psychological moment.:)
     
  9. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    USA needs to bring the best players, just like in Barcelona 1992.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics

    It's sad to see that some players refuse to play for their NT. Two Croatian players also refused to come: Damjan Rudez and Ante Tomic.:confused:
     
  10. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh, I always had the impression that it was the US Government they hated, moreso than Americans themselves.
     
  11. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    Exactly.. Most countries don't wear envy well.
     
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  12. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    It's fine if they hate our government/ politics but I guess my point is why take it out on the athletes ? I get your point but it comes across as classless and against the spirit of the games IMO
     
  13. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Types of various governments were elected by people. Polarization of world countries, army alliances has always existed. Also 54 US medals bring that envy factor. When I wake up in the morning, probably 60 medals.:D
    Russian athletes were banned mostly...so cards became revealed. In Serbian media: USA, Germany, UK, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Vatican (Roman Catholics), EU...have negative tones. Everything is based around Kosovo state / province. Kosovo got one gold medal in Rio Olympic event. Imagine reactions in Serbia. They still don't accept Kosovo and everyone who accepts this state becomes the enemy. They are powerless in political structures, but they use sports events as some consolation battlefield. Majority of US basketball players don't even know where Serbia is.

    Serbs like Spain, because they refused to accept Kosovo, but they don't understand the real Spanish reason for doing that. If they accept Kosovo, they must accept Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia. Spain doesn't care about Serbia at all.
    They adore only Russia, Belarus, Greece, maybe Romania in Europe. Because they share Orthodox faith.:rolleyes:

    Some titles in Serbian media:

    "Where is the ball? Teodosic showed the magic to Americans"

    NBA shows the magic since 1946.
     
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  14. SeminoleTom

    SeminoleTom Member

    Jan 31, 2011
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm a big basketball fan as well.... and love the international competition, go USA!

    We have France tomorrow afternoon. What I still fail to understand about international basketball is I hear comments from Marv Alberts or Doug Collins is a lot of these teams have had years of playing together-- as in specific tournaments, games, etc. Whereas the US team really was put together 27 days ago or so. Didn't they make this a 3 year commitment for US team members now? Regardless of that, how do these other countries have their country teams play together moreso? Is it like soccer, in these other countries, where there is select days within periods of a year where the national teams actually play games? We know this doesn't work with the NBA....
     
  15. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    International play is unimportant to US Basketball players and they regard it as a nuisance to their actual careers, despite their public statements about how much of an honor it is to play for their country.

    In reality, they try to avoid it as much as possible. It was only after they were embarrassed at the 2004 Olympics and then by Greece at the FIBA World Cup in 2006 did the NBA and US Basketball even remotely begin to care.

    For the most part, NBA teams exert quiet pressure on the American players to not accept national team callups. NBA teams themselves don't care if their foreign players go or not.

    Outside of US Soccer players, who actually want to be there, most professional American athletes who play team ball sports have little interest in risking their careers in what they regard as meaningless exhibition games in their respective sports. After basketball, American pro baseball players are especially notorious for this.
     
  16. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    One aspect is important to describe. Imagine if one NBA player with great NBA contract becomes injured in one Olympic training before the match against China for example. His contract could become reduced, recovery time could last for months...so if he is 28 years, his career could be destroyed. Maybe if IOC creates nice financial award, the best players would be present.

    Last Dream Team occurred at Summer Olympics 1992 in Barcelona.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_men's_Olympic_basketball_team

    Only coach K. is present from that Dream Team.:D

    Similar is in tennis...better players cancelled.
     
  17. SeminoleTom

    SeminoleTom Member

    Jan 31, 2011
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah I get it-- it's disappointing if you ask me. I just think that international games have never meant that much to US fans because a lot of countries maybe never played (baseball) or weren't competitive in other games (basketball). So the best of the best was always in our leagues for those respective sports--- and for the most part from our country. The biggest pain in my backside is the World Baseball Classic. Which the US still hasn't won and apparently most fans, and players, still don't care.

    Soccer is obviously different.

    As with most things in the US sporting world I'm a little different... not sure when football even starts ;-)
     
  18. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    An interesting post, but no one on the IOC cares about creating financial awards for anybody except guys on the IOC.
     
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  19. Master O

    Master O Member+

    Jul 7, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's too bad they care so little about the WBC. It has the potential to be a great baseball tournament. But, like everything else in this world, money talks, so MLB will just avoid letting American players be in it.
     
  20. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Majority of members are +65 years. I doubt that they know anything about the sports at Olympics. Administrator members are usually from exotic countries.

    News about the match between USA and Serbia...Serbia thinks that they were "robbed" against USA.

    http://www.vesti-online.com/Sport/R...i-to-FIBA-gura-Amerikance-kada-masina-zasteka

    Title: "Serbia robbed: is FIBA pushing the Americans when the machine "stucks"?

    In few sentences it was written: Referees and members behind the table joined their strengths and helped to the US team.

    One comment: "Uvek je se nameštalo za zapadnu propagandu koja ogromne sume novca daje za sport i sportske funkcionere u svetu,tako da se nikada nezna gde sede njini ljudi i da se nezna ko su njini ljudi. Od te propagande profitiraju samo zapadne zemlje i to naizmenično da nebi stalno bili isti i upadali u oči. Deo toga je i puštanje pogrešnih himni, zastava, logova i drugih obeležja poštenog sveta. Ta tema je suviše kompleksna da bi se objasnila u jednom komentaru."

    Google Translate: Serbian-English, 14th August 2016, 6:25 PM - CET

    "It is always the rigging of the western propaganda that huge sums of money given to sport and sports officials in the world, so it never knows where people sit minorities and to know who is behaving people. From the propaganda benefit only the western countries and it turns that would not be the same and constantly broke into the eyes. Part of this is the release of incorrect anthems, flags, logos and other elements of a fair world. This topic is too complex to explain in a comment."

    And this lasts for decades...
     
  21. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
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    I needed to find some time and make the real, strategic and distinguished basketball action for RIO 2016 knock out stage.
    Every basketball expert should understand this strategy.
    The green arrow shows the ecological sense for nature protection. It's also unofficial court exit, when opponents start to lose with major point difference.:) I also made small green pine tree, wanted to demonstrate my artistic sense of expression, in case if no one recognized this small pine tree.:cool:
    Number 1 will distract.
    Number 2 is our beloved play maker.
    Number 3 will make ambush.
    Number 4 will maintain his spacial borders close to that nice, white rock.
    Number 5 is kept in low profile secrecy, especially his role and tactical approach.

    P.S. Ignore the tennis net, baskets are above.:)
     
  22. victorcalello38

    Feb 28, 2017
    Club:
    Montevideo Wanderers FC
  23. SJJ

    SJJ Member

    Sep 20, 1999
    Royal Oak, MI, USA
    Club:
    Michigan Bucks
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Interesting line from the Finland coach:
    "This is the locomotive of the sport," Dettmann said of international basketball. "Everybody who has any type of experience in basketball, who has his own or her own heart, will give that answer, the national team. There's not one proof that it's anything else.

    "Okay now, I probably exclude the American market, but I'm not sure about that, either. I think the Olympics and basketball is very exciting competition for the USA consumer. It would be interesting to see how many viewers you have for an NBA Final and how many viewers you have for an Olympic Final."

    http://www.fiba.com/basketballworld...ualifiers-will-boost-basketballs-market-share
     
  24. SJJ

    SJJ Member

    Sep 20, 1999
    Royal Oak, MI, USA
    Club:
    Michigan Bucks
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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