Watching the USA Men's basketball team for the first time these Olympics and wow, what a joke. The USA is playing un-inspired ball, coasting, sloppy, etc... Prime display of why I dislike the NBA so much these days. Its not basketball.
Marv Albert has been filling the boredom with quotes and comments. My favorite quote I heard was attributed to Kevin Durant. Albert quoted Durant as saying "there is something mystical about playing in the Olympics". Sounded like Durant was saying how its hard to figure out how to play in the Olympics. Yeah the mystique is the NBA players are forced to play defense and traveling is actually called. I can see why Durant is mystified.
Also, Albert said a couple times, while seeming to be confused by how close the game was, that the USA team had the 12 best players in the world on their team, which is debatable. Well maybe that is the problem. Maybe there should be 6 or 8 of the best players in the world, and the rest of the team made up of muckers that will play defense?
Much like I am happy that Hope Solo is out of these Olympics, I am leaning towards hoping the USA mens team loses at some point in these Olympics. They need to. This team has been coasting on the '92 teams legacy. Thats 24 years. Time for a wake up call. Throwing a bunch of so called "best in the world" on a team and letting them go threw the motions is beyond old. Hell, they should go back to college kids.
Rant over.